Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-28
The conference between the miners and

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The conference between the miners and
mine operators of Iowa has proved fail
| ure. Only one operator was present.
| The number of immigrants arriving in
| this country during the month of April
was 5000. In April, 1880, the figures We're
| 64,2l2,
Secretary Foster says that the recent
| gold shipments have established the fact
| that the credit of the United States isabove
that of any other nation.
Henry S. Sanford, ex-United States min
lister to Belgium, and late delegate to the
Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference, died on
Thursday night at Healing Springs Va.
Counsel for Plenty Horses asserts that
| he has secured evidence at Pine Ridge,
South Dakota, which will acquit his client
] of the charge of numbering Lieutenant
Casey.
J. C. Perry, grandfather of Florence
| Blythe, one of the contestants in the
noted Blythe will case, was thrown from
his carriage near San Rafael, Cal, on
Thursday and killed.
Edward Hooking, a prominent resident
of Pen. Argyle, Pa, has, il is stated alb
seconded, taking with him, as alleged
about $4,000, the proceeds of sales of
land, hotel property, &c.
ElbogIn a theatrical agent in New York,
convicted of sending girls to so-called
dives in New Orleans for immoral pur-
poses. was Friday sentenced to 8 years
and II months Imprisonment.
II is thought the treasury department
will give the holders of the s50,0)O,000 ii
per cent bonds outstanding an opportunity
to renew those bonds after September LIST
at a reduced rate of interest.
A dispatch from Iquique, Chill, says
that on Thursday the government steamers
;o1 irnr f,f all artn
Aldea landed 200 men in Taltal and
stormed the custom house. That place is
now in the hands of the government
forces and the old regime has been estab-
lished
The Republican state convention of Ken
lucky has nominated q ticket headed by T.
A. Wood of Mount Sterling, for governor.
The resolutions adopted endorsed Presi-
dent Harrison's administration. Congress
is asked to pass an election law that will
give every American citizen equal rights
at the polls.
The Hill Shoe Company in Memphis,
Tenn, failed on Thursday, and William
VI Hill, the president, committed suicide
The failure was due to the failure of the
Lynn Davis Shoe Company, which owed
the Hill Shoe Company between $500. 900
and 100000. The liabilities of the Hill
Company are about 100000 and the assets
about S200,000.
Attorney General Miller has referred I'll
the papers submitted TO him by the civil
service commission in the cases of Gre, IL
b. Raum, Jr., and the other persons al.
legged to be connected with irregular APP
pointments to minor positions in the pen
sion office, to the United States attorney
for the District of Columbia for whatever
action is required by the law.
Secretary Foster said Friday that he
anticipated no difficulty in meeting the
quarterly pension payments. aggregating
$26,000,000, which fall due June 4th. The |
available cash balance is now nearly
$4,000 600. and will go beyond $26,000000 |
by the early part Of June, by the con-
tinued excess of receipts over expendi-
tlires. The secretary said there would be no |
so far as he could see for call
ing in any government deposits held by |
national banks to meet pension obliga- |
tons. This bank fund now amounts to
S24, 100000. exclusive Of money deposited |
to the credit Of his disbursing officers.
Pension Commissioner Raum Friday |
and signed pension certificate
for Sl6,500 in favor of John G. Hildt, |
of Company K, First Michigan |
Volunteer Infantry. The pension is for a |
gunshot wound in the right arm, causing |
and resulting in nervous |
pr.Stration and insanity, and dates from
1867, for amounts per month varying |
from S25 to s75. Hildt had been ali in
mate of the Government Insane Asylum, |
near Washington, since 1862, and ques-
ton arises as to whether the government
should be reimbursed from this money
for his care in the asylum since that year. |