Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-22
I'm GENERAL.

at White Plains, N. Y.
i. M. Van Tass.l's grain elevator in
New York was burned yesterday week
morning. Loss, 100000.
The fractional fight which almost de.
stroyed the large Polish church in Mt
Carmel, Pa, has broken out anew.
The 10 architects recently selected by
the directors of the Worlds Fair are to
receive $4,000 each and expenses.
John w. Root, consulting architect OF
the Worlds Fair, died in Chicago Thurs
day night, of pneumonia, after short
ILLNESS.
A. @. Petrie g. Co., wholesale dealers
in lumber, in Dallas, Texas, made an
assignment Friday. Liabilities $780,
0N0 assets $240,000.
John Johnson, negro, under 18 years
of age, was hanged at Opelika, Ala, on
Friday, for killing an officer who was at
tempting to arrest him.
The Massachusetts house of repre-
sentatives Friday adopted resolutions
protesting against the passage OF the
Free Silver Coinage bill.
There was a fall of rock in the Ever
hart Mine,near Wilkesbarre, Pa, Thurs
Dewelly were fatally injured.
The telegraph operators on the line of
the Nickel Plate road between Chicago
and Cleveland have been granted an adj
vance in wages of So per month.
The post-otfice at Key West, Florida,
was robbed yesterday morning week
The thieves secured $4,000 in money
stamps, and the contents of % registered
letters.
John r. Goble, collector of tax arrears
in Newark, N j., has been missing for
about a week, and it is reported that
there is a shortage of $4,000 in his
accounts.
The Postmaster. general after an inyes-
tigation made by post-ofiice inspectors
of the trouble at Catharine, Ala, has
issued an order abolishing the post-office
at that place.
While walking on the railroad track
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on FRIDAY George
Komiski, aged 50 years, and George
Gottschald, aged %, were struck and
killed by a train.
There were three earthquakes at Parrel
in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, on
Thursday. A gallery in the Convent of
persons and injurng nine.
The schooner William d. Daisley of
Gloucester, Mass, has been given up
for lost, with all on board, She sailed for
Fortune bay, November gath, and has
not been heard from since.
Frank P. Demarest, an assemblyman
from Rockland county, New York,
was arrested in Nyack on Friday morn
ing, charged with Incorporating
money and forging endorsements on
checks.
Levi Beebe of Lee, Massachusetts, who
predicted the blizzard of March, 1888,
four months prior to that date, says the
worst storm of the season will visit this
country between the LIST and 18th of
February.
Attorney General Miller has given an
opinion, at the request of Secretary
Window, holding that it was not in
tended by Congress that bounties should
be demandable on sugars produced
prior to the first day Of July next.
A receiver was Friday appointed
for the Riley-Osborn Manufacturing
Company, at Newark, New Jersey.
Liabilities 100000; assets, less than
half that sum. The company employs
| 600 persons in the manufacture of fancy
metal goods.
Mrs. Lillian Owen, Of Sol Smith
| Russells Company, who was Journey
ing eastward from San Francisco to wed
Charles Kent, of Stewart Robson's Com
pany, died in Chicago on Friday of
pneumonia, after a short illness. She
was "a years old.
Eighty-five weavers in the Clay 81
Groocock mill at Paterson, New Jersey,
have struck against reduction of ~
per cent in their wages on satin gros
grain goods, A similar reduction for
that class of goods have been accepted
by the weavers Of the Needing mills.
Representative Henderson of Iowa
Thursday sprained his right ankle as he
stepped from his carriage on reaching
the Capitol at Washington. He tainted
away in his committee room while
awaiting removal to his home Mr..
Henderson lost his left foot in the war.
The Richmond Locomotive and Ma
chine Works, in Richmond, Va, were
partially destroyed by fire last week.
The property destroyed included the
armament of the battle ship Texas, now
under construction at the Gosport navy
yard. The loss is estimated at 1925, 900,
fully insured. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
The will of Captain John Ericsson,
the inventor of the Monitor, made
specific requests of S125,000, but as the
estate amounts to only 100000, the eX-
ecutors have begun suit in the surro-
gates court in New York to construe
the will and decide if any of the lega-
cies have preference.
John G. Hall of San Francisco, trustee
of the estates of John IIawley and Marvin
4 A. Baldwin, deceased, has confessed to
the embezzlement of sums aggregating
about $150,000 by dealing in stocks. 1t
is stated that the IIawley and Baldwin
estates are involved to the extent of
$4,000 each. The French Savings and
Loan Society was victimized to the ex-
tent of $12,0 900.
A dispatch from Lancaster, Pa, says
that Phares S. Stroll of Akron, was ar
rested last evening week on a charge of
murder. Annie f. McCloud died Mon
day week from the effects of dose of
poison, and the charge is that Stroll,
who was erlover, and had seduced her,
furnished her with thunder the pretence
that it was drug to remove evidence of
her downfall.
Charles l. Heinberg, dealer in Ameri-
can wines in New York, was held on
Thursday in 81 900 bail on,the charge of
q violation of trade marks. The com
plainants were Graef g. Co., wine i'm
porters, agents for Pomery s. Greno,
and they charge him with putting the
labels of Pomery Sec bottles on Ameris
can champagne bottles and selling the
latter as imported wines.
A decision has been rendered by Judge
Nelson in the United States circuit
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