Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-08-26
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The acting secretary Of the treasury
Thursday issued call for l6,OO0,O wv OF
the 5 per cent loan Of 1882. II will ma
ture October LIST.
Tho acting comptroller Of the currency
Thursday authorized the First National
Bank Of Worthington, Mimi, 10 begin
business with capital OF ST6,OOO'
Andrew e. Warner, manufacturer OF
silyerware and jewelry, in Baltimore,
made an assignment yesterday week Tor
the benefit Of creditors. The bond OF the
trustee is $4,000.
Adispatch from Bridgeport, Conn. says
the body picked up in the sound on tues
day proves TO be that Of J. A. Tobey OF
Norfolk, Va, one Of the victims OF tne
steamer Idlewild disaster on Februry z0th' |
-Four masked men entered the house OF |
Farmer William Manning, in Shenango
township, Pa, Thursday morning. ana a.
the point Of revolver compelled him 70
surrender 80 900 which he had collected
the day before.
William II. League, l5 years old, was
at the house of relatives IN Baltimore
| Thursday, and while playing said he was
tired of life. He walked into shed and
shot himself in the head. The wound 10
thought TO be mortal.
Graham successfully nnvigated the
whirlpool rapids ut Niagara Falls Thurs
| day afternoon with his head protruding
| from the barrel. James Scott, fisherman
| of Lewiston, attempted TO swim the
whirlpool rapids in cork suit. His dead
body was picked up at Lewiston one hour
later
Patrick II. McOarron, o barber, in Proyi-
dlenoe, Il. l., cut the throat Of James
Crosby while shaving him yesterday week.
Crosby ran into the street, but died ON the
sidewalk. McCarron had been subject to
fits of dementia, and last month physi-
CHM advised that he BIO taken to hospital
for treatment.
Louis Hilbert WIS stabbed and killed
by William Watkins, in the Aurora dis.
tillery, at Aurora, Indiana, Thursday.
Watkins was arrested, but shortly after
ward was taken from jail and hanged TO
the shafting in the distillery. Watkins
had demanded time from Hilbert, which
the latter refused. ....
The statiatioian Of the department Of
agriculture at Washington last week ro.
ceived a cablegram from London, saying
that the wheat product of Great Britain
J for the present year was estimated at
60, 00O, 900 bushels, and that the area
under cultivation, as officially ascertained,
was Q, 1856, 900 acres.
Acting Surgeon General Toner of the
Marine Hospital, said Thursday that the
United States il in very good state OF
health Just at present, and is entirely free
. from contagious diseases except few
cases of yellow fever, now under treat.
ment ut the Ship Island quarantine sta
ton, OF the coast Of Louisiana.
A dispatch from Quebec says II Is re
reported that all the cattle in Lewis quar-
b antine will be nj once killed TO prevent
!. the spread of contagious pleuro- pneu
monia. The herds are owned by Andrew
a Allen, DIR. Oraik and A, Dawes of Mont
a real Senator Oochrane of Compton, and
). j. Hill of ST. Paul. The cost Of I'll,
: herds foots up $4,000
a Deputy Collector Berry, ut New York
said Thursday that he had seized two
cases of Astrakhan for differentiation
with intent 10 defraud the revenue de
: pRrtment. The goods were for W
Uppenheimer n Son, importers of wooleI
0 goods. The matter will he referred u
Q the United States district attorney fo
: decision.
A captain Of Nova Scotian fishinl
3 vessel said that not long ago at Mirimichi
the French captain of n Canadian cruiser
E admitted in the hearing of himself ant
others that he had received instruction
from the government not TO be too sharI
with American fishermen, as it NIGH
n affect the chances Of the treaty.
The Lewiston Steam Mill Company, o
Lewiston, Maine, has made an assignment
Liabilities $l67, 800, of which SbS, 900 i
!. contingent, $751; of the same beinI
paper Of @. F. Williams and Russell
: Sheen & Co., of Boston. The persona
property Of the company is estimated o
900 No estimate is made Of tn,
' value Of the other property.
Q Preparations for the triennial conclayl
n of the Knights Templar, to be held in st
q Louis, next month, are nearly completed
The yico-l, man Il The genrTl. commit
i tee ropoils il'lt La already has ritiyl
! ptvrrF iint 20 600 knights, accunpania,
Y by 5000 members of their families, viii
o be present There will also be n larR,
number of other persons present to wit
. ness and share in the demonstration.
n When Samuel Wood died, in New York
C - $500 Az ANiN vi Gbtbib llli
n greater portion Of which, according to
codicil of his will, was to be used /,
found must al college. Abram Howlet
was the only heir. He claimed that tn
provisions of the will and codicil were il
!, violation of the statute of uses and trusts
~ The referee TO whom the case was sen
decides that the provisions respecting th
le institution were void and imperative ,an,
10 Judgment has been entered in favor O
rs Hewlett.
Oh Contagious pleuro-pneumonia havin
been found among the cattle of Mr.. Johi
le L. Mooro's herd near Bryn Mawr, Della
(. ware county, Pa, the owners of cattle il
q the immedintesvicinity have been notifie
q. and advised by DIR. Bridge, yeterinar
surgeon of the state board Of agriculture
TO keep their cattle as far distant fron
10 the injected locality as practicable. Tw
* infected animals have been killed an
y deeply buried, and close quarantine ha
+ been ordered by Mr.. Edge, special agen
~ OF the governor.