Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-15
I'M GENERAL.

a SnerlH jury III New loih JoeeSi |
day week declared Geo.M. Storrs, sonhof
the late Emory A. Storrs of Chicago, a
lunatic.
Albert S. Sakers was killed in Wash
ington, d. G., last week, by having his
head caught between a moving elevator
and door.
Receivers have been appointed for the
Laredo Improvement Company of
Laredo, Texas. The liabilities are
$355,000, and the assets $395,o00.
The President yesterday week named
Horace G. Pugh of Indiana, to be consul |
at Palermo, and William M. Mcknight |
to be postmaster at Chambersburg, Pa.
The schedules of Hamilton & Bishop,
stock brokers in New York, filed last
week, show liabilities, $4,000; nom
inal assets, $290,0o0, and actual assets,
$31 900.
Policeman William Smith of New
York, beat his wife so badly on January
I'd that she died on Friday from her
injuries. Smith has been arrested on
the charge of murder.
Isaac McCutcheon, who was injured
by the fall of scaffold in Lancaster,
Pa, on Thursday, died on Friday, max
ing lut SbCDHu NlClllls 1 W. OVllOAo uAS
in critical condition.
Mark Thompson Lascelles, chief off
Ger of the British steamship Wakefield,
was killed by falling down the hold of
that vessel at Baltimore yesterday week,
He was 80 years of age.
Mrs, Peters and her daughter were
murdered and robbed in Cordele, Ca,
on last night week and their dwelling
set on fire. The murderers were seen
running away from the house.
Daniel Arquimbau, wealthy fruit i'm
porter, committed suicide at his home in
Brooklyn, N. y, Friday, by blowing
his brains out. For some Time past he
had suffered from melancholia.
An express train went through a
trestle near Stepstone, KY, on Tuesday
night week. Engineer E. A. Hilburn and
Edward Mcneil were killed. None of
passengers were hurt.
About $50 girls employed in the J.
X. Pine factory of the United Shirt and
Collar Company, in Troy, N. Y, have
quit work. owing to dissatisfaction with
a new schedule of rates.
| A fire in Cairo, Ill, yesterday week
| destroyed the New York store, New
York Dry Goods Company's store and
two frame buildings. Loss, 100000;
insurance about S75,000
Charles H. Reese, well-known
wholesale oyster dealer in Lancaster,
Pa, committed suicide on Friday. He
cut his throat and stabbed himself in
the left breast nine times. No cause is
given.
The Lawrence homestead, situated on
the outskirts of Morgan City, Louisiana,
was burned on Thursday. w. T. Car
rington, ex-collector of that port, &C.
cupied the house, and persisted in the
flames.
w. P. Hughes and William Buttner,
the bogus divorce lawyers, were in
dicted in New York yesterday week by
the grand jury. Hughes was indicted for
forgery and Buttner for forgery and
grand larceny.
Two shocks of earthquake were ex-
perienced in Rusk, Texas, at midnight,
last night week. Several chimneys were
levelled with the earth and sleepers in
various portions of the town were
shaken into wakefulness.
The gross earnings of the New York
| Central g. Hudson River Railroad Com
pany and its leased lines for December
were: $3,094,955; increase, 100000.
For the six months ended December
31st, $1S,527 900; decrease, $75O,0OO.
The officials of the Pennsylvania com
pany controlling the lines west of Pitts
burg have decided to reduce the price
on 1,000-mile tickets from $25 to $50.
The reduction went into effect on Sat
urday last, when the new 1,000-mile
tickets will be placed on sale.
An Englishman named Wadsworth,
who was stopping with a man named
Hardy, in Wallaceburg, Ont, has mys-
teriously disappeared. He is said 20
have had with him $4,000, with which
he intended to buy farm. Hardy denies
all knowledge of his whereabouts.
In the stock yards district in Chicago
Yesterday week two masked men entered
the saloon of James f. Murphy and tor
tured the proprietor into revealing to
them the combination of the safe. That
secured, they took $500, and left
| Murphy bound hand and foot and tied
to post. Murphy recently fell heir to
| $4,000, and the robbers evidently hoped
to get it.
Two Italian saloon keepers IN Chicago
| Tuesday night week. About $50 Italians,
| of both sexes, " ere present. Two men
| quarreled, and in short time a general
| fight was in progress, and was only
stopped by the arrival of wagon load
Of policemen About 90 of the com
batants received dangerous cuts and
| wounds.
Three towns have quarantined against
| San Antonio, Texas, on account of
smallpox. Agents there do not sell
tickets to San Marcos, on the Inter
national & Great Northern road, and
Luling and Flatona, on the South
| Pacific, unless health certificate is
shown, and no one from San Antonio is
allowed to get off at those places with
out showing certificate.
| During religious meeting at West
Fork, Ind, Sunday night week, a riot &C.
CURED among the adherents of three
large families. Pistols, knives, stones
and clubs were used, and five men are
now lying at the point of death while
others are seriously injured. Those con-
sidered in critical condition are Will
liam Law, William Wiseman, John
Wiseman, Robert Baggerty and Edward
| Jones.
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kansas,
says that l.. d. Corse, agent Of the Alli-
ance exchange in that city, is short
| $4,000 in his accounts. Corse claims
that the losses were due to the fact that
shipments We're made to unreliable
| firms. The products were sold in Chi
cago and Denver, but the commission
merchants failed to remit. A committee
hoe boen annointnd by the A lliance to