Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-14
IN GENERAL.

! Inc ieIlEn fdileI SHOPS III lAlatOu, It.,
have been put on half time.
| The New York yarnishers have won
their strike for eight hours work day.
At meeting in Chicago, last week, Mt
| which nearly every window glass manti-
factnrer in The west was represented, IL
| was decided to- close all factories on May
3lst
Jacob Ellu,a pittsburg butcher, last night
| week shot and killed his sweetheart, Ida
Emmel. lIe claims the shooting was nc.
| cidental, and that he did not know the
weapon was loaded.
Benjamin Mackey, candy maker. was
arrested in Detroit last week, charged with
| giving drugged candy to Nellie McClayton,
a young girl of Port Huron, from the ef-
fects oil which she died
Armour & Co. last week began 81 suits
in the circuit court at Chicago to recover
in the aggregate 81 $4,000 from various
railroad companies throughout the eoun-
try for overchargcs on dressed beef.
Onions dutiable at 10 cents and potatoes
at ID cents btishel, instead of al the pres
ent rates, is what is sought in tariff bill
introduced by Representative Cummings
yesterday week.
Tho capstone. or the last stone on the
Mormon Temple, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
was LAID April 9th by President Woodruff
of the Mormon Church. in the presence
OF an assemblage of people estimated at
over 10000.
The fire box Of locomotive OH the Long
Island railroad was blown out Yesterday
week near Bissville and James Kline,
conductor Andrew Walker, engineer, John
Lafrcy, water hoy, James Losh q brake
man and Theodore Van Sibcr, fireman.
were fatally injured
John Boyd, the negro charged with
"a ma tt.ne 4.
ut Bostian's Bridge, and who escaped from
jail at Charlotte last week, was recapIured
~ Union, ). @, and is again in the Char
lotte Jail.
Thomas Williams was killed and John
Phillips and John Myson were seriously
injured by an explosion OF gas at the
Glendon colliery at Ashland Pa, Thurs
day afternoon. They were working, con
trary TO orders, in q breast which WAS full
Of gas.
Charles Long, young men of Nineyeh,
ra was mistaken for burglar at New
Florence, yesterday morning week, and
was fired upon by three residents Of the
town. He took them for highwaymen and
returned the fire, seriously wouNiing WEI.
liam Kruger.
dispatch from Sudbury. Ontario, saws
that efforts are being made there to organ
re nickel trust 10 control the entire out
put OF nickel on a basis similar TO the cop
per combine Of the United States The
plan Of the syndicate is to purchase all
valuable nickel properties in the district
The three miners Of Butte, Montana,
who were charged with the assassination
OF Editor William j. Penrose, a year ago.
FOR his war on the Miners Union were
discharged at Deer Lodge, on Tuesday, tile |
district. attorney abandoning the case for
want OF sufficient testimony
4 diver made careful investigation yes |
terday week Of the hull Of the steamer
,iolden Rule, which was burned al Gin
clnnhti a week ago. He found the deck so /
crushed with coal and heavy freight that
!! IS impossible 10 explore the hold to find
the bodies supposed 10 be imprisoned there.
During quarrel al OInans Quarry. in /
Warren county, Kentucky few DAYS
ago, one Price killed colored man named
Malone ]. II. G, France, depuiiacd bv
me sheriff, went on Tuesday to arrest
i'rlcc at his home. Price and his brother
in.law, Tom Proctor, attacked France
with pocket knives and he shot and killed
both assailants
An OTTAWA dispatch says that 'on the
next occasion Of the House going into /
supply. Hon David Mills will move an
amendment to the effect that Canada
shouiu nave right TO make her own COM
iherelai treaties, and that il should be the
policy 81 the government to establish resi-.
Gent agents at the more important com
merclal centres Of the world
torrents Of rain have fallen throughout
northern Mississippi during the past four
uays, causing streams to overflow their
banks, sweeping bridges away and doing
other damage. A West Point dispatch re-
ports that four colurcd families have been
drowned, and that miles Of railroad track
are submerged or destroyed Five bridges
on the Georgia-l'aoiiic road have been de.
stroyed. by the floods of the past three
since Monday,
William L. Carpenter, a clerk employed
by DIX y Phyfe, New York bankers. Was
arrested April 9th, charged with conspir-
ing with Oscar Cramer and James | |
White, two other clerks. to roll their en-
ploycrs Of Stis,00O. Cramer and White have
not been arrested and are supposed To be
on board tramp steamer which sailed
from New York for Copenhagen OH sun,
day or Monday. Over $0O,00O OF the stolen
property were recovered at Carpenter's |
house.
Charles Emory Smith, minister of the
United States at st. Petersburg in a telr-
gram to the state department acknowledge
ing nearly thuusanddol received from
private contributors and lately sent to him
through the department of state for dis
trlbutlon to the famine sufferers IN Russia
observes that the amount of money thus
ilr received for that object at the United
states legation, independently Of the car
goes sent from America aggregates about
l20,WU roubies, or about $4,000 The /
Secretary Of State has lately added to this |
amount 81, 22a contributed BIZ private sub.