Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-23
IN GENERAL.

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IN GENERAL. -
The freight steamer Endymion, from
Barrow, before reported at sea with her
crank broken, arrived at New York
Tuesday.
A material train on the Atlantic e. Dan
vile railroad collided with hand car near
Boydton, Va, Tuesday. Three laborers
were killed and four badly injured.
The liabilities of the Higganum Manu-
featuring Company, Higganum, Connecti-
cut, are understood to be between 5000, 900
and 100000, and the assets about 500, 900.
The receipts from customs at New York
during the first 20 days of the present
month were S., 795, 4s7, or SO, 2S5, 55l less
than during the corresponding period of
last year.
Shaw Brothers, grocers, in Meriden,
Connecticut, have made an assignment.
The assets and liabilities are not given, but
IL is expected that the firm will pay 80
cents on the dollar.
Thompson, Stewart a. Co., dealers in
millinery goods in Cincinnati, have made
an assignment, with preferences amount
ing TO S11 800. The liabilities are $40, 600,
and the assets s50,0oO.
A very heavy rain fell in the vicinity of
North Platte, Nebraska on Monday night.
The rain was accompanied by a furious
gale of wind. The streams are impossible
and many bridges have been swept away.
The Druggists Protective Association of
Baltimore at a meeting Tuesday, resolved
that $50 per annum would be fair rental
for telephone, and left the details regard
ing proposed new contracts TO the execu-
tive committee.
Josiah W. Briean, the missing Philadel-
phia architect, was arrested Tuesday in
Buffalo, New York. He is charged with
embezzling s33, 500 from John w Post of
New York, the general manager OF the
Steel Tubular Car Company of Bradford,
Pa.
The seventh batch OF indicted Jersey
City election officers were found guilty
Tuesday. The men are Patrick Mctirath,
John Stumpf and John Eagan. The jury
recommended Stumpf to the mercy of the
court. Judge Lippincott will sentence the
prisoners on Friday. -
During the year which ended June 30th,
1891. the amount collected at Vancouver
Is. c., as duty on Cinnamon entering the
Dominion was Sl5,95S, as against 81, 56S for
the year ended June Both, 1890, an increase
of Sl2, 395. The amount exacted from
each Chinaman who sets foot in Canada is
S120.
Nearly an inch of rain fell at Huron,
South Dakota, on Monday night. Reports
show rains at all stations on the Chicago
4 Northwestern lines in South Dakota and
Minnesota, except Tyler, MINI. 1t was
heavy at all points except Elkton, Aurora.
Arlington, Blunt and Pierre. Corn, fax
and potatoes will be greatly benefited.
Nicholas Hoffman, the companion of
l. L.. al
more for the murder of his grandmother
and aunt aud who was mainly instrument
tai in securing the conviction of Blaney. is
now in Jail himself, charged with the
murder on Monday night of Peter Nagle,
by pitching him into the river, where he
was drowned.
According to returns received by the
Dominion Fisheries Department the num-
her of sealskins secured by the British
Colum ba sealing fleet in Behring Sea up
to June 10th was 1880. The skins have
been safely landed at Victoria, the owners
this year having taken the precaution to
send UP vessel early in the month for the
purpose Of collecting the catch from the
different schooners.
The Republican leaders in Maryland
have had several conferences during the
last two weeks TO select a candidate for
governor. All the factions were repre-
sented, and the nomination was unani-
mousiy offered to General Felix Agnus of
the Baltimore Americdn. General Agnus
replied that, while approaching the honor,
he could not accept Il. He said yesterday
that his decision lis final"
The Both anniversary of the first battle
of Manassas was celebrated in Charleston,
South Carolina. Tuesday, by military
demonstration and the unwilling of a
monument to the soldiers of Washington
Light Infantry who died during the war
of secession. The Grafton was delivered
by United States District Judge G. II.
Simonton, who commanded the Washing
ton Light Infantry during the war.
Senator w. IL. Ross, the leading states
man of the Cherokee Nation, died sud
denly on Monday morning, at his home
in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. He was
half breed, about 6s years of age, and
was educated ut Princeton College by his
uncle, Chief John Ross. He entered public
life at the age of %, and has held almost
every office in the gift of the Nation, from
chief down. He was Northumberland
during the war in the Confederate Army.
The heroic bronze statue of Stonewall
Jackson was unveiled in Lexington, Va,
Tuesday. The streets and building were
decorated. There was a procession, in
which the survivors of the Ston ewall
Brigade took part. General Wade Hamp-
ton presided over the ceremonies. The
Rev. DR.. A. @. Hopkins, the chaplain of
the Stonewall Brigade, offered prayer; Col.
Il. NJ. Semmes recited three poems and
General Jubal A. Early delivered an ora
ton.
A passenger train on the Philadelphia,
Harrisburg & Pitteburg railroad left the
track Tuesday near Carlisle, Pa, owing
to spreading rails, and the coaches toppled
over. IL. p. Watson, express messenger,
was caught under the cars and badly, per-
haps fatally injured. David Levan, of
Reading, solicitor of the Philadelphia
and Conductor Bumbaugh of Harrisburg,
was badly bruised in jumping out a car
window.
The agents Of the Donaldson line steamer
Gree, ashore at East Cape, Island of Anti
cost, Tuesday received dispatches which
show that the wreck is much worse than
at first supposed. Captain Jennings and
five of the crew have been drowned and
the vessel is almost a total wreck. When
the vessel STRUCK on Saturday night part of
the crew left the ship and landed at Fox
bay. Captain Jennings, with Il few of his
mon, determined to stand by the ship and
save her if possible.
United States Attorney Reynolds, at st.
Louis, has received letter from Attorney
Miller instructing him to vigor-
ously prosecute all trusts in the state Mis-
souri,, in conformity with the Antitrust
law, passed by the Fifty-first Congress.
Mr. Reynolds said on Monday he would
carry out the instructions to the letter and
begin campaign at once against the
trusts. Similar instructions have been
sent by the Attorney-general to the district
attorneys in other states,
A telegram from Goshen, Indiana, says
that there is hardly doubt now that the
Toledo & Chicago Bee Line, the new short
line from Toledo to Chicago, will be COM
pleted before snow flies. The right of way
from Toledo TO Goshen is purchased, and
the contracts for building the road the
greater part of its distance have already
been let. The projectors are the people of
The Brica-Thomas syndicate The road