Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-03
IN GBSERAL.

IN GBSERAL.
General Butler is reported to be seriously
| i'll ut his home in Lowell, Mass.
The Presbyterian Church at Galesburg,
ILL.,; was destroyed by fire Monday, in
volving loss of $4,000.
A large portion of the business part of
Tracy, MINI, was destroyed by fire on
| Sunday, including every hotel in the
| place.
Josiah Carpenter who died in Preston
county, W. Va, on Sunday, claimed to be
l59 years old. He left a daughter who is
over 80 years old.
Applications for hotel rooms at Mime
apolis are already being received for the
| timeduring which the Republican national
convention will be in session.
Indian Agent Bennett Monday began
payment to the Delaware Indians of Okla
homa Of $4,000. Every man, woman
and child in the tribe receives $50.
Three large business houses of Morris
town, Tennessee, were burned on Sunday,
another was torn down, and q fifth was
crushed by falling wall; loss $4,000.
The car sheds Of the Union Street Rail-
road Company of st. Joseph, Missouri,
were burned on Monday, together with
70 electric motor cars. The loss will reach
$4,000.
The main building and several smaller
structures of the Streight University for
colored people, at New Orleans, were de-
stroyed by fire Monday, involving loss
of $4,000.
Two Roman Catholic priests of the town
of Notts, Mesopotainia, who have been
collecting money for mission purposes,
We're robbed in Dayton, Ohio, Monday,
of $500 in gold.
A fire occurred at the plant of the Arc
Light and Power Company, in Chicago,
Monday night, causing loss of $3.50, 900.
Damage was also sustained by the Ex-
celsior Cork-cutting Company.
The Rev. James Field Spauldng, until
recently rector of Christ Episcopal Church,
Cambridge, Mass, Monday announced
that he had entered the Roman Catholic
Church. He was originally congrega-
tionaist.
The Harrisburg Ministerial Association
has sent circular to all the ministers and
churches in Pennsylvania asking them to
formally adopt some resolution" upon
the subject Of the closing of the Worlds
Fair on Sunday.
Thirteen Croatian laborers, under con-
tract to work in the mines Of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, arrived at New York on the
steamer Rhynland last Saturday. They
were sent back by the same steamer on
Monday afternoon.
Information reached St. Paul that a span
of bridge ON the Great Northern railway
extension ut Kalispell Montana, fell ON
Monday, taking down with it is men. Five
men were killed and the other ten injured
Some of the injured may die. The fall was
100 feet.
At u meeting of stockholders of the
Spring Garden National Bank on Thurs
day evening, it will be proposed that an
assessment of one per cent BIO levied to
raise $4,000, to pay OFF the Indebtedness
on the Bunker Hill gold mine and place it
in operation.
A mass-meeting of citizens of Harri-
man. Tenn, was held Monday at which
preliminary arrangements were made to,
secure the Prohibition national convention
for that place, which will be held up az
the Prohibition object lesson of the
United States"
Harry X. Whitman of Chicago agent OF
the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Associa-
ton of Newark, n. j.. was arrested Mon
day on charge of libel and to answer
suit for $4,000 damages. He is charged
with circulating statement detrimental
to rival company
The supreme court at New York city
Monday reversed the Judgment convict
ing Joseph Barondess, the former leader
of the cloakmakcrs, for extortng 800
from Popkins " Marks. cloak manufac-
tuTers, during strike ut their place. A
new trial is ordered
The Oil City D9riclss report Of the
Pennsylvania oil field for November
shows a considerable falling off of new
production. There were, during the month,
GAG wells completed. 66 dry. The new pro-
duction is 1881 barrels, or 1907 barrels
less than for October.
A dispatch from Wilcox, Arizona, says
that the Apaches are on the war path. On
Thursday evening a man named Il. ii.
Daniels was shot by band of marauding
Indians, and Major Downing was shot
from ambush, but not fatally injured. A
small force of soldiers has started after the
Indians from Fort Bowie.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo-, says
that MIR. Beals, after an interview with
the prosecuting attorney, In which the
latter strongly limited that Mr.. Beals
might be called upon to answer the charge
Of compromising felony, has decided to
prosecute the people who abducted his
child.
A dispatch from Mansfield Valley, Pa,
says that a run was started on X. G. Bur
gans bank Monday afternoon, caused by
the refusal of the cashier to pay q doubtful
check. The bank closed its doors for about
an hour, when funds were procured and
business resumed. The doors were kept
open until $50 O'Clock last evening, when
the bank succeeded in paying all calls.
A special dispatch from Washington to
the 1imes-Stdr of Cincinnati, says that
Secretary Blaine will in a few days pub
licly state his position with reference to
the Presidential nomination, with view |
to putting a stop 10 party factions; that he |
and President Harrison have reached an |
agreement which looks to the success of |
the candidate and not of individual pro- |
notion" 1
A delegation of Cheyenne and Arrapa- |
hoe Indians had conference with Secre- |
tary Noble Monday and asked that the |
S25O,0OO due them MS compensation for
their lands coded to the government be
secretary, in the course of the conversation,
intimated that he would consider their re-
quest after they had shown q disposition |
to take lands in seyeralty.
Thomas Il. Chace, who was arrested in
New York recently on the charge of Snug
CLING opium, and who was indicted while
his examination was still pending before
United States commissioner, was Monday
discharged by the commissioner UPON the
ground that il had not been established
that the opium found in the prisoners
trunk when opened at the custom house
was in it when 1t was seized at the Aston
IIouse Chacc was Immediately rearrested
on bench warrant issued by Judge Bene-
dict on the indictment against him.
The jubilee of the Most Rev. Peter
Richard kenrick, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop of ST. Louis, was celebrated
Monday, with ceremonies of unusual
and magniilcence. A distin-
guished gathering of the bishops and arch
bishops Of the church in the United States
was in attendance at the solemn pontifcal
mass in the Cathedral at which Cardinal
Gibbons was the cclebrant, the venerable
archbishop, in whose honor the function
was held. being enthroned at one side of