Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
IN GENERAL.

MISS MARY MuScnette, ~ years OF age, OF
Minneapolis, committed suicide Friday at
the house of her cousin, DR.. Brown, in
Washington. Mental depression is given
as the cause.
Susie Zealy, II years old, was burned to
death in Jonesville, Ala, Monday. Her
clothes caught fire at a CRATE. Her father
and mother were fatally burned while try
ing to extinguish the flames.
DR.. Charles Il. Ballard shot and killed
Miss Bertha 1son, in Bloomington, ILL.,,
Monday, because she would not marry
him. He then committed suicide. The
girl asked that he wait until her education
was completed.
g. Craft, treasurer of the borough of
Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, Pa, con-
fessed Judgment Monday to the borough
solicitor for 5000. The extent of Crafts
Indebtedness is not known, but he admits
deficiency in his borough accounts of
from $4,000 to $4,000. He is under bonds
to the borough in the sum of $4,000.
Secretary Tracy Monday ordered the
United States steamer Pensacola, now at
San Francisco to proceed at once to Homo
lulu. The state of affairs at the Hawaiian
Islands resulting from the death of the
Prince Consort is such that the presence
there of an American man-of-war is re-
garded as necessary to guard American
interests.
1t is stated that hundreds of farmers in
eastern Oregon and Washington are hold
ing their wheat under orders from the
Alliance in the hope of getting better
prices. The highest price paid in the north
west for wheat this season was rs cents
per bushel. This was three weeks ago.
Since then prices have declined from five
to eight cents per bushel.
A railway employees club has been or
ganized in Ottumwa Iowa. Its purpose is
to oppose reduction in railway rates, and
i is asserted it will be a very important
factor in state politics. Railway officials
about the state are said to be promoting
the formation of these clubs, telling the
employees that unless anti-railroad legisla-
ton is stopped wages will have to come
down.
A newspaper in Houston, Texas, claims
to have secured copy of the secret cir
cular which the Colored Alliance is send
ing to the cotton piekers throughout the
State. 1t says that the new organization
of cotton pickers is 10000 strong. and an
points September 18th as the day for the
strike of that body unless their demands
for sl.for every 100 pounds of cotton picked
are granted.
Senator Hawley, who was reported to be
at Cape May comforting with President
Harrison relative to accepting the place in
the cabinet made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Secretary Proctor was seen in New
Haven, Conn, Monday, and said: II
have not. seen President Harrison since
last May, and he has not sent for me. The
matter referred to never entered my mind.
and / do not know that any of my friends
have asked for the place for me.n
A United Press dispatch from Rochester,
New York, says that the slate of the Re
publican party is agreed upon as follows
For Governor, j. Sloat Fassett; Lieutenant
governor, Philip Becker of Buffalo; Score
tary of State, John w. Vrooman; Attorney
general, William A. Sutherland; Comp
troller, ex-senator Einstein. Should
Becker refuse the nomination for lieu
to Wadsworth, and if he refuses, to Mr..
Hill.
Ex-Attorney General Garland has writ
ten letter to his son, Sanders Garland,
calling attention to paragraph mention
ing him as candidate for the vacant
Interstate Commerce Commissionership
and stating that there is no foundation for
it. The ex-attorney general says that he
would not accept the office if rendered to
him. He has. permanently retired from
public life, and is devoting himself to the
practice of law When the commission
was formed he was offered one of the posi-
tons and declined it. He has also declined
an appointment to the Supreme bench.
A committee, appointed by the Mime
apolis board of trade, on the question of
union with st. Paul, Monday reported
that the territory which separates the two
cities proper, by space of five miles, is
comparatively open country, making con-
solidation under one government practically
impossible; that st. Paul has never agreed
to division Of interruban territory, but
has simply sought to induce Minneapolis
to come in and help build up that portion
of st. Paul. and that there is no induce
ment for Minneapolis to do this, particu-
larly as the municipal Indebtedness of st.
Paul is much greater than that of Mime
apolis. The report was unanimously
adopted.
f. L.. Carroll registered Monday morn
ing at the Prescott House in San Francisco
as William II. DeYoung of Fresno Soon
afterward an explosion, which shook the
neighborhood, attracted attention to his
room and 1t was found that he had COM
mitted suicide by exploding q dynamite
bomb. His remains were scattered all over
the room and one of his arms was found
in the street. The windows and plastering
were broken and the furniture damaged.
Deceased had been working on a fruit
farm near Fresno. He told a number of
persons here that he intended taking his
life, as he wanted to create sensation for
the newspapers, but in a note to the coro-
ner which he left. giving his age as IL
years and birthplace as Holland, he said
he committed suicide because life was not
worth Living,