Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-15
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week, ran into and sCnk the sioop
Ella May. The captain of the sloop and
two Of her crew were drowned.
j. Frank Oollom, the Minneapolis
attorney who Is charged with forgeries
aggregating over 100000, was arrested
Thursday and committed without bail
for further hearing.
The board of public worksat Annapolis,
Md, Thursday, opened proposals for
o., SS2, 800 worth of the Maryland Ell
change loan bonds OF 1889. Bids to the
amount of $6i2,500 were accepted.
A meeting OF Johnstown business men
was held on Thursday to take steps to-
ward determining the liability of the
South Fork Fishing Club for the late dis
aster The suit OF John Thomas d Sons
is to be made test case.
A 32.pound cannon loaded with ball
was fired at Yarmouth, N. B., Wednes-
day week by parties who did not know 1t
was loaded and who were trying TO get
the ball out OF the breeoh. The missile
passed through several walls and killed
James CoAman.
Hon. Jonathan Bourne, who died on
| Wednesday week at New Bedford. Masp.,
founded the Bourne cotton mill, in Tiv-
erton, X. l., where the plan of sharing
profits with the operatives ia being tried.
He was member of five National Re-
publican conventions.
Pat Killen, the pugiliat, who Is to fight
Joe MoAuliffe in few weeks, was
arrested in San Francisco variety
theatre on Wednesday week while giving
a sparrine exhibition. Several others
were also arrested, but were released on
$50 bail. The charge was that Kilien Of
= knnnk a nna 0nt in fnuf rnunhR
or forfeit 800"
Mail adyioes from Japan, received In
San Francisco, say that about 100 persons
we're drowned and 1900 houses washed
away, and about 2 500 acres of cultivated
land seriously damaged in four Of the
seven cantops, which suffered most from
the OVERLOOKING Of the river chikugo, in
Fukuokaken, by the recent heavy rains.
Relief funds have been started in variouf
parts OF the empire.
The labor inspectors at Castle Garden,
New York, Thursday detained "a swedes,
suspeoting that they came under con-
tract. One of the detained men is AM
drew Amberg, an American citizen Of
Birmingham, Alabama, who denies that
, his companions are under contract, but
admits telling them they could get work
at Birmingham. Each man paid his own
passage.
! An explosion of naptha occurred Of
. East Buffalo, yesterday week, on the
. steam yacht Cedar Ridge, which was
about to start on pleasure trip down the
. river. Edith and Lerney Crocker were
z burned to death, Howard Crooker was
1 drowned, and John Rubenstein, oar
penter, was burned TO death by his boat
Q house taking fire from the yacht. Three
D other persons were injured.
4 Eben s. Allen, president OF the Forty
I Eecond Street and Grand Street Ferry
Q Railroad Company, in New York, was ar
q rested yesterday week in his office on the
y charge of defrsuding the company. he
IS con essed his guilt. II appears that
while treasurer Of the company, being in
10 need OF money for outside acneme5 he
y fraudulently issued abou. 700 shares Of
T. the company's stock and borrowed upon
:, them nearly 8l3O,OO0.
q The navy department has instructed
. the commanding Off ser of the U. 8. g..
y Michigan TO bU present with that vessel
~ at Milwaukee during the national en-
~ campment of the grand army OF the
republic, August % 80, and take part in
10 the naval sham battle and otherwise pro-
III mote the success o. the enaampmsnt.
r Major Warner, the national commander
" is on his way from Dakota to Chicago,
.; where,he will confer with the department
u commanders.
!, The governor Of Iowa has instructed
the railroad commissioners OF that state
to obtain and incorporate in their annual
report information from every railroad
doing business in the state as to tho indi
W vidual stockholders, the officers and ssla
rios and wages pntd, and tho total oi
81 mileage tickets issued. Governor Lar
Ia rabse says there is reason to believe that
to it is the practice Of the companies not Il
sw include the value Of such mileage il
as their reports OF total earnings, upor
w which the classification OF railroads fol
en- the purpose OF regulating their tariff 1
20 based.
eh The Republican state convention o
at- Pennsylvania last week nominated Henri!
In X. Boyer for state treasurer by soolsma
Se iion, adopted platform and adjourned
~ ~ The platform reite,ates the party'S prln
~. ciples, approves the national and stat
las administrations, commends Pension Com
AT missioner Tanner for his ''wise Rff
ew friendly liberaiity to his brother sol
ala diers," and says: ave heartily ssdors
the Brooks HiRh License law and recon
zig, .,1 mend such smendmer's thereto as vii
NJ. tend 10 Its proper and progressive i'm
NE proyement, aud also bring within III
nd Bcope the control OF Wholesale licenses.
he A heavy rain fell in the country aroun
snt Washington during Tuesday night weeh
,ay Great damage was done in Virginia
in. especially along the Washington an
ich Ohio Railroad. There is one bad vast
ec- out between Falls Church and gorriso1
ger Virginia, about 800 feet in extent, and
Ing bridge between Falls Church aud Yves
.um End was also damaged. No trains passe
ana these points yesterday, and the clerks i
mas the Executive Departments and Other
lew who do business in Washington and liy
OF the villages along the road were unabl
to reach the city except by means {
carriages. All the streams in Virgin
nv are greatly swollen, and much damag
M. has been done to crops by over1ows.
Mia The Massachusetts Loan and Trust CON
.av pRny placed an attachment for 5000, 0QD O
ain The Riverside mill, at Providence, Il. !
IN Friday. This makes S3l2, 900 OF nttacl
the ments on the property there.
ner According to Minneapolis dispatch Il
editor OF the Market Record says the whe
crop OF Minnesota and the Dskotas wi
hip reach 100000 TO 80 900, 900 bushels ar
ast be the best crop harvested In Elk years.
for The Navy Department Friday recsiv,
inc q letter from Admiral Gherardi, dAtt
me. Port-au.Prince July 25th, announcing ID
orli the Legltime government had paid 81, 81
ne as compensation for the seizure and dete
u ton OF the steamer OzamR and the mon,
ght was on board the flagship Kearsarge.
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