Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-10

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been committed to jail for refusing to
answer the census questions.
A heavy storm swept over Bangor,
Me-, Tuesday night, doing great damage.
Falling trees broke the electric street
light wires, and the lights were out for
some time.
The missinQ steamship Glasgow arrived
Tuesday OF Kingeton, Jamaica. She left
New York on June LIST, and had terrible
ROACH voyage. Her crew suffered greatly
from hunger.
This Navy Department having failed to
secure in response to an advertisement
any armor plates Of American manufso.
ture has decided to test the relative
merits of three varieties Of foreign armOr
plates.
A telegram from Louisville says that II
is reported, on good authority, that the
warning factions OF the Harlan Court
House on last Thursday night burned
the Court House with all the recorda-
There has been no contribution OF the
port.
The worst storm known for years
visited Burlington, Vermont, Tuesday
afternoon. Word wea received there that
thu stoam tuR Little Nsllie, Of Willsboro,
founaered of Rouse's Point and sank
with Captain Clark, HE sen and the en-
gineer (nAme unkaowt) Oh board.
The Armstrong fIrniture factory aud
Kahn, Goo4wiu IL Co.'s Evansville stovs
works, In Evansville, lad, were burned
Tuesday. This htoye works build
10y belonged to the Haokey sys-
tenn OF railroads. Losses: Ann
strong factory, $130,0U0, insurance,
$l08, 900; Kahn, Goodwin & Co., $50, 900,
Insurance., $4,000. The MRokey build
ings were worth SIC, 1000; insured.
The New York board OF health Tues,
day discussed the report of DIR. Cyrus
Edison and Chemist Martin on the under
ground steam pipes. The report made
no direct recommendation. One of the
points treated was the enormous heat
given out by the buried pipes, less, in
the opinion OF the committee, from radiA.
ton than from defective joints. At some
points along Broadway the temperature
of the soil was found to be nearly at the
boiling point within touch OF the gas
mains. The heat in the sewers was meas
ured and found to be tremendous. In the
bank vnult along Wall street and Broad.
way the air was so oppressive that 4
made the Investigators violently i'll.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Tuesday gave q hearing In the case O.
the Kaufman Milling Company Of St
Louis, vs.. the Missouri Pacific, and aboat
| 20 other western and southwestern rail
road companies. The charge In this Gas,
IL that defendant companies levy ant
collect for the transportation OF doul
from st. Louis and other northern ant
western points, to points in Texas, {
greater rate than they charge for tn,
transportation Of wheat between the SAINT
points, making 0 differential rafe be
tween wheat and its manufactured
product, -four, of five cents or more pc
hundred pounds; that this ditferential ]
an unjust and Illegal discrimination
against complainant. Defendants In thei
answers deny that this differential rate
unjust or unreasonable, but hold that
ought to be greater than II is because o
the increased cost Of handling flour owe
that of handling wheat.
A report has reached Saratoga that th
Bluff Point Hotel, on Lake Champlair
owned by the Delaware IL Hudson Con
pany, was blown into the lake Tuesda
afternoon, and that several iivee wei
lost. Port Kent, the farthest point mort
that can be reached by railroad or wir'
reported "a terrible BLOWN that section,
The railroad operator at Fort Henry, :
miles south Of the hotel, reports heav
storm ON the lake, and that is or moi
persons out In rowboAts at that point OIL
missing. A telegram from Troy, receive
!, later, says: "General Passenger Agei
, Bondiok OF the Delaware & Hudson Con
!. pany left here at 1890 this morning Il
/. BIuif Point. He said that his first ii
formation was that the hotel had bee
wrecked by Cyclone, and that 16 liv'
had been lost. Later he learned this
while the hotel had been considerab
damaged, only one person. could not
: accounted for. The storm lasted only
few minutes, but was Of great severity