Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-21

Congressman Bretz has been renoml-
mated by the Democrats of the Second
Indiana district.
The Union Stock Yards at Bennings,
d. c., were burned yesterday week;
loss, $125,0Oo.
Q. L. Boles, q bicyclist of Denver,
Col, rode a mile against a running
horse at that place Friday in 2.114.
The first of series of annual yacht
races between Yale and Harvard will
be sailed at New London on June Both.
Burglars robbed the hardware store of
George B. Turner, at Dubois, Neb., on
Wednesday night, and killed boy who
was sleeping in the store.
Baron Fava, the Italian Ambassador
at Washington, has made public state
ment that Italian laborers have taken no
part in the present coal strike.
The President Wednesday nominated
Pendleton King of North Carolina, to
be chief of the Bureau of Indexes
aud Archives in the Department of
State.
A report read before the Wisconsin
State Conference OF Seventh-day Ad-
ventists, in session at Portage, states
that the denomination now numbers
100000
Judge Payne, in Chicago Thursday,
refused to grant u continuance in the
case of Prendergast the murderer of
Mayor Harrison, and will to-day set
date for the insanity trial.
The Populist State convention of
Kansas, at Topeka, Wednesday, renomi-
mated Governor Llewelling and adopted
a platform, one of the planks of which
declares for woman suffrage.
Of the 10000 Cinnamon estimated to
be in this country, 107, 900 have regis
tered. Under the law the 5000 who
have failed to register must be deported,
but no money has been appropriated
for the purpose.
At the recent meeting of the gradual
ing advisory committee of Princeton it
was decided that if Il football game be
played with Pennsylvania next fall the
match must he played on the Varsity
field in Princeton.
AT Los Angeles, CAL, Thursday,
United States Circuit Court Judge Ross
sentenced to four months each in the
county Jail the 40 "Industrials" who
stole an Atlantic and Pacific train at
Barstow last week.
The fire and police board of Omaha,
Neb., has ordered the dismissal of all
police officers who have been active in
the A. p. A. or Roman Catholic fac
tons, which have disorganized the force
for years and made it practically useless.
One of Chamberlain's curves broke
Bob Aliens cheek bone in the eighth
inning of the game at Philadelphia,
| of Hrn wi,
occupied seat in the grand stand ,
tainted when she saw her husband drop.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Friday,
William Henshaw, a drunken painter,
attempted unsuccessfully to kill his
wife and children. He then shot and
fatally wounded his father-in. law,
Jacob Sutton, and blew his own brains
out.
The "Kentucky Rosebud" has with
drawn from his match with George
Dixon, which was scheduled for June
Goth, in Philadelphia. Critic, with whom
Dixon tried originally to get on match,
will probably take the "Rosebud's'
place.
The bodies of George Brock, his wife
and their young son were found on
Thursday in secluded hollow near
Borden, Ind. The bodies were inclosed
in rude pen, built by Brock, to keep
the hogs from devouring them. 1t was a
case of murder and suicide, Brock hav-
II ing blown his head off with gun.
Thomas P. Connect, who holds the
worlds amateur record for the one-mile
run, may not be seen again on the cinder
! path. In a letter to a friend he has
declared that he will never run again.
: He is at present employed by ex-Mayor
Hugh j. Crane of New York, and says
the pressure of business duties will not
allow him the necessary time to train.
Sec'y Carlisle Wednesday appointed
Hon. Herman Stump, superintendent of
immigration; DIR. Joseph II. Senner,
commissioner of immigration at Ellis
Island, and Edward +. McSweeney,
assistant commissioner of immigration
at Ellis Island, commission to investi-
gate the general subject of the immigra-
) ton laws with special reference to the
padrone system.
The late Chinese consul-general Of
San Francisco, has received a notice
from the Chinese foreign office of his
appointment as ambassador to Mexico,
"with full powers to ratify the treaty
|
! permits the naturalization of the Chinese
, and free commerce, the harbors and
rivers being opened to Chinese vessels.
Similar privileges will be granted by
China to Mexico"
Pitcher "Kid" Gleason, who has been
suspended by ST. Louis, has returned to
his home in Camden, and various
rumors are afloat of negotiations be-
tween him and the Philadelphia club.
, The Philadelphia officials refuse to talk
about the matter other than to say that
they would like to have Gleason. 1t is
entirely likely that some attempt will
be made to secure Gleason's release and
have him sign with the Phillies.
The President, before he left Wash.
ington Thursday evening, approved the
, Philadelphia and Camden Bridge bill.
1t provides that the structure shall clear
high water by 40 feet, the channel span
shall be 500 feet long, and that the draw
span shall give an opening 1876 feet
wide. Plans are to be submitted to the
Secretary Of War within two years, and
the bridge must be completed within
seven years from the passage of the act.
A Washington dispatch says that as
soon as the new government in Salvador
has fully established itself and is able
to preserve law and order President
, Cleveland intends to direct the surrea-
der of the refugees on the cruiser Ben
nington to the proper Judicial authori-
ties, not, however, without the fullest
guarantee that the prisoners shall be
/ tried by an impartial tribunal organized
, in conformity with the Constitution of
the Republic.