Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
IN GENERAn.

A snow storm, driven by fierce
northwest gale, prevailed throughout
Southern Illinois Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Company has re-
fused to grant the demands of its en-
ployes for increased pay and shorter
hours.
The contractors for grading the
grounds for the Worlds Fair in Chicago
will employ only American citizens as
provided for in their contract.
Supervisor w. w. Handley, of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, was run
over and killed by u locomotive, at New
Decatur, Ala, on Tuesday week.
d. Good and Ford johnson had fight
in Button, Ala, last week while drunk.
Good used a Ratchet and johnson a
knife. Both were fatally injured.
The strike at the works of the Ellis &
Lessig Iron and Steel Company, in
Pottstown, Pa, has been declared off
and the men returned TO work Thurs
day.
Ex-State Treasurer Woodruff, of
Arkansas Thursday paid State Treas
urer Morrow 1868, 74O the full amount of
the shortage shown to exist in his ac-
counts.
William A. Strand, who killed
Mitchell Jordan, colored porter, in
New York, in August last, was yester-
day week sentenced to nine and half
years imprisonment.
A passenger train on the Illinois Cen
trail railroad was wrecked and burned
near Medina, Tennessee, yesterday
week, by broken rail. Three per-
sons were injured.
| John w. Creator of Vincennes, In
| diana, who is insane, shot and killed
| Isidore Never and Conductor j. w,
| Leach on passenger train, near Bald
Knob Station, Arkansas, Tuesday week.
Two hundred of Delamater & CO..
creditors met in,Meadville, / Pa, Thursday
night and 1876 signed an agreement &C.
cepting the proposed settlement of 5C
cents on the dollar, payable in two
years.
John Perry and James Mclaughlin
who pleaded guilty last week in Phila-
delphia to the larceny of seven rings
from trays in different jewelry stores
were sentenced to five years each in the
Eastern Penitentiary.
Encouragement lIensel of Pennsyi
yania, Thursday furnished an opinion
that married women are not competen
to be incorporators or treasurers of {
corporation, and that the act of 1888
does not remove the restrictions.
A snow slide occurred at the ole
Leute mine, near Denver, Colorado, Tues
day week, and carried away a boarding
house and six men, three Of whom
William Kinler, Thomas Kendall ant
William kerns-were killed.
Two prisoners, one white, the othe
cplored, were taken from the Jail a
Gainesville, Fla, on Tuesday week anC
lynched They had been arrested 70
completely in numerous assaults ant
were leaders Of q desperate gang.
President Sargent Of the Supreme
Council of the Federation Of Railwa,
Employees, has been called to Pittsburl
in consequence of the action of til
Pennsylvania company in refusing tn
demands of their men for more pay am
shorter hours.
Three masked men entered the stor
of H. b. Utter in Kansas City, Kansas
on Tuesday week, and, with drawn re
volyers, drove three customers into
corner, and then made Mr.. Utter opel
the safe and hand over his cash. TIL
robbers secured $75 and escaped.
A telegram from New Bedford, Mass
says that the schooner Charles F, Samr
son Of Boston, with a cargo of coal,
ashore on Hen and Chickens shoal, an
will be total loss. Two schooners. on
a two-master and thrce-master, are re
ported ashore on the Sow and Pigs.
The hardware store of A. v. Yard!
in Watseka, H., was burned Thursday
The explosion of a keg Of powder Sc
! verely injured N. D. Graves, Waite
Bradcn, G, s. Gallagher and F. N
, Schoolcraft. The adjoining building
were also burned. The loss will eXcee
! $4,000.
+ A Chicago paper says: 1t may be sal
: almost positively, as though ii had bee
1 formally determined by the director,
that the lake front will be entirely abar
doned as a site for the Worlds Fair,an
that the big show will be held under on
tent, as it We're, at jackson Park.
A dispatch received in New Yorl
Thursday, from Lloyds, London, STATE
T that the steamer Thanemore, whic
g sailed from Baltimore November got
: last for London, has been given up fl
s lost, The Thanemore carried crew {
4 Is men and six cattlemen, and had 81
q cattle as her cargo.
! A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utal
! says ut showed here Monday weel
y and n peculiar feature of the storm W;
! large quantity of salt which fell vii
it. The snow melted next day and lie
the salt on the ground, at least on
! fourth Of an inch in thickness. The sa
!, was evidently absorbed from the lake.
!. Nettie Cruza, 22 years of age, for
4 woman in the works Of the Enterpri
/ Manufacturing Company, in Akroi
/ Ohio, was burned to death Wednesdt
e week while at work Her burning clot
q ing ignited fine dust in the work roo
i and an explosion followed, destroyir
the building and causing loss
$4,000,
George CoIver, a well-to-do farme
$, disappeared from his home near A
# toona, Pa, in December last Ycste
! day week a decomposed body part
4 devoured by wild animals was found {
~ top Of the Brush Mountain and idcnI
N fled as that Of the missing man. II
S. supposed he wandered there in fit
insanity and died.
George Freeburger has been arrest,
in Hampton, Va, charged with murde
IN ing his stepdaughter. Grace Jones, ag
2 about years, at Chesapeake City, son
!, - two weeks ago. The remains were foui
" in Mill creek. Two doctors certiii
AT the inquest that the child had be-
outraged. Freeburger proved an ali
ig at the inquest, but later evidence h
been secured.
The steamship Dorian, from Nora
Bay, West Indies, reached New Yo