Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16
IN GENERAL.

| Inc BIRMINGHAM soap WORKS, IN BIZ
mingham, Alabama, were. burned Thurs
day. They had been idle for years. Loss,
$4,000
The Bell Telephone Company has alb
sorbed the Federal Telephone Company,
of Montreal. Quebec, and again enjoys a
monopoly of the telephone business in
Canada.
In Sacramento, CAL, yesterday afternoon
week. William Arlington. policeman,
was shot dead by Annie Manning keeper
OF a notorious dive. The woman then
committed suicide.
A fire in Jennings, Michigan, on We'd
! n1sday week. destroyed the planning and
| saw mill plant of Mitchell Brothers and is
dwellings. The loss is estimated at $780,
900, the insurance only $4,000.
The members of the Worlds Fair Euro
pean commission sailed for England Thurs
day, on the steamship Columbia senior
| Romero, the Mexican minister at Wash
ington, was passenger on the same vessel.
Al McComb City Miss, on the 9Th,
u quarrel occurred between L. Il. Ford in
ventor Of the Ford-Whitworth car coup
| ling, and r. NJ. Cloy, city marshal. Ford
shot Cloy with rifle and he died before
night.
The Bank of Commerce of Sheffield,
| Alabama which suspended Monday week,
y
resumed business Thursday morning, hay
ing enough cash on hand to meet all de-
| mands.
The highest official temperature re-
| corded in San Antonio, Texas, In four
years was marked yesterday week, the
mercury at the weather station marking
1862. Business was partially suspended on
account of the heat.
In Chicago Thursday Judge Blodgett
rendered decision against Phoebe
| Couzins the ex-secretary of the board of
lady managers of the Worlds Fair. The
court held that Miss Couzins is out of
Office and cannot get back.
James Moser, aged "a years, was charg-
| ing his soda water fountain in Paterson,
n. j., Thursday morning, when it burst,
and large fragment struck Moser on the
| neck, severng the jugular vein and caus-
ing death in few minutes.
a telegram from Jefferson, Texas, saws
the debts of the Jefferson Lumber Com
nearly million of dollars. Creditors from
all over the country are gathering there
and much litigation is expected.
Mrs. Rebecca G. Raymond and her 4.
years-old son were killed by a train near
Olney, Illinois, Thursday morning. Mrs
Raymond was picking berries and hei
child strayed on the track. The mother
tried to rescue the boy, but both were run
over and killed.
The bureau of engraving and printing
has begun the work of preparing the new
bonds bearing 2 per cent interest, which
Il are TO be issued in continuance of the A!
] per cent loan, and it is intended that the
K first instaluent of them shall be ready fol
X delivery on the 23d inst.
Il IiSotiee was given Thursday at Harris
burg that after the 10Th inst, the wages Of
the puddlers at the Central Iron Work.
and Chesapeake Nail Works of Bailey
4 Company and the Lochiel plant of tn,
Harrisburg Rolling Mill Company will bi
increased from 1918 to 81 a ton.
The state department has received thu
letter from the mayor of Philadelphi.
asking the cooperation of the department
IN detecting the hiding place of Presiden
Marsh of the defunct Keystone Bank. In
structions will be sent to all consular Off
GERS to watch for Marsh's arrival
A freight train was wrecked Thursda,
morning by running over horse in deel
cut nine miles south of Columbus, Ind
-Four train men were injured, two-Johr
Boaz and John Neutrality-suspicious.
Another man had several ribs broker
while helping to clear the wreck.
Richard 7. Breeze, a boy clerk in tn
law office of Trimble & Boadley, at Kan
sas City, has disappeared. by forger,
he negotiated $1,000 of bank stock witt
William J. Woolman, a broker, and tool
the proceeds with him. He also tool
about $1,000 of other negotiable securities
The libel suit of Martin VS.. the Ere
Press in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has beef
decided in favor of the newspaper. TIL
, | plaintiff is the ex-attorney-general of tn
province, who was accused by the paper o
having made corrupt contract with tn
Northern Pacific railroad while o membe
o. the government.
\ telegram from Kingston, Ontario
SAYS that considerable excitement prevail
.. Thousand Island Park over the alleges
!, smuggling of meat from Canada by well
TODD people of the park. A. L. Shipman
residing on the Canadian shore, has beel
arrested and his boat seized while attempt
ing to smuggle dressed lambs into tn
park.
At st. Paul, Minnesota, Thursday, in tn
! case of the United States VS.. j. NJ. EgaT
. and @. +. Holdridge of the Chicago, st
, Paul n Kansas City railroad, for allege,
violation of the Interstate Commerce Iay
in selling a block Of 5000 st. Paul hicag,
tickets to Charles IL. Petsch at rate of !
each, Judge fhayer instructed the jury t.
find for the defendants.
! In Jersey City Thursday morning Harr
Spears, Thomas Trotter, Joseph II. Buck
; ridge and Oscar l.. Freiburg were sentence
:. to Is months in the state prison for ballo
I box stuffing in the general election of 1881
~ This is the fifth election board that ha
al been sentenced for frauds IN that election
n Judge Lippincott fixed bail at 80, 500 fo
I'd each of the defendants, pending an ar
a peqi,d
,dl The President has appointed Professo
Mendenhall, chief of the coast and geodeti
survey, and Professor Merriam, ornitholC
) glst of the department of agriculture, q
9 agents of the United States Government I
e the Alaska seal fisheries to gather a
! necessary technical information respectin
I the actual state of the fisheries. The
mission will be similar to that with whic
English agents are charged.
A dispatch from Chicago says that a
English syndicate, to be known as the A
!: lantic IL Great Lakes Navigation and Irat
ing Company, Limited, purposes to ope
s direct water communication for frcigl
a and passenger business between Chicag
: and Great Britain. The syndicate vi
4 build and operate its own vessels, fl
! which purposes capital of 5000, 900 III
been subscribed.
:. The Republican congressional executi,
committee mtt in Nashville, Tenn, Thur
day, and decided to have a primary ele,
: ton on August Sth, to select a Republica
e candidate for congress from the four no
I seeking the nomination. Messrs. Rul
D Honk. Meek and Woodruff. This is
, victory for Houk, as those who oppo.
a him are divided among the three other
1t is now Honk against the field, wit
chances in favor of Aouk.
A despatch from Topeka Kansas, say
about Is prominent People, party leadei
In session there, after discussing the prep
q stion made by the Democratic state Gel
S trial COMMITTEES recently to fuse with III
' local county elections in Kansas this yes
. and to unite on an electoral ticket in opp,
! sition to the Republicans next year, d
clined to fuse and a statement declarin
, | agaiust such action WAS ordernd Duhlishe