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;/ ) i 4 'HI i y, Rntoroi at tho lVmt-Offl ™--ftLWü" | ng.t° n . P»!-» *Hgac-)nd-clanB matter BELAWAKK (iAZKTTK, DELAWARE .STATE .KII I1NAI,, katahlnhei» i "mu established ihji; WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1891. CONSOLIDATED 1883. NEW SERIES- VOL. XI1-NO. 9 ALMY CAPTURED BY STORM The Murderer Dragged from the Warden Barn. A LYNCHING BARELY AVERTED 7 Almy Taken After a Des perate Resistance. !. Many Sho Kxvhang iin«l«Ml and tin* SI in <i< r Finally Ciip tured After Heine W , Tho Town 1 th H er Willi u II II F •Ite Frank Almy, tho brutal murderer of Christie Warden, who, on Thursday, was found concealed in the barn of tho murdered woman's father, was finally captured, after a desperate resistance. llanover became wild with excite ment on learning that Almy was con cealed in the barn, and the structure ■fas soon surrounded by over 1,500 peo ile. A council of war was held as to wo best means of dislodging the mur lerer. Tho council resulted in appoint g as a committee of procedure Sheriffs evens of Lancaster and Clark of Leb General C. O. Hurl but of Leba . Jon, and ex-Sheriff N. C. Bridgman. many favored burning the barn drive Almy out, the majority favored tering tho barn, and volunteers for s purpose were called for. Twcnty tw-> men immediately responded. ®P1 KAs the party went into tho barn i . v .,, .Almy's voice was heard. He asked that John Fuller be sent to him talk with him. Fuller and ex-Sheriff ^BBrldgemau went into the loft, and, after ^^Bome conversation with Almy, Sheriff ^^Bridgcman returned, mounted a ladder ^^w&ning against the house, and said to I^Hhc crowd : ■ "Fellow citizens: Almy has been HBouml. Now 1 call upon you in the Hiami' of law and good order to restrain Hvour anger and let the law take its •se with this foul murderer. 1 say his at the request of the county otll kials, men whom we chose by our votes o act for us. Wo have confidence in liom. Wc have as good courts as there re on the face of the earth." Then turning to the county solicitor, e said: "Solicitor Mitchell, I think, assure mo that these 1,600 people, most of whom I know personally, will consent to let tho law take its course." These remarks of "Yes, yes! Let the law take its course." § :'l • he wished njn WOULD HELL IMS LIFE DEARLY. »... yw Mr. Bridgcman further saiil: is at this moment feet of hay. He says, 'If y protection, I will sell my life «learly as possible and but if you will give through John M. Fuller I will give up my arms and come out.' " The law-abiding spirit of the people was put to a severe test, but tho feeling became strong that Almy should dledecently after a verdict of guilty shall be brought in from a regularly consti tuted jury. Mr. Bridgeinun, still perched on the lud«ler, sai«l : "Your Almy shall be dealt with isfactory. "Almy •ealed under 20 don't gi I then kill myself, »lection : ranee that wording to Aimy s law is sat shall all have in liu Hjfc he shall pass along between th«' lines." The situali« riling immediately ■ truce, however, by Almy' ■ emerge from bis hiding place, m und«.*r the assurance of safety. 1 I promise that you opportunity to see him. Fo ch si«le «»f the road and as rendered still more following this s refusal to •o of safety. ■ for Solicitor Mitchell, who went up in I the burn on the hay where Almy was I .sitting. Mr. Mitchell reported as fol THE LA LE PARLEY. "I went up into tho bi . ith th«- request of Almy. He sat the hay and said his leg was broken. He had a large revolver in each liaml in accord and flourished them, pointing them sometimes at 'n head. He asked guarantee him a fair trial. I assured him that I would most certainly d wanted to know how much of his pnst history 1 had found out. I told him ,'ould not discuss that now. "Pointing the revolver at his I lead, he asked • fetter shoot himself. . ponference was that he refused |I>ut." fa A. A. Smith, 1 sometimes at his if 1 would . He , if I thought he had The result of the ■dicul student, also Bead a conference with Almy. He says ■Almy told him he did not mean to kill ■Christi«'; he suid he tired the first shot ■lccidentally, which threw him into a ■frenzy; then he shot her again. If Mrs. ■Warden, he said, bad invited him into •the house ho should have gone right nhing and there would have been no trouble. He then sai«l to Smith, as he pointed his pistol at him: "You get right down now; I will see you later." At 1 o'clock a decision was reached by the citizens' committee to catch Almy unawares and shoot him, and thus put end to what is becoming a grim .'farce. When this conclusk ade it was greeted with yells of «lo light by the people, who, though I strongly inclined to let the law take its course, had lost patience. The officers attaek<'d the barn with Winchester rifles, and Almy retaliated as best h« could with shot after shot 'from bis brace of revolvers. ' Before 2 o'clock the fugitive had been overpowered and taken to the Wheelock House, where he was confined upstairs. • Half a dozen officers with drawn re volvers stood at the foot of the stairs and held back tho excited As the sheriff came down from the hay mow with Almy the multitude in sisted in unmistakable terms on seeing placed iii ■ 1. tho prisoner, lie w the sheriff's carriage, but the people chased the carriage at a dead Wheelock Hotel. There tiiey shouted : Almy to day, and : to the "We want to going to do it." They w could do 6« were dressed. When this had been completed the people wore allowed to file through the room. The stre kept up until 1.500 had passed, whe Almy fainted and tiled« Almy says he laid in tho barn just alter Christie's murder, and from there viewed her funeral and visited her grave frequently by night. ai.my'b fiendish crime. soon assured that they oon as his slight wounds rere closed. No more cruel murder, n«» capture dramatic, is more difficult, eventful re«x)rded in the annuls of New Hamp shire crimes. Almy is the young who, persisting in his attention to the ; charm ing school teacher after sho had rejected bis suit, s discharged from the employ of her well-known father, A. A. Warden, and then resolved to conquer tho young lady. That in March last. Subsequent to Almy's discharge he hnuntcd Miss Christie by night and so dogged her footsteps that she had to move very guardedly after dark. Then tho obtruder disappeared, and the well to-do Warden family supposed that they had seen and heard the last of him. Late on the beautiful moonlight night of July 17th, however, as Mrs. Warden, her daughters Christie and Fanny and Miss Lquise Goodell we talking leis rely home through a suburb of Han* •ar Dartmouth College, having attended a social gathering of the local grange, they wore startled at a densely shaded nud shrubbery-fringed point in the road, known a ■ the Vale of Temp, by a man jumping from behind a great tree. With drawn revolver he coldly said: ''You know me. 1 am Frank Almy. I have come 1,000 miles to seo Christie, d will see her alone. Now, Mrs. W ardon, you nnd the other girls go on. Move on, or I will shoot. Move say !" How Mrs. Warden was dragged away by Miss Goodell ; how beautiful Chris tie's young sister Fanny stood by and did her best to save her until, as rescuer, she was threatened also with death and was twice shot at; how Almy dragged poor, struggling, shrieking Christie into adjoining field, pounded her sweet features with tho butt of his revolver and then shot her dead through the face and back before Emmett Marshall came running up the roa«l to tho rescue, how Almy escaped and was sought high and low, far and wide by all the students and faculty of Dartmouth College, the populaeo nnd detectives, ar of recently recorded history. murder more atrocious for yenrs, and all tho over of to to its in its , I all matters There had boe e people were aroused. . IL, Aug. 21.—Judge Samuel W. Cobb of the police court, witli Att< Solicit« Hanover, N jy-general Barnard and Mitchell, accompanied by citi zens, went to Frank Almy's room In the vVheelo.-k House tins morning, to conduct the preliminary examination of the murderer. Almy, in reply to Attorney-gonornl Barnord'r|q »estions, as to how he felt said that he had not any sleep and had in pain all night. The complaint of murder which was in customary form was signed by N. A. Frost and was read to A liny as lie lay on his cot. When asked to plead he hesitated and said, "I don't know what to do." Turn ing to Sheriff Foster, a neighbor of the Wardens, with whom lie b( .'ell ac quainted he inquired,"What would you do?" Henry Foster replied, "I don't Attorney-general Barnard then sug st«:d that it was always safe to plead "not guilty," and in that way his plea stands recorded. lie waived examina tion and was committed without bail. s learned from tho physicians that tho pnin of which Almy complained was more from the upples of which he had so ravenously ate and which tempted him from his hiding place in Warden's barn Wednesday night, than fr« wounds. Although he «lid not sleep he was apparently rly and looks bright^ know F 20 Re It nil ch ruited, was shaved Hanover, N. H., Aug. 21.—At 9 'clock, this to ing, in the private dining room of the Hotel Wheelock, before J ustico S. W. Cobb, Frank A. Almy was arruigm-d tho charge of murdering Christie C. Warden, and after pleading not guilty was ordered to stand committed to Hanover Hill jail to await the action of the grand jury. During the proceedings the prisoner lay cot lacing the court and his face betrayed no signs of excitement or fear. to up EX1 ITERENT STILL INTENSE. The !s in Hanover this morning •re similar to those of yesterday after , after Almy had been brought to the Wheelock House. At an early hour Ing in from the sur fil led the ■ams began pi unding towns ace in front of the hotel on Main and heeloek streets. The sidewalks w lined with people, and everybody was discussing the tragedy and the capture und expi man in the hot«?l who is being j tively Graft« great desire to see the ***-■ atten jci for by the officials of jounty. apparent that some thing must be done to quickly inform the neighboring towns that Almy could not bo seen to-day. Accordingly J. L. Bridgcmau, First selectman, wired the following to telegraph operators in a dozen different pluces : "It is useless to come to Hanover ex pecting to see Almy. The otlleials will not allow him to be seen to-day. "The murderer has been removed from tho close a to the uppei story. It. is not likely that the prisoner will be taken to the Grafton county jail because of its insecurity ami lack of accommoda tions for the wounded man." The present indicate that Almy . In ill remain here a day two further talk with Almy to-day he em phasizes his desire that people shall not rank him with common murderers. He says: "I know that 1 committed a brutal murder, nevertheless 1 paradoxical though that statement may appear. 1 don't deserve any pity and I ought to suffer for my crime. Christie said she loved me; timt I had many qualities she admired; but, she added, 'I must test the sincerity of your love for me by living perhaps some timo i efforts will he rewarded, that lintl tliero been not a brute, upright life, and the future y« -.1 > T _ ... sure outside in fluence wo would have got along much better." AN ENOAOING RUFFIAN. After Almy's arraignment and plea of >t guilty in the hotel this morning the ordered to be cleared of all reporters and officers except those whom General Bernard wished to have remain a correspondent, who had a long chat with Almy, and imagine to yourself a pal«« face «m a pillow with 'hite and clear as alabas ;e that was marked : : ong whe complexion ter and a counton; by signs of gentility and good breeding, ami add to that a clear blue eye, well trimmed hair and mustache, a splendid set of teeth, well groomed hands and clean linen, and y the prisoner's appearance. "L am glad to see you "Yesterday at this time I did not to be alive to-day." voice low but clear have some idea of ," ho began, pect said in a and the expression and manner of speech were pleasing. That the speaker was educated and had been of cosmopolitan habits could bo easily gathered, and in looks he seemed as for hum bciqg; a murderer î I ll is John L. Sullivan does from occupying the pastorate of a city church. "1 am suffering very great pain to day," he added as his face gave an in voluntary twitch and his right hand pressed the side of his hip in which the shot entered. In a moment, however, he was more composed and then ho said : ''Now it is not remarkable that they did not find me, as I was carefully secreted and was always well under cover until far into the night." This is his story of the whole affair in his own words : TIIE murderer's story. "In the beginning Christie .Warden and I w her, and, although she had never told me she reciprocated the feeling, I have always felt that seo did. After I had been in the Warden family a month or six weeks the best of friends. I loved began to go about to vari plaees together, and though she ap peared shocked at some of the stories I told her of my past my life she never theless talked to me in a friendly man ner regarding the future and told me I could make of it what I chose. There was familiarity between us, the famili arity of accepted lovers, and I shall always stick to this part of my story. It is true that she never promised to be my wife, but she gave me reap believe the day was not far ' distant when she would. Then her family in terfered. I was practically rejected nnd went away to forget her, if I could, among other scenes. It was a hard thing to do, but the only thing that remained. I left the Warden farm and drifted about here and there, always thinkin of her and longing to be could not rest unless 1 came back, and so I returned. I her. HIDING BEFORE THE MURDER. "I slept in the Warden barn for a con siderable time and saw Christie again and again*Yrom my place of concealment, ' her unaccompanied and so I waited, hoping for an opportunity. When tho night of the killing came I >thcr and Fannie depart, and 1 waited for them by the brook, guessing at tho time they would return. When they cunio back from the grange meet ing I *.vas in readiness, and when the party reached my hiding place I stepped out. and announced who I was, and told Mrs. Warden that I wanted to speak with Christie. Mrs. Warden at once flew at me, called me everything that sho could think of, and Fannie and the lady with them joined in, Christie alone remaining silent. COULD NOT STAND TnKill TONGUES. "Such a raking over as I got for a few moments from those two females was enough to make a man completely lose his head. I could stand it no longer, so I pulled out my revolver and told them to move on. I told them that, I intended to see Christie alone and if they insisted upon standing in the road I would go Into the field. I took Christie by the arm and asked her to go with over into the enclosure as 1 had some thing to tell her which I wished her to take time in considering. "She was perfectly willing to go with me, and I intended to take her out of the hearing range of the others. But no sooner had we reached the field than Fannie interfered, and so furiously in sisted upon following her that I comnelled to tell her to stand back or 1 would shoot. E STRUGGLING but ■er r her L KILLED. "Then Christie began to get fright d and to struggle. In the excitement which followed and the violenc«» used and the first shot my only thought was to keep Fannie away. Contrary to my expectations, this had no effect Christie and she struggled to free her self. In the midst of her struggles in of her wild thrusts she grabbed my right hand, in which 1 held my revolver. [] some way she pressed the hammer, rather my finger, which held it. The s a self-cocking is great enough to discharge d who , and the weapon press it. The girl fell blood pouring from her body an insane horror came over me and I believed that she was dead. "Then I thought that perhaps she was not dead, but mortally wounded, and rather than think of her longer and know in her moments of semi-consciousness that I had shot her, 1 fired at her again and then again. Then l thought that I would end my own existence, but something, I know not what, restrained ried from the scene and secreted in the barn, where I have been through all this excitement, seeing all that had taken place—Christie's sad home coming, the funeral and tho resumption of the everyday life." î hr . ufferer >, and so 1 hur II AN ■EK, N. H., Aug. 22.—It. has been established beyond a doubt tlmt Frank C. Almy is none other than George II. Abbott, who escaped from the Windsor, Vt., state prison about six ago. Warden Oakes and two superintendents from Windsor this morning positively identified him. Abbott is known as an expert burglar and a desperate criminal. liis age^to day would be just about that «»f Almy. When he escaped from the state prison at Windsor a reward ol $400 was offered for his capture, but he has never been ?sted. At tho time of his cs ing a sentence of 15 years, having been convicted on nine different accounts for burglary ami entering, to which he pleaded guilty in January, 1881. Another strong point in the identifi cation is the fact thnt Abbott w Salem, Mass., and Almy is said to have come from l hat city. Abbott is the of Harris E. Abbott of Salem. The lather has been dead several y When Abbott was arrested, in 1881, he was the ring-leader of a gang of bur lars, who operated in the towns up and own the Connecticut rivor, from Bar net, Vt., on the north, to Lyme, N. 11., the south. Abbott made his home, most of the time the depredations occurring, at tho home of his uncle at Ely Station. In December, 1880, he was captured in the woods near Ely Station, by a posso of citizens, under the leadership of Deputy-sheriff Berry. Stored in the woods were found over 300 kinds of articles which the gang had stolen, and among them which he had stolen from his captor, Deputy-sheriff Berry. Abbott also taken $800 from him. At the time of his capture lie made, a desperate and determine«! resistance and received twenty different bullet wounds beforo he surrendered. Four days after he escaped from his captors and with nothing on but his night shirt and a bed sprea«f thrown around him. He concealed himself in a railroad culvert, but was soon found. again capo ho w a rifle a mile and a half ov THE GRANGERS AND LEGISLATORS After a Busy .Session of Three Days at Itelmboth They Leave for Home-The ed. The meetings of the Grangers and members of the Legislature, which have been in session at Rehoboth for the past three days, were brought to a termina tion on Friday when the legislators and Grangers left for home. important meeting held by the • on Thursday evening, behind closed doors, tho question of the freight rates demauded by the railroad com pany was discussed at some length. Mortimer Whitehead, the lecturer of tho National Grange, was present and made an address. The Grangers were given opportunity to express their senti ments on the freight question, which they did with much frankness. Tho question which interested tho Grangers much was the decision of the inter-state commerce commission last spring, which decided that the railroad company should reduce its rates peaches 20 per cent, and 25 per cent on truck. The railroad company, it is claimed, has not yet made the reduction and the old rates prevail. The Grangers concluded to keep up the fight and adopted these resolutions. Itcxolved , As the sense of this meeting, that we have full confidence in the judg ment and fidelity of our executive commit d that we hereby extend our thanks for their fidelity and efficiency, nnd con gratulate them upon their success in prose cuting to a favorable issue the suit against the railroads, for reduced rates. Remloedfurther. That we hereby pledge them our cordial support in conducting any further proceedings they may deem necessary, not only by our sympathy and encouragement, hut also by whatever material aid that may be qui red. Tho Stato Grange executive commit tee having charge of the railroad composed of Representative John C. Higgins of Delaware City, E. II. Ban croft, Wyoming, and S'. Harrington Messick of Bridgeville. During the meeting of the Grangers and legislators, Lecturer Whitehead ex pressed his satisfaction of the McKinley act and said last year the importation of barley into this country amounted to 9,000,000 bushels. He held that the McKinley act increasing the duty on the grain caused the farmers in the United States this year to raise more barley than ever, and ho thought this was evidence of the benefits of a protec tive tariff. After all the business of tho three days' session was over with, a "full dress" ball was given in the dining room of the Hotel llenlopen, Thursday îning, in honor of the General As sembly, which proved a success. After expressing their satisfaction at the proceedings of tho meetings the Grangers took their departure after tho hop and that ended the session. Freight Q,„ *»tlon Di* At Grangers 1 Brotlierhuoil of tliu Union. A convention of the (»rand Circle of Delaware, Brotherhood of the Union, was held in Greenwood, Tuesday week. Tin? attendance w'as largo and officers as follows for the ensuing year were elected: Edgar T. Hastings, Grand Chief Washington, of Washington Cir cle, No. 8, of Millsboro; J. J. Fitzsim mons, Grand Chief Jefferson, of Ilen lopen Circle, No. 11; John H. Cnbbagc, Grand Chief Franklin,of llenlopen Cir cle, No. 11, of Lowes; G. L. arnett, Grand Ilerald, of Enterprise Circle, No. 5, of Millville; F. Daisoy, Watch of the Day, of Enter prise Circle, No. 5, of Millville; E. W. Long, watch of the night, «>f Ilen lopen Circle, No. 11, of Lewes; Edward S. Burton, graud treasurer of Washing ton Circle, No. 8, «.f Millsboro; W. B. Jones, grand scroll keeper of Washing ton Circle, No. 8, of Millsboro. C. W. Kerns, of Diamond Suite Circle, No. 3, of Milford, was elected repr«?sen tative to the Supreme Circle, which jets in this city next October. The next, convention of tho grand circle will be held in Milford next August. A rising vote of thanks of the members of the Grand Circle w tended to the members of Lincoln Circle and the citizens of Greenowod for their hospitality in entertaining the members of the Grand Circle. n«* Quiete«l the Ruby. Among the passengers on an up Delaware train Friday evening was an infant which cried loud and long. The child's mother could not quiet it and her annoyance was great. Turning in his seat a newspaper man took the babe from the woman's grasp, lifted it ov here he sat ami placed it knee, when it began to scream more lustily. Thereupon his companion, a prominent State official, took it from him, but his efforts t«> st>othe the tot availing. Finally the : in r ere iwspaper grabbed the youngster, put its head his shoulder, stepped out in the aisle and down until the and walked child went to sleep. Returning to his seat he held the sleeping infant until the train entered the city, lie was heartily congratulated by his fellow passengers and he feels hig'hly elated be cause he accomplished what the official could not do. Fire on well'* Funn Elkton, Aug. 21.—A fire this after noon on the home farm of lfon. John A. J. CreBwell, near Elkton, destroyed two large hay barracks, 60 tons of hay, 900 bushels wheat, 1,000 bushels oats, «1 a thrashing machine valued at $700, which was in operation at the time. The loss to Mr. Creswell is estimated at $3,000; insured for $800 in the Mutual Fire of Cecil Insurance Company The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is thought t«» have started from a match passing through the machine, igniting and lodg ing in the straw at tho end of the chine. Tho wind at the time was blow ing hard from the south-west, and only by the greatest effort was a tenant-house by saved from flying sparks. county. Complaint Against a i "That farmer is too mean to take his team to a livery stable," was the re mark heard on King street Saturday. The horse and team were tethered at a post in front of Hanover Presbyterian Church. Tiie animals were hungrily munching a big bunch of hay that lay hiosely on the «'obble stones. It is un derstood that the farmer who allowed his team to be hitched in the place re ferred to was breaking tho market law In doing so. The street resident« are continually complaining of such In fractions of the law. It would not have cost the farmer more than 15 to have his horses fed and cared for In a livery yard. 20 cents The Rev. Giles B. Cooke has become rector at North Ea6t, succeeding the Rev. E. K. Miller, who has removed to N *w |, "!^ji. l » it, — î- -— MR. MURRAY STANDS ALONE Opposed to Council Paying Certain Judgments. ASKS TO HAVE A FINE REFUNDED TheCityCouncil's Handsome Balance in Bank. Correcting Ml» City Taxe«--Kerelpts rtments During Laut Thursday's Regular es In tho Payment of f Va De 00k—Last eting of Connell. Thursday's session of City was prolonged by reading many bills. All members ■Council 1 passing ! present. )r Willey was in attendance awhile City Solicitor Curtis was present during the entire session. Howard B. Springer and Charles F. Welch were refunded overpaid cupitu tion tax amounting respectively to $2.50 and $2.56. George W. Griffith's request for the refunding of $25.75, which he claimed to be overpaid tax, was denied, his bills being correct as per assessment. An ordinance making an extra appro priation for paying was put on its third proved by'the Mu certain judgments reading, passed, ap and declared to be ordinance of tile city. On its adop tion Mr. Murray alone voted in the negative. In explanation of his vote he said the judgments wore obtained because of accidents which occurred the streets and the Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department having sole control of the highways should pay the judgments. Mr. Dannenberg gave notice that at the next meeting he will introduce ordinance to amend the ordinance passed in 1856 concerning offences agaiust public economy and certain nuisances. The city treasurer reported in bank $168,245.92 to the credit of current ex • penses, And $4,454.62 to tho credit of special deposit. Of the amount de posited he reported that $72 Union National Bank, and $23,850 in each of the depository banks, lie also reported the following receipts : From Collector Mitchell, $500 and $1,050, city and school taxes for 1890 and 1891 respectively; from Administrator Mealy, $150 and $575, city and school taxes for 1890 and 1891 1' 815.92 1« i •spectivcly; from the Board of Water Commissioners, $2,175, interest on loan No. 26; from the clerk of council, $60, returned witness fees. The city auditor certified to the correct ness of tjie accounts of the city treasurer. To the police committee was referred a petition from Thomas Fagan, asking that he Jkj refunded $10, the amount of a fine imposed for allowing horses to at jarge. He explained that the horses had been i field, that some body had broken the fence and let the animals out and that when they w seized they were standing in front of the gate-of the enclosure. The Board of Education was allowed its August ap propriation, amounting to $9,123.08. Mr. White moved that the printing committee be instructed to have 50 copies of the Police Commission act printed for the use of members of Coun cil. Mr. Murray objected, stating that such a proceeding is unnecessary, since Council will s«»on bo in possession of printed copies of all the aets passed during the late session of the Legisla ture. Mr. McKelvey said he hoped the committee would net be put to necessary expense; it had to r bills left by the last Council, arid its ap propriation is light. Mr. White dis avowed any intention of saddling the committee with unnecessary expense. In respt the city solicitor stated that he wus in formed some time ago that printed copies of the acts would be ready for distribution this month, but of late he had heard nothing of the, matter. Mr. White withdrew his motion. any un r a lot of pa) to a request for informât!« 111» Amputated Arm. Lathly Nichols of Thomastown, Me., whose diseased putated, experienced some remarkable sensations after the operation had been completed. After amputation the arm placed in a box in a somewhat cramped position and Nichols complained of a severe pain. Without his knowledge ;as placed in a more natural position, whereupon he expressed great relief. As the missing member was carried away lie indicated to those around him just how the box was moved, and when it was tipped from a level he felt considerable pain. He told when it was placed in tho ground, and indicated by gestures with his remain ing arm every shovelful of earth that was thrown upon it, expressing much relief wheu the interment was over. was recently to of a of a the rortraUn for I lie Inntitute. Tho Wilmington Institute Library has just acquired a set of very fine portraits prints of the series "Men of Mark." They have been framed by George Hardcastle and now hang upon each of the book shelf divisions surrounding the reading room. Among the portraits those of Thomas Alva Edison, Walt Whitman, Henry Browning, Victor Hugo, George J. Goschen, Herbert Spencer, Lord Granville, Professor I lux ley, Lord Salisbury, Mr. Gladstone, Queen Victoria, the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Abraham Lincoln, Cardi nal Manning, Sir Frederick Leighton, P. R. A. ami Tennyson. A handsome new carpet has been laid in tho li brarian's office. are National Guard .Surgrnn*. Assistant Surgeon J. Paul Lukens, N. G. D., has received notification of a meeting to be held in the Lt'land House September 17th next, of the surgetms and assistant sur geons of the National Guard of the United States for tho purpose of organ izing an association of military surgeons of the National Guard. parlors, Chicago, World'* Fair Reprenen The members of tho World's Fair Committee will meet September 2d, in Uio Cotik County Council Chamber, Chicago. Willard Hall Porter and George V. Massey, representatives from Delaware are to be present. Mrs. J. Frank Ball, of this city, and Mrs. Kinder, of Milford, of the lady gers for this State will also be present. Lieutenant A. D. Chaytor, Acting Quartermaster-general, N. G. D., is filling out company requisitions for coat», helmets, clothing and other com pany stores that the juilitia may aeea of. " __ man« ■ of be in THE nilALERACICS DIMENSIONS. OfDrial Figure*« of the Strange Vessel Now at the Tusey Sc Jones Yards. The official figures giving the dimen sions of the whaleback steamer Wet more, now at the Pusey & Jones yards, are as follows : Length, 265 feet; beam amidships, 38 feet; hold, 24 feet; gross tonnage, 1,400; net r«*gistered tonnage, 1,075; draft when fully loaded, 164 feet. The propelling power consists of a fore and nft compound surface condensing engine, with cylinders 26 and 50 inches diameter by 42-inch stroke, built by Samuel F. Hodge & Co., Detroit, Mich., and two steel boilers, 114 feet long and 138 inches diameter to carry 125 pounds of steam, constructed by Hammond «& Coon, Buffalo, N. Y. The full load line draft is 18 feet. There arc two forward bulkheads and three aft bulkheads for holding the water ballast (800 tons) and coal. There are powerful steam pumps board, and the tanks can be filled so as to submerge the ship to any required depth. The American Shipbuilder says there is not a 3,000-ton capacity steamship afloat that would be allowed to go to sea with only four sailors and three firemen, yet that is all the Wetmore carries. Among the special advantages claimed for tills novel vessel are an economy of 40 per cent in the cost of construction; a saving at the same rate of speed of nearly 40 per cent in horse power, 800 horse power and two boilers doing the work at present done by 2,000 power and six boilers, and all the result ing economy in space for coal, «fcc.; almost entire freedom from rolling pitching in stormy seas; great carrying capacity with light displacement. Other pcculiarties of the vessel are the heels of the four orse or . masts do not go down through the iron back to the bottom. They rest on the deck of the vessel. There is keel. Her con sumption of coal on the voyage fr« Liverpool was only 12 tons a against 300 tons of the fastest ocean racers. The Shipbuilder adds: The the Wetmore consists of master, first officer, second mate, two engineers, two oilers, three coal passers, three firemen, four sailors, cook and pteward. The wages paid is as follows, the sum given after each number corresponds with the position named above : First, $120; second, $60; third, $50; fourth, $100; fifth, $60; sixth, $25; seventh, $25; eighth, $20; ninth, $20; tenth, $20; eleventh, $20; twelfth, $20; thirteenth, $20; fourteenth ,J$ 18, fifthteenth, $18;'six tcenth, $18; seventeenth, $18; eighteenth, $60; nineteenth, $50. Wliere^ is there an American ocean steamship of 3,000 tons carrying capacity that with 19 men and manned for $725 a month ? day as ■ be run Through the courtesy of the officials at the Pusey and Jones yards hundretls of citizens enjoyed the pleasure of a Friday to the novel steamer visit Wetmore. The propriety of the name whale back is vividly realized at first view of the immense conical cylinder of steel as she was alongside the wharf yesterday, suggests the idea in lying prone at low tide She i of some modern naval engine than a cargo vessel. Another point that strikos the visitor as he clambers up upon her great arched sides is the great simplicity of the archi tecture of the monster. Standing at the mouth of the main hold entrance and peering down into its cavernous (lepths what is comprehended is an immense cylindrical box with nothing in the way to obstruct an alnu»st unlimited storage of cargo. Speaking of the mouth of the hold, however, it would be mislead ing to fail to explain that there is really speaking no such entrance way, in the usual understanding of the term. All the upper part of the vessel between the two deck houses at stern and bow is equivalent simply to a series of sliding box covers moved back and forth as the exigencies of cargo lading may require. All the heavy motive machinery is lo cated below near the stern. F. E. Dw'ight, the newspaper corre spondent aboard the Wetmore, who has been on her since her launching, re ceived the representatives of the press and most courteously escorted them all over the novel vessel. He has not the slightest fears as to her complete seaworthiness, nud, as to tho whaleback's cargo carrying capacity and inferentially as a , that lie considers a question already ■■ settled. The officers' state rooms apartments loeatod in the storn deck house. When questioned as to his idea of the safety and security of tho. deck house should the whaleback be met by heavy seas Mr. Dwight pointed out the stout iron pillars and staneheons which fasten it to the ship structure and also to the opening between either end of the the stern deck house which would allow the heavy seas to wash through. The most critical experience of the visit« nace's quarters. This was a voritablo descent into the darkest Erebus that the local press had any hitherto. Down several dark passage ways, by two or three series of stairs where the procession had to feel rather than to see its way, and then into the furnace room. "Now gentlemen," Mr. Dwight pleas antly remarked, as the party stood in the dim, ruddy twilight of the banked furnaces, "you can take a Turkish bath —all for nothing." Tho representatives of the press wore already perspiring under an atmosphere which tho ther mometer indicated to be 112° ! The visitors did not stay long, but gladly followed their cicerone back through the circuitous passageways, dark and close, more like the shafts of a coal mine than the exit from the hull of a modern steamship. Reaching the opening to the secoud deck Mr. Dwight's party were saluted wiüi a «lraught of cold air and dazzling sunshine, thec«»m bined effect« of which made them blink like knnts and almost shiver with <3old. But it is not necessary to add that the deck thermometer showed almost 90°. But the visitors had just emerged from a temperature of 112° and a chasm of darkness where eyesight was almost useless. All along the Pusey & Jones wharves boxes, kegs and bales of machinery lay ready for being stowed aboard. Aft Wetmore was filled up with coal to tho apex of the deck cone. Being a steam vessel, she will take the strain «»f Magellan on her outward voy age, thus avoiding the heavy Cape Horn. luxurious ,'as to the engine room andfur cp*?rience of of I'enohe* for the Ident. Levy Courtman John W. Jolis of St. Georgos hundred has sent two baskets of fine Reeves Favorite poaches to Pres ident Harrison, at Cape May Point. CONSTABLE NEETZE FINED. He Assaulted a Colored Woman and It Cost Him Twenty-five Dollars. Frederick W. Neutze, a county con stable, was before Judge Ball on Thurs the charge or assault and bat tery on Margaret Burton, a colored woman. She testified that she heard a knock at the front door, which was standing open, and when she went there Neutze asked her where Julia Hogan was. She replied that she did not know, as Julia had not been in her house for some time. Neutze told her she was lying, that he had been told that the woman had a warrant to arrest her, Margaret still persisted that Julia was not there, when Neutze grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her against the wall and choked her. Neutze had no refuting witnesses, and did not deny the statement as : witness. , Judge Ball, in pronouncing sentence, said: ''This court always endeavors to defend the rights of an officer in the performance of his duty, but it must, us well, defend the rights of the law-abid ing citizens of this city. In our opinion a brutal and a of them, day, Ho in the house and he made by the prosecuting this ggravated assault a wc also do not upon think that you a proper person to hold the office that hns been bestowed on you. The sentence of this court is that you suffer the fine of $25 and costs.'' FOR A RIG CONVENTION. The Delaware State Firemen's Assnela ILiving the Biggest Con In the State. The Delaware State Firemen's Asso ciation executive committee, the mem bers of which are doing their best to make the convention to be held here October 14th tho biggest success in the records of the association, has issued the following appeal to the public: The Delaware State Firemen's Associa tion. having been invited to convene in Wilmington on October 14th, 1891, nnd a committee appointed for their reception, we, the said committee, feel it incumbent upon 11s to solicit of our friends and citi zens of Wilmington such aid as may be in their power to contribute for theentertain ?nt of the visitors. We offer the •e that your contributions will be thor oughly appreciated and will ultimately accrue to the benefit of the community at large. Very truly yours, executive com mittee. D. 8. F. A., George .Simmons, Friendship, No. 1; William T.G p '*»* n . w«<. cacoe, No. 8; M. .1. Gorman, Reliance, No. 2; Theodore H. l'ratt. Delaware. No. 3; Jacob Kopp, Fame Hose, No. 1; John A. Mullin, .Etna Hose Company, Newark; John W. Jolis, Middletown Hose Com pany. There Is the utmost enthusiasm among the local fire companies over the ap proaching convention. Each company is striving to have the best band obtaina ble here on Proi in Philadelphia. Subscription books are being passed around, and the citizens of Wilmington are requested to see that no money is paid to others than the authorized sub scription agents of tho Delawure State Firemen's Association. Death of Edward A. Glbbo Edward A. Gibbons, son of Richard P. Oibbons, died yesterday week at the residence of his parents, No. 1311 Market street. His death resulted from a complication of disoaBes. He born in this city and 33 years old. His early education was obtained at the public schools and St. Mary's College, which stood on Delaware avenue Madison street, and in 1882 ho was graduated from Ilaverfonl College. He learned the trade of a machinist at the works of the Pusey & Jones Company and soon thereafter beeame head machinist at Arlington Mills, which position lie held until poor health polled him to resign it. Mr. Gibbons' body was buried in the Wilmington and Brandywine cemetery on Monday. »r Burklev'« Vlrtlt. Senator It. C. Barkley of South Caro lina and family are visiting their cousin James Barkley of the James Barkley Brothers Company of this city. Senator Barkley, who is also a member of the Charleston city council is one of the representative, enterprising merchants of that place. He expresses the highest admiration of our fine peach market. He does not appear ignorant of Gov. Biggs recipe for peach brandy for he re marked to tho reporter : •'If Delaware will furnish the brandy South Carolina will furnish the best brand of honey." The senator will make a stay here of a week. An Italian Wo Mary Carmentez, alias Mary Tie, woman having only one eye and •, was arraigned before Squire Frank E. Smith on Saturday, charged with brutally treating her son, Harman Carmentez, aged 9 years. The irate mother beat the child in the eyes and face and hit him severely about the fore head. Sho also wrenched his hand and would have broken it but for the inter ference of neighbors. The arrest was made by Agent Stout of S. P. U. C., who was acquainted with the case, an«l at once set out to make an investigation. The woman was fined $25 and cost«. rjtt Family. Persons passing through the P., W. <fc B. railroad passenger station day had their attention attracted by a group of colored people which occupied a whole bench in tho north-ea«t corner of the waiting room. It consisted of a mother and seven children, the oldest of which was not more than 11 years old. All were neatly attired, and none budged from the seat to which he had been assigned. s Cruelty. Ital ear, Satur New Examining Hoard. Adjutant-general G. J. Hart lias an nounced the appointment of the follow ing new board of examiners for officers' in the National Guard. The members are Colonel E. Stacv, Captain Edmund Mitchell, Jr., and Lieutenant O. D. Robinson. The board will meet In the parlors of the Clayton House on Wednesday, September 2d. commissi« Fire Alarm Box Smashed. About 4 o'clock Saturday morning alarm of fire was sounded from box 115, Eighth and Lombard streets. A police who happened to be in the neigh borhood saw a negro leaving the box. On arriving there the officer discovered that the door had been smashed in. It was this that caused tho alarm to ring. Chase was made after the negro but he was not caught. ■ Mr. Spicer Is a Candidate. George. W. Spicer, Jr., a merchant doing business at Marshalltdn, near this city, and a well-known, active Demo crat, has entered the lists for clerk of the orphans' court and register in chancery. The office will become vacant in about two years. a candidate Candidates of the Pennsyl vania Republicans. CHRIS. MAGEE BEATS THE BOSS He Materially Modifies th# Blaine Resolution. Blnlne Endorsed, But Not Positively Placed In Nomination for the Presi dency—A Ticket Nominated the Old Soldiers—A Review of the SltMP P1« The Pennsylvania Republican state convention at Harrisburg, yesterday, week, after adopting the platform, as telegraphed in full to The Gazette, made these nominations : For Auditor-general—David Mc Murtrie Gregg of Berke. For State Treasurer—John C. Morrison of Allegheny. THE BLAINE ENDORSEMENT. When the convention adjourned for dinner it was supposed that the com mittee of resolutions would conclude that a resolution nominating Blaine for the Presidency would be the right thing, and that the convention would declare Gen. Gregg and Granger Price the right candidates. During the recess, it began to be whispered about that the latter had finally reconsidered his declaration of willingness to accept tho nomination for state treasurer and had instructed Eben Brewer to go into the convention and nominate him for auditor general, with the accompanying declaration that he would not accept any other pi the ticket. This was notbeliev • at first, as his friends had led e leader*, to be lievo that, if the nomination came to him unanimously, he would accept it, but before the real truth was fully known there was another surprise in store for the convention. The committe ! resolutions ap peared, led by Magee, who reported a Ï ilatform indorsing and commending Haine in the strongest terms, without demanding liis nomination for the Presidency. This created a sensation, and word was passed around that Mngee had bowled Quay out. Culbert son at once offered this plank restoring the nominating clause, and made a flory speech in favor of its adoption. He w Willard band could be silenced, which begun playing "Hail to the Chief," and on th« the adoption of tho amendment declared lost. amendment ttf v * answered by Lackawanna as soon as the ! vote it A call was made for the vens and nays, but a few of the dioler head*,' recognizing that the amendment would bn defeated, induced > 'nlbertson to with draw it, and the pi- . » -win as repnrtetl was adopted. Thor ' was a good deal Irritation by the more hot-head« 1 «] of Qun\ friends, and Magee and Flinn wc busy explaining that they were m friends of Blaine as Quav himself, hut thought it miwi recommend his nomination a advance of the national c f nifested f< i'. >•; >t rention. Candidates Gregg and Morrison and Permanent Chairman Elkins met last evening and elected Lieut. Gov. Louis A. Watres, chairman of the Republican Estate Committee, to succeed William II. Andrews. The ticket nominated an«I the plat form adopted by tho convention, came far short of satisfying all the elements repréBented, but for various reasons very nearly every one is professing satisfac tion with both. Some of Quay's friends think he was outgeneraled by Magee In elimination of the nomination clause of the Blaine resolution, but if Quay thinks so he is too discroet to admit it. Magee disclaims any intention of kind and says he was only desirous of conforming to the sentiment expressed by a majority of the committee and sus tained by a majority of the conven tion. The old soldiers are undoubtedly satisfied with the ticket, as they have been accorded both ends of It. The farmers in the convention are complain ing that they were patted on the back in the platform and showed the door when the ticket was made up. For this their candidate and his friends were partly to blame, but perhaps the farmers who w be made to think so. The labor element was accorded a candidate for office that will not exist after the votes are counted. They may not find out that they have been juggled with until after election, but it will be their own fault if they do the tho not at the convention cannot not. The selection of Watres for chairman as cverbody . and Watres has opportunity to make any one yet. Nearly all the uarty leaders tho defeat of last fall may be re trieved at the coming election, but of them cared to nave their friends where they would he iu danger of being under the hay if tho Republican wagon should happen to get upset. This is the situation as it appears after a canvass among the po delegates who still remain They hope the ticket can be eloctod, but many of them express grave doubts about it. The shadow of last fall's de feat and the Bardsley defalcation ob scure the Republican horizon, and the convention has failed to make even a rift in the clouds. meets general approval, was tired of Andrews, ai not had mad hope liticlaas and at the hotels. A MAGNIFICENT STRVCTTRE. Tho Now Ma.;onic Temple in Co e Windy CUy. A good picture of tho new Masonic Temple now in course of erection at Chicago, and which is to be completed before the World'è Fair takes place, has been received by the Masonic order !ü this city, framed aud plaça! in a con spicuous placo In the reading room of the Masonic building. The structura, which is a mammoth one containing architectural designs, will be Ute highest commercial building in the world, standing 19 stories in height It will be fitted of • . î up with 11 elevators having a combined carrying capacity of 50,000 persons per day. There will bo 4,700 tons of steel used in the construction of the building, which will be erected at a cost of $4,500,000. The gigantic structure will Masonic building pre outstrip any viously constructed by mortal John D. Lafferty, the first treasurer of the Bayard Democratic Club, „.tt B ayard Legion, and for 15 years fore man at Pickel'« foundry, died on Wed nesday weeiu aned 71 year«. _