Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-15
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HILLS, Ut NChceS1uTl, la, were COIL
pletely destroyed by fire on Sunday, en-
failing loss of $i50,0O0.
The telegraph line between Baltimore
and Cape Henry was broken by the
wind storm, and no reports of vessels
passing in have been received since noon
on Sunday.
The total shipments of breadstuffs
from the United States for the month
of September amounted to $31 ,462, 900,
against 81, 10000 in the corresponding
month in 1890.
General Felix Agnus gave dinner in
Baltimore on Monday in honor of Sec-
retaries Foster and ltusk, and Of W. j.
Arkell, Bernard Gillian and John A.
Sieichcr of New York.
The receipts from customs at New
York during the first ten days Of Octo-
Der were $2,S94,550, decrease of
s4,5eS,396 as compared with the receipts
during the corresponding period of last
year.
The steamships Bretagne, Umbria and
Elbe, which have Just reached New
York, brought So, 10000 in gold, and
the North German Lloyd steamer Aller,
which sailed from Bremen Monday,
has on board $750,000 in gold.
The Driggs-Schroeder rapid fire gun
was tried Monday at the naval proving
grounds, at Annapolis. Thirteen seconds
elapsed between the shots. Difficulty
was again experienced in extracting the
empty cases after the shots were fired.
The Judges and officers of the United
States Supreme Court Monday paid an
official visit to President Harrison. They
were received in the blue parlor. The
President was attended by Attorney
general Miller and Solicitor-general
Taft.
The preliminary hearing of the IS
lynchers of Coe, at Omaha, Neb., was
to have been held Monday, but was
postponed until next Monday. The
prosecuting attorney has announced that
lie "will push the cases for all they are
worth"
A fire occurred in the rag and paper
warehouse of J. w. Lyons s. Co.,
Brooklyn, Monday, causing loss of
$4,000 to that and adjoining buildings.
Eight women who were at work on the
third floor, jumped out upon onc-story
extension and were all more or less
injured.
William II. Nichols and Fred ]. Parks
the former lineman and the latter an
operator, were arraigned in the city
court at New Haven, Conn, Monday,
charged with conspiracy in tapping the
race wire of the Western Union and
thus beating the local pool rooms. They
were fined $50 each.
The Pennsylvania company gives
notice that ON the 10Th instant it will
reduce the passenger rate between
Columbus, o., and Chicago from 1928
to $685.. The Hooking valley road joins
in the reduction. The Baltimore g. Ohio
road has reduced the rate between New
ark and Chicago from 5000 to $7.G5.
Maurice b. Strellinger, or Curtis, the
actor, charged with the murder of
Policeman Grant, in San Francisco, was
Monday held to answer at court by
Police Justice Rex. Only three wit
nesses were examined. One of them,
Henry Faust Gardner, said he had
worked for Strellinger and knew the
latter was in the habit of carrying a
pistol.
The fast west bound express on the
Central Pacific railroad was deliberately
derailed near Colfax, CAL, Monday
morning A sleeper rolled down an en-
bankment for so feet, the only person
seriously injured being the colored
porter. The railroad company offered a
reward of So, 900 each for the capture of
the persons implicated in the attempt to
wreck the train.
The three San Francisco morning pa
pers, the Cal, CAr0aicle and Examiner
have united in protesting against the
site selected by Secretary Foster for the
post-offlce building in that city. They
claim that the location is too far away
from the business centre for public con.
yenience; that the site selected was once
quagmire, and that the foundation fol
n building on such land would cost
nearly million dollars.
A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas
says that ID. p. Newcomer, United
States immigrantinspector, just returned
from visit to Pedras Negras, Mexico
states that there is great destitutior
among the lower classes in the states Of
Chihuahua and Durango that some Of
the people who have been given employ
ment on the railroad extension between
Tarrcon and Durango received from 81
to 30 cents day, and that hundreds Of
, the people subsist entirely on the maguay
plant.
A dispatch from Asbury Park, N. J..
! Monday, reported that heavy storm
was raging along the northern New
, Jersey coast. "a number of cuts have
, been made in the bluff at Long Branch,
} and the seas have swept over into the
5 Shrewsbury river, north of Seabright
A number of vessels are standing of
shore. The wind blows directly Oh
shore. Several big cuts have been made
by the heavy seas into the beach a
Asbury, Ocean Grove, Belmar, and al
other points south. The heavy sea!
have heavily washed the old New Jer-
sey Southern railroad tracks,"
The Supreme Court of the United
!, States met Monday for the Octobc
term. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices
Bradley and Gray were absent. Justic,
Field announced that the most i'm
portant of the cases advanced for argu
ment next Monday will be postponed
!, until the second Monday in November
This step is taken because it is dcsircC
,, that they shall be heard by a full bench
The list includes the Sayward case, the
anti-lottery cases and the cases involv
, ing the question of the constitutionallty
: of the Mckinley tariff act.
The war department has received
report in regard to the recent Indian
: troubles in the Calispel, country, Wash
] ington, from which it appears tina
( the Indians are incensed at the whit,
men because of the alleged unlaw
G full seizure of their hay land on TIN
north and cast sides of the Pen d'Orcll
river. This land has never been ac
quired by the government, and tn
r chieftan of the Indians seems convinced
flint Lis nennle are tn he driven from