Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-06
IN EN- ZEAL.

IN GENBhAL.
William H. Moore, editor of the EUenihg
| NetgS of Augusta, Ca, died suddenly, in
that city, last Wednesday evening
Sixteen business places and four dwell
! ings, at Augusta Kalamazoo county, Mich,
were destroyed by fire yesterday week
AT the commencement exercises at Har-
ward University, at Cambridge, Mass,
| Wednesday, 800 graduates received their
diplomas,
Peter Demille, wealthy glass manufac-
turer of Alpena, Mich, was drowned in
Lake Huron, Tuesday week. He fell from
a sail boat.
Mrs. Charles Engle, aged SO years, fell
| from cherry tree at Scranton, Pa, We'd
nesday, and was killed. being impaled on o
| picket fence.
The whaler Falcon, which will take the
Peary party to Greenland, arrived at New
| York Thursday. She sailed for the north
Friday night.
A fire at the Standard Oil Company's
works, at Newark, N. j., Thursday de-
stroyed several large tanks and caused a
loss of $4,000.
News has been received at Victoria,
| British Columbia, that the sealer Ainoka
has been lost in northern waters, No par
ticulars are given.
By caye-in in trench near the Ham
| istake mine, at Whitewood, s. D., We'd
nesday, six men were buried. Three were
rescued but the others were killed.
The drouth at San Luis Potosi, Mex,
which lasted five years, was broken last
week by severe storm, which flooded
the streets and swept many houses away.
Customs officials at Gloucester, Mass.
| Thursday seized go cases, seven half-barrels
and four quarters of gin, which were
alleged to have been struggled into that
port.
The body of drowned man, about go
| years old, was found Thursday In the Della
| ware river, opposite Gloucester CITY,
Several of his pockets were filled with
stones.
II is announced that the President and
Secretary Carlisle have agreed upon j. +.
| Tillman of Tennessee for register of the
| treasury, to succeed General Rosecrans, re-
signed.
Walter Darling, aged 81 years, and Miss
| Abbie Wooley, aged 10 years, were
drowned by the capsizng of rowboat at
Glen Park, near Watertown, N. Y, Tues
day week.
There was very large issue of loan GER
tificates by the New York Clearing House,
Thursday, the amount footing up
Ss000,o00. This makes a total issue OF
Sl5,03D,0 900.
The President Thursday appointed
George b. Anderson of the District of
Columbia, to be secretary of legation at
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A number of con-
sular appointments were announced.
The Secretary of the Treasury was
Thursday advised of the arrival of the
steamer Haytian Republic, at Portland,
Ore, with 500 Chinese on board, and the
seizure of the vessel by treasury agents.
Ex-senator Dawes of Massachusetts has
been elected professor of United States
History since the civil war in Dartmouth
College, chair established and endowed
by Gardner &. Hubbard of Washington,
d. G.
Mrs. Julia Collins, at Oak Cliff, Texas
Wednesday, took poison and gave it to
her three little children 1t was thought
she would die and the children recover
Poverty and dissipated husband caused
the deed.
Governor Pattison Thursday vetoed the
bill permitting the consolidation of street
railway companies with motor companies,
and the bill appropriating S26. oil go TO pay
the expenses of the House committee on
elections.
The first International Epworth League
Conference was opened in Cleveland
Thursday The delegates were welcomed by
Mayor Blee OF Cleveland and by Governor
Mckinley. About 5000 delegates are in
attendance.
Mrs. Catharine Neumann was fatally
burned, and three of her children, Tilda,
aged 20 years, Lena, aged 15 and Frank,
aged IL, were suffocated in a fire which de-
stroyed their home, at Saginaw, Mich,
Tuesday week. Only one member of the
family escaped.
A warrant vas issued Thursday at the
instance of the city of Allegheny. charg-
ing Robert Mcclure, ex-agent of the Law
and Order Society, with the embezzlement
OF money belonging to the city of Allie
gheny. The case is the same as that on
which Mcclure was acquitted few days
ago on technicality.
The Worlds Congress OF Building and
Loan Associations was opened in Chicago
on Wednesday, meeting with the United
States League. Papers were read on the
growth of building inventions in England
by Thomas A. Reed of London, and his
torical review Of building association work
IN this country by Addison i. Burk of
Philadelphia.
The statue of Admiral Farragut was un-
yelled yesterday week in the Marine
Park, South Boston. The Grafton was de-
livered by Ex-Governor Rice. In the har-
Dor, assisting in the ceremonies by their
presence, were the Russian war ships
Rynda and Dimitri Donskoi, and the
United States cruiser San Francisco and
the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius.
That Chicago is the metropolis of
America is the claim made by newspaper
in that city. 1t is said that within the legal
limits OF the city there lives at this time
permanent resident population of nearly
2,O00,0OO souls; that Chicago's population
is about 100000 larger than that of New
York, and that Chicago has entered into
swift competition with London and Paris
for still higher honors.