Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-28

| hlllib ltDlus tllIGC years ulu, WAS run
over and killed by Camden horse car on
| Saturday evening.
One hundred and twenty persons were
arrested in New York Sunday for viola
ton Of the excise law.
Slight earthquake shocks continue to be
felt daily at Winters, Sacramento and
other points in California.
Tie exports of specie from New York
last week amounted to So 278, 6S2, of which
sl,771 $50 was gold and s506, $40 silver.
Richard Smith, q printer of Washington,
d. e.. was struck by train at Christiana,
Pa, Sunday and instantly killed. He
was about so years old.
Miss Cecil Charles of New York city,
has been appointed Worlds Fair commits
sioner for Costa Rica, and will leave for
that country in few days.
Peter Emo of Lawrence, Mass, who was
charged with the murder of his wife on
the 9TH inst, committed suicide by hang
ing in the Jail Sunday morning.
George Huber, aged so years, Pennsyl-
yanta railroad track walker, was run over
and killed Saturday night at the eastern
end of the Rockville bridge, at Harrisburg.
The Republican primaries at Wheeling,
w. Va, were bitterly contested Saturday
by the administration and anti-adminis-
tration forces the former being successful.
A dispatch from Grand Forks, North
Dakota, says that 1t has been discovered
that the state legislature made no pro-
vision whatever for the election of Presi-
dental electors
A council of the presidents and mem
bers of the executive committees of the
Farmers Alliances in the southern states
has been called to meet at Birmingham,
Ala. on May Sd.
Madame dc Einelon. teacher of elocu-
ton, of New York, was found dead in her
room on Saturday, she having been stf-
located by gas. She is supposed to have
committed suicide.
The Republican primaries in Columbus,
o., saturday night, resulted in the choice
of q Sherman state delegates to five For
aker ones, and solid administration dele
CATION to the national convention.
A panic occurred in st. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church, Fort Wayne, Ind, on
Sunday, caused by the burning of the altar
decorations, and q number of persons were
trampled under foot and seriously injured.
man and woman who registered at
New York hotel as "John Vagnri and wife
of Washington, were found in their room
Saturday morning. the woman dead and
the man dying. They had blown ont the
gas.
The number of immigrants who arrived
IN the United States during March was
$3.50, an increase of lT07 over March
1891 and during the nine months ended
March Sist, 1888, 1863, as against 3l6.237 in
1891.
The Walters Association of ChisagO has
resolved to make demand for more pay,
shorter hours and the abolition of fines.
If the demands are not acceded to all the
walters in Chicago will be ordered out on
a strike.
Maria Mahon Sunday attempted to set
fire to a Presbyterian Church in Plainiield,
New Jersey, while it was crowded with
worshippers. She poured oil over the
steps leading to the gallery and set FIRE to
it, The flames were extinguished and the
woman arrested.
The Chicago Blaine Club has adopted
and is circulating resolutions urging a
vigorous effort for the nomination of Mr.
Blaine for the Presidency, and expressing
the belief that Mr. Blaine would accept the
nomination out Of loyalty to his party
and his sense of duty to his country"
Mrs. Joseph Elliott Of Shire Oaks, near
McKeesport. Pa, died in great agony Fri
day from the effects of dose of carbolc
acid, administered by her physician, DR..
Frank McGrew, in mistake for ergot. The
physician discovered his error almost inn
mediately. but it was too late to save the
woman's life.
The Republicans of the First and Thirty
second New York assembly districts, Satur-
day, elected delegates to the national con-
vention, and endorsed Harrison's admins
tration. The delegation chosen by the
Twenty-frst New York district Republic
cans were not pledged, but are Harrison
mel. unless Mckinley is brought into the
fight.
During the laying of the corner stone of
Young Mems Christian Association Gym
nasium in Holyoke, Mass, Saturday, an
iron girdcr, held temporarily in position
by brace, gave way, carrying with it
lot of timbers. Thirteen persons were in
jured, one of them, George Merriek, aged
70 years, SO badly that he died in about
two hours. The others are expected to re-
cover.
A riot occurred among coal miners at
Paramount, West Va, Saturday night, as
a result of which William Tracey OF Dun
bar, Pa, ana Dan Casey were shot and
killed and an unknown man was fatally
injured. Two others were seriously hurt.
Tracey is said to have been the aggressor.
All the survivors are under arrest, but the
miners, to the number of 200, threaten to
lynch them.
A Chicago dispatch says that the ex-
elusive privilege of carrying passengers By
Lake, between the city and Jackson Park
during the Worlds Fair, has been prac-
tically granted to the American Steel
Barge Company of Duluth. This is the
company which manufactures the whale
back boats invented by Captain Nc
Dongall. 1t is understood the company
agrees to take care of 5000 passengers
each way daily.
The Baltimore Belt Railroad Company
has received an offer from the Thompson
Houston Electric Company to thoroughly |
equip the tunnel for the running of trains
through it by electricity without the ex-
penditure of dollar on the part of the |
railroad company, and TO give the latter
the free use OF the plant for six months, |
provided that, if the experiment shall |
prove TO be what the Thompson Houston
people claim. the railroad company shall |
take the plant at q price to be agreed upon. |
Charles NJ. Austin entered the Utah |
National Bank, at Salt Lake, Saturday, |
and handed to the paying teller, Hawley, |
q paper on which was written; give ME |
die this minute As Austin he held aoa a
revolver the teller dropped behind the |
counter and called warming to his asso
ciates. Austin thereupon walked out, but |
was arrested and locked UP. He is Il son |
OF L. y. Austin, general manager of the |
salt Lake Construction Company. 1t is |
said he had been drinking heavily.
The locomotive attached to a south
bound cattle train on the Central Vermont
railroad plunged into the river from an |
iron bridge at Des Riyieres, Quebec, 81 miles
north Of st. Adams, Vermont, at 2 O'Clock
Sunday morning. Brakeman George
Jelly was killed; Engineer Henry Dabcoek |
had his thigh fractured, and Fireman
James Minehan was severely bruised The
train did not follow, the forward car hang
ing over the edge of the embankment. |
The water was low, and the engineer and
fireman managed to crawl out with diff
Guilty.
A primary election was held by the
Republicans of St. Louis on Saturday to-
select delegates to the state convention and