Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-15
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day afternoon an unknown man Jumped
into the river from Prospect Park, ct
Niagara Falls, and was carried over tho
falls.
A freight collision occurred on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad near Janesville,
Ohio, on Friday morning. An engineer
named Dennison was killed and two other
trRin hands were severely injured.
+, A. Potts, the head of the coal firm
Of &. a. Potts d Co., 10 New York, died
Oh Friday. He was once candidate for
governor of New jersey. lie was promi-
nent in the coal trade and In railroad
circles.
A train of the Rio Grnnde reilrosd was
wrecked between Trinidad and Denver,
Colorado, early on Friday morning, and
before hagmsn conld be cent back
freight crashed into it. Fireman Brad
shaw was killed.
Sir John Thompson and Sir Adolph
Caron have returned TO Ottawa, Ontario,
from New York, They were subjected to
what they call persecution by newspaper
reporters. Sir Adoiph- declares that re-
porssrs nre great nuisances.
Chairman Hunter of the iowa Demo.
| cratic Stase Committee, says that his
recent ergess SA charge Of bribery WINS
biackmailing scheme; that he il inno.
cent OF the charge and that the man who
made it will be prosecuted for illegal
voting and perjury.
TIE Rochester Steam Gauge and Ian.
tern Wcrks, in Rochester, New York,
were destroyed by dla Friday night, AT
| least seven lives were lost in the build
l fstp Tho tncs nm. q eHfftnofad
! al over $500 COO !; insurance mot includ-
ing buildingl, $lf0, 600.
I. Fl. Brasgins, chairman Of the Re-
! publican county centtBl eorannittee, in
| C!ayslaEd, o and 81 enc time associate
| editor OF tho Cleveland Ledder, Eurren-
dered hinself 70 the shsr Il Friday ard
confessed that be had forged ex-sIayor
Roses name to notes aggregsting 81 600.
According to . telegram from Balti
more tha report That the Baltimore 81
Ohio Railroad 1piSpsny IL abnut TO enter
q coaa5eation with tue R9aiipg, JOssey
Oenirsl IL Inaiana, Bloomington b West.
cin cUmpRnies, along with the sale OF the
Ciartetta Baltimore & Ohio stock TO Austin
uorhl, was On Friday announced b. .
leading official OF the Baltimore j. Ohio
10 DO untrue and manufactured out Of
the whole cloth"
dispatch from Atohison, Kansas, aays
The tnOst phenomenal snow stoIm that
ever occurred in northern Kansas began
on Friday morping and ragged furiously
sli day. All trims were delayed and toll
egrsph wires Frustrated. In Atchison
over 200 telephone wires were broken
and So tangled up With electric light
wires TIM. the electric Light works sus-
psnded 20 prevent accidents. The storm
was the heaviest thet has occurred there
at any ssescn Of the year since 1878.
! The annual session of tbs National
Council Of the Cherokae Nation wRs
opaned ct Ialequah, INDIAN Tertisory, OF
Thursday. Il. b. May, the principal
chief, ia his message, said that, besidei
tbs schools naiassiGed by the copgrega
cation, Baptist, Presbyterian end Cum
berland Presbyterian Churches, the Major
had 100 common schools with q tota
pupilege OF 4 .O49 and an average attend
ance Of . ,4s6; boys high school, witt
!, an aggregate OF Gil and an average o
1856 pupils; female seminary, whiol
was nearly finished, and which coull
accommodates lis students, and al
, orphan asy slam, containing las children
In Chicago, on Friday, JadSe Gresham
!, began the hearing of the Case Of til
Farmers Loan and Trust Company 9
New York egaiast tho Chicago Il Atlanti
Railroad Company, which extends IRON
Chicago to Morton, Indiana. The LOAF
and Trust CJmpany seeks to foreJlos
two mortgages, Que for $e, 500 GOO, exs
cuted in 1881, and the other for IS, coo,
600, exee=tad in 1883. The road de-
faulted ia the payment of interest, No
vember lat, 1881. Among the lawyer
appearing in the case are john ID. Elan
Presiient-elsot HarriRon's law partner
and ex.SecFetary aristow, who appear
Tor the Els railroad, which paid th
/, interest on the mortgages up to 1884
The second mortgage bondhoiders max
the claim that the frat mortgage ia invalii
because the railroad company was in
properly organized, and that the Farmers
Loon and Trust Company, which Is tn
trustee, ia not an Indiana corporation
The Chicago il Atlantic road does no
: oppose the foreclosure, though it i
solvent.