Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-10
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A reception was rendered to Archbishop
Kenrick by the Marquette Club, in ~.
Louis, last night week.
A plan has been started at Minneapolis
to send ship load of flour to Russia for
the relief of the famine sufferers.
Adam Spies wagon works, at Sterling,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing week, causing loss of 100000.
Fire destroyed the works of the Lincoln
Paint and Color Co., at Lincoln, Neb., on
Tuesday week, causing aloss OF $4,000.
A. K. Blood, wealthy petroleum pro-
Queer of Warren, Pa, was thrown from
| his horse on Tuesday week and instantly
killed.
The Hopkins county bank, at Madison
vile, KY, was robbed on Tuesday week of
$500. The safe had been blown open
and the strong box forced open.
William Clark, a young colored man,
| shot and MORALLY wounded a young man
named Palmer, with whom he was at feud,
| i'll Indiana, Pa, last night week.
| The people of Arizona voted on Dec LIST
| on the question of u new constitution. The
returns thus far received leave no doubt of
| the adoption of the new constitution.
VIM. II. Williamson Tuesday week shot
| and killed Lewis Thornton, whose farm
adjoined his, ut Newport, Ky. Thornton
had assaulted williamson before he fired
the fatal shots.
Al mass meetingof citizens of Roanoke
| Va, on Dec. ID, resolutions were adopted
| strongly urging the legislature to ratify the
settlement of the state debt on the basis
recently agreed upon.
| The factory of the Clinton Dynamite
Company at Hayersstraw, N. u, was de-
| stroyed by an explosion Dec. 9, in the after
noon. The shock was felt 20 miles away.
| Seven men were killed.
Major Il. G. Boynton. at one time quarter
master at West Point, and a writer ON mill
tary subjects was last week stricken with
| paralysis at his home, at Ncwburgh, N. ",
and is in critical condition.
The remaus of August Swanson and
Armand Clover, boys, of West superior,
Wis, were found Dec. % in cave
which they had dug in frozen saw-dnst
| pile. The crust had fallen in and killed
them.
A statement prepared at the United
States treasury shows that there has been
a net increase of sl2 769, 800 in the clrcula-
ton since November LIST, and net increase
of Ss,sb7,0io i'll money and bullion in the
treasury.
Specifications were filed at Lewiston.
Maine, Tuesday week, BY the Shoe and
Leather Bank, of Auburn, in ITS suit
against the bondsmen of ex-Cashier Per
cival, Showing that Pefciyafs stealings
amounted to Sls7, 49,
The last car Of n passenger train on the
Harlem railroad was thrown from the
track and capsi2cd while crossing u switch
at l49th street and Fourth avenue, New
York, Dec. ID. Three men were killed
and two others were injured.
The British minister and the representa-
| tives of the British West Indian colonies
had another conference at the department
of state last week with Mr.. Foster relative
to the negotiations Of a reciprocity agree
| ment under the terms of the tariff act.
A Kansas City dispatch says that the
| woman calling herself Lizzie Smith, who.
| with Albert King was implicated in the
| abduction Of the Beals baDy, has been
|. identified rs reckless character, who
originally came from Remington, Kansas.
| The New Jersey court of errors and APP
peals, at Trenton last week. reversed the
| decision Of the supreme court in the con
| tested Middlesex county clerkship election
case of Convery VS.. Cougar, and sustained
Conyery, Democrat, in his occupancy of
| the office.
The United States court at Louisville.
| KY, last week appointed a receiver for the
| Richmond, Nicholasville and Beattyville
| railway, upon complaint of the Central
| Trust Company of New York, and other
creditors. The liabilities aggregate nearly
| 100000.
| Two factions of the congregation of the
| Mount Tabor Baptist Church, seven miles
from Lebanon, Ind, are engaged in a liti-
CATION to determine in which the title shall
be vested. The property is worth about
$500, and it is said 5000 has already been
| spent in the litigation.
A sacred concert at st. Louis on Tuesday
week brought to close the public cere-
monies in connection with the jubilee of
| Archbishop Kenrick. Governor Francis
| welcomed the venerable prelate, and Mayor
| Noonan made ali address of congratulate
tion,to which Cardinal Gibbons responded
Information has been received by the
Bureau Of American Republics, from
| Brazil, that the German government Is
| with that country. There have been
several interviews between Count Donhoff
and tho minister Of foreign relations, in
which the preliminaries were discussed.
A dispatch from Lima Ohio, says that
the treasurer Of Allen county last week
brought suit against United States senator
Calvin > Brice for $50 delinquent
taxes THE senator has constantly refused
| to pay taxes here during the last few
| years. alleging, whenever pressed for d set
tlcment, that he had no residence at this
| place The amount asked for includes
over $1,000 in penalties
Police Justice Wuodman of Chicago de-
cided last week that the meetings recently
| raided by the police, ON the assumption
that they were Anarchistc were unlawful
assemblies, and he fined the leaders Sl0l
each and the other defendants SO each.
These fines were, at the instance of the
| city prosecutor, ut once rcnitted, this
course, it is Said, having been taken to
prevent an appeal to tho higher courts.
A dispatch from Pittsburg says that Rca
Bros, & Co., bankers and brokers, of that
1 city, who We're compelled to temporarily
| suspend business ON account of the failure
of ). Y. White q Co., have given notice 10
the holders of their extensive notes to pre-
sent the same for payment. Under the
| terms of the extension the notes were nav
able one year after date, with the right 10
anticipate, which has been done, the notes
| having been outstanding but two months.
The Virginia legislature convened ut
| Richmond Dec. ID. Governor Mckinney.
in his annual message, urged the import-
ailce OF falr reapporilonment of the state
into congressional districts, recommended
that railroads be required to provide sep
| arate accommodations for white and
| colored passengers, and that some lcgislil-
ton looking to the proper representation
of the state at the World fair be enacted.
The state debt question and the oyster ill.,
tcrcsts will be considered in a special mes
sage.
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