Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-01

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rapidly.
The coal sales agent met in New York
Tuesday and decided to restrict produce
tlons for the month of Janury to $780,
900 tons, but prices were left Unchanged.
Luke Herman, 6S years Of age, re-
tired business man, fell through the sky.
light from the fifth TO the first floor Of
the Carrolton Hotel, in Baltimore, on
Monday, and was killed.
An ice train was wrecked at Las
Vegas, N. NJ, on Monday night, by
running into an open switch. A. X.
Nones was killed and brakeman
named Garrett was slightly injured.
The roof of the brewery Of Herman
Koehler, in New York, fell in Tuesday,
burying number of workmen. Twelve
We're injured, James Durneau and
Lewis Weber fatally. The building
was in course of reconstruction.
The Nicholas Chemical Company was
incorporated at Albany, New York,
Tuesday, with capital of $2,000,000.
The company is formed to manufacture
sulphuric acid, muriatic acid, nitric
acid, acetic acid and other such chem
icals.
AT Tucson, Arizona, early Tuesday
morning, Tax Collector Snyder was at
tackled in his office by two masked bur
glars, who robbed him Of $4,000. He re-
ccived flesh wound from bullet, and
fired twice at his assailants, but they
escaped.
John Zimmerman, Democratic state
senator, died suddenly of heart disease
in Columbus, o., on Monday night. His
death leaves the Democrats without d
majority in the senate, and no partisan
legislation can be enacted until his sue
Cessor is elected.
The Washington train on the Balti-
more & Ohio road, which left Baltimore
at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, ran into
the rear of the Washington express at
Annapolis junction, where it was wait
ing for another train ahead. Fireman
Coursey was slightly injured,
Mrs Jcrndt, the aunt of Frank Braun,
who was found dead in his saloon in,
Chicago on Saturday last, made a con-
fession Tuesday, admitting that she
fired the shot that killed him. She says
they quarrclled over money matters;
that he attacked her and that she shot
him in self-defence.
Granite Hall, in Augusta, Maine, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday. The third
floor was used for entertainments, the
second by the city government and
Weeks q Blanchard, and the first by @.
X. Partridge, drugs, and II. A. Hall ~
CO., groceries. Total loss, about $4,000.
Daniel Curran died in Lima, Ohio,
early Tuesday morning. II is said that
he was 103 years old. He was in fun,
possession of his faculties till the last
He leaves a brother in Bellefontaine,
who is 100 years old. He was born in
Ireland, but had lived in this country rs
years.
Schedules in the assignment of Call
hron, Chauncey & Co, brokers, in New
York, filed Tuesday, show liabilities,
5000, la; nominal assets, S710,223, and
actual assets, $4,000. The difference
between the nominal and actual assets
is due to depreciation in the value of se-
burities and worthless accounts.
Matthew Gillespie was shot four times
Snd fatally wounded by John Hughes,
in Delemite, Alabama, on Monday.
After he fell a pistol was placed in Gil
lespie's hand by a friend and he shot
Hughes three times, but the extent Of
the latter's injuries are not known.
Hughes and Gillespie had been visiting
the same young lady.
Washington Sample, an old man, was
found dead in his home, near Grace
ham, Maryland, Tuesday. A coroner's
investigation disclosed the fact that
sample was preparing his gun for
hunt, when the weapon accidentally ex-
ploded, tearing his hand of. Being
alone, and fearing the misery of bleed.
ing to death, he seized razor and cut
his throat
Alta conference Of the officials of the
Amalgamated Association and Car
negie, Phipps II Co., of the Homestead
steel works, in Pittsburg Tuesday, the
selling price of billets for the ensuing
three months was fixed at S27 per ton.
Under the sliding scale adopted two
years ago, this will reduce the wages Of
the 1000 employees of the Homestead
mills over 10 per cent.
AT a meeting of the furnace owners
of the Shenango and Mahoning valleys.
at Youngstown, o., on Tuesday, it was
unanimously decided to shut down the
go blast furnaces in that district on Jam
uary 10th and not resume operations
again until the railroads and coke opera
tors concede their demands for lower
freight rates and reduction in the
price of coke. Nearly 10000 men will
be thrown out of employment by the
shutdown.
The contractors at the government
stamped envelope agency, in Hartford,
Conn, recently discovered that stamped
envelopes were being sold in Hartford
below the regular price, and inquiry de-
yeloped the fact that they had been
stolen over two years ago by one Fay,
who, up to that time, was watchman
employed by the contractors. Over
10000 stamped envelopes have already
been found that were sold by Fay, and
that the government contractors "a.
knowledge the liability, and will indem-
nifty the government against loss.
Meyer Weiss, aged IA wears. was
fatally stabbed by Daniel Jordan ared
ID, in New York, Tuesday. They are
both newsboys. Jordan had stolen !
bundle Of papers from l0.years-olI
newsboy, and Weiss was one 81 ,hebHgs
who tried to get the papers hack arain
Jordan plunged the knife 70 I'LL Iandle
int, Weiss side. The other huys seizoi
Jordan and marched Inn, a prisoner,
across Printing House Square, 10 citg
hall police station, compellirg HE Ind ~
hold the bloody knife in his land tle