Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-16


IN GENERILI
Nine Italian immigrants were, on Thurs
day, barred from landing Mt New York
because of contagious diseases.
The Constitutional Convention Of Ken
lucky has decided that Frankfort shall
remain the capital of the State.
Nearly all the firms in Chicago employ
ing fathers have agreed to pay the increase
of wages demanded, and the strikers are
resuining work.
President Ingalls, of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, said Thursday in an in
terview that his company would spend
S2,OOO0OO in improvements in Richmond
Virginia.
Edward f. Costello who shot his infant
child at Palmer, Mass, last June, was
Thursday found guilty of murder in the
second degree, and was sentenced to life
Imprisonment.
James Coward and his mother quar-.
relied at their home in Jacksonville In
diana, Thursday. She struck him with a
rock, and he shot her in the face, inilict-
ing fatal wound.
At the barge office in New York Thurs
day there were 4,322 Storage passengers
from six steamships registered The steam
ships Caehmine and Birmania arrived on
Wednesday with 2,197 Italians too late to
be landed
A freight train on the Housatonic rail
road crashed into some empty passenger
coaches in bridgeport Conn, Thursday
and drove them through a fence and across
the street An unknown woman, who was
passing, was knocked down and killed.
David Nicely, who, with his brother
Joseph, was hanged at Somerset, Pa. on
April q, left confession which was made
public Thursday. He said he was present
when Farmer Umberger was murdered,
but that he did not fire the shot that killed
him.
James Sumpler climbed to the top of
windmill in Little Rock, Arkansas, to re-
pair it Wednesday week, but neglected to
fasten it. When he reached the top a gust
of wind started the fans and Sumpler was
thrown to the ground, distance Of 60
feet, and was instantly killed.
The police of st. Louis have discovered
an elaborate system Of swindling by solicit
ting loans on pawn tickets, which, it is
said, will involve well-known men in San
Francisco and elsewhere Two of the
alleged gang, named Hoffman and Bray
mer, were arrested in st. Louis on Wednes-
day week
Bradey's nitro-glycerine works. half a
mile from Petrolia, Ontario, blew up on
"Wednesday night week. Albert Bradley
james Chambers and II. McDerInond
were blown to pieces. Where the build
ing stood is a hole IA feet deep and 30
wide. There were 30 quarts Of nitro
glycerine in the building.
The Indiana supreme court has decided
that when candidates for public office re-
ceive an equal number of votes the cleo
tion may be determined by the drawing of
lots. In the case on which this decision
was based there were three candidates for
trustee IN Decatur county who each re-
ceivcd the same number Of votes,
Milton Kaufman, a young man. died in
Lancaster, Ia. ten days ago. under mys-
ferrous circumstance. and on Wednesday
week his brother Harry died from the
same symptoms, which resembled arse
nical poisoning. The father Thursday
stated that Harry had confessed to him
that both had taken poison with the oh
ject of dying together. The boy would
give no explanation for the act.
crowd of 500 negroes on Wednesday
week attacked the jail in Kansas City with
the intention Of lynching William Mccoy,
last Sunday week. Only one guard was
on duty. He drew his revolver and threat.
ened TO shoot the first man who approached
the door. The committee Of 90 after some
parleying, Withdrew and Joined their'com-
rades outside. After a further parley, the
entire. mob dispersed. The guards have
been doubled in anticipation of further
Mrs. Andrew Dell, recently DISCHARGED
from the State Insane Asylum as cured,
Thursday killed her two children and then
committed suicide, at Hermann. Ne
braska. The children, boy and a girl
were nine and seven years old. respec,
lively She killed the children by crush
ing their skulls with an axe, placed them
IN bed, nailed the doors, swallowed
quantity of concentrated I've, and then
climbed out Of window and called for
the neighbors to come and see her chill
dren." She died in few minutes after
wards.
The interstate convention of miners and
operators was brought to sudden close al
P1ttsbnrg Thursday by the failure of the
conference committee to agree upon the
cight-hOur question: .'This action means
practically that the interstate agreement
has been abolished, and that the 1nicable
ana harmonious relations that have ex-
isted between the two classes for the past
ilve years are broken off and NAV MOI be
resumed. II also means that the 75Om
mine workers in these two regions will
stop work on the LIST Of May affecting 500,
OOu persons directly and hundreds Of thou
Samuel Gompers, president of the
american Federation Of Labor, was Oh
Thursday interviewed in Chicago regarding
the elght=hour demand. He said ~ left
New York city 10 weeks ago, and have
been travelling constantly ever since. |
have consulted with representative labor
men in every section OF the country, and
u every instance have been assured that
ii the miners throughout the country arc
not granted the cighthour day by NAV 1st
he laboring people throughout the country
from the Atlantic to the Pacific will render
MS all the financial assistance needed in
win the expected strike. There are lOO,OO
men in our organization, and the miners
can rely upon every one of them for as
sistance if the threatened strike should
occur"