Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-10-30
IN GENERAL.

her throat with pocket-knife near Leb-
! anon, Tenn, Thursday morning. He
alleges infidelity on her part.
Albert w. Oxnard, treasurer of the
Johnstown Lumber Company, in Johns
town, Pa, has disappeared. His books
show a shortage of about 100000.
Zllra p. King ex-treasurer of the Uni.
yersity of Michigan Alumni Association,
has been arrested in Ann Arbor, on the
charge of embezzling 1900 Of the funds
| OF the association.
| w. j. Birch, station master of the Phila-
delphia e. Reading railroad in Philadel-
phia, was arrested in Montreal, Quebec,
Thursday on charge of embezzling $1,000
from the company
An Associated Press dispatch from Wash
ington says that it is practically settled
that the vacancy, on the supreme Court
bench will not be filled until after the
| meeting of Congress III December.
The'SoutherIl Pacific Railroad Company
has decided to complete coast line Of rail-
way from san Francisco to Los Angeles
by closing the gap in the line between
Santa Margarita and Ellwood, California,
The Brooklyn United Elevated roads
on Friday affected a consolidation and the
capital stock Of the uniun-SS, 100000, will
be replaced by new issue of the Brooklyn
Elevated railroad, making the total cap
ital stock Sl3, 100000
The troops called out to pursue the band
Of Apaches who murdered two sheep
herders near Silver City, New Mexico, met
the band early on Friday morning near the
scene OF the murder. A conflict cnsued,
but the Indians beat off their pursuers
after Two Of them had been killed.
The total value of exports from the
United States for the II months endedSep-
TENDER Both, 1880 was $3.50, 13l ,l5S. For
tI,sAI,. MI 4
ures were S775, 5l9, 323, The imports in
lS9u amounted to Ssl3 i5l, ia, and in 1889
$50, IU2,Sl7.
Residents of Bradford and Hillsboro
Bridge, Nj were alarmed Thursday night
by 4 sound resembling that of large gun
at a distance. 1t was caused by a meteor
which appeared in the northwest. 1t
looked like rocket, leaving a trail then
burst with report like IA cannon.
Joseph Wood, 50 years OF age, and Carl
Barg, aged as years had a fight with crow
bars in a blacksmith shop in New York
on Friday. The battle was fierce and lasted
. for some time. 1t was ended only when
both men sank to the ground with frac-
tured skulls. They We're removed to the
hospital in an unconscious condition.
Ernest G. Rowe young newspaper man
of New Haven, Connecticut, has arrived in
San Francisco with safety bicycle, which
ne llilu TltuSlt CltisI dGrUSS the american
continent as iar as Ogden with the eXcep-
tion of about 700 Males over rough, al
most roadless country, when he walked.
The iournej Was commenced August 14th.
In the United States district court at
Tacoma, Washington, yesterday week,
Judge Hantord decided, in tide land case,
that under the lard laws of the United
States the line of nigh tide is the boundary
between land and water, and that the act
nt tlOnpTpSS ppnnnt hn 81 1al nc IN,
authorize entry Of mud flats or like lands,
bare at low tide but subject to daily over
flow. An appeal will be taken to the
United States supreme Court
The treasury department has informed
the surveyor of customs at st, Louis that
the department as at present advised does
not regard the internal revenue tax on
whisky as having been increased by the
recent legislation, and consequently that
whisky which was exported and returned
in good faith, and not being an article
manufactured for export in class s
bonded warehouse, would, when entered
for consumption, be liable to duty equal
to the internal revenue tax, viz, 80 cents
per gallon.
The state Farmers Alliance Of Florida.
in session at Monticello Thursday adopted
resolution declaring "that this order is
not welded or allied to any political party,
and has no room on its platform for par
tisan politics or partisan politicians"
Resolutions We're also adopted calling upon
Floridas representatives in Congress To
vote for a bill aholishing the national
banking system and substituting for it
issues of legal-tender notes. also, to sup
port the sub-treasury bill, or something
better,
The grand jury in Binghamton, New
York, Thursday found nine indictments
against employees Of the Leader, growing
out of that papers attitude during the
recent cigar makers strike There are six
for libel three against the manager, two
against the editor and one against the city
editor. One indictment was brought in
against each of the persons specified for
criminal contempt of court in disregarding
an injunction issued by Judge Forbes,
which prohibited all persons from unlaw-
fully encouraging the strikers. Bail was
furnished by the accused in the sum of $50
on each indictment
The general term of the supreme court
in New York has refused to vacate the
order for the examination of Col. w. w. |
Dudley before trial of his suit for libel
against the World for damages for publish
ing the notorious "blocks of fiven letter.
IN the opinion Judge Daniel says; Under
the circumstances of the case il is evident
that the plaintiff, when he has visited New
York, has been actuated with an intent to |
avoid the service of the order and practi-
cally declining to obey the mandate of the |
court. Under these circumstances the
court would not, with any just respect to |
its own proceedings listen to his applica-
ton to vaeate its ORDER
The extra session of the Ohio legislature |
called BY Governor Campbell to consider
alleged corruption in the municipal boards |
in Cincinnati concluded business Friday |
afternoon and adjourned to January 9th, |
1871, when the adjourned session begins. |
The bill became a law providing a non
partisan board of improvements for Gin
cinnati to he appointed by Mavor Mostly |
and to hold to April list, when their success
sors shall be elected, Joint senate and
house committees We're appointed, ono to
the workings of the denart-
mentS at Cincinnati, and another on muni-
cipal plan and the best system of city gov
eminent, both to report at the adjourned
session.
Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul, Bishop
Stanley of jamestown, South Dakota,
and Bishop McGolrick of Duluth, had in
terviews on Friday with Secretary Noble
and Acting Indian Commissioner Belt, in
relation to Indian schools in the north
west. They requested that the sisters who
had been conducting the st. Mary's and
y, Johns schools for girls OIL the Turtle
Mountain reservation, but who were EN-
ployed as government instructors when
those schools were discontinued by Com
missioner Morgan, be permitted 10 pre-
serve their community seclusion while so
Secretary Noble said that the
of Indian schools had
already been instructed to permit the
sisters to liveapart from the other teachers.
1t was reported in Chicago Thursday
hat o. W. Potter, Of that city, was nego-
iating with shareholders there and in
New York for controlling interest In the
Illinois Steel Company. and that some of
his purchases of stock had been made at
he enormous figure of lbs. The Illinois
Steel Company is a corporation with an
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