Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
IN GENERAL.

in 1911.
Henry Bristow has been nominated
by the Republicans of Brooklyn for
congress, from the Second New York
district, against Mayor Chaplin.
Mrs. Ann a. Dodge, an inmate of the
poorhouse at Butte, Montana, and 80
years of age, received notice Sunday
that she is heir to an estate worth
$6,000,000, in England
The property Of Clapp Spooner, ex-
ce-presldent of the Adams Express
Company, at Bridgeport, Conn, was
attached on Friday in suit for $750,0OO
brought by the express company.
The district court at Omaha, Neb., on
Saturday declared the eight-hour law
constitutional. This was test case
made by the Central Labor Union, and
an appeal will be taken from the decision.
f. M. Taylor of Illinois, who was re-
ported to be hostile to the commissioner
Of pensions, on Saturday resigned his
position as special examiner in the pen
sion Office, and his resignation was ac-
cepted by the secretary of the interior.
A telephone message to Nashville,
from Columbia, Tennessee, on Satur-
day, reported that the Columbia Bank
ing Company, capital 100000, and the
Bank of Columbia, capital 100000, have
both made assignments, sowing to in
ability to collect"
Frank b. Upton, proprietor of a job
printing house in Altoona, Pa, went
several days ago ON collecting tour
On Friday night the mutilated body was
found on the railroad near South Fork
AS his satchel and money were missing,
il is believed he was murdered.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, IN his annual
report, recommends "that the national
guard of the country be mobilized or
assembled at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition in 1893, and that congress
be requested to make an appropriation
to pay the cost of transportation.
Governor Steele of Oklahoma terri
tory, announced at Guthrie on Saturday
that two weeks ago he had offered his
resignation to the President, and that he
had just received from Washington an
acceptance of his resignation. The
cause of Steele's action is not stated.
The Kansas Republican central COM
mittee and the Farmer Alliance have
arranged for joint debates between
Senator Pfeffer and j. Il. Burton at six
points in Kansas. All of the planks Of
the Peoples party platform will be dis
cussed. The first discussion will be
held in Topeka, October 2lst.
Eight prisoners in the Bowie county,
Texas, Jail broke the wooden wall, on
Saturday night, and escaped. Among
them were two self confessed murderers.
One Of the prisoners walked to Tex
arkana, Arkansas, a distance of 20 miles,
surrendered himself and notified the
sheriff Of the escape of the others.
Assistant Secretary Solely on Saturday
night received telegram from Captain
Schley, commanding the cruiser Balti-
more, at Valparaiso, saying that boat
swain's mate was killed and six sailors
Of the Baltimore were injured during a
street fight in Valparaiso, on Friday
afternoon, and that he was investigating
the affair.
Albert Kohls, aged 16 years, of Mil
waukee, confessed Sunday to the
murder, on October 7th, of Annie
Kodatz, a 15-year-old weak minded girl,
upon whose fathers farm Kohls worked.
He had tried to poison the whole family
in order to get rid Of the girl, and,
failing in that, killed her with ham
mer and hid her body in the barn.
A dispatch from Waco, Tex, says
that the protracted struggle between
Gurley, Ross g. Gurley, the contractors
and the San Antonio Il Arkansas Pass
railway receivers has ended at last. "a
compromise has been reached and the
short gap will be built up. This will
make the route from st. Louis to the
City Of Mexico about 10 hours shorter
The President on Saturday visited the
navy yard at Washington for the pur-
pose Of witnessing the hydraulic mount
ing OF one of the 12-inch guns intended
for the Monterey, and the largest gun
ever made for the United States navy
He also inspected the new hot blast
furnace for heating jackets and hoops
which is being constructed in the
shrinking pit of the gun shop.
The President of the Italian Chamber
of Commerce at New York Sunday
received a cablegram from the Italian
cabinet ministry at Rome stating that i
had unanimously decided to abolish the
decree against American pork A Wash
ington dispatch Sunday said that 9Th,
state department had not as yet received
any information regarding the reported
removal by the Italian government o.
the prohibition"
DR.. William B. Meany has gone tx
| Chicago as the representative of a Lon
don and South American syndicate, ant
ii is said his mission to Chicago is tt
arrange for the opening of an Anglo
American bank, with offices in Londo1
and Chicago. The capital stock is to b.
\ S5,000,000. Among the tinanciers wht
are said to be interested are EIastu
Wiman and Charles |. Hutchinson, sol
Of the great wheat Spectator.
At noon on Saturday Charles Bowen
Charles Engle, Wallace Snow and ii. II
HOLSTER robbed the Spencer pay office
at Dunmore, Pa, of several sacks con
tanning $500, in 81 silver coins. III,
| police had been advised of the intended
robbery and followed the robbers to tn,
barn of Engle and caught them dividing
the spoils. Snow made a confession il
writing. Hollister, it appears, is an ole
criminal, and he is charged with having
planned the robbery. II was supposed
that the sacks contained over $4,000
but the gold had been removed and con
cealed and the silver substituted.
The ship-building firm of Harrison
Loring s. Company, proprietors of tn,
City Point Works, Boston, made an as
signment on Saturday. The liabilities
are stated by Mr.. Loring to be $375, 900
while the assets are nominally put a
100000, which includes every dollar
worth Of personal property owned by
the individual members Of the firm
although the amount is generally be
licved to be somewhat exaggerated
The firm is building United States stee
armored cruiser No. II for the govern