Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-02

age OF subsidiary silver coins as may be re-
CURED OH the Pacific coast.
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The stone masons of Pittsburg 500 in
number, have returned to work at the
old hours and wages.
The officials of the Worlds Fair have
given the Illinois Central railroad a
monopoly Of carrying people to the
exposition grounds.
The bodies Of the 10 United States
sailors who We're drowned in the great
storm at Samoa were buried Mt Mare
Island, California, on Saturday.
Elizabeth McVey of Rose Hill. In.
diana, died on Friday after having tasted
over 43 days. An autopsy will be held to
determine the nature Of her disease.
Rose Hill was arraigned in New York
on sunday on charge of trying TO
drown herself. She said she would not
do it again and was discharged from
custody.
Mrs. Lemuel 7. johnson was burned
to death at her home in Bridgeton, N.
j., on Saturday, Her dress caught fire
at the stove and che became frightened
and tainted.
William Bennett, a brakeman, was
Killed in nes Moines en- Sunday by
touching guy wire which was crossed
by an electric light wire, and received
the charge of All alternating current
Mrs, Samuel A, Hazlett was using a
disinfectant Of an inhammable character
at her home in Brooklyn, N. ", on
saturday, when it caught fire and she
was burned so badly that death resulted
in short time.
Thirty skeletons were found in an old
ice house in Chicago on Saturday. Ii
is believed they were put there BY medi-
cal students to bleach. Fog several
days the residents in the neighborhood
have been greatly annoyed by the
stencil.
The New York police have sent out
general alarm for Charles Warner, a
Young Englishman, who arrived in that
city on the 23d of Jane, from Devon
shire, England. lie is known to have
had $4,000 on his person. Foul play is
suspected
A dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona,
says that Chinaman was attacked by
five Apache Indians in the mountains
near the Mexican line last Friday. He
was shot four times and was left for
dead. He is yet alive. The Indians are
not being pursued.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday.
rain fell at the rate of nearly three
inches an hour, and for time the
wind blew at the rate Of 20 miles an
hour. Trees were blown down, and
several Buildings were unroofed. The
storm was also severe north and west Of
Des Moines.
The Central Labor Union of New
York, Sunday adopted resolution for
the appointment Of new special cor
mitee tc consider the platform OF The
Peoples party, but when il came to the
appointment Of the committee no dele
gate could be found willing to serve, SO
the matter was laid over for week.
The coroner's jury in New York, in
the case OF the woman drowned near
Creton, and who was identified as his
wife by q man giving tho name Of At
wood, saying he vas from Philadelphia,
found ON Saturday that she was a
dressmaker living in New York, and
that her death was undoubtedly case
OF suicide. Her name was Marie Eugene
Josephine.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has
given instructions for the return of
Catherine Rec and her infant child to
her home in Hungary ON the ground
that she is likely TO become public
charge if she remains in this country.
She is sick, destitute and friendless.
The expense of her return will be paid
out Of the immigrant fund.
The Gillian legation ut Washington
on Sunday received the following cable
gram from Santiago: "The chief of the
Chllian insurgents, the ex-captain of the
CHILEAN navy, George Mont, has mott.
ned the American admiral at Iquiaue
that the crews of the American vessels
ought not to go on shore, as they would
run the risk of being assaulted by reyo.
lutionary mobs."
The furnace tenders at the New
Jersey Zinc and Iron Companys works
in Newark, N. j., are on strike. They
work IL hours at stretch, making
night and day shifts. The trouble was
caused by the fact that when any mem
Der of either shift was absent his mate
on the other shift had to continue 10
work in his place, thus imposing on the
man an unusually long and severe term
of duty. !