Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-06
IN GENERAL.

Benjamin Burgess & Sons, dealers III
sugar, of Boston, failed Tuesday. The
liabilities are supposed to be heavy.
The latest reports from the Grand
Banks ray that 80 vessels are missing
since the great storm of the Both ult.
Sitting Bull aud number of chiefs
and braves are en- route to Bismarck, d.
t., to participate In the laying of the
corner stone Of the capitol.
Jay Gould's yacht Atlanta, Tuesday,
ran down and sank the tugboat Hawley,
better known IS the Jsoob Meyers Of
Communipsw coal docks. No lives were
lost.
Steamboat Communication between Will
mingtoD, North Carolina, and Baltimore,
has been established, and the first
steamer OF the line will leave Baltimore
on the 9Th instant.
A highwaymsn boarded train at
Ogden, Utah, on Sunday night, and
covering eight passengers and two train
men with his revolver plupdered them
of their watches and money and escaped.
The Bear Valley shaft at Shsmokin,
Pa, flooded eight months ago to ex-
tinguish fire, was drained Tuesday.
will be immediately resumed. When In
full operation this mine employs nearly
600 men and boys.
The total estimated cost Of the building
operations in New York City during the
frat eight months of the present year
WAS $44, 072, 920. The estimated cost OF
new buildings during the first six months
of the year was S3l, 1872, 800, against
$27, 800 1906, for the first six months of
1882.
| Six Boston boy thieves were discovered
Tuesday living in hut built OF rail-
road ties, in corner of the Boston x
Lowell Railroad Company's yard, at Bast
Cambridge. They had handsomely fur
nisLed their queer habitation with a
marble top table, rich rugs, valuable oil
paintings, &c.
The steamship Macedonia brought into
New York, Tuesday, the rescued crew
of the Swedish baIque David, abandoned
in sinking condition. The captain and
three sailors were lost overheard. The
captains wife, sister, maid and three
children We're saved. Many of the crew
were injured by the violence Of the waves.
The Shenango & Allegheny railroad,
running from Greenville to Butler, Pa,
distance VI IS miles, was formally opened
Tuesday. The road opens up coal
region needed to supply the iron indus
tries Of Western Pennsylvania and
Eastern Ohio. The miners along the line
are now on strike against reduction of
10 cents per ton, except those at Coal
Town and Harrisyille.
In Charleston, S. c., Monday morn
ing, man named Hardy, who recently
lived in Texas, sought out the Rev. D.
Levi, rabbi OF the lavish synagogue, and
piled cane vigorously over the shout
ders of the rabbi, who made no resist
ance. 1t Is rumored that woman is at
the bottom of the trouble, but the rabbi
is married man, whose character has
not hitherto been impugned.
At Edwards, Mississippi, Tuesday, two
negroes, named King and Gaddis, were
arrested for robbing woman's grave.
They confessed their guilt, saying they
wanted the bones of one of the arms to
use in "oonjuring." mob of $50 men
gathered, and demanded that the
prisoners be given up. Gaddis tried to
run away, and was shot dead. The other
prisoner was then taken from the sheriff
and hanged.
The boy in the, passenger elevator in
/ the Grand Pacific Hotel, at Chicago, lost
control OF the machine Tuesday morn
ing in one OF its asGents, and advised two
, passengers who were on board to Jump
of at the next landing. In attempting
to do 80, one of them, painter named
r Jacobson, employed in the hotel, was
killed. The warning was needless, az an
, automatic appliance caused the elevator
to stop on reaching the upper story.
Prof Brooks of Phipps, N. Y, notified
Director Swift OF the Warner Observable
Sunday that he thought he had found a
new comet Monday night DR.. Swift verified
the discovery, giving the comets position
as follows Right ascension Ii hours IS
minutes, and decination north GA de-
grees so minutes. 1t Ia quite large as
seen through the great telescope at the
Warner observatory, but is very faint.
: 1t is round, and has no tail. lts motion
, is weRterly.
Tuesday afternoon three young ladies
Anna Schney, Lulu Havein and Libbie
Simmons, all bstween l6 and 20, years Of
age, went out rowing for pleasure on the
, tennessee river, near Rochester. About 4
,, O'Clock they attempted to change posi-
tions in the boat when 1t upset and
/, turned over them as they were thrown
into the water. They were all drowned
before any help could reach them, as
they were seen only by two small boys,
. who gave the alarm.
The Manhattan Elevated railroad, New
, York, wants "a little more" OF the
Battery for side trackage, &C., but the
park commissioners, Tuesday intimi-
, dated that the company had had enough
|, OF that breathing spot already. Com
missioner Ollifee made a point that at
would shame to defsce the Battery any
further than had already been done, and
that 1t would be encouraging monopoly
which thus proposed to take city property
without paying anything for it," The
! aplacstion was laid on the table.
The rag and paper warehouse of Henry
brennan Co., in Cincinnati, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, and
: the three upper stories of the Times. Star
building adjoining we're burned out.
, Fonr persons in the rag warehouse were
Injured, one fatally. A spectator was
mOrtslly injured by being crushed
against a wall by hook and ladder
wagon. Five female employees of the rag
warehouse were missing last night, and
1t was feared they had persisted in the
ouildii &. The lods ON property ia esti-
mated at 500, 900.
All the leading telegraph companies
whose lines enter the city of Washington
have applied TO the district commits SION
ers Tor leave to erect new poles or reset
nid lines IN various parts OF the city. All
the applications have been refused upon
Tue ground pat the poles and wires dis
inquire the streets and interfere with
growing trees. The request of the
Western Uuion company, which was re-.
tsrEet to Captain Greene, was returned
with the following endorsement: "Not
recommended. lp place of setting new
ana larger poles this trunk line should
Do placed under ground without delay"
The Foreign Exhibition at Boston was
formally opened at noon Monday ,.in the
building of the Massachusetts Charitable
Mechanics Association. Among the
speakers we're Mayor Palmer, the Com
missinners from Germany, France. Japan
and emma, Monsignor Capel, Secretary
Chandler and Lieutenant Governor Ames.
The exercises also included music, PRAYER
aud the firing of a salute of 100 guns.
rhe countries represented are England,
france, derrnapy, Spain, Portugal, Aus
tr'a-Hungary, Russia, Belgium, Denmark,
Sweden and Norway, Holland, Brazil,
Uhlna, Japan, Turkey, Siam, Algiers,
runis, Hawaii, Canada and the Rast