Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-20
IN GENEnA1.

900; assets, 100000.
A fire in Tiburon, Cal, on Thursday
destroyed number of houses and
rendered number of people homeless.
The loss is placed at $4,000
Frederick Coggswell, dealer in furni-
ture, at Chicago, made an assignment
oniFriday. His assets and liabilities are
estimated at about 5000 each.
Byorder Of Postmaster general Wanna
maker, Postmaster Van Colt, at New
York, on Friday dismisseds even letter
carriers and one clerk, who were found
to be in collision with "green goods"
swindlers.
A building in San Francisco, occu-
pied by II. Dutard, commission mer-
chant; Deroni & Co., candy manufac-
ufacturers, was burned on Tuesday
night week. Loss, s250,000.
The official canvass Of the Ninth Com
gressional district Of Michigan shows
the election Of Ii. II. Wheeler, Demo-
crat, in place of b. M. Cutcheon, Re-
publican, as previously reported.
Wheeler's plurality is 4S.
Mrs. Harriet @. Alexander has written
from Tuxedo to the trustees of Prince
ton College offering $250,000 hall in
which to hold commencement exercises
and the assemblages which may in
future be held by the college.
At Altoona, Pa, on Thursday after
noon, Hugh Stewart, aged 81 years,
being drunk, broke into the house of his
sister, Mrs. Hugh Gilmore, when his
eau 4, n I'D 1Nn1 In
and fractured his skull. Hedied yester-
day morning.
Members of the Master Builders
Association, of Allegheny county, Pa,
have pledged themselves to stand
together and oppose any proposition Of
their employees, in the spring, looking to
reduction in working hours without a
corresponding reduction in wages.
The Nom Partisan National Women's
Christian Temperance Union Invites
fraternal delegates from churches, mis-
sionary societies and all other temper
ance organizations to their first annual
convention, to be held in Allegheny,
November 10Th, goth and Dist, $780,
A certificate Of incorporation was filed
in Springfield, Illinois, on Friday by the
orSahllers OIL .iie IHiGaSo ana Saiunes
STOCK yafas-Aipeft y Needef, EaWafd
capital stock is to be S10,000,000. The
principal business offices are to be in
Chicago.
Isaac t. Nichols, the Republican can
didate for the legislature in the First
district of Cumberland county, New
Jersey, who was defeated by j. Il. Van
sickel, democrat, by TOUR majority, APP
PIED 10 JudEe Garrison tor recount.
Inc appllcalloh was grained yesterday,
aitholgh the DAY Tor making II was not
ilxea.
orders nave hecn issued from the
Reading coal ana iron company mead
quarters, al ashland, fehnsylNanla,t mat,
after to-day, us coillcries VIII DC worked
only nine hours dally, beginning at
q. M, ana ehalng at D p. M y IS be.
ileved that other companies VIII follow
III me reductlon 81 ilme; O,Verstockcd
markets are supposed 10 DC inc cause
Judge Pratt Of the supreme court of
Kings county, New York, yesterday
granted stay Of execution IN the case
OF pr, Mcdohegal, convicted OIL having
caused tne ueatii Of Annie uooaWln ny
malpractice me stay is grained pend
ing an appeal, lhe Juuge hoiulhg tiiat
the court erred IN accepllhga juror VINO
hau formed an opinion US 10 the gulll OF
Mcdonegal.
General Ruger has returned to Huron,
South Dakota, from the Standing Rock
Agency,where he has been investigating
the threatened outbreak Of the Indians
IN expectation o. me arrival OF Their
long-looked-for messiah. ne says tne
excitement mas subsidized ana no trouble
Is anticipated. lie does not thlhk sitting
bun influence VIII pc sullclentto con-
troll the larger part OF Indians.
The coroner's Jury empaneled to in
quire into the cause of the death Of the
persons killed in the accident on the
Southert Pacific railway, last night
week returned a verdict Thursday night
that the accident was the result of an
unsound and unsafe bridge, and that
the southern Pacific Company is guilty
of criminal negligence in allowing such
structure to stand and be used for
passage for trains.
The directors of the North River
Bank, in New York, Friday Eresolved
to make active efforts to rehabilitate the
bank as state bank, and each member
was delegated 10 carry out some part of
the plan. A circular will be distributed
among the depositors asking them to
leave their deposits intact for 80 days.
If those whose deposits aggregate
81 900 900 agree to do this the bank may
be able to resume without loss.
Late adyices received in Washington
from the Pine Ridge Agency, in South
Dakota, are to the effect that an excite
ment among the Indians on account Of
the reported coming of the new Mes
o.