Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-19
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Nineteen bodies have so far been rccov.
cred from the Roslyn mine disaster in
Washington.
The Grand Lodge of odd Fellows of
North Carolina reports Il gain Of l6 lodges
and 90l members during the past year.
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop, the oldest ex-
Speaker of Congress. received many con-
gratulations in Boston, Thursday, upon
his SD birthday.
The Newfoundland sealing steamer
Esquimaux has just finished the season
with Il total catch of 5000 seals, making
profit Of Sl45,OOO
Fifteen contract laborers were detained
at the New York Barge Office last week,
of whom 10 were bound for the Pennsyl--
vania coal regions.
Mrs. Patrick Boran, for the past 55 years
n resident of Heckscherville, Pa, died Fri
day week at the advanced age of l05 years.
She was born in Kilkenny county, Ire
land.
Mrs Sarah Partridge Spofford, wife of
A. K. SpOfford. librarian of Congress, died
at her residence in Washington last week
of pneumonia. She was of an old Massa-
chusetts family.
A four-years-old son of John +. Martin
of Pine Grove, Pa, May 11th climbed into
a hogshcad of straw and set fire to it, lie
was pulled out of the fire by a companion,
but not before he was fatally burned.
The national convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers assembled
May llth i'll the hall of the house OF repre-
sentativcs at Atlanta, Ga Chief Arthur
said the order now has $4,000 members.
The Hamburg American steamer Fuerst
Bismarck, which sailed from New York
on May 9Th, made the run TO the Needles
in 6 days, II hours and 33 minutes This
10 al In. nd IN
At meeting of Roman Catholic laymen
in New York, last week, arrangements
were made for the holding of "lfoman
Catholic Chautauqua," OH Carleton Island,
in the st. Lawrence, during the coming
summer.
D. A. Schofed of Ewing, Mich, fol-
lowed his wife to Duluth, and on Thurs
day killed her and then shot himself in
the breast. Mrs. Schofield refused to live
with her husband because of his intehl-
perate habits.
No further damage from water has been
reported along the Mississippi river, but it
| is believed that the severe storms all over
the west will cause the high water TO last
| an unusully long time and prevent plant
ing in the lands already ovcrilowed.
A huge boulder rolled on to the railroad
| in front Of a passenger train two miles
from the Hoosac tunnel, Massachusetts,
/ i
engine, but the shock oil the collision
caused the engine to explode. No one was
| killed.
The great steel cantilever bridge across
the Mississippi river at Memphis was
formally opened to travel Thursday. An
imposing street parade, an Grafton by
Senator Voorhees, and the presence of the
United States cruiser Concord were the
features Of the ceremonies.
F,N 4 L a.
life saving station at Rockaway Beach is
supposed to be that Of Henry Meyer of
Philadelphia, AS naturalization papers
issued III that name and letters addressed
to him were found by the coroner in the
clothing. 1t is supposed the man fell OF
some vessel.
Knauer's granite quarries, at Falls oil
French Creek Pa, closed down Tuesday
week, because of impending difficulties
about wages with the Paving Cutters
Union. The quarries employed 200 hands
and furnished large quantities of Belgian
blocks for paving purposes to the city oi
Philadelphia.
Russell b. Harrison Thursday, at New
York, emphatically denied having made
the recent statements attributed to him
that Secretary Blaine was mentally anc
physically broken down. lie aserbed th,
publication of the story to n desire Il
/. |
Secretary of State.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy said Thurs
day, in Brooklyn, that the law encour
aging shipbuilding will put the stars ant
stripes over the greatest line of Transat
lantic steamers the world has ever seen
-Four new steamers are to be built in n
American yard, and will be so feet longe
than the City OF Paris and faster.
The tow-boat sam Brown ran on ba
M. IL. ala. sl,,a a,
HaYcsville and sunk barges containing
l20,000 bushels of coal. The steamer l'wi
, light which WAS following closely behint
: the Brown, ran into the wreck and sanl
four barges and two coal boats, making
total of rs, 600 bushels of coal lost.
Three more colored men have beer
, arrested near lrenham, Texas, charge,
, with being accessories 20 the murder o
! Mrs. McDonough and her little son. Their
is great excitement at the scene of th
crime, and the people declare that if the,
can be satisfied of the guilt of the mai
arrested he will be burned at the stake.
by the explosion of battery Of fou
, boilers of the Midland salt and lumbe
. Company, 70 miles from Saginaw, Mich.
, Thursday, John Allen, Engineer Volken
bury and Richard Strong we're killed AM
Augustus Malcolm fatally injured. Severa
others were hurt these most severely in
' jured; Y. Il. p. Elton, Arthur Robinson
! Charles Blynn, Charles Burt, Albert Nal
: and S. Walton
) A Spokane Falls dispatch says; 9Th
: labor difficulties in the Cnur d'Alen
0 mines, Idaho, are nearing dangerou
!, crisis. The mine owners are determine
. to import non-union men to work thei
: mines, and the sentiment of the com
$ munity is hostile to the effort. II is know
+ that the miners have been shipping rifle
|
+ occurs trouble is feared.
t The Postmaster General has sent pre-
y test to Speaker Crisp against the reduction
y in the annual appropriation to the pos
y office department. lie says they wi
4 impair the efficiency Of the service, pre-
o vent the earnings estimated in the annua
4 report, and result in general dissatisla,
> ton, as well as discredit to the country, d
u u time when the postal service will be th
Il subject of comparison with that of othe
n countries by exhibitors and visitors to til
l. Worlds Fair.