Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-19
I'M GENERAL.

A store occupied by s. & f. Meyers and
padgett's furniture store, at Augusta, Ga,
were destroyed by fire Nov. 18th, involv-
ing a total loss Of S125000.
C, b. Paul. Wholesale lumber dealer, of
Louisville. made an assignment on Tues
day. Liabilities, 100000; assets, $780, 900.
During October 32,946 pensions of all
classes were granted the first payments on
which aggregated Si,35S,6 sos, or Sl32.30 to
each pensioner.
The Touring mill and elevators of
McMannes Il Arnold, at Findlay, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire on Tuesday week,
causing a loss of $4,000.
The Fashion Varieties and three or four
adjoining buildings, at San Antonio,
Texas, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday
week, causing loss of $4,000.
dug White of Mason, village near
Memphis, Tenn, on Tuesday week cut his
wife's throat and laid her body on n rail-
road track, where passing train cut it in
two.
The commissioner of patents said last
day, in reply to an inquiry, that he had
taken no action whatever in any case that
could, so far as he knew, result in the
extension Of the life of the Bell telephone
patents.
1t is reported from Ottawa that agents of
the Dominion government intend to visit
Kansas, Dakota, Nebraska Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan, to induce the
farmers to locate in Manitoba and the
northwest
The 65tn annual report Of the Baltimore
Il Ohio railroad shows that for the year
ending September 3Uth. the gross earnings
were $25, 40, 2T2.05 and the balance, after
die payment of operating expenses, inter
est, dividends, &c, 81, 20,6l6,76.
The superintendent of the department
issued an order closing the Erie, Cham
plain Black River. 0swego, Cayuga and
Seneca canals, for the winter, at midnight
of November .;0th unless they are sooner
closed by ice.
In the United States Supreme Court at
Washington, Nov. 18th, the case growing
out of the seizure of the American
schooner Sylvia Handy for seal poaching
in Behring Sea was argued, the owners Of
the. vessel claiming that the United States
had no jurisdiction
Henry Higgins and Joseph Eveland have
been arrested at Hazletpn, Pa, on the
charge of having murdered John and vii
liam kesler, at Wilkesbarre, on October
10Th, 1885. The men are accused by Il
woman with whom they quarrelcd in d
Collections are being made in all the col
ored churches of Charleston, =. Ito procure
counsel to defend the 10 negroes who were
convicted Of murder in Lalirens county in
September last and sentenced to be hanged.
The governor has respited the men, and
movement is now being made TO get a new
trial.
The grand jury at San Francisco on
Nov, 10, indicted Christopher Buckley, the
political boss, now in Montreal. and
Samuel Rainey, superintendent of engines.
on the charge that they received $4,000
Tor trying to Influence a former board of
supervisors regarding the passage Of Ger
tain measures
The California National Bank, at San
Diego. did not open its doors Thursday, Il
notice being posted saying that owing to
the continued shrinkage in deposits and
our inability promptly to realize on notes
and accounts, the bank is temporarily
closed" Il is thought all the dcpositors
will be paid in full.
Official returns of the recent election in
Pennsylvania have been received from all
the counties by the state department at
Harrisburg. The last return. that from
Venango, was received November H. The
f.ootlngs show the following figures: Gregg,
4l4,5s3; Wright, 356.13l; Hague, 1910;
Morrison, AZ, SOL; Tilden, 35s,6i7; Dray-
ton, 1920. For the convention, 1883;
against, 42D,59S.
The United States and Brazil steamer
Alliance, which arrived at New York Thurs
day from Santos, reported that she had
lost her surgeon and three of the crew by
yellow fever on the voyage. The quaran-
tine physician decided that the disease was
malarial fever and allowed the vessel to
proceed TO the city.
suit is pending in the United States
circuit court at Birmingham, Ala, to re-
cover for the government possession of
10000 acres Of land grant Of the Tennessee
and Coosa Valley railroad. The land is
between Gadsden and Guntersylle, and
was appropriated by the railroad before
its line was completed.
The post-oilice at Highwood, in the town
OF Hamden, Connecticut, was entered by
burglars Nov 18th. They blew open the
safe with charge Of giant powder, which
almost completely wrecked the building
and shattered neighboring windows, and
then robbed the safe of $500 in money and
stamps and two gold watches.
Robert n. West. John Stagc and Ferd.
hlaack, life convlcts, made their escape
from the Wisconsin State Pcnitentiary, 1T
Wanpau, Nov. 18th, through tunnel dug
under the buildings and into the street,
that must have taken years to dig, as it
passed through several walls Of stone.
West has been i'll prison o. years.
The Pennsylvania Worlds Faircommis-
sion, at Harrisburg, Thursday defeated a
motion favoring the closing Of the fair on
Sunday, and referred the question to the
executive committee. Twenty-seven plans
for the state building at Chicago were sub
mitted and referred to the executive com
mittee for examination and report.
Lee 1Ietin and George Dye have been
arrested at Calverton, Virginia, on the
charge OF having murdered Mrs. Hines
and her three children. whose bodies were
found in their burning house on Tuesday
morning. HELM. seeing the house in
| flames, went some distance to neighbor'
| TO give the alarm, instead Of going to tue
burning house"
1t was said at the White House, last
| day, that it is not at all likely that the
| President will make any important ap.
pointments before the meeting of Con
gross, The offices to be filled include those
of secretary of war, third assistant secro
| tary OF state, circuit court Justices inter
state commerce commissioners, judge Of
| the court of claims and ministers to Chine
and Japan.
| In the Allegheny Presbytery, at Pitts
burg, last week, resolutions were adopted
deprecating any revision Of the creed, and
protesting particularly against the revision
Of the third chapter Of the Confession
because it is calculated to weaken til,
doctrine of Gods. sovereignty i'll prefer
ition.n A suggestion was also made tina
the confessional phraseology as to til,
Roman Catholic church be modified.
While boys were playing in the wood
at Pine Ridge, four miles from Wilkes
barre, a day or two ago, they found
satchel containg $500. Detectives thinl
that this money is part of the Red Nos
Nike plumber after the Mcclure. Flanagan
murder. 1t was found partially I'm
covered short distance from the roadwa,
and near the scene of the murder of Til,
i paymaster and his assistant.
The case of G. NJ. Bell, photographs
of Washington, againt the Henderson
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