Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-27

10 freight trains, are running on the
Chicago Is Eastern Illinois road, because of
strike Of conductors and brakemcn.
The three flint glass factories Of the Illi-
nois Glass Works, at Alton, Illinois were
burned on saturday morning Loss $780,
Vm., rive hundred persons are thrown out
of work.
Two freight trains on the Cleveland, can.
ton Il southern railway collided near Prim.
field, O., on Saturday. Several train hands
We're hurt and both engines and Is cars
were destroyed.
1t is understood that Rirchall made a
| full confession of his crime to the Roy Mr..
Wade, his spiritual adviser, and that it
will he made public rs soon ~ Mrs. Bir-
chall leaves for England.
The Right Rev. John Watrous Beckwi
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Georgia,
died. III sunday in Atlanta Of paralysis,
aged 60 years. He was born in North Caro-
lima and graduated from Trinity College,
| Hartford. He was cbnsecrated bishop in
| 1858.
A stranger has been working in the
neighborhood Of baskerville, Michigan,
accepting orders for goods, for which he
does not ask any money until the goods are
delivered but takes the farmers orders,
and, after Transforming them into notes,
sells them to a bank.
Colonel j. b. Clarke, representing a Chi
cag0 syndicate. on Saturday, closed an
agreement with capitalists at Galveston,
Texas for the maintenance of a new line
of steamers between Galveston and South
American ports. 1t. has been decided to
incorporate the company with capital of
Sj00O0,000
Mrs. Charles A. Coombs jumped from
window on the sixth floor of the Pierre
pont House. Brooklyn, New York, on Sat
ilrday. afternoon, and was killed, She was
the wife of the son of the newly-eected
Congressman for the Third district She
had suffered from ill health and, il is said,
was suffering from temporary alteration
ofthe mind.
The Transcontinental Railway Associa-
ton, at Chicago, has decided to advance all
freight rates ON Pacific coast business 10
per cent, beginning December list. The
Western Freight Association has called a
meeting OF all the railroads running west,
northwest and southwest from Chicago,
on December I'd, for the purpose Of adj
vancing rates on all classes Of freights.
Wintry weather set in along the upper
Hudson valley during Saturday night.
Snow fell throughout the night and yes
terday the ground was covered. In the
tatskills, il was from two to four inches
deep. Ice has formed on ponds in the in
terror and skating begun. Navigation is
being pushed through for fear of a sudden
closing Of the Hudson and inland streams.
A telegram from Kingston says the tenn
perature there last night was 'hovering
around zero"
John c. Farrell, ex-superintendent of
the Wilkcsbarre Water Company and a
wealthy citizen of Wilkesbarre, Pa, has
not, it is said, eaten a morsel of food for
two weeks. He persistently refuses to eat,
insisting that he is dead and does not re.
qlire food. Mr.. Farrell's health has been
failing for a number of years, and last win
ter he went south, but returned in the
spring completely broken down in mind
and body. His physicians say a mania
such as his is almost unlieard Of.
Diego Palisona was found dead with a
bullet hole in his neck in East 18th street,
New York, on Saturday night. At the
police station on Sunday Miguel Domino
the son-in-law Of the deceased, said that
PaliSona went from his home at 8 o'clock
Saturday night to get paper of tobacco.
When the body was found there wcrc
$500 IN the trousers of the murdered
man. The theory which the police hold is
that Palisona was killed in gambling
house near by, and to elude detection. tho
body was carried out to the street and left
there.