Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-05

The Virginia Worlds Fair managers
propose 10 erect at Chicago reproduction
OF Washington's home az Mount Vernon
as the state headquarters.
The whole business portion of Chase,
Mich, was burned on Wednesday night,
63 stores and dwellings being consumed.
Loss estimated at $i00.OO0.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters of Balti-
more have demanded that eight hours shall
constitute days work, without any re-
duction of the present wages.
An the lumber mills in the La Crosse
district of Wisconsin ceased operations on
Thursday, and will remain closed until the
labor troubles are settled. Two thousand
men are idle in consequence.
Miss Inez Sykes, d young woman of
Charlotte, n. g., was attacked on the street
on Thursday night, and her long hair cut
on. The rlitiun struck her, threw the
hair on the ground and ran away.
w. I. sherman, the only witness in a
murder case at Dcnison, Texas, was shot
dead IN his bed by AN unknown assassin
on Wednesday night. The casc grew out
Of an old feud, and he is its twentieth
victim.
4 farmer named Wetherton and his
wife were murdered in their beds on Tues
day week while OH visit 10 some rela-
tlves at Amity, Arkansas. There is no
clue TO the assassins nor to the motive for
the crime.
The body of Peter Rupp, aged 80 years
a prominent attorney Of Milwaukee, was
found i'll the river, in that city on Friday
morning. It is said he had cmhe1zled
s2,5m from the estate of q minor for
whom lac was guardian.
y lire in Toxic, Japan on April 10th.
consumed 1000 houses on 20 streets, IN.
GLIDING 10 warehouses, several police sta
tons. a panorama building and three
school houses. 1t is yariously estimated
that from IL to as lives were lost.
Charles W. Doerr farmer Of Seymour,
lldlannl while on his way from Browns.
town. Thursday night, was murdered by
unknown parties while passing school.
house III lonely locality. His head was
crushed by club and his pockets we've
riled.
Walter Clark went from Sacramento 10
Tracy, California, with the avowed inten-
tlon OF killing lilly Ludwig to whom he
had been engaged, but Clark was himself
shot and killed by Miss Ludwig's brother
as he was trying to force his way into her
room.
\ dispatch from Fargo, North Dakota
says that Governor Burke will probably
call special session of the state legisla.
ture, 10 meet on May 9th, to take stens
about The nomination and election of
iIestlelitlal electors, ana to increase the
appropriation for the Worlds Fair
:, San Francisco NacayiIc, Exparto and
Winters, in California, were shaken nv an
earthquake a few minutes after O'Clock
on Friday afternoon. The only damage
reported was The throwing down Of some
scaHnldlnB NJ ENpartO. The vibrations mt
san Francisco were north and south.
The local ceal exchange of Chicago was
hotlilei ly The coal trust a few DAYS ago
81 an advance of % cents per ton in an
dnracltc coal, 10 take effect OH Nav Isl
me exchange met yesterday and agreed
TO advance the price 80 cents nc the date
ilailled. liils will make anthracite coal
a. per ton IN Chicago.
ii is reported by the american l[ant,fae.
mtrT OF l'ittsburg, that the Mllyalc Iron
Company's mill will, al the end of the
present scale year be run on Il non-union
OASIS. The reduction by some eastern
manufacturers Of the wages of their mud.
oilers to S350 per day will be used as a
Ieasun by Pittsburg manufacturers for re-
dnclng the scale.
The liambmg-American Packet Com
pahys steamship Fuerst Bismarck. from
southampton for New York, was signallcd
oli lre Island ut s.l5p. m. FRIDAY. She had
made the passage In six days and - hours
breaking the record, The best previous
Tine was BY the same vessel, being s DAYS
II hn'lfs and 10 minutes Had she come
from Queenstown it is estimated that the
time would have been s days, l9hours and
80 minutes. $50
a dispatch from cambridge, Tenn, saws
that Jackson, Savage and Knox counties
are n q pantc over the operations of The
White Caps, who are said to have L III
county. organization, with supreme and
subordinate officers and lodges. The active
le3ucf or manager, who is employed on n
salary, is said to have been brought bv
contract from Indiana, where lie WAS
familiar with White Cap methods. So far
annil W persons have been whipped"
Inc Canadian steamer Glengarry, which
was lowing the schooners Gaskin and
1lenora into Peninsula harbor on lie
north shore OF Lake Superior, on Thurs
day night, lost the Glenora. "A fearful
storm, was raging ut the time and il is
feared that the Glenora was pounded tn
pieces on the State Islands and her crew If
III men drowned. The Glengarry's wheel
was touled with the tow line and The
steamer Went ashore on sandy bottom.
The schooner Gaskn is safe with herr
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Hon. Thomas 4. liayard will deliver nm
address on the OCCASION of the celebration
of the 18th anniversary of the pcnns,,I