Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
IN GENERAL.

President Harrison issued proclama-
ton on Saturday designating Thursday,
November 9th, as day of Thanksgiving,
A fire at New Rochelle, N. Y, yesterday
week, destroyed the Ferguson block, !
containing the bank and several stores,
causing a loss of about $4,000.
A collision occurred on the Canadian
Pacific railway, near Owen Sound, Ontario,
| yesterday week. Engineer Kyle. was
| killed, and Fireman stephen Smith badly
injured.
Robert 7 Lincoln, United States minister
| TO England arrived at New York yesterday
week on the steamer City Of New York. He
brought with him the remains of his son,
Abraham Lincoln.
in Toronto, last week, Master In Cham
bers Dalton refused the application made
| in the libel case of Greame VS. the Toronto
| Globe, for permission to have Birchall exc
amined as Il witness on behalf of the plain-
| tiff, on the ground that he was not compe-
| tent to give evidence.
Charles II, Nestover, a bookkeeper for
the Domestic Sewing Machine Company
in Newark, N. j., has disappeared. A
change was recently made i'll the manage
ment of the company and an expert was
engaged to go over his accounts. It is said
that he made hundreds of false entries on
the pay rolls.
William Summers got drunk in Liberty,
Kan, Tuesday week. and made himself of
fenslvc at the polls. Constable Johnson
tried to quiet him and was shot and killed.
Summers trends put him a carriage and
drove to independence, as mob had Sc
| cured a rope and was about to lynch him.
An engine trying to make a switch on
the New York, Ontario & Western railroad,
crashed into a passenger train between
Carbondale and Mayteld, Pa, yesterday
week. Charles Finnegan of Carbondale,
man named Burke Of Jermyn, and
another, name not learned, were killed and
several other passengers were badly hurt.
ID. A. Greever, well-known cattle dealer
of Kansas City, Missouri, was shot and
MORALLY wounded by Charles Clifford,
New York travelling salesman, at hotel
in Kansas City, Thursday afternoon.
Greever was found by Clifford in the room
of the latter's wife The wounded man al
leges blaekmail on the part of the Cliff
fords
The board Of management for govern
ment exhibits at the Worlds Columbian I
Exposition determined, at st, meeting last i
week, to project its plans Upon basis Of
81 100000 expenditure, EXCESSIVE OF the
building or buildings, the cost of which is /
limited by law to 100000, 1t has also deter
mined to fix the maximum limit for floor
space at 2000.D square feet.
Twenty-Five hundred pounds of German,
Sweden and Denmark mail was landed at
Brunswick, Georgia, Tuesday week, by the
British steamship lndriani. 1t was picked
UP 700 miles from Lands End, October
18th, off of the disabled German mail ship (
Albinga bound from Hamburg to the
West Indies. 1t was forwarded TO New
York. There was much registered matter
among it.
The stockholders of the New Orleans
and Northeastern railroad last week elected |
these directors: Henry Abraham, Jules I
Aldige, Frank s. Bond D. Graft, c. g. I
Harvey, Harry II. Hall, John P. Richard |
son, r. NJ. Walnsley and Charles Schiff. !
The board then elected the following
officers: Charles SChih, president, c. @. |
Harvey, vice-president; John q. Lynn,
Jr.. secretary; fl. II. Taum. treasurer.
The sudden closing Of Ilermanu's Theatre
in New York on last night week was fol- !
lowed Thursday by Il suit entered by Prof. |
Hermann against Locke ~ Davis for 800 900 \
damages for breach of contract. The de-
PENDANTS had leased the theatre for 40 weeks !
from October 4th. The Minnie Palmer
Opera Company was playing the first en-
gagement at the house when il shut down.
Miss Palmer has also sued defendants for
S2o, 600 damages, and Bertha Ricci demands
$500 for three weeks salary.
The Trunk Line presidents and repre-
sentatives of the Central Traffic Assoeis-
tion Thursday decided to restore rates to
the basis which prevailed last year. The,
rates On wheat go up to % cents per hun
dred bushels ON corn, 224 cents, to take
effect on the Goth instant The new rate
on dressed beef to New England will be II
cents, instead of 4S cents, 1t was also de-
cided to abolish commissions on passenger
traffic in the territory covered by the line
between Chicago and st. Louis and the
Atlantic seaboard.
In Chicago Thursday serious charges
were preferred in court against Leopold
Brothers & Go. of that city by Herman
Bernheimer, Son & Co, of New York.
I IL, Id
amount and are now accused by the New
York firm with having falsely stated TO a
commercial agency, in January and Feb
ruarv. that they had a surplus of about
S290,000 1t is alleged that the, Leopolds
were at the time hopelessly insolvent, and
the statements were made with intent to
defraud by obtaining heavy credit, Other
allegations are that Some OF the judgments
entered at the tame of the failure were
without consideration and that a number
of good accounts have beeR assigned to rel-
atives who are not bona fide creditors.
A mortgage for S75, GO 0O0 was placed on
record in Pittsburg last week. II is a con-
solidated mortgage given by the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati 4 ST. l1uis Railway Company
to the Farmers Loan and Trust Company
and w n, johnson of indianapolis, trus-
tees. The document is dated October, 1880.
The railway company filing the mortgage
was formed by the consolidation of the p,
q. & st. L. Railway Company, the O., st.
L. & P. Railway Company, the o. Il o.
Railroad Company, the Jacksonville,
Madison & indianapolis Railroad Com
pany. In the articles Of agreement under
which the consolidation was effected, it is
provided that means shall be procured To
pay off prior sectional bonds outstanding,
and which are liens on various portions Of
the railroads, and for the payment If other
OF the different companies Of
the consolidation. No so this the issue, /
from time to tire, Of s76.oo0,0Oo in bonds
was authorised.