Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-11
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m Wllllam Wnlte, grand secretary Oh
the l. O. @. F., died Sunday at Louis
willie, aged 76 years. ... .......
Mrs Mary b. Willard, mother Of
Frances L. Willard, died in Evanston,
H., Sunday, aged SO years.
During July 1877 immigrants were de.
ported at the port of New York, of
which number Ill were contract labor
ers.
General John Tillson, who com
manded brigade in 5herman's march
to the sea. and who was editor of the
Quincy Wig, died Sunday in Quincy,
Illinois.
Thomas Herman, 26 years of age, was
struck and killed by an engine in
Altoona, Pa, Sunday, He was on his
way home from o berry picking expedi-
ton.
The Michigan Legislature completed
its work Saturday, by practically unani-
nous votes, two eapportlonment bills,
which were accepted as "fair' by the
Republican minority
The design for the Worlds Fair
souvenir half-dollars has already been
selected The reverse will show the
main building of the Exposition and
the diverse the head of Columbus.
Mary Ann Mehan, resident of Dor
renstown, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, while
drunk Sunday afternoon tried to kill
her infant by dashing its head to the
ground. She was arrested. The child
is fatally injured.
An electric car at Mt. Auburn, near
Cincinnati, Ohio, ran into a carriage,
Saturday, and Miss L. G. Cook was
killed. Mrs. George Sealy was probably
fatally wounded, and Mr.. Sealy was
seriously injured.
party Of young men from Pittston,
Pa, Sunday started quarrel with a
number of Italians at Caxton, on the
Lehigh Valley railroad. The Italians
used knives in the fight which re-
suited, and Harry Beillette and Robert
Williams were stabbed and fatally in
jured.
Patrick Dowd of Jamestown, N. Y,
Sunday went driving with two dis
reputable women, and quarreling with
one of them, struck her in the mouth,
bringing the blood. George IIuss at
tempted to punish Dowd for this, when
the latter shot and killed Huss and then
killed himself.
The President has selected the follow
ing as members of the International
Monetary Conference, to be held in one
of the European capitals: Senators
Allison Of Iowa, and Jones of Nevada;
Professor McCleary of Kentucky; Gene
raj Francis \. Walker of Massachusetts,
and Henry w. Cannon of New York
A fight occurred in Orange, N. j.,
Sunday between negroes and Italians.
About 600 men and women We're en-
gagged. Stones, sticks and bricks We're
used as weapons. Before the police
succeeded in quelling the fight about 20
persons were hurt, one of the negroes,
it is feared, fatally. No arrests were
made.
The Union Pacific Railway officials
on Saturday acceded to the demand of
the telegraph operators for increased
pay. Grand Chief fIelegrapher Ramsey,
of the Order of Railway Photographers,
had ordered a strike at noon. Subse-
quently, at the request Of the road, the
time was extended until p. M, and at
o'clock the settlement was reached.
The Canadian cabinet, at Ottawa, Sat-
urday, decided to abolish the rebate of
is cents ton on all grain shipped by
to fix toll which will apply to Ameri-
can and Canadian vessels alike, without
regard to the ports to which vessels are
bound. This, it was thought, removed
the discrimination complained of by
the United States.
The Central Labor Union of New
York met Sunday and adopted reso-
buttons denouncing the treatment of
| priyato Ian,s AZ Homestead an11;n,r
upon all workmen to resign from the
National Guard and to use the ballot
in the coming political struggle III order
to do away with the monopolistic capt
talists who seek to enslave the free born
laboring men of this country"
1t is reported from Harrodsburg, XIV,
that, near Buena Vista, family named
Mcintyre and the cook ate cabbage for
dinner and were soon taken with pains
which caused the death of four of the
family and the cook, in few hours. In
looking for the cause of the sudden
death, it was found that snake of the
spreading viper species had been cooked
in the pot with the cabbage How the
reptile got there no one knows
The Goodland Rain Company COM
menced operations Sunday under q
contract with farmers of Bourbon county
Kansas, to cause u fall of rain of hall
an inch over 800 square miles, the COM
pensation being $1,000 Operations
were commenced in the morning. Clouds
gathered in the southwest and by
night copious rain was falling Skepti.
cal people say the natural conditions
would have brought rain anyway, and
that IL ! farmers might have saved theii
$1,000
Martin Reed, condemned murderer
escaped from the Washington county
Pa, Jail June Sth. Saturday he was
discovered in an ice house at Mobiles
town, near Washington, Pa. An at
tempt to capture him was made, but
Reed was armed with revolver, and
shot and killed Constable Coyle, who
led one Of the attacking parties. The
ice house was set on fire, with the ex.
pectation OF forcing Reed to surrender
but instead of doing so he shot himself
through the head The body was
burned to Il crisp when it was finally
recovered.