Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-20
IN GENERAL.

The steamer Falcon, with the Peary expedi-
ton, sailed from ST. Johns, N. + last evening.
A stop will be made at Labrador settlement to
get dogs.
The union lumber showers OF Tonawanda,
New York, met Thursday evening and unani-
mously resolved that they would go to work at
cable dispatch received in New York from
London. Friday, said there had been taken
from the Bank Of England Tor shipment to
America sl75,0J0 In gold.
During a fire in Richmond, Va. Friday night
Ernest Lucy was struck by an electric light
wire. He was unconscious for an hour, but
has chance Of recovering.
A tornado at saltwater, Mimi, Friday, de-
atroyed the Atwood mill and did other damage.
Two employees of the rafting sheds, Samuel
Sirnonson and William Amez, were killed.
An army of crickets Is stripping the country
around Lost Cabin, Wyoming, OF vegetation
The insects are an inch long. They swarm on
a strip of country ~ to 10 miles wide and are
moving southeasterly at the rate of three
miles day.
orders have been sent to the United States
ship Alert TO proceed home, reaching San
Francisco not later than tho last OF September.
The Alert has been three years on the Asia ic
station, and when last heard from was at
Chemulpo, Corea-
At dinner in celebration of the 21st birth
near GrenvilIe. s. G., Friday, Henry's father
"Tom" Toney, cut "Jimh Cox with a pocket
knife, severing his Jugular vein and killing
him almost instantly.
founders OF the banking house OF J. H. Dick 4
Co., at Meanwhile. Pa, committed suicide
Friday morning. He was so years of age. IL
health and a slight run on the bank are sup
posed to have caused the deed.
Executors and trustees OF the will OF JAY
Gould have begun proceedings to, have the
assessment OF the personal property OF the es
tate, which was sl0,00)000, set aside. In the
event that the assessment be not wholly va
Gated they ask that it be reduced to s., 100000
The Toledo Cadets, Ohio National Guard
| mounted on go bicycles, arranged to carr,
| guns, knapsacks and blankets, started Frida,
night for Chicago 70 go into camp on tue Mid
| way Plaisapce. Captain Heistand, United
| States Army, is to make report on the worl
| OF the cadets on wheels.
| The Otis Steel Company, at Cleveland, has
reduced the wages of its employees from ~ 4
| 20 per cent, claiming that 1t has been payipi
/ higher wages than other similar concerns
and that the reduction will simply put It on NJ
| equal footing with competitors. II is though
| the employees will accept the cut
| An express train on the New Haven RAILROAD
| struck and killed two men who were ightini
/ on the track near Pelhamville, N. Y, earl,
| Friday morning. They were too frenzied .
| heed the locomotive whistle, and the engn
| could not be stopped in time to save them
| One OF them, from papers in his pockets, wa
thought to be Thomas sweeney of South Noun
| Vernon.
1t Is stated at the pension ONCE that 2,56
| pensioners have been suspended up to dat
| under Secretary Hoke Smiths recent ruin
| requiring benehciariss of the act of June 9Th
| 1880, to prove total disability where they ar
drawing pensions of sic per month. No per
sioner had yet been dropped under the de
| csion, foe the reason that the eixtY day
| allowed pensioners in which to make proof {
disability have not elapsed.