Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-13

ert OF d across the Morris canal in jersey
City. The men were driven away by tho
police. The railroad company has laid
tracks on the towpath of the canal. The
Bird at Henderson street is not high
enough to allow cars to pass under il, ana
the company intended taking it down and
putting un aao.her o. the requisite
height. This carnot be done witnout q
permit from. the beard Of aldermea.
The HoHss committee on war claims
on Monday decided to report favorabiy
Representative Maish'5 bill authorizing
tho payment OF the border claims of citi-
zsns of Pennsylvania for damages sus-
tanned FROM Union and Confederate
| troops during this late war. The amount
| ngg regateB BIB AT ,9I5, and the money 10
to be turned over 10 the governor of
Pennsylvania FOR distribution among tho |
olailnants. The latter are ctiz4ns OF
Adams, Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, I
Fulton, Perry, Somerset aud York ooun.
ties.
| The Philadelphia Il Reading Railroad
Company on Moaday secured permanent
control of two whole blooka Of wharf
properties on the Philadelphia Delaware
river front, including ak long piers, Nos.
33, 81, SO, SO, SO and 80, and the prop
erty OF the Pennsylvania Werahcusiug
Company, extending from Almond street
to Catherine street, a3j9iplng, on the
north, Harrison, Frazier ~ Uo's suger
refinery, and on tho south the ref iery Of
+. O. knight h o.. This Is regarded ~
the most importaut acquisition of railway
terminal property in this CITY since the
entrenGe OF the Baltim3re IL Ohio sail-
road.
A mass convention WIS held in Topeka,
Kansas, on Friday night to propose the
resubmissiQn OF the prohibition law to
tho people. Taere was q large attend
ance OF both parties. Senator Bentley
Wichita, "a leading Republican, declared
that prohibition bad been o complete
failure and submitted statistios showing
that the population Of the state had de-.
creased III the last two Yeas. j. w.
Steen of Kingmgn sNid "tha people
were tired of the prohibition farce,
: which had depleted the treasures of tho
cities and towns and osuRed stagnstion
! of busines6p
: The fishing schooner Grace Ohoate,
from Portsmouth, arrival at Gloucester,
Mass, last evening, with Captain Horstio
. H. lawson and six men Of the schooner
Z Lizzie y. SInall Of New York, who were
: rescued from q boat to-day 10 miles south
Q tG1g VI inAtCtitE INuu. Lho DAlhlh
r Rsiled Tuesday for 81. JOHN New Bruns-
wick. During strong breeze from tbs
= lorLh yesterday morning, while the csew
Q was on dock, the cabin btove burst,
i setting fire 10 the vessel The flames
l. soon spread from stem to stern and the
i crew took to boat having nothing ex,
i cept the clothes they had on. They were
seen and rescued by the captain OF the
II Choate.
10 Patrick Mitchell and Patrick Fitzgerald
o werd killed and flvo others injured on Fri.
II day by a premature explosion at the Elglt
a Rock Quarry, Newark, N. j.
# The Caps May accommodation traiu
Friday ran Into butcher wagon, driver
by Albert Linnekin, below vlneiand
70 L!nnekln and the two horses were killed.
h telegram from Cleveland, ohio, sayt
as that the wire mills throughout ths country
10 will close on Monday for two weeks, II
., order to reduce tbs supply OF wire in thu
Ia market.
n A general assignment by Monroe Eek
stein and Leopold Werthheimer, brewers
of New York, WAS died Friday Tn
" Liabilities are estimated at over S6O0,000
q and the preferences IS amount to $l2S, eOD.
M The steamship Biela ct New York onsFri
g day from RIO de Janelro, brought back 2
er Auatrians who had emlgrated from Kansa
o. to Brazil, but found 1t impossible to ezis
10 there. They will return TO Kansas at once
4 While trying to cross the river at John
sons Island, Is miles above Knoxville
y, Tennessee, on Fridsy, two sons OF William
~ Naples and a son OF William Baker wer
TT drowned. They were IN fratl boat, whicl
la caps Esd.
w The common council In Newark, New
III Jersey, Friday grated permission to tn
ia street railways to operate their roads b,
he electricity, with proyiso that the railwR
= company pays the city five per cent of 1t
gross earnings.
" Attorney.g general Miller has received re
IN potts OF the recent seizures OF timber take
IL from government. lands in southern
or Alabama. A low estimate OF the value c
"a all the timbers seized Is about $500, 00(
IN Four saw mills located on government Ian
n were also seizsd.
IA j. q. McGregor, reading clerk OF the Obi
- state house OF representatives. died /
Zlnesville, on Friday, Of diphtheria. Mr.
he McGIegor dled Frlday,Week, alter the deaf
he OF four children. The children remainiu
I'M and Mr.. McGregor's father may die, whie
nv will make 10 deaths 10 one family fror
49, diphtherin,
al controlling interest In the Twenty-thir
~ Street Railway Company, IN New York, We
en- ontFfiday boughtaafor 5000, 1000 by synd
10 cate composed 0 W. o. Whitney, Daniel
ast Lamont, T. A. B. WidenSr, w. L. Elkir
and other owners Of the Broadway raj
A. EOtu systSLn' lue pEice pau u equdl I
~ abont $500 per share.
~ The conference at the Emanuel EvanG,
T., llcal Church in Chicago on Friday rendere
w o verdict finding Bishop Bowman guilt!
40 and deposing him from the Episcopal otit
Ny and the ministry until the next generj
rot conference. The charges against til
ra bishop were "unchrlstlAn conduct" an
OF "signderous assertions against his fellow
minister's"
/. The private banking firm Belloe
- FEeres, in San Francisco, made an assTgl
~, meDt to the sheriff on Friday and closed !
m doors. The sheriff says that the llH1ilitie
iis- rs FAR as known now, will amount to half
all milton dollars. The establishment Ia
of branch OF the banking house OF Belle
- Fretes, OF Paris. TOE local manager issue
ri. n Eotlce that the firm was forced to suspot
~ ~, oW.np TO ina failure to receive Temlttgncl
Do from the Paris house.
A cavern occurred at Curry's I'LL,
of suburb OF Plymouth, Pa, early on Frld;
ur- morning, The ceYe-in was caused ny Il
he. falling In OF the roof In some gbandont
m working OF the Washington colllery, 4
III. feet bplow the surface. This house
leJ William Kelly was wrecked and four or d
INV others were badly damaged. There VI
the great excitement and the people ran o
an into the cold In their night clothes. So
nan eral were bruised By falling furniture.
,st- At a meeting OF coored men In Ne
.ss. O.leans, on Thursday night, a Central A
~ sociatlon for Louisiana under the Cons
~ ~ tuition OF the American Citizens Eqn
ons RiRhts Association, was organized. q
a. Governor P!nchbaek, actiIg npder Il
and authority conferred upon him by the
ion tlonGl Association, Will at an early de
ter organize central asso Citations In each OF 81
IL, ! southern states, These ORGANIZATIONS W