Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-29
IN GENERAL.


The 2,000-ton cruiser soon to belaunched
at Baltimore has been named by Secretary
Tracy the Detroit
merchant, died on Saturday at his country
residence, in Delaware county, aged about
20 years.
Michael Hamle. who was in the county
Jail at Scranton, Pa. charged with bigamy,
committed suicide on Sunday by hanging
himself with a towel to his cell door.
Charles Cleary, who was convicted at
Lock Haven. Pa, in April last of the muir
der of Chief of Police Philip Paul, at
Remove, was Monday sentenced to be
hanged.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kan, says
that the unthreshed wheat in the western
part of Kansas is damaged from 25 to 80
per cent on account of wet weather and
poor shocking.
A dispatch from Lawrence, Mass, says
that rumor has it that Timothy Hopkins
and Mr.. Searles will meet some time this
week, and that compromise is probable
in the near future.
Thomas II. Kelley, cashier for New
Orleans wholesale dry goods firm, is
charged with having embezzled $4,000
from his employers. He is said to have
played" the lottery.
Il. X. Richardson. an ex-clerk in the
post-ofiice at Russellville, Ala, Monday,
shot and fatally wounded ex-Postmaster
II. S. Vinson. The trouble arose over an
alleged shortage In Richardson's accounts.
The Conyngham shaft, at Wilkesbarre
Pa, operated by the Delaware q Hudson
Coal Company. which was on fire for sew
eral months past, and has been flooded,
will resume operations on the LIST of next
month, giving employment TO nearly 500
men and boys.
A convention has been signed by the
acknowledgement for the establishment
of ar exchange of money orders between
the United States and the British colony
Of Trinidad and Tobago. West Indies,
which is to go into operation OH the first
OF January next.
In sequestration proceedings by Lewis
May, Judgment creditor to the extent of
Ss35S0 of the North American Under
ground Telegraph and Electric Company.
Judge o Brien, in the New York supreme
court. Monday appointed Alyah Trow-
bridge. receiver of the corporation, which
is insolvcnt.
The amount of the defalcation of the
Pittsburg school board treasurer, Doer-
finger, is now said TO be $4,000 instead of
$4,000, deficits having been found in other
accounts with which he was intrustcd. 1t
is said that Docrflinger attempted suicide
when his shortage was first discovered. but
his life was saved by the prompt work of
physicians.
A dispatch from Van Buren,. Ark. saws
that it has been discovered that ]. N,
Weaver, land agent of the Little Rock &
Fort Smith railroad, is an eInbezzler to the
extent of many thousands of dollars lie
is said to have made collections which
should have been. paid to the railroad COM
nany direct, and failed to account for
them. Weaver has disappeared.
A dispatch from Queen City, Tex. says
that Lee Green, young negro, oil Sunday
shot anu killed Mrs. Lowe, a farmers wife.
lie threw the body down well, throwing
after it her little girl aged Z years, who
was also killed. The wretch also took
Mrs. loves 4-years-old son, and after
throwing him into the well. tried to kill
him by throwing heavy objects at him,
but the boy escaped injury. Green stole
horse and fled, pursued by about 200 men,
who were determined to lynch him il they
caught him.
Postmaster-genera Wanamaker Mon
day opened proposals for supplying the
proposed increase in the ocean mail SER
vice under the act of March Sd, 1901 The
act provides. among other things, that ves-
sells employed in the service shall be
American built steamships, owned and
Differed by American citizens, and even
tually that at least one-half the crew shall
be citizens Of the United States. Bids were
requested for So different propositions on
the Atlantic and gulf coasts and 10 on the
Pacific coast. Twelve bids were received.
One Of the boilers in the electric light
plant Of the Louisville Gas Company ex-
ploded Monday afternoon with terrific
force, demolishing the shed and throwing
a mass of iron and burning Goals through
the wall of Kaufman Il Strauss retail
dry goods store, adjoining. The building
at once took fire and the flames spread to
adjacent buildings. The Courier-Jou,pal
office and the Polytechnic Library were in
imminent danger, but were ultimately
saved, much damage by water being done
in the latter building. William r.. Adams,
a fireman in the boiler house, was fatally
injured, and several of the employees in
the dry goods store were injured, solomon
Dreyfus seriously. The losses by fire and
water alone amounted to about 100000.