Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-10

Congressman G. w. Fithian has been
rcnominated by the Democrats of the
Sixteenth Illinois district.
A general reduction in wages CT about
10 per cent is being put in operation in
the iron furnaces in Birmingham, Ala.
No trouble is apprehended.
J. w. Collins, president of the sus-
pended California National Bank, COM
mitted suicide in San Francisco Thurs
day by shooting himself through the
head.
The Republican Territorial Conven-
ton of Oklahoma met Thursday and
elected delegates to the National Con-
vention, instructihg them to vote for
the denomination of President Harrison.
The abductors of little Ward Water
bury pleaded guilty at Bridgeport,
Conn, Thursday, and the court SEN
fenced Charles Waterbury and Samuel
Sutherland to the state prison for four
years and John Mccain for two years.
The mangled remains of T. Higgins
of Connellsville, an engineer on the Bal
timore Il Ohio railroad were found Tues
day week on the tracks of tho main line,
near Cumberland. 1t is thought that he
was murdered and his body placed on
the tracks.
The Coldwater National Bank of
Coldwater, Mich, was robbed on We'd
nesday week of money and valuables
aggregating in value $4,000. The
thieves broke open the vault and blew
open two safes inside, the work evil
IDENTIFY being that OF experts.
The York mail train, on the Balti-
more & Lehigh railroad, was wrecked
Thursday, at Little Gunpowder Falls,
near Baltimore. Henry Roab, the engi-
neer, was killed, and three persons were
injured, one of the latter being passen-
ger, David Evans of Philadelphia.
The Pittsburg Master Builders Asso-
citation on Thursday rejected demand
presented by the journeymen carpenters
for an advance in wages, for nine hours
as days work, for the discharge of
non-union men, no apprentices, and for
time and half-time pay for overwork.
Ex-Congressman Stephen T. Hopkins
of New York, was found dead beside
the West Jersey railroad tracks, about u
mile below the depot at Pleasantvile,
Thursday morning. 1t is not known
whether he committed suicide or was
blown from train while passing from
one car to another.
The Central Traffic Association has
authorized a half rate for the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Chicago,
tickets to be sold June 10th TO goth, and
good returning to July 9Th. For the
Republican National Convention the
date of sale has been extended from
June I'd to 9th, with June 25th as the
return limit.
In Pittsburg, Thursday, the appeals of
the Sunday newspapers against the suits
entered by the Law and Order League
for selling papers on Sunday were dis
missed by Judge Porter of the county
curt, who ruled that the sale of papers
was work of convenience and not of
necessity. The cases will be appealed
to the supreme court.
James Calvin, Methodist preacher,
in Green county, Alabama, Thursday
shot and killed William Herdy,
deacon in the church, and fatally
wounded David Smith, brother-in law
of llerdy. Herdy suspected Calvin of
being intimate with his (Iierdy's) wife
and attacked him with cane, when
Calvin drew pistol and fired five shots
with the above result.
Assistant Secretary Bussey Thursday
decided that Rudolph NJ. Manley,
Pennsylvania mllitiaman, who served
during the rebel raid in 1868, and suf-
fered a sunstroke at llagerstown, shall
be restored to the pension list, from
which he was dropped in June, 1891.
This decision, it is said "restores to the
pensionable status the 10000 soldiers
who served in the. Pennsylvania militia
about the time of Lees invasion of that
state"
The schooner Minnie Lowery, from
Haytian ports, January Sth, for New
York, before reported largely overdue,
has been given up for lost by Captain
Joseph Stevens of Maiden, Mass, who
is managing owner. She had cargo of |
log-wocd, which was insured, but there
was no insurance on the vessel, which,
with the cargo, was valued at $4,000. |
The captain and mate were brothers, |
and belong in Provincctown, Mass. The |
10 men of the crew were foreigners.
Superintendent Kimball, of the Life |
Saving Service, has received letter |
from Captain Jose Lagascvaga, of the
Spanish steamer San Albano, recently
wrecked on Hog Island, expressing his
heartfelt thanks to Keeper johnson and
crew, of the Hog Island life saving
station, for their heroic efforts in saving
the lives of himself and all but one of |
the members of the crew of the San
Albano. One seaman jumped over
board in spite of protests and was
drowned.
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoris