Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-28
IN ENERAL.

L lie WIN FtdGHSu u NBlbcIl1 Vi oV iilico
an hour at Huron, S. D., Tuesday night,
and several buildings were unroofed.
Lieutenant Samuel ii. May Of the U. S.
Navy. committed suicide in New York last
week by shooting himself in the head.
A Burlington freigh. train broke in two
and was wrecked near Platisbure, Neb.,
yesterday week. Three tramps were killed.
Colonel L. A. Carr of the Sixth Cavalry,
was last week appointed by the President
TO be brigadier-general, vice General stan
ley, retired.
Henry J. Gardner, who was governor of
Massachusetts from 1885 to 1855 died NJ
his residence in Milton on Thursday night
from cancer.
The iron miners at lelvidere, N. j. are
on strike because Of proposed reduction
i'll their wages of SO cents per ton, to go
into effect August LIST
Abram Provost, an e1-iudge and promi-
nent politician and merchant of New
Brunswick, n. j., dropped dead Friday.
He was so years old
| The prOprietors of the Helmbacher e
Tudor Iron Mills, at st. Louis, have re-
| fused to sign the wage scale submitted by
| the men and lock -out has resulted
| During a severe storm at Richmond,
| Virginia, Monday night, lightning struck
!, house and killed man named Dale
Emmett, his wife and three children.
| "
| vat at Louis Huck & Sons tannery in
| Chicago, Thursday. and three died. The
| recovery of the fourth was said to be I'M
| likely
Advices from Loon Lake, in the Adiron-
,dacks, say that Mrs, Harrison is improving
1greatly each day. Wednesday she walked,
Flor the first time, some distance from her
4 cottage.
i A Pennsylvania train, at Newark, New
Jersey, Wednesday, struck truck which
was being driven across the track. Two
boys and the driver, James Burns, We're
killed.
i Charles Reilly was convicted in New
York Thursday of murder in the second
degree. He killed James Kelly, who re-
fused TO 20 on a strike when ordered to do
so by Reilly.
violent electrical Storm accompanied
by rain and hail, passed over Harrisburg
last night. Several buildings were damaged,
horse WAS killed and Harry Meek was
struck by lightning,
4 The cases of smallpox at Block island
haze caused that popular resort to be almost
/ entirely deserted. The cases of the disease
were-not serious and all the patients have
been carefully isolated.
4 The officials at Ellis Island report that
iSaufilg June 1872 machinists, 2fS black
Anew YorkTrOm abroad. They were bound
~ for different parts Of the country,
\ The result Of the enumeration of Chi.
Cages population which has been going
! on for some time, under the auspices OF
= the school census committee, shows that
Chicago has k42sf,iS people within her
limits.
n Mother Catharine. a mother superior o,
the Order Of Notrc Dame and commissary
general of the order in America died il
Milwaukee yesterday She was Il years
: old and came to this country from France
I in 1917.
, The President has approved the join
, resolution providing for an investigation
of the slums of cities. Also the act pro
{ viding when a plaintiff may sue as poo
l person and when counsel shall be assignee
g by the court.
c The Pennsylvania company has made
I ! cut in passenger rates between Iouisvill
Y and Chicago and the Louisville & Nash
vile has announced reduction in the rat
for round trip tickets between Louisviii
and New York.
$ A case of sporadic Asiatic cholera is re
Il ported from Saginaw, Mich. The patien
:. died and the authorities took precauton
/. to prevent the spread Of the disease III
IS man who died had come from Scotlan
only five weeks ago.
The Coroner at Govington, KY, has re
turned verdict in the matter of the fal
Y Of the Covington and Newport bridge, O
e June 18th, whereby 25 lives were lost. Tn
e contractors were absolved from all til
y blame for the accident.
n The schooner Fred Tyler laden wit
coal bound from Philadelphia to Boston
went ashore on the rocks near Guilford
Conn, Thursday morning. The yesse
t, went to the bottom with GOO tons of Goa
N The crew escaped in their yawl
e, The pudding department at the mills {
% the Crum Creek iron and Steel Company
iii Ridley township, Delaware county, Pa
resumed operations last week with nor
union men, paying the new amalgamate
scale. A number of the old hands returne
IS To work,
u Two prisoners ore white man and I'll
other negro, escaped from Blackwell
la Island, New York, Friday They iumpC
II into the East river, intending TO swim /
the Long Island City side. The negro W.
ri drowned but the white man reached IL
" shore safely.
The principal -four millers of New Nor
!, city-incieding llecker's mills the Icwe
= Milling Company, the Kings County Nil
" ing Company, the Staten Island mills an
Jones Il Co-effeeted a consolidate
n Thursday the new company having car
Il tai of 81 800, 600.
]. j. Bowles merchant Of Recdyill
ms Ark, yesterday-shot and killed two viii
n men, Wilcox and Ace. They had qua
relied and Wilcox and Ace went To Bowie
e- store with the ayowGd intention Of KILL
es him. Bowles had been wounded and
shot both men as they entered the store.
IL Michael Marley and his 1-years-o
Tia daughter, Anne. were found dead in Il
bathroom Of Varlry's house, in Ne
a. Work. The gas was turned on. IL is II
lie known whether their deaths we're aci
dental or intentional. The child was
}. cripple AMI always slept in the same roo
no with her father.
~ George Downs and Joseph McAtee, Is
miners Of Harrison Gitr We're run dov
hs and killed last week by an engine a She
nny distance above Manor, Pa, on the Clarid
~ branch of the Pennsylvania railroad. Til
were both under the influence of liqut
las and were sitting on the track when t
III engine struck them.
ed It was reported IN Jersey City Thursd
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa
he IL preparing to sridiron Plsstic, lSSsoX a
rs Hudson counties with electric rNilroa,
be AL convcrging in Newark, thence to fers
City by way Of the plank ROAD, and 10 N
NJ York from Jersey City by means of I
a. Chambers, Desbrosscs and Fourteen
~ street ferries.
=" A naptha launch, bottom up, was fou
rs Wednesday at Long Branch, y, j.. a
l.; Robert Soltau, 4 well known India rubt
n merchant Of New York. and his hrotf
,,s Ernest, lately arrived from iambu
N"' were missing. They started from y
Work in the launch for Long Branch
lay Monday, and il is supposed the laun
cw was caught in the storm Of that day a
len capsi2ed, and that both men were drown
ION a Wheeling dispatrh saws there is ii
ger Of riot at Dpekiska, on the Mont
les / gahela. The union miners struck becai
ok. Of the discharge Of eight miners by
or, Acme Coal and Coke Company. OH III
fine lith Twelve non-union men remain
al work, and have since heen subjected
ore abuse and intimidation by crowds fr'