Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-28

| DIZZY IlmlueT, Lne Ddultul-W clEuL
champion of the world, sailed for Eng
land Wednesday. He will return in Sep
| TENDER.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of Sheppard G. Young to be assis-
tant appraiser OF merchandise at Phila-
delphia.
The victory of the Cornell freshmen
over the Dauntless crew of New York
on Tuesday is said to be the cath con-
secutive victory of Cornell crew in re-
cent years. .-.
Professor Herbert futile, who filled
the chair of modern history at Cornell
University, died Thursday IN Ithaca,
aged AZ years. o.... .5
The broom shop, the novelty works
and the wood working department of
the State prison, at Auburn, N. ", were
destroyed by fire Thursday.
A tenement at Warrior, Ala, occupied
by negroes who had taken the place of
strikers, was blown up by dynamite
Thursday. Six men were seriously in
| jured.
The cruiser Montgomery was placed
in commission at Norfolk, Thursday, by
Rear Admiral Brown. She will go to
sea on her final trial trip, Monday,
July Cd.
W. w. Howard, the American canoe.
list, competed in two races at Bourne
End, England, Thursday, and withdrew
from both after falling hopelessly be-
hind in each.
Figures furnished at the United States
Treasury Department indicate that the
deficit for the present fiscal year in the
revenues OF the United States will
amount to $7S,0O0,000.
William Fletcher, the ex.champion
amateur high jumper of Ireland, has ar
rived in this country and has Joined the
Holy Gross Lyceum, an athletic organi-
cation in New York city.
The executors of the estate of the
late Norman l.. Monro have sold the
man l.. Munro, who will use the boat
on the Shrewsbury river this summer.
The Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives Thursday rejected, by vote
of SO to SO, the bill fixing 81 hours per
week as tho limit for the labor OF
women and minors in mills, factories,
&c.
Nearly $1,000 was cleared at benefit
given in Cincinnati on Tuesday night
for Mrs. Frank Goudale, widow of the
Jockey who was killed at Louisville re.
Gently. Fred Taral wired 800 for a
ticket.
According to despatch from Des
Moines, the Farmers Alliance aud In
dustrial Union is about to Join the
alliance organized by the Knights Of
Labor and the American Federation of
Labor.
The Ohio miners convention, is ses-
sion in Columbus, last week voted down
q resolution to continue the strike, and
adopted one accepting the strike settle
ment and ordering a resumption Of
work at once.
Factories 2, 8, 5, z and of the
Illinois Glass Co., at Alton, have re-
sumed operations. II has been decided
to operate one-half of the factories all
summer, in order to make up for the
frequent stoppages caused by the coal
strike.
The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that company or firm about to
assign has the right to determine to
, which of its debts its assets shall be ap-
piled, so long as the property remains in
its possession unaffected by liens or pro-
cess of law.
Michael Neary and James T. Dunn
Baltimore policemen, were killed by
, being struck by Northern Central
, train there yesterday week. They were
in pursuit of party of boys who had
been in swimming, and in avoiding one
train were struck by another.
The Washington grand jury adjourned
Thursday without announcing the in
dictment of the newspaper men, Shrivel
and Edwards. The officials in the dis
trict attorneys office, who for two weeks
past have been saying something would
develop in a couple of days" refused to
talk about the matter.
The supreme court of Alabama, in a
case involving bequest of $4,000 to be
used for the offering of masses for the
| repose of the soul of the deceased, has
5 decided the bequest void because "there
is no living beneficiary of the trust en-.
deavored to be created, the soul not
being an entity in law"
The Jersey City police authorities
, Thursday notified the officials of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. in that
city, that they must stop delivering the
cipher dispatches which refer To the
policy business, and which have been
sent from Kentucky every day and fur
nished to policy runners.
, A private cable received Wednesday
announced that the "Schuetzen King
Zimmerman, had carried off the honors
in the champion target shoot at May
ence, Germany, making wonderful
record. Zimmerman scored 50 points
out possible 60. 1000 feet, ring target
/; breaking all previous records in the
champion target
: The convention of the Association of
American Railway Master Mechanics, at
Saratoga, last week, elected the follow
ing officers; President, William Gar
STANCE of Indianapolis; First Vice
President, r. G. Blackall of Albany, N.
"; Second Vice: President, j.. H. Newell
of Roanoke, Va; secretary, Angus Sin
clair of New York; Treasurer, Orlando
Stewart of Charlestown, Mass.
At meeting of business men, sheep
: and cattle growers, held in San Antonio,
Tex, Tuesday night, a resolution was
( adopted and telegraphed to Senators
Coke and Mills at Washington request
ing the representatives Of Texas in both
: Houses Of Congress "to demand for the
2 interests of Texas the same measure Of
protection that had been accorded to
, producers of raw materials in other
States"
. The series of baseball games between
Yale and Pennsylvania being tie, and
the former refusing to play Il deciding
: game, the latter, rightfully in sporting