Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-17
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heeIe are ulCkeFlnS Win tne DrOOkIyH
Club for jobs.
The cornerstone of tho new building
for the Corcoran Art Gallery, in Wash
ington, D. G. was laid Thursday.
The University of Pennsylvania crew
will probably row in II mile race at the
Newark regatta on Decoration Day.
The striking brick makers of the Blue
Island district of Chicago have compro-
missed their differences with the manu-
facturers.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Co., is seriously considering
using oil on its engines ii the miners
strike continues.
The May report of the statlsticians of
the Department of Agriculture places
the condition Of winter wheat at 6l.4
as against sG.7 the previous month,
being falling off Of 5.3 points.
The reduction of the Treasury gold
below $94,000,000 has started a new
speculation rs to new bond issue.
With the present high rate OF exchange
IL is known that gold will flow from us.
The cable steamer Faraday, Wednes-
day, landed the shore end of the Com
lueTClul SdDlG w. . ueW AtldutlC Suulet
at Canso, Nova Scotia, and then started
for Ireland, paying out the cable as she
went.
A telegram from Kingston, Jamaica,
says that the British steamer Indian
apolis, from Boston, April Goth, for
Newport News and Bluefelds, has
broken her shaft, 100 miles south of
Jamaica.
A dispatch from Huntington, w. Va.
says that most of the miners along the
Norfolk s. Western railroad for 100
miles up the line have been given an I'D
vance in prices for mining, and refused
to strike.
About 80 small boys who were EN-
ployed in the Muncie, Ind, flint glass
works, and who struck for increased
wages, attacked the boys who took their
places on Wednesday,, and "a pitched
battle ensued."
Fifty striking potters, with their fami-
lies, have arranged to leave East Liver
pool, o., for England early next month
to work in English potteries. The men
are all skilled workmen, and more of
the English strikers may follow them.
The Duke of Westminsters Gray Leg,
three years, won the March Stakes at
Newmarket, England, Thursday. Mr..
II. H. Combe's Severmore, four years,
the only other starter, was a close
second. The betting was IL to l on
Gray Leg.
A poll of delegates to the Southern
Methodist Conference, in session at
Memphis, Tenn, on the proposed plan
to reunite the Northern and Southern
Methodist churches, shows that two
thirds of the members of the conference
are opposed to the union.
Antonio Lucian, who was hanged at
Regina, Manitoba, Thursday, declared
on the scaffold that he was innocent
and that he had confessed in order tc
save his partner, Digidio, whom he
claimed was also innocent. Dlgldio Ii
in prison under life sentence.
News reached Bathurst, New Bruins
wick, Thursday, that r. Ellis, civil
engineer, who left that place April 18th
to go over the lands of the St Lawrence
Lumber Company, had become sepa.
rated from his companions and persisted
from hunger and exposure 10 or IL days
ag2.
II is reported from Port Townsend
that in view of the compact between thu
United States and Great Britain Il
jointly patrol the seal waters, the United
States fleet has been considerably re
duced. The Yorktown, it is said, will
be sent to Australia by way of Homo
lulu.
There is bitter feeling in EIyria, o.
against the cheap labor imported b.
owners of the stone quarriec. Wednes
day night house occupied by eigh
Italians was set on fire at the foot of TIN
stairway, and the occupants had diff
Guilty in escaping. The house was de
stroyed.
Ludwig b. Goldman, the younI
cashier for the American branch of tn
Mannheim Insurance Company, VIII
disappeared from New York city OF
April 18th, after forging checks on Nh
company to the extent Of $1S,375, wa
caught, Wednesday, at St. Thomas
West Indies.
A hurricane swept over the western
portion of Tennessee Tuesday week
destroying considerable amount o
property and doing great amount O
damage to growing crops. Severa
. buildings, including the Louisville
, Nashville depot, at Paris, Tenn, wer
wrecked by the wind. ...-
, Tho Canadian revenue cutter PetrC
seized two American steamboats,, tn
Visitor and Leroy Brooks near Pele
Island, in Lake Erie, on Tuesday morn
: ing, for illegal fishing in Canada
t waters. The passengers were landed o
, Pelee Island, and tue boats and crew
taken to Amherstburg, Ont.
A Cleveland dispatch says that tn
riots of last week have had their effet
on some of the unemployed foreigners
Wednesday 80 people took passage fo
> the old country, to remain. Others al
leaving for their homes in Poland, Hur
gary, Bohemia and Italy They sa
conditions are better in the old countr
than here.
Patrick J. Collins Thursday filed
bill in the circuit court in Baltimor,
n asking that receiver be appointed ia
q the relief department of the Baltimol
v & Ohio railroad. The suit is sequ,
: to the recent winding up Of the old r,
/. lief association of the road, which WI
+ incorporated in January, 1882, by act {
n the Legislature.
d An action was begun in New Yol
:, Thursday by the United Press again
@ the New York Press Co., Limite
n which publishes the Press. newspape
d of that city for $5,100, said to be d.
for service since January 1st. The su
involves the question Of breach of col
Il tract and the payment of Il sum
4 money aggregating $95,0O0. The co
~ tract was for six years.
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