Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-03-01
NEWS I'M BRlgF.
fresh Tips frosn the wires Carefully
Chilled.

fresh Tips from the wires Carefully
Culsed.
The grand jury In the New York bank
wrecking case was dismissed A presentment
censuring President Charles Leland for the
secret, unusual and enormously profitable
sale OF his stock was brought in prior to the
dismissal Of the jury.
The Erie railways net earnings for Janu
airy were S422, S25, an increase Of $57 .5l3 as
compared with January Of last year. The
net earnings from October to January in
elusive show an increase Of $99,6lS
The fire in the Cameron colliery al
Shamokin, Pa, is thought to be under con
troll and will probably be extinguished in d
few days
George Gage and Daniel Fisher wer,
drowned in Brackets pond, Bainbridge,
n. Y. They were fishing through hole n
she dee when the ice broke.
Secretary Window has awarded the con.
tract for the Alaska seal fisheries 20 the
North American Commercial company OF
New York and San francisco for twenty
gears
Secretary Window has issued orders for
fthe estabi ishment Of an immigrant landing
depot at Bedioe's Island New York harbor,
and arrangements will at once be made for
the construction of tine necessary buildings.
Mrs Sarah Lothrop Ames, aged &c years,
widow of the late Oliver Ames, OF Massa.
chusetts. died Feb. %, from the effects of an
apoplectic stroke.
The Republicans Of Rochester. N. ".
have renominated Mayor Cornelius r. Par
sous Mr. Parsons has served fourteen sue
cessive years as mayor.
AT Newark, Del, Rev Daniel Davis. {
colored preacher, fractured the skull Of jim
Jones, colored, with club Davis suspected
that Jones, who was known as a ''masher, ;
was unduly intimate with Mrs Davis
Jones will probably die.
The council OF ministers which has beer
investigating the charges of immortality
and drunkenness against the Rev w. A
Smith, OF the Perkins Street Baptist church
Boston, recommend that he DO excluded
| from church membership.
Alexander Craig (colored), Of Lancaster
Pa, has been awarded $40, 24S bal k pension
money and $z2 per month. lie served as ,
private in the Third United States gcolored
regiment, and is now in the Harrisburg In
sane asylum.
Elizabeth Bassett, Of PA Elm street, AL
bany, is the wife Of John Melville Bassett
who is now languishing in Jail at Jamaica
L. l., on the charge of betraying the younl
| girl Jessie Covert, of that village, who i
dying from the effects of criminal opera
ton.
The Judiciary committee of the New Yorl
assembly has commenced investigator,
Judge Bookstaver's alleged criminal con
nection with she Flack divorce case
An attempt was made to shoot DR.. Alex
ander Neil, OF Columbus, o. DR. Neil wal
the attending physician of the late Mis-
Hollis. whose mysterious death has created
such Juror in Cincinnati, and this ct
tempted assassination may be connected
with that unhappy AGAR.
Joe johnson, an inofensive old man
whose timely information prevented a ploi
,0f the Hatfield gang to escape from the Jai
at Pikesville, KY, was called out Of hii
home near that place and shot to death
George H. Fessenden, s young man, wal
fined $40 in New York for striking william
| A. Mcdonald, another young man. who had
sent him challenge to mortal combat
Representative Randall, about whose con
dition the most alarming reports were circn
! lated in Washington, says that hs is feeling
better than at any time since bis illness.
1t Is reported in London that Sir Julian
Rauncefote, minister to the United States
will soon be recalled, as he does not agre,
with Lord Salisbury on the fishery question