Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-04
IN GENERAL.

Company, in Bethlehem, Pa. was closed
on Saturday night, owing to lack of orders
One thousand men were thrown out of enl-
ployment.
The Glen Echo Hotel a summer road
house near Washington, ID. G., was burned
on Saturday. Loss $4,000 insurance,
81. 900. The hotel was built entirely of
rough-hewn cedar logs.
Benjamin Wright died in Trenton, New
Jersey, on Friday aged 80 years. For 35
days he took nothing but water, owing to
inability to retain solid nourishment on
account of stomach trouble
The United States steamer Charleston
has sailed from Honolulu for San Fran
cisco, having as a passenger King Kala-
kaua of the Sandwich Islands, who makes
the trip for the benefit of his health.
Martin d. Loppy convicted in New
York of murder i'll the first degree for kill
ing mis- wife, was on Friday sentenced5to
death. The time set for the execution is
within the week beginning January Sd.
Joseph Novak, a convicted murderer,
who was to have been hanged at Joliet,
ILL.,, on Friday, was saved from the gallows
by supersedcas. Since then he has be-
come insane from joy and the county ply
stefan doubts if he will ever recover his
reason.
Judge Virgil Porter, one of the best
known meli in northwestern Missouri was
terribly cut with a large poeket-knifc, at
Pittsburgh, yesterday week, by w. II.
Lyons a prominent young attorney The
cause of the difficulty is unknown.
The sales agents of the six coal produc-
ing companies met Friday in New York.
The questions of schedules and allotment
of production for December were Ills
cussed. 1t was decided to make no change
iii prices. No action was taken in regard
to production.
William Blythe, Harley Bennett, James
Ferguson and Calvin i. Campbell went to
Sudus bay, Y. ", on Thursday to hunt
ducks. They have not been seen since,
hut their boat was found on the beach on
Friday morning with its bottom stove in.
The Rev. Simon p. Anderson, colorcd,
was on saturday convicted in ~. Louis of
forgery, and sentenced to live years inn
prsonment He Was pastor of the Central
Baptist Church, and drew from bank
nearly $3.50, forging the signature of the
church clerk to checks.
Easton & Clark, carriage manufacturers
of Cincinnati, made an assignment on sat
urday The failure is attributable to the
discrimination of branch houses in Kan
sas city and San francisco. The firm ex-
poets to pay dollar for dollar Estimated
assets, Sl0000u; liabilities, $4,000.
The private banl; of Hall & Co, at Du-
luth MINI, suspended on Saturday morn
ing. During a run on Friday $50, 90 of
| the $4,000 in deposits were withdrawn,
and the banks cash was exhausted, No
runs have been made on the other Duluth
! banks, and they are said to have the
largest cash surplus on hand in their his
| tory
The treasury department on Friday de-
clined a proposition from New YORK to
iSsue two million dollars in treasury notes
Of small denominations i'll exchange for
| gold. on the ground that these notes can
be legally issued only in payment for
| silver bullion or in exchange for treasury
notes Of larger denominations The
proposition, il is stated, indicates an extra
| ordinary demand for small notes in New
| York
Funeral services over the remains of
| the late August Belmont were conducted
in the Church Of the Ascension in New
York, on saturday. The ediiice was
crowded to the doors, The pall-bearers
were Henry Parrish, j Pcrpont Morgan,
| ex-President Grover Cleveland, Governor
Munson, Edwin 4. Post, John Hunter,
| Colonel William Jay, James b. Parker,
| sydney Webster and Manton Marble.
The wheat crop of Washington is esti-
! mated at l6,0W,0U0 bushels. The eleya-
| tors, warehouses and box cars along the
railways are filed and sacks of wheat dot
| the fields. The inability of the railroads
to obtain motive power TO move the cars
| to market is eXasperating the farmers,
who are charging them with collision
with the warehullsemen to lower the price
Of wheat The farmers threaten To build
an independent line to Puget Sound.
The State Farmers Alliance of South
Dakota ON Thursday chose delegates to the
National Alliance convention to be held in
Florida on the ID proximo. A platform
was adopted, declaring fealty to the alli-
ance paramount to any party fealty." 1t
| also, among other things, endorses the
Australian ballot system; opposes the EN-
ployment of Pinkerton men; demands that
railroad passenger fares be fixed at two
cents per mile, and that law taxing
mortgages be enacted.
Lucy Parsons, the Anarchist, was
brought to tral in Newark, New Jersey,
on Friday, before three judges Evidence
was submitted showing the character OF
the proposed meeting and the incidents OF
the disturbance. The Judges retired and,
after deliberation, concluded that there
was no evidence on which to convict Mrs
Parsons of breach of the peace, and she
was acquitted. Simon Gordon, one of the
participants in the disturbance, was held
for assault on Captain Glori.
The views ofthe Irish ENJOYS in America
regarding the Home Rule crisis were
cabled from Chicago to London Sunday
The document, which is signed by all cx-
cept Timothy Harrington, declares against
the continued leadership of Parnell and
condemns the manifesto of Parnell for its
attitude towards Messrs. Gladstone and
Morley and the English people. II is
understood that Harrington's judgment is
against Parncll, "bpt his heart is with
him
There has been a strike in the factory Of
the 7. Coz shoe Manufacturing Company
in Rochester, n ", since June last, against
the Introduction of lasting machines
Twrnty-one of the leading manufacturers
have signed Il manifesto in which they de
tclare that they will dismiss from their EN-,
plOYment all members Of the Boot and
Shoe Makers International Union until
such time rs the strike against the p Cos
Shoe Manufacturing Company shall have
been abandoned.
The annual convention of the College
Association Of tic Middle States and Mary
land was held ii Princeton, New Jersey
IN Friday, l!lirtr-tive institutions wer,
represented, There was a conference uI
Shortening Of the College Curriculum
President Gilman Of Johns HOPKINS Uni
verSity. and President Patton If Princeton
hring the refcrres. 4 second conference
was held. On the Methods of Fniversit,
.'@'ttl,ili' ~ : lAlNt lSl ItIlltl III tli
University Of PENNSYLVANIA and Prcsiden
Low of Columllia as referees.
The formal presentation to Presiden
Harrison 81 iiir officers Of the brazilian
squadron tenk place 1T thr White Hous
onIl'riday afternoon. Admiral da Silver,
presented tothr President the medal whicl
was matlc IN 1te laneiru, upon speciil
+ order Of the government, to commemorate
. the friendly relations existing hetween tn
tworepnblics in consequence the premp
recognition Of the Official existence If til
new republic. luncheon was served in Tia
state dining room In the evening tn
, President and Mrs, Harrison gave a reeeT