Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-23

The village of Roundhead, Hardin
county, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
Samuel G. Upper, a prominent in,
surance man of Charleston, s. O., died
on Saturday, aged IA years.
Assistant Secretary Bussey last week
made an investigation of matters at the
Pine Ridge agency.
Several business houses and two
dwellings in Gosport, Indiana, were
burned on Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
Adam Allison, banker and grain
buyer of Belmont, Ontario, is reported
to have absconded, leaving nearly
$4,000 in debts.
Col John Polk Pryor, near relative
of President Polk, and soldier of the
Confederate army, died at Frankfort,
KY, on Friday night.
The Burlington Air Ship Company,
incorporated at Burlington, Ia, two
months ago, with capital of $780,
100000, dissolved last Friday. Little
or no stock could be sold"
The citizens of Washington, D. c.,
have raised guarantee fund of $4,000
for the G.. A. r.. encampment In 1893.
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sent the claims of Washington.
Roland B. Hill, Boston newspaper
man and the son of United States Sena-
tor Hill of Georgia, has been taken into
custody by the New York police, who
fear that his mind is unbalanced.
DIR. Charles e. Shoemaker of Read
ing, Pa, a well-known specialist in
aural surgery, died on Saturday, at the
age of IS years, from the effects of =
recent fall, which caused conclusion Of
the brain.
Ex-senator ingalls,, of Kansas, is re-
ported to be going with an autumn
party for tour through Europe as far
as Greece, and to the Holy Land and
Egypt. The trip will consume about
three months.
Nat K. Jones, son of United States
Senator Jones of Arkansas, was shot
and fatally wounded in Washington,
Arkansas, on Saturday, by J. F. Shep-
ley, school teacher, with whom he
had a quarrel.
JEFF. Gilbert and Mrs. Smith were
found dead in the latter's house, in
Carthage, Mo-, on Friday night. 1t is
supposed that Gilbert first shot the
woman and then killed himself, being
instigated by jealousy.
During a fight between negroes on
the Captain Fred. Broll plantation, west
of West Point, Miss, on Saturday night,
hoes were used as weapons. A woman,
two men and boy were badly hurt,
two, it is thought, fatally.
Martin B. Waller, son of ex-Gov-
ernor Waller of Connecticut, secretary
| &c TnI n,-sA
Company, at Greenport, L. l., has been
missing for several days and is reported
to be short in his accounts.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared an 18th dividend, 10 per cent,
| in favor of the creditors of the Marine
National Bank of New York city. This
makes in all 80 per cent of claims
proved, amounting to $4,492, 1872.
Representative Boutelle's telegramto
the Secretary of the Treasury in regard
to the seizure of seven American fishing
boats last Thursday near Eastport, Me-,
by the Canadian steamer Dream, has
been referred to the department of state
for action.
WorlSmen engaged in excavating a
cellar in New York on Saturday dis
covered 90 skeletons. From the position
of the remains (all found in n space by
feet it is surmised that pauper bury.
ing ground may have once existed at
that place.
While screwing on the cover of a
coffin, in which reposed what was sup
posed to be the lifeless form Of an in
FAINT child, in Paterson, New Jersey,
the undertaken discovered the child to
he alive The child belongs to John
Deruyters, and was taken ill few days
ago.
The steamship Etherby was loaded at
Galveston, Texas, on Saturday, with
$3.50 bushels of Texas wheat. This is
the beginning of what is expected to be
in the near future a great export bust
ness, gathering grain not only from
Texas, but from Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and other western states,
Z. It. Mason & Co., of New York, on
Saturday entered an appeal in the
United States circuit court against the
imposition of duty of IA cents per
square foot and 30 per cent ad valorem
on jute carpetings imported by them.
They claim that the Mckinley act
under which the duty was imposed, is
unconstitutional in that the bills was
not passed in the manner and form pro-
vided for in the constitution, and was
net signed by the President