Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
IN GENERAL.

The post-ofiice at Long Branch was
robbed last week Of IS registered let
tiers and 1900 stamps. There is no clew
to the robbers.
Sister Beatrice May, or Mrs. Mary L.
Oliver, was last week sent to the city
prison at New York for one month as a
professional beggar.
David Belanger was found dead on
the floor of his dry-gQods shop, at
Lowell, Mass, yesterday week, with
his throat cut II is supposed he had an
encounter with u robber.
Mrs. Flora Z. Pressey, a lodging house
keeper at Haverhill, Mass, was shot and
seriously injured on Tuesday week, by
Edward Carroll, who had been turned
out Of his room for non-payment OF rent.
Carroll made his escape.
John Snyder, a constable of Doolittle
Mills, Ind, was last week fatally shot
by Henry Enlow, whom he was trying
to arrest for watermelon stealing. Saul
Snyder, brother of the constable, was
also shot, but not seriously injured.
Enlow is still at large.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ex-
tended indefinitely the privilege of con-
tinuing the Al per cent bonds at 2 per
cent. The interest on the uncontinued
AZ per cents ceased yesterday week. The
amount presented for redemption up to
noon was 81 100000, making total of
$3,300,000 presented at the treasury de-
partment.
A dispatch from Milwaukee says that,
In consequence of the discovery that the
National (soldiersO Homes throughout
the country sustained many hardy men
fully able to earn their living, medical
examination and wedding out has been
ordered, in order that all actually
entitled to care ana home can be prop
erly accommodated.
Richard Nash, of Philadelphia, engi-
neer of an express train of the Philadel-
phia Il Reading railroad, while on the
lookout yesterday week, was struck
by some obstruction near Oreville
station, and his head was severed from
the body. The body hung out of the
cab window some minutes before the
fireman discovered what had occurred.
George r. Woods of Union Square,
New York, was caught in the ropes of
balloon at the Oswego county fair
grounds last week and carried into the
air distance of 20 feet, when he fell
and was instantly killed He was one of
number Of volunteers who were hold
ing the balloon down, when an alarm
was raised that it was on fire. The
others let go, but Woods was caught by
the ropes.
Six masked men took possession of
train on the Southern Pacific railway at
Del Rio Station, Texas, about midnight
Tuesday week. A mail and express cars
We're riddled with bullets, and the ex-
press car was broken open by means of
a dynamite cartridge. The express safe
was then rilled, the train being delayed
several hours while the robbers were at
work. Horses were in readiness and the
men rode off with thousands of dollars,
several sacks Of mail and registered
packages, and escaped into Mexico.
A letter from Honolulu, received in
San Francisco, says the new queen
grows daily more unpopular among the
natives and Americans, and that the re-
publican feeling is spreading rapidly.
The platform Of recently formed Labor
party demands new constitution, a
republican form of government, and
hints at annexation to the United States.
The recent census shows that over half
the white population has left the island
in the last six years, having been
crowded out by Asiatic coolies imported
by the sugar planters, and that the
natives arc rapidly dying Off.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding re-
sumed his duties at the treasury depart
ment yesterday week after n months alb
sence, during which time he made q
thorough investigation OF the customs
service in the vicinity of Puget Sound,
and subsequently conferred with the
directors Of the Columbian Exposition
in Chicago in regard to the reception,
custody and treatment of the foreign
exhibits, with view to the preparation
Of regulations on that subject. lie said
! yesterday that it may be necessary TO
constitute all the exhibition buildings
bonded. warehouses and place their con
tents u&der the control Of customs Off
cials.