Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-09-12
IN GENERAL.


Carolina, WAS destroyed By Are Thursday.
All the records were burned.
s. O. Buckalew, Euos Sandt and a
Somere have been appointed storekeeper5
and gaugers In the Twelfth Pennsylvania
district.
The general executive board OF the
Knights OF Labor will meet In st. Louis on
September 30th and continue In session FOR
several days.
IT. Robinson OF Long Island, and Cap
tain william Short OF Ocean City, Maryland,
were drowned Friday at the latter place
by the capsizlng OF surf boat.
The sealing schoo uers Vlvi, Penelope and
Adela arrived at Victoria, British Columbia
Thursday, from Behring Sea. They had
together over $500 seal skins. and report
that they saw nothing OF the United states
revenue cutter Rush.
Mrs. Kate B. Fetter, wife OF Ordnance
Sergeant Fetter, United States Army, COM
mitted suicide on Thursday at Fort Nc.
Henry. She drank pint OF coal oil, then
satusted her clothing with the fluid and set
herself on fire with lighted match.
The business portion OF Linkville, Ore,
was destroyed by ere Friday morning.
loss IL estimated at 100000. A.barkeeper
named Benjamin Monroe was severely
burned. -.
Ex Senator Plat OF New York was Fri.
day elected President OF the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Railroad Company, at
/ meeting Of the directors In Nashville. The.
| election was to fill the vacancy caused BY
| the death OF John O. Brown.
Fire In Laird, Norton Il Co.'s lumber
| yard, in Winona, Michigan, Thursday,
| destroyed q, 600, 900 feet of lumber, 7,OOO,-
900 shingles, three-story brick warehouse
and contents, consisting of doors, sash,
glass, etc.. together with sheds, tramways
and other property, making total loss Oh
! $3l4, 900; insurance, $l70,500.
| Hugh Perry, an electric light lineman in
Buffalo, New York, caught hold OF live
wire Thursday while working on pole.
He fell to q CROSS bar and hung there In the
wires, unable to save himself, and giving
evidence of extreme suffering. Perry was
alive when taken down, but speechless. Ha
died few minutes after reaching the hos.
pital.
Reports from the board appointed to In
spect the Quinnebaug and the Juntata have
been received at the navy department, and
they state that these vessels cannot be re.
paired for active service within the limit OF
| 20 per cent OF their cost, as prescribed by
law. They will be condemned and advers
tisements for their sale published.
There were received at the department.
OF state on Friday money orders from Con.
sui. general Lesesne, at Melbourne, AUS
tralis, transmitting S6.sl5 collected at
Hamilton. Australia, for the Johnstown
flood sufferers. and statement from Oon.
! sui Dawson, at New Castle, New South
Wales, that 81 800 had been raised at Bris-
, bape for the same purpose.
During the last Presidential campaign
the Republicans of Ohio offered q costly
, Silk flag to the state polling tine largest Re-
publican majority. Kansas won the prize
and Governors Humphrey and Foraker
! | have decided to make the presentation a
. national affair, to which guests will be In
, | vited from all the states. The date for the
! presentation Is yet to b fixed.
Some time since, Pension Agent
McKinstry of the Detroit pension office, ap-
| pliet for an increase OF q 500 in the allow
| ance for his office expenses. Commissioner
| Tanner agreed to an extra credit OF 53.000.
Salaries In the Office were RAISED and new
: clerk employed. When the vouchers were
! | sent to Washington they wore not passed.
Agent McKlnstry, to make good the amount,
assessed all the clerks In the office.
The New York Prohibition state conven.
Q ton In Syracuse Thursday nominated Q
!, state ticket as follows Secretary OF State,
2 Jesse Il. Grimm; Comptroller, Mr.. Rand O
Tonawanda; Treasurer, j. W. Bruce; At
o torney- general, O. A, Hart; State Engineer
Q and Surveyor, All. Kenyon Judge OF tn,
n Court Of Appeals, W. j. Harrington.
4 motion that the highest nomination Of the
Y | convention be given q lady was voted down,
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woman suffrage.
- A daring bank fraud has been uneartheC
= In Lynchourg, Virginia. In December las
Z the corporation court granted a charter Il
the American Insurance and Banking
y | Company" capital 100000. In Januar!
10 business was begun with r. NJ. Brown
It Lynchhurg, president O. O. Welltner, sec
rotary and treasurer; TIE TWO mentioned
Morton Brown OF Gala Virginia; W. d
wellner Of Lock Haven Pa, and ID.
~ Brown OF Pennington, Pa. being named
) directors. A brisk business WINS carried O.
until recently, when the nonwealth AZ
9, torney secured sufficient evidence to IL
st duee the grand JUICY to find indictment
II against Brown and Welltner for fraud
r Thursday when the officers went to sers
n warrants on the indicted parties 1t wa
AZ found that they had disappeared.
a Alta meeting OF the managers held 4
u Merchandising, Pa, on Friday, 1t was d.
= clded that the 18th annual Rrangers' inter
state picnic exhibition, under the auspice
Q. OF the National Grange Patrons OF HUI
le bnndry and the State Changers of Pennsy
ID | vania, New Jersey, Delaware, Marylan
and West Virginia, shall be held at William
Grove, Cumberland county, Pa, beginnin
August Gath, 1890. andto continue six day
30 Already the reports show that 500 tent
u have been engaged by families for the nel
~ meeting, and the demand for exhibit spac
i, Il 20 per cent greater than ever before. tn
ID management have decided to add seVert
" acres OF new ground for the benefit OF 81
n hibitors, and many new buildings and othe
a attractions will be added to William
Grove.
The schooner Lily. OF Victoria, Britls
Columbia, arrived there on Thursday nigt
n from Hehring Sea. She reports that sh
~ was boarded on August 9Th by the Unite
States revenue cutter Rush. her papel
at searched, and 3SS sealskins conflecate,
Y. Sch was ordered to proceed to Stitka, bI
tn there was no prize crew placed aboart
he | The vessel sealed for few days after thi
io but finally sailed for home. On her wa
down she spoke the Victoria schooner Kat
The latter reported she had been ordere
to heaye TO by the Rush, which she did, b'
, the wind was blowing 30 hard the cutt'
u could not lower boat The Kate was o
al dered out OF Bebring Sea. She had 81
Mt skins aboard Officers OF the Rush tol
IT. officers Of the Lily that seven schoone
had already been seized.
The miners along the Iowa Central ar
Toledo, Peoria & Western railroads,
II Illinois, struck on Thursday for an advan'
OF 10 cents per ton. The trouble Is lab
no to lead TO a general strike throughout Il
~ Peoria district. At the time the slidin
I'D scale was adopted at Columbus, II vi
agreed that the Peoria mine operate
should pay 10 cents less than those
Streator. The miners found that thu
NO could not live at 65 cents ton, and
- manded an increase, which the operate
y, promised to grant on October 10th: ~
no miners wanted the advance immediatei
and the strike resulted, II WAS believl
last night that the trouble would be settle
The ak leading mines, which are nc
Y closed on account of the strike for INN
- diate advance OF 10 cents a ton, will tod
~ offer 10 cents ton from now until Octob