Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-19

The National Brotherhood of Locomo.
tive Engineers has passed resolutions in
favor of closing the Worlds Fair on Sun.
day.
The strike of the loom-fixers at Man.
chang, X. l.. was ended by the hands ac-
cepting the wages first offered-Sl0.50 a
week.
General Thomas A. Rowley, who served
in the Mexican war and in the rebellion.
died in Pittsburg on Saturday, aged 81
years.
Thomas Davis and Henry Dickerson,
negroes, were hanged in Nashville. Ill,
Saturday, for the murder of Marcus
Deitsch.
Fred C. Pillsbury, of the great Mime.
apolis milling firm of Pillsbury &; Co., died
Sunday of malignant diphtheria, aged
80 years.
The Mines and Mining Building at the
Worlds Fair grounds is finished and ready
for acceptance. being the first of the build
ings to reach thisstage.
It is reported at Douglass, Wyoming.
that the cattle war is to be renewed, the
cattlemen having secured number of
men from Texas to aid in the extermina-
ton of the ''rustlers.'
Baron de Fava, the Italian Minister,
arrived in Washington Sunday from
New York. 1t has been little more than
a.year since the baron left Washington,
shortly after the killing of the Italians in
New Orleans.
-Four Chinese captured in and near
Detroit, charged with being in this country
illegally, were sent back TO Canada on
Saturday. They were the first Cinnamon
apprehended in this country since the new
Exclusion act was passed.
The payments of sugar bounty under
the Mckinley act on account of the pro-
duction for the present fiscal year have
been practically completed, and amounted
to about s7,500,000. The estimate for the
ensuing fiscal year is Sl00oO,0O0.
A passenger train on the International
railroad, near San Antonio, Tex, was fired
upon by train robbers Friday and two men
injured. The robbers were so precipitate
in firing as the train stood at water tank
that it moved away before they could
board it.
Mrs. Charles Hill of Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, was murdered by her divorced hus-
band at Darlington, Ohio Saturday. She
had refused to be reconciled to him, and
he lay in wait for her as she alighted from
train in response to forged telegram to
see dying child and Drained her with an
axe.
Tho general executive board of the
vi lAhbOI utCllHu 10 SeDQ ont
two representatives through the country to
visit local assemblies aud settle disputes.
The board is now consulting on appoint
ing four or five organizers for the purpose
OF starting new assemblies throughout the
country.
The Redding and Shasta stage was at
tackled near Redding, Cal, Saturday, by
two highwaymen. The express messenger,
Buck Montgomery, was killed. and It is
thought one of the robbers was wounded,
rs there was a furious exchange of Shots
The stage driver and a passenger were
wounded.
Word has reached Gillette, Wyoming.
that Deputy United States Marshal Gibson
was shot and severely wounded Sunday
ON the Powder river, the ball passing
through the shoulders Gibson was one
of the men deputized for the serving of
the injunctions restraining the small stock
and ranch men from holding a roundup
of their own.
Fire at Hazleton, Pa, Saturday morn
ing, destroyed the Opera House, Lehigh
ton Machinery and Supply Company,
Bohlander's livery stable, Richards beer
refrigerator establishment, DIR. Bowman's
office and residence, and the store of
koenig & Co., organ dealers. The total
loss is estimated At 100000. The Valley
Hotel was also badly damaged.
Late Saturday night two men, wearing
masks and rubber coats, boarded the out.
going "Frisco' passenger train at Chelten-
ham, near st. Louis, and tried to rob it,
but, not succeeding fed. They got on the
front end of sleeping car and attempted
TO get inside. ordering passenger to hold
up his hands. He responded BY drawing
q revolver, and several shots were ex-
changed, and one robber is supposed to be
hit in the leg.