Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16
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1t is stated that the grasshopper pest in
New Mexico and Arizona is becoming seri-
Gus. They are moving slowly eastward.
The house Of J. Il. Hanncgan. in Cedar
Rapids Iowa, was burned on Friday.
Miss Hucnf, servant, persisted in the
flames.
The navy department has ordered the
fifteenth payment-sS9, 500-to be made to
Cramp & Sons on account of armored
cruiser No. 2-the New York.
Miss Fredericka Schatz, aged 81 years
Of utiea, n. Y. formerly a resident of
Philadelphia, was drowned in Oneida lake,
while safifg, yesterday week.
The 800 employees of the Valley NALL
Mill and the Waugh street plantin Belle
vile, Illinois, who went on strike last
week for the Columbus scale, have gone
back to work.
d. NJ. Key, judge of the United States
circuit court in Nashville Tenn, and post
master-general under President Hayes,
has accepted the position Of dean of the
law school of Grant University
William Hobbs, waiter, died in New
York hospital Friday morning from the
effects of thrust in the eye with an UNI
brella point, inflicted upon him by an un-
known assailant last night week.
The department of state on Friday sue
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Merriam, who is in California, and he has
accepted the position of government agent
to examine the Behring Sea seal fisheries.
1.-THE" Allen, notorious gambler and
dive keeper in New York. was stabbed in a
bar-room brawl early Friday morning,
and is in q critical condition. His assnilant
was John Carrerok, who is commonly
known as "Black Jack" and Jap"
The Farmers Alliance state convention
convened in Fort Worth, Texas last FRI
day. This convention is revolt on the
part of the Democratic Alliance men
against the recent action Of some Alliance
LEADERS,! Hhe delegates are opposed to the
sih-freasuryse feme.K Atua4
The July report of the Department of
Agriculture makes the acreage, as com
pared with breadth, harvested last year of
corn, 1888; potatoes, 1923; tobacco, 1926.
Condition Corn, 92S winter wheat, 06. 2;
spring wheat, Oil; rye. 93;9; oats, e7.6; bar
ley, 900; potatoes, 95.3; tobacco, Oil.
Attorney Miller has given an
opinion that the Chinese restriction laws
require that Chinese. convicted of illegal
entry into the United States, shall be re-
turned to China regardless of the fact that
they may have actually entered the United
States from contiguous territory, such as
Canada or Mexico.
James Van Vranklin, paymaster's clerk
in the general storehouse of the Norfolk
navy yard, and II. II. CASTOR, clerk in
the same department, were arrested last
Friday for the alleged stealing of compo-
sition metal and other goods from the
government, to the estimated value of
several thousand dollars.
The July returns to the department of
agriculture shows some improvement in
cotton condition during the month of
June: The general average of the whole
breadth has advanced three points standing
at 1856. This is three points below the July
return Of last year, and one above that Of
1889 In but four season since 1874 have
the July returns been so low.
Ambrose Fitzsimmons, the murderer of
Detective Gilkinson, was on Friday con-
yicted in Pittsburg of robbing Schmidts
jewelry store in Homestead on the night
of January LIST last. Mr.. and Mrs. Clark, in
whose house the stolen goods were found,
were convicted as accessories. Miss Cora
arrested, was acquitted. The trial OF Fitz-
simmons for murder began Monday.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
quested the following named citizens of
Philadelphia to serve as commissioners,
without compensation, to recommend to
him suitable site for the new mint at
Philadelphia, authorized by the act of
March Sd, 1871, W.: Hon. II. ii. Filter,
Samuel Cuisine Thompson. Anthony ].
Drexel William NJ. Singerly. James II.
Windrim, Alexander X. Mcclure and O.
c. Bosbyshell.
Acting Secretary Wharton of the state
department on Friday received letter
from 4. X. Dawley, an American citizen,
who asserts that he has been confined in
a Guatamalan jail for four months, with
out trial, on II charge Of smuggling and
has been prosecuted and i'll treated. Mr..
Dawley requests an official investigation
of the facts and the state department has
called upon the American minister to
Central America, Mr.. Pacheco, for an off
cial report upon the subject.
An order was entered in court in Chi
cago Friday confirming the sale by
Master in Chancery Bates, in New York,
of the American Rapid Telegraph Com
pany TO a committee representing the
bondholders. The consideration is $780,
000. The lines are operated by the West
err. Union Telegraph Company, and it is
understood that the purchasers really rep
resent that company. The claims proved
up against the company aggregated S4-
$4,000. This ends a litigation extending
over ten years time.