Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-03
IN GENERAL.

on Friday, causing loss of $4,000.
Jefferson B. Brown, president of the
Florida senate, was on Friday elected
mayor of Key West by the city com
missioners of that place.
A fire at Danvile, Ind, on Friday
morning destroyed several business
places, the bank and residence, caus.
ing total loss Of $4,000. The fire was
OF incendiary origin.
A dispatch to San Francisco, from
Ounalaska, says that the catch of 81
sealing vessels was 27,000, which is esti.
mated to he only about 50 per cent OF
the total number of seals destroyed this
season.
The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven DAYS, &C.
cording to X. q. Dun IL Co., numbered
204 in the United States and % in
Canada-total 226, compared with ZIG
last week and 227 the week preceding.
A dispatch from Socorro, New Mex
leo, says that large quantities of dyna-
mite have been exploded from the high.
est peak of the Socorro Mountains, and
that on Thursday, as result, the heavi-
est rain of the year fell, breaking the
drought.
A wooden bridge, which spans the
tracks of the Baltimore II Ohio railroad
at Cumberland, Md, fell Thursday
while u gang of workmen were making
repairs upon it. Tolbert Minnicks was
killed and Walter Miller was seriously
injured.
A woman was literally cut to pieces
near Canton, North Dakota, onDEriday
by reaper and binder She was lead
ing yoke of oxen which were attached
to the machine, when the animals be-
came frightened by passing train and
ran away.
A tornado struck Newark, N. j., on
Friday afternoon, levelling walls, un-
roofing buildings, and doing other dam
age in track II miles long by an eighth
OF a mile wide. Several persons were
injured by flying debris, but no fatal
casualties are reported.
A dispatch from Bermuda SAYS that a
severe storm ragged there on Thursday,
causing great damage. Trees, walls
and telegraph and telephone wires were
Frustrated and the sea was very rough.
1t was said to be the worst storm ex-
pciiViiOtu tlitIt slflCe lSOU.
A Baltimore despatch reports that the
controlling interest in Port Royal, S. c.,
which is said to have the deepest har-
Dor Of south Chesapeake Bay, has been
purchased by an English syndicate, the
intention being to develop foreign export
business through that port.
A dispatch from Proctor, VT, says
that the successor Of Secretary Proctor
will be General William Wells of Bur-
linCton, Vt, who was one of Sheridan's
cavalry officers during the war, and
who is now the head OF large whole
sale drug house at Burlington.
A dispatch from Caldwell, Kansas,
says that men from that city, iacensed
by the action of the government in per-
hitting the Indians to hold cattle in the
Cherokee strip,l Tuesday week began to
fire the grass on the strip, and avow
their intention of burning every spear
of grass.
In the house of commons, at Ottawa,
on Thursday night, Sir Richard Cart
wrights motion censuring the govern
ment for its abuse of power in issuing
the governor-general's warrants during
the past year, was lost, on division of
w to %. The government was sustained
by only 10 votes, the smallest of the SEES
sion.
Frosts were reported on Wednesday
week in Minnesota, North Dakota, and
in Manitoba. In some sections the dam
age to uncut wheat was estimated as
high as 20 per cent, but from many
points the reports indicate that very
little damage was done, and that the
previous frosts did less harm than was
expected.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kan
sas, says that the boomers moved on the
strip in large numbers Thursday morn
ing and made several attempts to start
large fires and destroy the pasturage, but
the grass is too green and fires make
little Roadway. Some of the cattlemen
are becoming alarmed and attempting
to get their cattle out
At the session of the Universal Peace
Union in New London on Thursday
officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Alfred II. Love, Philadelphia;
Secretary, John J. Lyttle, Philadelphia;
Corresponding Secretaries, Belva A.
Lockwood, the Rev. Amanda Deyo of
Scranton, John Collins, Philadelphia;
Treasurer, 7. ]. Whitney, Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Lakeville, Conn.
says that Mrs. Hotchkiss has presented
to the board of trustees of the Yale Pre-
paratory School, of which she is the
founder, the sum of S275, 900 in cash. Of
this sum $4,000 will be expended upon
a building, and $200,000 will be used as
an endowment fund for professorships,
&c In addition to this gift Mrs. Hotch-
kiss has presented to the trustees tract
of rs acres of land.
BY decision of Judge Allen, in the
United States court at Springfield. Ill,
an entire issued of bonds by Pulaski
county, amounting to 100000, was on
Friday declared invalid. The bonds
were issued in 1872 in aid Of the Cairo
u Vincennes railroad, but there was
some irregularity as to the notice for the
election at which the question of the
bond issue was submitted, which led TO
the litigation out of which this decision
was reached.
A Chicago dispatch quotes a state
ment made by morning paper of that
city Friday, to the effect that within
so days the Baltimore and Ohio trains
will enter that city over the tracks of
the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, and find terminus in the new
depot recently erected by that company.
The matter has been fully settled, it was
said, land the contracts will be signed
as soon as President Mayer of the Bal
timore and Ohio returns from Europe
The treasury department was in
formed on Friday that certain banks in
New York were selling per cent bonds
and buying AZ per cent bonds with a
view of having the latter continued at 2 |
per cent and using them as basis OF
circulation of national bank notes. |
There has been an increase of over
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