Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-05

IN ENERAL.
The Pennsylvania state senate Thursday
llstended TO arguments made by Judge
Orvis and A. S. L. Shields, on the question
Of jurisdiction.
A dispatch from Anaconda, Montana.
says that in the libel suit of A. ]. Seligman
OF Helena, against the Anaconda Standard,
Tor SluO,0OO, the jury found for defend
ants.
A restaurant Keeper named Weinberger
of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, was
stabbed TO death on Wednesday week by
three drunken men, whom he had ordered
ont of his place.
g. h. Gritliths, y prominent ranchman
OF Los Angeles, Cal, was shot on Wednes-
day by Il man named Burke, who immedi-
ately committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head.
A number Of business places and dwell
lngs in Rice Lake, Wis, were destroyed BY
lire on Wednesday week, involving a loss
Of soO,oOO The fire is thought 10 have
been started by tramps.
Simonson IL Weiss, New York cloak
man manufacturers, failed on Friday, with liza
Oilltles estimated at SlS0.000. Il Is said
that judgment for S3i ,SS5, which the
firm confessed, will absorb the stock.
The Illinois State Unitarian Conference
has adopted q resolution favoring the open
ing Of the Worlds Fair OH Sunday at d re.
ullced rate of admission, but that the
machinery shall not be kept in operation.
-Four Of the sub-Alliances in Madison
county, Miss, have refused to pay their
quarterly dues, and are ready TO surrender
thelr charters on demand, being dissatis-
lied with the schemes of the general organ
izaiion.
AT a meeting of the representatives OF
the coal producing companies, in New
lork Thursday, it was decided to allow an
output OF i,OOO,OOO tons, which is practi-
cally unrestricted production. Prices were
not changed.
A Chicago dispatch says the whisky trust
Is now trying to crush out its rivals-the
independent distilleries-by sending agents
to their customers and underselins. In
this way large trade Is said to have been
diverted to the trust.
A telegram from Pittsburg saws Tint
Senator Quay Thursday retained counsel
to begin libel suits against the Pittsburg
fost and other papers throughout the state
That published the fac smile Of the Bards-
ley certificate of deposit.
Gillette, the forger, who was serving
lu-yeAr term N the stony Mountain Peni-
tertiary. Manitoba, escaped ON Wednesday
week. He is the convict to whom Burke
was alleged to have confessed the Uronin
murder While nprison in Winnipeg.
Representatives from colleges in South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia,
kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee mel
thursday to organize u Southern Monu
mental College Association for ihe pIiT-
pose. OF erecting monument to Jefferson
Davis.
A dispatch sfrom Uniontown, Pa. saws
that james Hess has mysteroilsly disap-
peared from that place. Several Italians
were seen pursuing the boy with guns in
their hands, and II is thought Hess was
and his body thrown into the
coke ovens.
Burglars on Wednesday week entered
the house Of Mrs, E. j. Dow, al Dover. n,
~ Mrs, Dow was chloroformcd in her
chamber, and the jewels which she had
Worn at wedding the previous evening
valued az $500, were taken, with securi-
ties worth 5000.
Herman Lopez and Rafael Chayiz
wealthy sheep ranchers at Council, in the
southern part of the Apache country. were
SShot ana Killed at Nobrook, New Mexico.
ny Joe e. Crawford and W, G, Bell, boys,
VINO afterwards escaped. The ARRAY rev
out Of gambling dispute in saloon.
Governor Pattison has received several
additional letters from the signers Of thc
petition respecting charges against certain
ork county officials Several Of lilo
writers said they had no evidence to IRE.
sent and one expressed the opinion that
1t was political scheme
The dispatch court of inquiry at Wash.
ington on Friday heard further testimony
to the effect that the Assateauglle l.igLt
appeared red on the night of the wreck,
ne keeper Of the relief llghtship Drift re-
luprfp1 that IN Al N
at the Winter Quarter Shoal that night
and did not 50 adrift until the Monday
following,
Senator NJ. S. Quay tclegraphed from
ieaver, Par tothe comptroller of the eur.
rcney at Washington, Friday. to knew
by whose authority the SS,s17 certificate
oil deposit in the Keystone National Bank
endorsed by John 3ardsloy and bv Mr,
quay, was delivered to the Democratic
sta li e. committee to be photographed and
A Baltimore dispatch says it is under
stood mat President Mayer, of the Balti-
more 4 Ohio Railroad Company while in
Europe recently, secured subscriptions
from English capitalists for s5.O0Ou new
q per cent stock Of the company, and the
Stockholders of the Baltimore 4 Ohio will
ne asked to rntiiy the issue Of this and alsn
OF s9oo0WO additional at their annual
iieetlnS llcNt month.
An Ottawa dispatch says that Premier
sappotl ~ thursday Informed Secretary Of
siate Ghapleau that he would accent the
latter resignation rather than Yield TO Ills
demands Mr.. Abbott sent 10 Montreal
Tor Colonel Oliniet, ex-speaker az thr
mouse 81 commons, and offered him In
position in the cabinet now held bv
thapleau. which Duimct declined until he
could confer with his friend the secretary
The schooner Leon arrived at san Fran.
cisco FRIDAY from Petropaulovski. with
b,uiO seal SKINS for the Alaska Commercial
!, ohlpally' she reports that all but SIX II
the crew Of the schooner Hamilton Lewis
CAPTURED by the Russians. were semi t1
Nladisvostoek The Russians took tbe
schooner lp Nladisvostock, and ran her
aground three times on the "trip. Tho
PRISONERS were well treated. at Nladisvus-
tork, where captain Mclean escaped
DtlA hteAy Aeriewof IF8de SAWS tint
me business failures occurring Throughout
inc country during the past seven DAYS
for the nited States 10y and for
tlnada Az or total Of 255. rs conipnred
with i total Of 30 last week, and 40 fhe
week previous TO the last. For the CORE
spending week Of last year the figures were
zls, representing w failures in the United
States and Is in the Dominion Of Canada
The Improvement in business continues
dispatch from Milwaukee SAYS, in CON
nection with the recent sudden refusal of
Judge Siebecker To try tile suit to recover
interest from ex-state Treasurer llarshaw.
mat ex-Congressman La Toilette has pub,
iished a statement declaring that senator
sawyer had offered him money ID III
linence the judge, who WAS his brother-jn.
law, in favor Of llarshaw. Senator Saw
yer denies these statements, and says his
Dtfer to La Toilette was in tha naturc of y
and was made before he was
aware that Judge Siebccker was his