Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-26
IN GENERAL.

IN GENERAL.
Judge silas NJ CLARK of the supreme
court Of Pennsylvania, died at his home in
Indiana, Pa, last Friday.
Governor Hill of New York went to
Washington Friday "for the purpose Of
securing quarters for the winter"
A letter was received the other day at the
Tribune office addressed to .'Mr. Horace
Greeley" TWAS from a village in Alabama.
Major Il. A. Montooth, representing
Senator Quay, entered suit at Pittsburg
Friday against the Post of that city, for
100000 damages for libel.
A convention of phosphate operators
was in session at 0cala, Fla, on Thursday
and Friday, for the purpose of forming
a combination to regulate the output, fix
prices, &c.
A dispatch from Pit.shurg says it is re
ported that the iron and steel manufac-
turcrs of the United States will make a
general assault on the Amalgamated Asso-
citation in the spring
Abram Curtis Perry was arrested at
Washington. Vt, on Thursday, charged
with the theft of 5000 in cash and large
amount of iewelry from an express car
near Utica, N. ", on September Both.
The Michigan state bank examiner has
closed the Milford Bank. The liabilities
are stated to be sl33,000 and the nominal
assets Sl42,70 The assets, however, it is
reported, will hardly realize over $4,000.
All the Federal prisoners in the Arkansas
penitentiary, at Little Rock, have been re-
moved to Columbus, Ohio because one of
them was stripped and branded by two fell
low c0nyicts in presence of the warden, a
few weeks ago.
Fred D. Miller, II years of age, died at
I I.1u lac. Of IL
ease, resulting from excessive cigarette
smoking. lie Is said to have smoked from
two to four packages of cigarettes every
day for two years past.
Treasurer Smith, of the "Order of the
Rising sun is reported to have deap-
peared from Lowell, Mass, and his disap-
| pearance has caused much excitement
among shareholders in neighboring towns,
where over 100000 of the stock is held.
Two large buildings in ST. Paul, occupied
by Griggs, Cooper Il Co., wholesale gro
cerics, and Farwell, 0zmun, Kirk 4 Co.,
| wholesale hardware were completely de-
stroyed, Nov. 18th, by fire which started
| just before midnight. The losses aggre-
gate S950,00O
| The Wheeling q Lake Erie switchmen
who went on strike at Toledo, on the 18th
instant, Thursday reached an agreement
with the road, the company conceding
| everything the men asked, except the re-
instatemcnt of the man whose discharge
caused the strike.
The President Friday appointed Dol
phin 7. Roberts, of Evansville, Ind, to be
recorder Of the general land office, vice
Joseph NJ. Townsend, resigned; also Mrs,
Mary Howe Totten and Mrs. Elizabeth
Hobson to be trustees of the Girls Reform
School of the District OF Columbia.
| AIinnanrdlfr Iicnatnh uauu thnE IN.
lumber season is over and that the cut fol-
the year reaches AL, 7l3, 252 feet 2O7,.
22l 600 shingles and ~, 697, 800 lath "This
beats all records, and exceeds the output
of 1890 by 103 1873, $50 feet Of lumber
45,0O3, 800 shingles and II, 400, go lath."
The surgeon general of the marine hos
ptal service has received report in refer
ence ro the smallpox epidemic at lIarri.
Neck, Ga, showing that there were 81
cases and Is deaths. The surgeon in charg,
found 10 cases i'll one two-room house, anc
three families of ten each were almos
starving.
According TO the Chicago Egcning Post
the National Cordage Company or Binding
Irvine Trust has purchased the entire bind
ing Irvine plant Of William Deering a. Co
of Chicago, for S2j000o. This purchase
the Post says, gives the trust the entir,
control Of the binding Irvine industry il
America,
A 81. Louis dispatch reports that On
Wednesday u. q. Weller, postmaster a
Glasgow, Missouri, was compelled h,
three robbers in broad daylight. at tn
point of a revolver, to turn over all tn
valuables in his possession amounting Il
nearly $1,000. The robbers then escape,
to the woods.
! Jcdediah Bowen died Thursday. in Ri
pom, Wis, aged % years. He was tn,
+ chief helper of A. y, Bovay WHO'S credite,
, in Flowers history with being the founde
of the Republican party. Bovay ant
) Bowen held meetings and agitatcd til
i question of dissolying the Wing party a
; carly as iS52.n
( A telegram from Pittsburg says Their
are fair prospects Of q relief of the Goa
| famine in the south and west The river
are rising, and the first shipment-to Eas
Liverpool O.-bcgan Friday morning
| At present the harbor at Pittsburg !
/. blocked with bargcs, and fully 100000
Z bushels of coal are awaiting "a boatin
i stage of water"
The. coroners Jury at Reading, Pa, re
turned verdict Friday in the cases o
0 the victims Of the recent accident on til
1 MI Penn Gravity railroad. They foun,
that "the proper officers of the COMPANY
Z hud not exercised sufficient supervision
j over the employees, and declared that
] radical change in the management of tn
r road was necessary
The "recever Of wrecks" at Goderich
Ontario, telegraphed to the marine depart
!. ment at Ottawa, on Thursday. for permits
+, Sion tG employ an American tug to go /
= the rescue of a vessel which had gon
:, ashore three miles out, and the nccessar
: permission was granted at once. The sc
was too rough to allow OF the small CAM
{ dian trg yenturng out.
! The business failures occurring through
= out the country for tile last seven DAYS, d
y reported to Il, q. Dun Il Co., number f,
I the United States 252 and for Canada rs. 4
!, a total of 80, as compared with totals {
20l last week and 266 the week previous
a The last, For the corresponding week {
last year the figures were ga, representa-
!, III failures in the United States and q i
!. the Dominion of Canada.
The supreme Council Of the Farmer
Alliance, in session in Indianapolis. o
n Friday, changed the constitution to adm
Is women, The Reform Press Associatio
IS threatens to bolt the Alliance il the Sta
It Agents Association carries out its purnoi
o Of making all purchases through IL
y National Union Company. The People
IS party men claim to have secured all The
l. wanted and last night issued an address
d the people of the United States.
q The 18th annual convention Of the Raj
d way Passenger and Freight Conductor
l. Mutual Benefit Association opened Fl
e day in Chicago. The attendance number,
e 100. The secretary reported that durir
Il the year $50, 500 have been paid ont, lea
,r ing in the hands of the treasurer SO, Oh
o Only ten members have withdrawn fro
lie the order, 80 were delinquent and IS die
Ie and only one was disabled. The organic
'e ton has paid in losses since its formatie