Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-20
IN GEN ERAL.

Fragments of the schooner Nellie O.
Paine, wrecked on Brandywins shoal, are
coming ashore at Cape May Point.
The senate OF Iowa Monday passed
bill reducing the maximum rate of inter
est on negotiable paper from 10 10 per
cent.
Fire ct Garner, Iowa, on Sunday night
destroyed Finch Bro's. hardware store,
Lathrcp's drug store, John Wickman's
law office. Total loss, 1912 900; partly
insured.
Jonathan Young ScRmmon, the founder
of the Chicago Inter Ocean and for many
years prominently identified with the
growth and prosperity OF Chicago, died
NJ his home in Hyde Park, that city, on
Monday morning, aged Is years.
In the superior court in Boston, on
Monday, George Il. Newton, wholesale
grocer, was ordered to pay John Lankota,
New York drummer, $l00 and interest.
Newton promised TO ply Lsnknta 800 il
he would stolJ Bmoking and drinking for
year, and then refused to abide by the
agreement.
In Harrisburg, Monday, in the CON-
troversy over the will of the late A. T.
Iusk, the auditors reported that Jennie
q. Stoner, the contestant to share OF
tho estate on the ground OF being Lusks
widow, was never married to thetes ator,
and was not entitled 10 share in the
estate, which was worth $500
There 10 danger of another landslide in
Troy, New York. A new opening in
Warren's Hill has been discovered. The
bank is 900 feet high and is cracked for
$50 feet in length along the crest. Should
1t fall it would DO great damage. Resi-
dlents in the vicinity have been warned
TO move. Some have gore, but others
Qemsin.
Reports received from the tobacco
krowing counties ia western North Caro-
Aims show that ut least ons-third OF tho
(planti in the beds have been killed by the
Acoid weather which prevailed Saturday
fiight and Sunday. Tnepeach and apple
{ptops are also almost wholly destroyed.
gTbe mercury stood ct TO- above zsso sun
tdaY morning.
The annual meeting Of the Commercial
NCable Company was held in New York
Monday. The following directors were
Eelscted for the ensuing year; John w.
Mackay, James Gordon Bennett, Hector
&and Jules De Castro, A. u. Chandler,
tGaores 3. Coo, w. L. Scott, &. e. How
land, Charles Notdhsif, e. q. Plat, y.
AZ. Matthews, Richard Irwin and A. De
aOastro. The only new name on the
&poard is that Of W. L. SCOTT.
q The widows of the victims Of the Not
NtinRham mine disaster, by which eight
Amen were killed by I'm explosion of ga
tlbout six weeks ago, entered suits il
&ilkesbarre, Pa, Monday against the
Eehigh and Wilkesbarre Goal Company,
De- 1o,na,,aa aauvpnatinfy 2IOn ul0 VhEN
claim thar the accident was due to crimi
nal negligence on the part of tho com
psny in not providing sufficient yentila-
ton to prevent the accumulation OF ga
in the mine.
The druggists of Aberdeen, South Do
kota, Monday signed m agreement tc
keep no liquors after May lst, and it il
believed the agreement viii be followed
generally throughout the ntste. They
object to the prohibition cot, especially
those provisions requiring petitions
signed by 20 women necessary to secure
permits, the Thousand dollar bond clause
and the general "humiliating features o.
the measure, which are an outrage OF
reputable druggists"
The bodies of two Yale students, Ed
win Rowe, Jr., member OF tho henio
scientific class, and Jurius konnan,
member of the freshman scientific GLASS
were washed ashore at West Haven o.
Monday. On Sunday morning they HRS:
small sail boat aud wet to Milford
about eight miles down the sound. The,
started for home about O'Clock in tn
afternoon against strong wind and
heavy sea. Their boa. was dashed again
the breakwater and the young men throw
into the water and both Of them wer
drnwnad