Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-05
IN GENEH.lL.

train and killed.
John p. Jones was reelected United
States senator for a fourth term by the
legislature of Nevada on Thursday. He
received 81 out of go votes.
w. r. Collins, city editor of the Wash
ington Euening Star, died Thursday,
aged SO years. He had been member
of the staff of the Star for 81 years.
The engines of the gunboat Concord
developed 3.404.529 horse power on her
recent trial trip, or 4,529 horse power in
excess of her contract requirements.
Charles Macgregor, a clerk in the cen
sus office in Washington, was found
dead in his room yesterday week,
having been asphyxiated by escaping
gas.
After some months Of short hours the
Pennsylvania Railroad shops in Al
toona, Pa, are again being run on full
time. Two thousand men are bene-
flied.
The striking lasters at Kimball Bros
shoe factory, in East Manchester, N, H.,
have agreed to renounce allegiance to
the Lasters' Union and will return to
work.
The strike at the Wamsltta mills, in
New Bedford, Mass, has been settled,
the mill manager agreeing to take the
men back on the old schedule of work
ing hours.
Alfred Rowland was killed and James
Rowland and Wesley Rutt were fatally
injured yesterday week by a premature
blastiof dynamite in the state quarries at
Bangor, Penna.
w. Fl. Buttner and w. d. Hughes,
convicted in New York of forging
divorce papers, were sentenced Friday.
Hughes to five years imprisonment and
Buttner to seven.
Six blocks of buildings in Cygnet, o.,
were burned On Friday. p. Maloney,
Frank Satterlee and Gertrude Satterlee
persisted in the flames. The loss is about
100000, with no insurance.
The State National Bank of Atchison,
Kansas, closed its doors yesterday
week, and will go into voluntary
liquidation. The bank was organized
in 1867 with capital of $250,000
b, z. Huntington denies the statement
that he lost large amount of money in
the New York Star He says his in
terest in the paper was always small,
and he could not have lost over $4,000
altogether.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has in
formed tobacco firm that all tobacco
imported since the act of October LIST,
1890, took effect will be subject to duty
upon its weight at the time of with
drawal for consumption.
About two months ago b. II. Camp
bell, ex-United States Marshal for the
Chicago district, while suffering with
an attack of pneumonia, left his house
in the night and disappeared. Yester-
day week his body was found in a river.
The directors of the New York, Chi
cago and st. Louis Railroad, generally
known as the Nickel Plate, last week
declared a dividend of 81 per cent. on
the first preferred stock. This is the
first dividend ever declared by the
company.
Work has been stopped at the blast
furnace, ore banks and Quarters Of the
Bellefonte Furnace Company, at Belle
fonte, Penna., owing, it is said, to re-
cent increase in freight tariffs. 1t
throws nearly six hundred and fifty
men out of employment.
AT Cascade, Va, on Tuesday week,
Harden and Lee Eaves, brothers, and
Thomas ID. Matthews gotnto drunken
quarrel,i in which knives and pistols were
used. Matthews and Harden caves were
MORALLY wounded. Lee caves had Just
finished six months term in jail for
stabbing
A large straw bleach in mill at Rock
Falls, Illinois, blew up on Tuesday
week, killing John and severely iniur-
ing George thinner, John Fidas and
Henry Page. Three other workmcn,
supposed TO be in the mill-Oliver Mil
Ter, Henry PATHS and VIM. Bell-are
missing,
The members Of the assigned banking
company of Dolamater s. Co, and Vic.
tor M. Delamater, cashier, were again
arrested in Meadville, Pa, on Friday, at
the instance of f. w. Witer, a depositor
to the amount of $615. The charge was
embezzlement, under the provisions of
the act of May 9th, 1887.
AtMontrose, Pa, on Friday, Philander
Brown was sentenced to Imprisonment
for one year and six months, and his
wife, Olivia. to one year and three
months, for swindling Paul Hall out of
several thousand dollars, on a plea that
Mrs. Hall wanted the money for use in
heaven. They were refused new trial.
Charles Miller, who murdered two
boys named Fishbaugh and Emerson in
freight car while they We're on their
way from st. Joseph to Denver, was
last week sentenced in Cheyenne, Wyo- |
ming, to be hanged on March goth next.
Miller is Is years old. He did not ex-
hibit the slightest trace of emotion when
sentence was passed upon him.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Spree, which sailed from New York last
week for Bremen, was Schuyler Ham,
ilton, DR., a brother of Robert Ray Ham
ilton. He goes to Paris under commits. |
sion from Surrogate Ransom to obtain |
from James O. Green deposition and |
documents to prove the death of Robert |
Ray Hamilton. He will return within |
three weeks.
No bodies have been recovered from
the Mammoth Mine, near Mount Pleas
ant, Pa, since Wednesday week. 1t is
believed that several bodies are vet in |
the mine covered by the debris, but how
many no one can know until the mine |
has been cleaned out About so men |
are engaged at this work, which will
occupy several days
A freight train on the Pittsburr, Gin
cinnati 81 ST. Louis railroad on Friday
ran into large rock which had fallen |
on the track at the end of Cork Run
tunnel near Pittsburg. The engine and
three cars were wrecked. A. T. Gray,
D. O. Mahon and Oscar Although, train
hands, were hurt, the first named prob
ably fatally.
A fire started in the Chapman mine,
at Iron Mountain, Michigan, on Thurs