Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-16
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enormous quantity is hurrying crowds
of miners to a camp near Masca, Col.
All the departments of the Pullman
shops, at Pullman, H., were reopened
Thursday, excepting two; 1,19S men
reported for work.
John Horton, in Chicago, Saturday,
referred to master II petition against
Sunday games on the grounds of the
Chicago Baseball Club.
A board of naval officers has been ap-
pointed to inspect the chain bunkers
and other interior arrangements of the
ram Katahdin being built by the Bath
iron works.
Engineers and conductors on the
Southern Pacific railroad threaten to go
on strike unless they are paid their
usual wages for the time lost during the
recent strike.
EX-Statc Senator Hannibal X. Sloan,
the Democratic candidate for Congress-
man-at- Large, died ut his home in
Indiana, Pa, Saturday. He was So
years of age.
A bronze statue of the late Frederick
T. Frelinghuysen was unveiled at New.
ark, N. j., Thursday, the Grafton being
made by Theodore Runyou, our Ambas-
sador to Germany,
According to dispatch from Mont
gomery, Ala, the next Legislature of
that State will stand: Seuate-Demo-
Gratis, "a; Opposition, o. House-Demo-
Gratis, 81; Opposition, 80.
The striking street car employees at
Youngstown, o., are running hacks on
all the streets covered by the car lines,
and are trying to induce the public to
boycott the railway companies.
The supreme court of Alabama Thurs
day impeached Judge Talley OF the
Ninth judicial district, for completely
in the murder of Robert G. Rose by the
Shelton brothers last February.
A dispatch from Lincoln. Neb., re-
ports the burning to death Thursday OF
| five travelling men, the conductor and
| brakeman of Rock Island train, which
was ditched four miles from that place.
The board of directors of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad on
Saturday accepted the resignation of
Mr.. Reinhart as president and member
of the board, to take effect September
| 1st.
During game of baseball at Hebron,
KY, Saturday afternoon, John Tanner,
one of the pitchers, ran 10 catch fly,
and as the ball settled i'll his hands he
was struck by lightning and dropped
dead.
Pigeon, small town in Elk county,
Pa, was destroyed by fire Thursday
morning. Fifteen buildings, stores,
postotiice, mills, 100000 feet of hem
lock and other sawed lumber were
burned.
The steamer Roanoke was destroyed
by fire Tuesday week on Lake Superior,
off Eagle Harbor, Wis. The crew aban.
doned the burning vessel, and were
picked up by another steamer. The loss
is $4,000.
| 4. I. Bosley, an engineer in the
power house OF an electric railway at
Terrc Haute, Ind, on Saturday night,
leaned against machine and was in
stantly killed by current OF 500 volts
passing through his body.
The Olympic Club nf New Orleans
has offered purse of $4,000 for q glove
contest between Daniel Creeden and
Robert t'itzsimmons at 1853 pounds, the
weighing in to be done at the ring side.
The former has accepted the offer.
IL is reported at Lincoln, Neb., that
Monsignor SatolI has upheld Bishop
Bonacum, of that diocese, ia his pro-
tracted controversy with the priests,
who, it is said, will now send one of
their number to intercede with the pope.
Littleton p. Dryden, who was re.
moved by the Secretary of the Treasury
from his Office us shipping commissioner
of Baltimore, will, it is stated, apply for
a writ OF maRdamus against Secretary
Carlisle TO compel him TO show cause
why he was removed.
A dispatch from Selkirk, Ont, SAYS
that the salvation Army cruiser William
Booth of Toronto, ran on a reef about
five miles off Point Hoover, early
Thursday morning. All efforts to get her
off have proved futile, and she is likely
TO prove total wreck.
, A dispatch from Omaha says that
FLETCHER Robbins, prize-fghtcr, who
, fought Jimmy Lindsay of Omaha al
, Platts Mouth, Monday, is dying, and
, warrants are out for Lindsay and fol
Sporting Editor Griswold of the Omaha
] Bee, who was the referee"
An order has been signed by Judge
TruaX of the supreme court OF New
York, relieving Mrs. Harriet Hubbard
, Aver of the commitment under which
, she was placed in an insane asylum
and restoring to her all her property anc
her rights as sane woman.
t The torpedo boat Ericsson has arrived
| at Memphis, Tenn. Her Performance,
on the trip down the Mississippi from
!. st. Louis is pronounced excellent. She
q will be docked at New Orleans, wher
n She will receive her bronze proDglle
and then proceed to New York.
: While John Moses was returning witt
c two women from n dance hall at Gull
/ lett, Col, Wednesday morning, he wa
:. held up by two masked men. He sho
n and wounded one of the highwaymen
l and in turn was himself shot dead. Tn
G wounded robber proved to be the far
II dealer in the dance hall where Nose
had won large sum of money.
d Attorney General Maloney of Illinoi
Il has filed petition for a bill in eunit
e against the Pullman Palace Car Co
}, calling upon it to show cause why
should not be prohibited from dom
/. business under the laws of the Stat,
s. The allegation is that the company ha
7 violated tho franchises conferred upo
il it by the State in numerous particular
The steamer Grand Lake arrived q
n st. Johns, N. f., on Saturday, frol
!. Labrador, having on board members {
an exploring and hunting party, VIII
- We're landed by the steamer Mirand,
carrying the Cook Arctic Expedition
IA The captain of the Grand Lake believe
7, that Arctic navigation at present is vi
u usually dangerous because of the laro