Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-12-19
IN GENRRAL.

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MINI.
Judge Ambrose Mcneil, recently no
torious in connection with the Flack d.
voFce case, died at his residence, in New
York city, on Saturday night.
Frederick Willis and Curtis Wnodmen.
soc, paiptera, fell from the third story
window Of building in Birmingham,
Ala, yesterday week, and were killed.
Hector q. Hayemeyer, president OF tho
ERvemeyer Sugar Refining 90. of New
York, died in Paris, France, on Fgi1sy
night, of Bright's diseaae, aged 40 yehrs.
j. W. Fouche and Is. W. Blantun we're
badly injured in Columbia, 3. o., yes.er-
day week, by the premature explosion of a
cannon which was being used to fire y
salute.
The Farmers' Assembly Of Virginia yes
terday week adopted resolution asking
the legislature to pass law requiring oil
railroad corporations chartered under tho
lava OF Virginia 60 have their principal
Offices in that state.
The Exchange Elevator in Buffalo, New
York with storage capacity of $780,
bushels, the property o. Greene il
Bloomsr, together with 250,0 bushels
of barley, WAS destroyed by fire early on
Sunday morning. Tie barley was valued
At $l25, 900 and the elevator ai 500, 600.
The insurance is not known.
Tho secretary OF the navy has officially
authorized The naming of the sea2oing
torpedo boat No. now nearly completed
at Herreghotf's works in Bristol, Rhodo
Island, as the Gushing, in honor of Com
mGndsr Wi!lism Is. Gushing, who blew
mp the Confederate ram Albamarle ct
Plymouth, North Carolina, in 1854.
During binding snow storm the en-
CINE OF coal train on the Susquehanna
railroad ran into an open draw ct Little
Ferry, N. j., OH Saturday. Throa men
William Nixon, engineer; Patrick Bar-
rinGtOn fireman, and Willism Sealey,
brakeman wont down with the engine.
No trace OF the bodies has been found.
A wagon, containing six men, wna
struck by q train on the outekirts OF
Washington, on Saturday right. Brad
ford Godfrey and j. X. Field, white, and
Morris Fiowd and CHARLES Mskil, col-
ored, were killed, and Edgar Jones, col
ored, was badly Injured. Tine gate
keeper where the accident occurred did
not have the gate down, and he WAS er-
rested on charge CT manslaughter.
AT a meeting OF the Presbyterian Synod
OF West Florida and Alabama, III PensA.
cola, on Friday night last, Dir. SheareF,
president OF Dawson College, denounced
the common school system OF the ooun.
try, whose non-ssotariRnitm prevented
the education OF the youths IA the re-
ligion of their fathers. He hdvocated
the advisability OF having the children of
| Fteshyterians educated in schools fos-
1 tered by the church.
A collision occurred between two
freight trains on the northern Central
railroad at Emigsyille, Pa. Tuesday night
week, by which two engines and &c cara
were demolished, canning n loss to the
company Of about 100000 Two train
men were killed and several iriured; Of
the latter, w. z. Cole, fireman, died veg
tarday afternoon week. The body Of jacob
LRhtner, engineer, who was buried
under the wreck mas been recovered.
A telegram from New York says that
Charles b. WiEton, e1.sacretary and
treasurer o:the Giam1rgan Iron Company
OF Philadelphia, recently arrested iu that
city and held IN heavy bBil for emblez.
cling 800, eco of the compsny's money,
lost thet sum in several notorious gam
bling houses in New York City. The
keepers of these dens will be sued for the
recovery Of the money lost in them by
Wigton, and suits will also be brought
against the owners OF the houses in which
the gamblers piled their business.
In New York yesterday week District
attorney Fellows appeared before Recorder
smyth and asked for the discharge, under
buspension Of sentence, OF Elise Il.
Friend, Emily Howard, George HalateGd
and Orrin Halatead. They have all
pleaded guilty TO charge of completely
ia the electric sugar frauds originated by
Professor Friend. William Il. Howard,
who was tried and convicted OF the same
charge, is now serving nine years. sem
tence 10 Sing Sing. The district. attorney
gald the four prisoners in whose behalf
he appealed were minor agents in the
frauds; that they have already been I'm
prisoned nine months, and that OF tho
principal offenders Professor Friend is
deed and Howard is undergoing puniah.
ment. The recorder said he would CON
alder the matter and decide in few davg.
Governor Beaver on Friday resplteG,
until January Goth, james II. Jacobs OF
Lancaster county, and George Clarke of
Greene county, both OF whom wars sen.
fenced TO be hanged o. thursday next.
The losses which Harris Cohen, clothing
hSnleEs IL VOW IDIhJ EustHiuel Oh lLa IhGB
track are sai1 to have been the Gauss OF hiJ
failure. Ho estimates his losses ut from
$780, GOO TO 100000 during the past 0years.
The Huron mine ofilce, In Hancock Wis,
a large building, the upper story OF which
was occupied IA Il boarding house. was
burned Saturday night week. Two women
and d child persisted IN tha building, ana
man was badly Injured by jumping from u
window.
Warren Leland, Jr., the Well-knoWn hotel
proprietor, on Friday made an assignment
covering I'll hts property at Long Branch.
His liabilities, including mortgages, aegrs-
gate 100000, and his Indebtedness, out
side Of real estate lncumbtGneeS, Is said 70
be only p 800.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Territory, says that Thomas Il. Adams,
manager of the cattle ranch OF the Mn.
Haakee and Wyoming Investment Com
phnY, has absconded with cit, 900 OF tho
rompany's money. He had been mar.
RED but six weeks, H0 took his bride with
him
waiter i. Drew. aged az years, diad end
denly " hoiol In Desbrosses street, New
York, Thursday, Hn was dime museum,
frebk, and was on the why from Pniadsl.
phta to his home In Bangor, Me-, where ha
expected TO spend the holidays. Heart
dtaease is supposed to have caused hia
death.
IN nlthy room on Newark street, 10
Newark, N, j., Oh Friday, the dead body OF
Il tour-months-old Chi was found on q
table, where It had been lying since Nom
day. Peter Flanagan and his wife, tho
parents OF the chid, werG both drunk, ard
had been SO all the week. There Eero alao
IN the room four little children "who had