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

The total number of deaths reported
in New York for the "a hours which
ended at noon on Friday was III against
2OG for the preceding "a hours.
Governor Pattison on Friday observed
Arbor Day by planting a fine tree in the
Capital Park, in Harrisburg. The day
was not generally observed.
A mob took William Bales from the
Jail in Kenton, Ohio, early Friday
morning and hanged him to a tree.
Bales and two accomplices were charged
with killing Edward Harper, police
man, who was trying to arrest Bales.
Governor Burke; of North Dakota, in
speaking of the crop outlook in that
State, says: "Fhe indications are the
best for seven years, and believe the
wheat crop in North Dakota this year
will be the largest ever known there. y
There were landed at the Barge Office
at New York on Friday 900 steerage
passengers from the steamship Neendam,
from Rotterdam. A number of immi-
grants, whose examination proved un-
satisfactory, were detained for further
investigation.
A case of typhus fever has been dis
covered in Elizabeth, N. j.. the patient
being Pole WHO arrived in this country
a few days ago. He has been sent TO the
| pest house, the tenement where he was
found has been quarantined and bed
ding burned.
The annual report of the Canadian
department of Indian affairs was
issued on Friday. The material condi-
| ton of the Indians in the seven
prnUinpac IF tha nD,,iir;n, t. ao;1 H.,
OF very satisfactory character. They
are, as rule, self-supporting.
The April returns to the Department
of Agriculture make the condition of
winter wheat 96.S, and of rye 95.4. The
general average for condition is the
highest reported for April since 1882,
and the individual State averages are re-
markable for their uniformity.
As part of the celebration of the CEN
tennial anniversary of the establish
ment of the American patent system,
the congress of inventors on Friday
visited Mount Vernon, and were after
wards received by President Harrison.
In the afternoon there was a parade.
William S. Skaggs, a United States
prisoner on the way to the penitentiary
in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, escaped
from an officer by jumping through the
car window near Lebanon, Missouri,
while the train was running at rapid
rate No trace of him has been dis
covered.
The 50th anniversary of the New
York IribURe was celebrated in New
York Friday in imposing style. A
distinguished assemblage filled the Met
ropolitan Opera House, and among the
speakers were Major Mckinley, Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, George William Curtis
and Charles A. Dana.
John Jones of Dale county, Alabama,
has been arrested on the charge of as,
sault with intent to murder his 9-years-
old son. For some triiling offence he
swung the boy up by the thumps,
whipped him numerically and left him
to die. The little fellow was almost
dead when rescued by a passer-by.
The funeral of the late Albert Pike,
grand commander for the southern
jurisdiction Of the Scottish Rite Order
Of Masonry, took place in Washington,
on Friday, and, at the request of the
dead man, was marked by simplicity
and an absence of display of any sort.
Services were held in Ascension Episco-
pal Church.
The master and i0urneymen plumbers
Of indianapolis have reached an agree
ment. None but union men are to be
employed, wages are to be 40 cents and
30 cents for plumbers, 80 and 80 cents
for gasfltters, and 40 cents for steam
filters, and eight hours are to be days
work. Nearly all of the master timers
have signed the schedule recently pre-
scented by the journeymen.
A fight occurred during a fire at
Kingston, Pa, on Thursday afternoon,
between the tiremen and the spectators,
about % men being engaged. The |
police then took hand, and later a re- |
enforcement from Edwardsville Joined |
in the riot, Finally the latter was put |
to flight, and peace was restored after 20 |
men had been badly injured on each
side, two or three, perhaps, MORALLY.
Michael Duffy, an Edwardsville man,
who started the riot by forcing mis- way
inside the ropes, was arrested,
The United States Supreme Court
last Friday heard argument on the
second appeal of Shcbuya Jugiro, from
he sentence by which he was CON
in New York state, to death
~ means of electricity. The court
heretofore refused to grant Jugiro
writ of habeas corpus based on the con-
ention that electricity was a cruel and
Unusual mode of punishment, and the
'resent application was made on the
round that there We're errors COM
nitted at the trial Of Jugiro. Argument
vas also heard on the application for
writ of habeas corpus for Joseph Wood,
he negro who is under sentence of
eath by electricity, the principal point
icing the absence of negroes on the
ury
General J. Madison Drake, editor of
he Daily Leader, and commander of the
,eteran Zouayes, was arrested in Eliza
eth, New jersey, on Friday morning,
y q United States marshal and taken
} Newark, on charge of opening a ,
liter and abstracting its contents. The
harge Is made by Captain James CORR, .
member of General brakes staff and .
ntil recently one of his personal
lends. The letter was addressed to :
aptain CORR, and the enclosure was a
neck for 5000 from the New Jersey !
ockey Club, intended as donation to /
le louaves. Captain CORR was away I
hen the letter was delivered, and 9
eneral Drake took the check and APP q
led the funds TO the ZouaVe Company, v
was intended by the donors. !,
iarged With Firing His Own Hotel. i
DALLAS, TEX, April 10.-Henry q
uhlman, the proprietor of the Georgia n
otel, which was destroyed by fire two o
eeks ago and in which James Il
cAllister was burned to death and 3,
veral others seriously injured, was ar Il
sted yesterday, charged with having J,
ed the building. +,