Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

arrest for an assault upon an ll-years'old
girl.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce
has decided to enter upon crusade against
free silver coinage, and has appointed q
general committee to direct the line oil
attack.
The Waverly Hotel at Hot Springs,
Ark, was burned on Saturday, ana
William Berks, the night porter, persisted
in the flames. The loss Will De about
$4,000.
Judge Hazen, at Topeka, on Saturday
appointed a receiver for the Gulf a. Inter
state railway, better known US the North
4 South road, the undertaking begun by
the Populists.
Commander Ballington Booth, who is in
command of the Salvation Army forces IN
the United States, and his wife, Maud
Elizabeth lSeoth. was naturalized III New
York City Friday.
A telegram from Calumet, Mich, says
that the $500 employees of the Calumet
and Hecla Mining Go. will have their
wages restored 10 per cent, the amount OF
the reduction IN 1893.
The Supreme Court ON Monday decided
the Geary Chinese Exclusion act to be
constitutional, and incidentally affirmed
the general right of the United States 20
exclude hlens OF all klnuS'
According to a dispatch from Wichita,
Kas., Eugene Busch farmer of Round
Pond. Oklahoma. on Saturday concluded u
A. days fast, which he claims to have
taken at the command Of God.
Richard Rosewetter, a messenger in th g
employ OF the Stifcl brewery, ut st. Louis,
WAS knocked down by two men and
robbed Of Sl.95O in cash and large
amount of checks Monday morning.
Mrs. Aubrey the eldest daughter OF
Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States
Supreme Court. was granted divorce
from her husband. j. Matt Aubrey, by
Judge Horton, in Chicago. on Saturday.
Victoria Matchen.. widow of ex-united
States senator Willis b. Matchen, com
mitted suicide at Clinton, KY, Friday.
bv shooting herself. Her mind had
become deranged on account OF bad health.
The Order Of Railway Conductors at the
close of its convention in Atlanta on
Thursday night presented gold watch to
Alfred G. Newell, Il local reporter, for
writing the best reports of the proceed
ings.
Three young men named Patterson,
Salisbury and Doolittle, aged respectively
II, ~ and 30. were drowned in Chase lake,
in I.cnawee county, Mich, by the cap
sizing Of their boat, while fishing on Sat
urday,
In Chicago Sunday night an electric car
with trailer struck farm wagon con
tanning II people. Franrizeka Ruzewecki
was killed and four others injured, three
fatally. The party was returning from q
picnic.
Consular reports to the Department Of
Agriculture indicate that there are small
prospects Of u market in Europe for Ameri
can home meat, Inquiries on this point
were made at the request Of American
farmers
The Amalgamated Association finished
the consideration of the wage scale at
Cleveland Monday. The structural iron
wire drawing and turning provisions of
the scale were adopted and 81 pudding
rate was decided on.
The announcement Is made at Chicago
that another dividend, amounting to AT
sleast q per cent will be paid to the stock
holders of the Worlds Columbian Exposi'
ton before the books are closed. Ten pei
cent has already been paid.
The United States Supreme Court Oh
Monday denied the motion for writ OF
habeas corpus filed By Debs and his asso
ciates of the Railway Union, and they viii
now have to serve the sentences imposed
upon them by the circuit court.
At Detroit, on Saturday, during the tria
of Mrs. Horace II. Pope, for completely IL
the murder of her husband, on February
18th, William Brusseau testified that he
killed DR.. Pope at the instigation of Mrs
Pope. The motive was to secure life iusur
anCe money,
In Waco, Tex, Sunday, George D
CRITICIZE shot aud killed his son-in-law
George w. Anderson, and fired several
shots at Anderson's brother. The street
was crowded and stray bullets killed
Thomas Lewis, colored boy, and
wounded Henry Hays c0lored.
AT meeting of the Wholesale fish deal
ers Of Philadelphia and New York. al
Newport Monday, It was decided to cur
tail shipments and to regulate" daily
prices. Any violation Of the compact vii
subject the offender, whether fisherman
| or wholesale agent, to fine of S5OO.
Charles Bradshaw of Fort Mill, S. G,
while on trial before Justice McLlhaney
Monday. deiied the judge with drawn
pistol. Squire McElhaney went out, ant
| as he returned with a Winchester the des
perado opened fire. The judge replied
| with fatal effect. The court came out un
scathed.
The Consolidated Wire and Nail Co,
| operating mills at Lockport and Joliet
ILL.,, ST. Louis, Allentown and Pittsburg
| has notified its employees that their wage
| will be advanced 10 per cent on June list
including those whose pay has alread,
| been raised. Six thousand workers wi.
be benefited.
Judge Kicks, in the United States Conr
at Cleveland, has decided in suit inyolv
| ing the validity of certain Youngstown
water bonds. the issue of which was az
| proved by u special act of the Ohio Legis
iature, that the issue, not having beel
authorized by u two.thi-ds vote OF tn
people, was worthless.
Mrs. G. 5. Osburn was killed In Omaha
Neb.. Friday, by an explosion, whicI
wrecked her house. William Henry an
his wife. the other occupants of the hous
at the time, have disappeared. The explo
sion appears to have been caused BY
large quantity Of .purposely arranged gasu
lene or other explosives.
A dispatch from Henderson, KY. say
that Claude Henderson, alias Kennedy
| the negro who attempted to assault the 10
yeurs.old child, Mildred Gray, nea
Dekuvcl. on Thursday morning, was takel
from the Caseyville jail the same night b,
Il mob of 100 men, who conveyed him Il
the scence of his crime and hanged him /,
II tree.
The little colony of fishermen an
women who inhabit the break waite
bounding the northern harbor at Chicag
was attacked on Friday night by an arme
band Of young harbor and river pirates
The, gang pillaged and plundered, an
finally murdered Louis klang, and age
fisherman. Seven of the rutiians wer
arrested.
Mrs. Carrie Alexander, As years old, wifi
OF a Chicago junk dealer, attempted TO XII
her lS-mOnths-Old baby and herself o
Sunday night. She cut the child's an
her own wrist with bread knife. Bot
are in a critical condition. Domesti
quarrels and the Incorporate habits of bot
husband and wife, were the causes that lie
to the womans deed
~ According to a dispatch from FL Pasc