Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-09-18
IN GENERAL.

The Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. o. o.
F., began its sixty-sixth annual session in
Topeka, Kansas, Monday.
The census Office Monday announced
the population of Lynn, Massachusetts,,
to be 55,6s4, gain in the last 10 years Of
17,4l0.
information has been received in Balti-
more that Robert Garrett, whose sickness
in France has been reported, has greatly
improved.
A dispatch from Ottawa says that the
Dom MON government. it is understood,
will shortly abolish the export duty on
Canadian logs shipped TO the United
States.
Captain Duncan OF the ship Florence,
at Baltimore Monday, reports that on
the 9th instant he passed wreck, bottom
up, cOppered, with about go feet of keel,
in longitude 1924 west, latitude 1854
north.
The amount of silver offered for sale
to the Treasury Department Monday
aggregated 500, 900 ounces, and the
amount purchased was $50, 00n ounces,
as follows; 1901 600 at $l.157; 10000 at
$1.1575; 100000 at $l.15S0; $1,000
ounces az @I.lbofo.
The Democrats of the Seventh Con-
gressional district of Tennessee have been
unable to agree upon q candidate Rfter
casting over IS 0 ballots, and have I'D
journed until October lat, to meet in
Franklin, this home OF Colonel N. N. Fox,
the Alliance candidate.
W. j. H. Gluck has accepted the Pro-
hibition nomination for Congress in the
Third Maryland district. The prohibit
tionists propose the eight.hour system as
one method of relief for over produc-
tion, and the abolition Of the saloon as
the method of relief for under consump-
ton.
A dispatch from Marquette, Michigan,
says that the schooner Comrade has been
lost with her crew Of eight men. on Lake
Superior. She parted her tow line from
the Columbia during a gale Saturday
night, and two days search hiss failed
to find any trace of boat or crew. She
was loaded with 1000 tons of iron, and
was valued at $4,000.
A fire in Lynohburg, Virginia, on Sun
day night, originating in the Western
Union Telegraph office, destroyed half
block of buildings, causing loss esti-
mated at $150,000. The following firms
were burned out John A. Lee, seed and
fertilizer; Thomas N. Larkin, dry goods;
Lewis d Jennings, wholesale groceries;
M. Kraft, tobacco and cigar dealer; +. A.
Knockle, boot and shoes, and E. Crump,
dry goods.
The supplementary report Of the
marine department Of Canada, Just is-
sued, shows the number OF wrecks in
Canadian waters during the year 1889 to
have been 16l, 81 being total wrecks.
Eighty-nine lives were lost. Forty-seven
persons received recognition for their
services in saving life-33 from the Cana
dian, six from the British, aud one each
from the United States, spanish and
Italian governments.
Members of the Foreign Fruit Elk
change in New York adopted res
oluti0ns Monday protesting against
the early enforcement of the new
Tariff law. II was the sense Of the meet
ing that the early date fixed by the Senate
for the Tariff bill to take effect October
1st) would work great hardship among
merchants and importers, and they ask
that the date be set not earlier than No.
vember LIST; also that the date set for the
removal OF goods from bonded warehouses
be postponed at least one month.
Captain Caller of the steamship Nor
msndie, which arrived at New York on
Monday, reported that about $50 miles out
at sea no sighted the three masted Ameri-
can ship Challenger in q disabled eondi-
ton. The captain OF the Challenger re-
ported that during hurricane on Sep
tember lat IL of his crew had been
washed overheard and drowned and four
others had their arms and legs broken,
leaving but four men to work the ship.
The Challenger was making about three
kuots per hour under the foresail and
high-reefsd mainsail. The captain de-
clined assistance,
The New York Board Of Trade and
Transportation Monday adopted resolu-
tons declaring that, while it is desirable
that au early date should be fixed for the
new tariff to take effect, yet common JUS
tice and precedent alike dictate that it
should not apply to goods which have
arrived in this country prior to the time
said law takes effect; and that no good
reason exists for changing the usual time
during which such goods can remain in
bond without payment of duty, and to
tx any other date ID unnecessary and in
creasee the chances Of monetary troubles
ut time when all the currency If ths
county ia needed 70 move the eropA