Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02
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IN GENERAL.
A sand scow at New York capsized on
Friday, and Frederick Hanson the captain,
was drowned
Temperance advocates in Bloomville, o.
on Thursday night destroyed the saloon OF |
William Miller.
While some children in Columbia, Pa,
were playing circus on Thursday Anna 1
Kiehl, years DID, was fatally burned.
The house of Mrs. Caroline Tuck, in
Haynesville, Maine, was burned on Frisf
day, and Mrs. Tuck persisted in the flames.
The art dictatorship of the Worlds Fair,
1t is said, has been rendered to Professor
ii. G. Ives, director of the st. Louis school
of Fine Arts.
Sixteen druggists and drug clerks in
Providence, X. J.. were on Friday COM
victed of theillegal selling Of liquor. Every
case was appealed.
Eighteen druggists in Lynn, Mass, were
arrested on Friday on a charge of violating
the liquor law. A local temperance organ
ization is the prosecutor.
An unknown man was killed by trap
gun while attempting to rob the poultry
house of s. 5. Hogue, near Rosedale,
Kansas, on Thursday night.
The long dispute between the boss car
penters and journeymen in Chicago has
been settled, both sides having signed the
agreement reached by the joint conference
committee.
Two men, Camille Tombeau and Alfred
Bradley, were killed by a fall'of rock, fol-
lowing blast in a phosphate mine in
Ottawa county, Ontario, on Thursday
afternoon.
During the week ended March 2lst there
| were ,6;}5 pension certificates issued, the
first payment ON which will aggregate
$40, 2Ts. The average to each pensfonei
will therefore be Sl2605.
The Maine house of representatives on
Friday passed bill providing for an edu-
| cational qualification for voters. 1t re-
quires that "a voter shall be able to read
and write his name.
An attempt to wreck the Nangatuck
| train, due ut Winstead, Connecticut, at
o'clock, was made at two places on Friday
| night between Burrville and Winstead-
Railroad ties were placed on the track,
Governor Davis of Rhode Island on Fri.
day decided to recognize the validity OF
requsition papers received from Governor
Bulkeley of Connecticut for Thomas Gar
nett, now in Jail in Rhode Island.
The wages of the employees of the Read
ing Iron Company at Reading Pa, were
reduced from to 5 per cent on April
LIST, owing to the dizziness of trade. The
pudders were reduced % cents per ton.
The Wisconsin House of Representa-
tives on Friday passed bill prohibiting
the manufacture of cheese and butter out
of substances other than milk, but also
providing for the proper making of
oleomargarine.
Over LOCO cases Of the grip are reported
in Dubuque, Iowa, among the victims
being Congressman Henderson and sena-
| tor Allison. The latter is but slightly
affected, while Mr.. Henderson is confined
to his bed.
Charles Arbuckle, senior member of a
well-known coffee firm in Brooklyn, New
York, died Friday evening of pneumonia,
aged IS years. He was born in Allegheny
City, Pa, and his body will be taken TO
Allegheny county for cremation.
Zoe Clayton, an actress, who started from
San Francisco to walk to New York on
wager, arrived at her journeys end Friday
night 70 days ahead of time. She is said
to have walked the distance of 1895 miles
in six months and 26 days and will receive
for her trouble about ST. 800.
Twenty carts owned by A. L. Reed &s
Co., contractors, building a railroad from
Hazleton to Green Mountain, were de-
stroyed on Thursday night. The harness
left in the carts was also destroyed. The
firm discharged number of Italians a
short time ago, and they are supposed to
be the guilty parties, as they threatened to
have revenge.
Charles Elliott, a faro dealer, occupied a
box in the Casino Variety Theatre in
Spokane Falls Wash, on Friday, and
during the performance drew II revolver
and shot and killed Mabel Debabran and
fatally wounded Carrie Smith He then
committed suicide. The shots were in
tended for an actress named Lulu Durand,
who was on the stage at the time and of
whom Elliott was insanely jealous.
A dispatch from San Francisco says that
an attempt is being made by asyndica' of
local iubbers to control the brandy market.
Agents of the syndicate have been jour
neying throughout the wine districts and
buying up all the brandy in sight. In the
bonded ware houses in California there are
now stored fully 100000 gallons Of
brandy made since 1850. Nearly one-half
of this amount is held by the syndicate.
Brandy older than that is not to be our
chased.
Last Tuesday, Willie ]. Haschall, u
prominent politician i'll Omaha Nebraska,
was away from home, five members of his
household were taken suddenly ill at diee-
ner, and next morning Emma Andelpcks
his housekeeper, died. The others are W
covering. The family kept the matter
quiet until Friday, but the probabilities
now are that the housekeeper's body will
be exhumed and an inquest be held Has
chall is divorced from his wife, and it is
alleged that the Anderson woman was the
cause of the separation. 1t is claimed that
threats had been made that she would not
die a natural death.
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