Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-19
IN G. ENERIL.

The executive committee of the New
York State Democracy, Wednesday,
elected William X. Grace chairman.
Tho work on the Canadian Sault Ste.
Marie canal is practically finished, and
the canal is almost ready for navigation.
p. G. Hanford, vice-president Of the
National Linsecd Oil Co., committed
suicide by shooting in Chicago Wednes-
day.
Albert Woodley, on trial in Pittsburg
for the murder of Mrs. Buchanan, his
sweetheart, was found guilty by jury
Thursday.
Robert T. Harris, for many years con-
nected with the Baltimore Sun, died
suddenly near Valley View Springs,
Va, Sunday.
The fertilizing works of Williams s.
Clark of Carteret, near Railway, N. j.,
were almost entirely destroyed by fire
on Wednesday. Loss, 100000.
The Secretary of the Interior has
made ruling to the effect that lands
allotted in seVeraity to Indians are not
exempt from the right of eminent
domain.
The Bellaire Steel and Iron Co. of
Bellaire, o., has signed the Anal
gamated scale, and 1900 men will re-
turn to work as soon as supply of
coke can be obtained.
The strike of the miners on the
Gogebic range, in Michigan, has been
declared off. The old wage scale will
be adopted, but the men will be paid
semi-monthly instead of monthly.
The statement issued from the Pen
sion Office shows that on July 1st there
were pending G19,027 claims, decrease
for the year of 92,123. There were
346,sS6 claims rejected and 44,451
abandoned.
The strike of the. stone cutters at
Pittshurg, Pa, for As cents an hour and
eight hours day, has been declared off,
and all the men who can find employ
ment have returned to work at their
employers terms.
Colonel Thornton A. Washington,
who served under General Lee during
the civil war, died at Washington, d. c.,
Tuesday week. He was great. grand
son of Colonel Samuel Washington, the
oldest brother of the first President Of
the United States.
Ex-Congressman Robert Smalls and
present Congressman George w. Muir
ray, both colored, each claiming to be
regularly nominated from the First
South Carolina district for the Fifty
fourth Congress, have agreed to submit
their pretcnsions to arbitration.
The triennial meeting of the General
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons
of the United States and General Grand
Council of Royal and Select Masters of
the United States, which was to have
been held at Topeka, Kan, beginning
last Tuesday, has been postponed, be-
cause of the strike, until August 21st.
The steamer Lakme, which arrived at
San Francisco, from Pribyloff Islands,
on Saturday, reports the total loss of
the whaling bark, Abram Barkor, on
May 9TH, in the heavy ice off Cape
Mayerin. The crew was rescued by the
whaling bark Horatio. The Barker was
owned by Wing of New Bedford, Mass.
The Senate committee on commerce
Wednesday reported the River and Har-
Dor Appropriation bill, which carries
an increase over the act as passed by the
House of 81, 097 400, of which s., 2G7 ,430
is for rivers and $500, 900 for harbors.
Of the increase Pennsylvania gets
| $4,000, and of this amount $4,000 is
to be expended on the Delaware river.
Secretary Herbert Thursday desig-
mated Rear Admiral Kirkland as COM
mander of the European naval station,
and Commodore Carpenter to assume
command of the Asiatic station. Com
modore Carpenter will relieve Rear
| Admiral Skerrett, who has just been re-
tired, and while in command of the
Asiatic station will have the rank of
rear admiral.
Captain Heaiey, of the revenue cutter
Bear, in giving further particulars to
the Treasury Department regarding the
rescue Of portion of the crew Of the
American schooner James Allen, which
was wrecked on Amelia Island, Alaska,
May 18th, states that when on June 18th
he found the men on Amnak Island,
where they had gone in boat without
food or water, the body of one man,
who died on June Z, had been entirely
eaten, and that of another, who died
two weeks before, had been dug UP and
partly consumed.