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

The strike of the coal miners of Ala
hama Went into effect on Monday, hut all
the men did not go out rs expected OF
the 5000 free miners in tie state it is csti-
mated that 60UO are ont, A number Of the
mine operators are going tatlll tho places
of the strikers with negroes. They expect
eventually to operate their mines entirely
with negro labor.
Herman Katzey, his wife and six chill
dren, occupy n two.story frame house In
Chicago EARLY Tuesday morning an
incendiary saturated the boards with
Kerosene and set the place on fire, after
tying the doors so that they could not be
opened from the inside. fortunately, II
policeman discovered the flames and eX-
tinguished them, being badly burned
while doing so.
The Bank of Commerce in West Su-
pcrior, Wis, closed its doors Tuesday and
made an assignment Its deposits since last
Wednesday had been reduced from S6O0, 600
to SI6S,Ou0. The bank was unable either to
stand the drain from its own resources or
to obtain the necessary outside aid, The
bank has resources greatly in excess Of It's
liabilities and will pay dollar for dollar,
| Among its assets are $780, 600 of iirst-olass
| paper.
Among the incorporation licenses issued
| Tuesday at sprinfeld, Illinois, was one to
| the American Railroad Traffic Association
at Chicago, capital stock sloOOO,0eO, to
| establish and maintain a uniform system
and schedule of passenger and freight rates
and charges for and by railway and rail
road companies doing a general passenger
| and freight traffic business in the United
States. Incorporators, George W. Cole, G.
Potter Johnson and Royo West,
Admiral Silviera, the commander.in-
chief of the visiting brazilian squadron,
aud Mr.. Yalentc, the Brezilian minister,
| were escorted to the capitol Tuesday by
eecretaries Blaine and Tracy, and spent
some time in watching the proceedings Of
Congress. Last evening the Brazilian OIL
GERS gave IL dinner to those whose hospital
ties and attentions they have received dur
ing their stay at the capital. The admiral
occupied the seat Of honor at the centre OF
the table
Rose Martcll. a French woman, 81 years
old, shot and killed an unknown man in
Chicago on Monday night. She says that
a man raped at her door and asked for
something TO eat. She told him she had
nothing to give him. She alleges that he
then stepped inside the door aud demanded
her money. She then asked him to get
her drink of water. As he went into a
rear room she got revolver, and as lac
again appeared, fired two bullets through
his body. Two policemen heard the
shooting, entered the house and found the
man lying unconscious on the floor, He
had not enough life left to tell the story
of the shooting. The woman is under ar.
rest.
Perrin H. Sumner, the real estate spec
ulator in New York who gained consider
able notoriety III connection with the mys
FERROUS suicide of n man who registered al
the Getty House, Yonkers, New York. a.
George smith, was arrested yesterday
charged with forgery. The prisoner, il
will be remembered identified the suicid,
as his friend, James IL. Edgar, u wealthy
English chemist, "'rhere was Il suspicion
that the identification was not correct anr
was made by sumner for the purpose q
detruuding life insurance company. IN,
sequel shows that there was swindle i'm
tended ind that Sumner, in the hone q
realizing by the scheme the sum Of S3lO.
, 0oO aid not hesitate TO commit forgery.
The suicide took place On October 2ltA.