Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-01
IN GENERAL.

Colonel William B. Fordney, senior
member of the Lancaster bar, and for
many years the intimate friend of General
Simon Cameron, died Monday, aged
SO years.
The danger of q strike Of the compost
tors in the offices Of the World, Times.
Sun and Mail and RTpress was averted
Monday afternoon by the acceptance
by the offices of compromise proposed
by the compositors.
The case of John Coffee, on trial for
the past four days at Gainesville, Ga,
for the murder OF John III Merritt, q
revenue officer, resulted Monday in
mistrial. The defence was that some
one else did the shooting.
The Civil Service Commission has de-
cided to recommend to the President that
the civil service rules be SO amended as
to exempt from examination clerks on
river steamboats,, who also at nominal
salary act as postal clerks.
Herman Holzapfel, Herman Wolf and
ChIisteiD Meiser, trading az II. Hozlptsl
g. Co., manufacturers of morocco, Phila-
de,phia, Monday made IN assignment
to Clinton o. Mayer. Their liabilities
and assets are reported to be small.
The Anchor Line steamer Auohoris, at
New York from Glasgow Monday, re.
ports having sighted Is foot boat; with
O single man aboard, 700 miles from
shore. The captain hailed him, but he
declined assistance, replying that he was
bound for Paris.
Tho cases of the Cincinnati saloon
keepers, arrested for violation of the
| Sunday closing law, were called in the
police court and bonds were given for
appearance for trial. The saloon keeperH'
| resolution to march to the police court
| with music was not carried out.
The Wabash Western Railroad officials
met In st. Louis Monday and ratified
the purchase of the eastern lines, and the
consolidation OF the properties was foE-
mally effected. A final meeting will be
| held at Toledo, on Thursday, when the
directors will elect officers for the ensu-
Ing year.
The Rev. Matthias Brinser and the
Rev Henry Grumbine, the founders of a
religious sect known as Brinserites, hay-
ing many members in Lancaster and I'D
| Joining counties, died within "a hours of
each other, the former dying at the age
of 81 years on Saturday at Conewago,
DauphIn county, aud the latter near
Hinkletown, Lancaster county, on Sun
day, aged n years.
The men in all the departments Of the
Fishbaok Rolling Mill, OF the Pottsville
Iron and Steel Co., Monday quit work,
owing to o disagreement AZ TO wages.
Vice president O'Donnell of TIE Anal
Rsmated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, attended meeting of the men
! drtu khar fF,a ta Arm Rat
5b0 and 700 operatives are involved in
the diff ,ulty.
The Legislative committee of the New
Jersey Federation OF Trades aud Labor
Unions met at Patterson Monday aud
completed arrangements for the eleventh
August annual congress Of the State Fed.
Grafton, 10 h. Chaifman j. P. McDon-
nelfs annual address, it is said, "wiil be
very outspoken in its condemnation OF the
manner In which labor legislation was
trested by the last New Jersey) legisla'
ture.n
The assistant secretary OF tine treasury
has decided thEt small colored glass orna
ments are properly subject to duty at thu
rate Of As per cent ad valorem, under tn,
provisions Of the Tariff act of 1883, q
| manufactures of glass. This is said I,
be radical change in the practice in
/ augurated under the last administration
; whereby these articles were admitted Il
entry at the rate of 10 per cent ad valoreu
as composition Of glass and paste, no
, set"
Articles OF oonsolidation were Moe
day filed with the secretary of state o
Illinois at Springfield, comb ming th
Toledo Western Railway Company, th
Detroit snd the State Line Wabash Rail
way Company, the Wabash Eastern Rail
z wsy Company of Indiana, the Wabas
d Eastern Railway Company of Illinois an
u the Wabash Western Railway Company
under the general nauie of "Fhe Wabss
" Railroad Company" The capital stoc
70 is $52, 900, 900. The first board of d
l. rectors ~ constituted as follows; jaime
9 F. Joy of Detrrit, Michigan 0ssian Z
u Ashley Of New York, Thomas Il. Hubbar
q of New York, Edgar I. Wells of Har
ford, Connecticut, George W. Smith c
% Chicago, & bran II. Peace Of Chicago
u Oaarles Henrotin of Chicago, John v
N Bum of Springfield and Jonn Magyar
,e HGliea OF Chicago.