Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-12-06
IN GENERAL.

All of the laid off workmen have re-
turned to work in the Hayemeyer sugar
retineries. in Williamsburg, N. Y.
A telegram from Valparaiso says that
the fast Gillian cruiser Esmeralda has
been sold to Ecuador for over $l.0Jo,000.
United States Senator McLaurin has an
nounced that he is u candidate for the
nomination for Governor of Mississippi.
John W. Lovett. of Anderson. Indiana,
is announced as candidate for the United
States Senate to succeed Senator Voorhees,,
Fifty-three indictments were recently
returned at Little Rock, Ark. against the
gamblers Of tine city. 1t is announced that
all the places will probably close.
During fire in a tenement house in
Boston Sunday night, Luigi Roma and his
daughter, Concetta, aged 8 years. were
burned to death.
Mrs. Philena N. Bodman, aged n, widow
of Luther Bodman; and mother of Dir.
Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York, died
at Northampton, Mass, Sunday, OF apo
| plexy.
Willie Daggett, aged 10; Ed Scott, aged
10, and George Kilby, aged IS, were
drowned near Newport, VT, on Saturday
night. They were skating and fell through
the ice.
Commander Ballington Booth. Of the
| i'll in Chicago, was Monday reported to
| be much better, and his early recovery is
| expected
w. Rodman Winslow, 46 years old, Il
lawyer, fell from an eighth story window
at,the Snvillia apartment house In New
| York carly Sunday morning and was in
stantly killed.
A Baltimore dispatch says that the Bal
timore d. Ohio Railroad Co. intends to
| make great transfer station Of Bruins
| wick. a small town ON the main line near
Harper's Ferry.
The British steamer Marc sailed from
| New Orleans OH Saturday from Eavre,
with 18,348 bales of cotton, which is said
to he the largest cargo of cotton ever
shipped in single vessel.
Seven persons, three of them Syrians,
were arrested in Detroit Monday, charged
| with smuggling thousands OF dollars
| worth of Turkish and Armenian rugs, en-
broidcres, &c., into the United States
from Canada.
The only strictly Russo-Greek church in
the United States, except the cathedral ut
Sitka, Alaska, was formally dedicated in
Streator, ILL.,, Sunday, by bishop Nicolas
of tine Greek church in Alaska and the
Aleutian Islands.
A dispatch from the City Of Mexico says
the Inter-0ceanic railway, is discharsine
oil the chief employees, most Of whom art
Englishmei, aud is filling their places
with Americans. Intense feeling is being
manifested in the matter.
The stopping of boxing in New YorE
and some other big cities, has turned the
followers of the manly art toward tht
Quaker City, and there arc more knight;
OF the SQUARED circle in Philadelphia a
l Na TINA fl,nn m hmm hare stIl ~
the go9d old days when everything went
The union printers employed on thu
World, an afternoon paper Of Roanoke, Va
struck on Wednesday, because u non
union pressman was employed by the pro
prietor. The World engaged non-uniui
men and issued paper ms usual. Thu
printers threatened to start an opposition
paper.
BY the accidental discharge of gui
during shooting match ut New Bruins
wick, n. j., Thursday afternoon, William
Griggs, aged 70 years. aud George Hplz
worth, aged 2S years, were fatally
wounded. Several shot entered the eye
of William Hoover, and il he RECEIVERS h.
will be blind.
Katc Quirk. q servant employed in tn,
Kendall House, Watkins, n. ", ant
Charles n. Richards, a saloonkeeper, wcr,
found in the woman's room ~ Tie hoie
Thursday morning, with their thro2tS cut
, The woman was dead and the man fatally
injured. Richards jealousy is believed L
! have prompted tho murder and Suicide.
, Judge Dennis of the baltimore ciFcul
! court. has ratified the report OF thu Audi
tor of the Iron Hall The report ahowel
, that the entire amount keld by tho Mary
land receivers was SAS 900. Commissions
! and other expenses deducted leaves Is srnt
VI about $4,000 This vii! pa" about y
per cent should tho fund DC divided amor.
Maryland policy holders.
The feature of the athletic entertain
ment given at the Southwark Athletic t,llll
in Philadelphia, Monday night was four
round boxing contest between Charles Mic
keeycr and Charles Mccarthy, both q
that city. 1t was ono OF the hest light
, weight contests ever witnessed in that city
; and was won By Mckeever after tou
, scientific rounds. McKeevcr clearly out
, pointed Mccarthy in the first round. Tn
, second round was draw, as the "tria
horse of 10 years became aggressive an
, had an equal share in the exchanges III
+ third and fourth rounds were very eNclt
: ing, Mckeever exhibiting wonderful hall
arm work. lie beat a tattoo on McCarthy,
f face and body. and by quick Werk on ~
feet escaped many well directed blows
5 MctIartny injured his right hand early u
: the contest, and was, therefore, very nue.
: ! Handicapped.