Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-11
The number of pension certificates is

The number of pension certificates is
sued last week was 5,0d7, the first payment!
on which aggregated S59i, $50.
Francis Jennings, 81 years old, an inmat,
of the home for old men, was run over anC
| Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Ridge
| Avenue station, Philadelphia.
William Il. Minchin, 81 years of age, in
| dividual bookkeeper at the American Ma
tional Bank in Nashville, is reported to bt
a defaulter for $4,000. He had been si1
years in the employ Of the bank.
Lizzie Wetherill, the female burglar who
| broke into the house of Frank A. Galley
| in Cambridge, Mass, last February, anG
| stole jewelry valued at $1,000, pleaded
| guilty Monday and was sentenced to ten
| years Imprisonment.
The Red river in Texas is out of its
banks, and great damage has been done
| At Chiliicuthe four men were drowned
and some lives are said to have been lost
north Of Doss. A number of cattle and
horses have been lost
The appraisers of the estate of T. T. Bar.
mum Monday filed the result of their
work in the probate court in bridgeport,
Conn. The personal property is valued at
| 81 ,2S5, 500 and the real estate ut 50 1913 1888,
making total Of s. go, 532.
\ cave-in occurred on Sunday at Water
loo mine, Calico, Cal. Edward Moran and
Thomas EiSler were injured and James
MCGOWAN, a boy, is missing He was
either killed or is imprisoned. A shaft is
being sunk through the debris.
A ST. Louis paper says that when Secre-
tary Noble returns from Hot Springs he
will send his resignation to the President
as Secretary of the Interior The paper
also intimates that the secretary will be
sent to st. Petersburg as United States min
lister.
Miss Phoebe Couzins has notified the
treasury department that she will soon file
brief of her case with voucher for her
May salary as secretary of the Board of
Lady Managers of the Worlds fair.
Meanwhile her claim for salary for April
will be held up pending the legal settle
ment of her case.
John IIoyt died in Manchester, N. H.
on sunday night, aged 81 years. He was
probably the Oldest manufacturer of
paper in the country having been in the
business from 1925 to 1856, when he re-
tired. lie ran paper mills in Cleveland
and Castolia, o., for many years, and also
at Pepperell, Mass
The government has notified its agents
on the seal islands in Behring Sea TO stop
the killing Of seals by the North American
Commercial Company. when it has taken
1880. The revenue cutter Rush, which
sailed some days ago, carried this order.
The treasury department refused to make
public the orders of the Rush ut the time
she sailed. The revenue cutter Corwin is
now at san Francisco awaiting final orders,
and 1T is expected these will be sent within
few days. 1t is said that material pro-
gress is being made toward a temporary
settlement OF the Behring Sea question.
Judge Charles ]. Mcgurdy died at his
home in Lyme Conn, Monday. He was
born on December eth, 1897, graduated
from Yale in 1917, and is said to have been
the oldest graduate. Herepresented Lyme
in the legislature for 10 terms and the dis
trict in the senate one term; was lieutenant
governor two years and in 1851 represented
the United States at the court of Austria.
In 1886 he was appointed judge Of the Su
perior court and in 1868 to the Supreme
bench He was member of the peace
congress at Washington in 1861, was re-
tired from the bench by age limitation in
1867, and since then he has delivered
courses Of lectures before the Yale Law
School.