Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-30
IN GENERAL.

lying on the track near Billings, Mont,
on Sunday morning.
The Massachusetts Democratic state
convention will be held in Worcester
on September Goth. Gen. Patrick A.
Collins of Boston will preside.
The first bale of new crop Georgia
cotton, classed about strict low mid
ding, was sold at auction in New York
Monday at seven cents pound.
The comptroller Of the currency said |
on Monday that 1t would probably be |
found necessary TO place the First Ma
tional Bank of Kansas City, Kan, in the |
hands of receiver.
The anti-pool room law in Missouri, |
which prohibits the selling of pools on |
horse races and baseball outside of the |
state, was Monday declared unconsti- |
tutional by Judge Claiburne,in ST. Louis.
During a performance Of the "Siege |
of Vera Cruz, in Baltimore on Monday, |
George Ringlab, one of the performers,
got in the way of one of the big guns
Just as II was being discharged, and was
fatally wounded.
The remains Of the late Colonel John
Z. Tourtelotte, U. s. A., formerly aide
de.camp to General Sherman, were in
tered at Arlington or Monday, under
charge of committee from the District
of Columbia Commandery of the Loyal
Legion.
Sophia Handbook, 90 years of age, was
| found dead at the foot of the cellar stairs
at her home, in Fairbank, Ont, few
days ago. Detectives were put to work
on the case and they have arrested her
father and mother on the charge of
murder.
A wagon containing seven persons
was struck by train at crossing near
Elmira, N. Y, Monday night, and SIX of
them were killed. The victims were
the Rev Wellington j. White, his wife,
two of his daughters and two other
young girls.
The Tolleston Stock Yards Company,
which has been incorporated in Hudson
county, New Jersey, is to have capital
of 81 100000 divided into 10000 shares
Of 300 each. Only 200 of these shares
will be issued at present, and they will
be divided among the five incorporators.
An explosion occurred Monday in
new mill of the Latin Rand Powder
Company at Platteville, Wisconsin, as it
was dDOul 10 Dt SluTleu lOI inc llIsi tlIle
that morning. A workman named Low
rey was the only one in the mil, and he
was blown to atoms. The building was
wrecked and the conclusion awoke the
town.
DIR. Henry V. Wilson, in charge of the
United States fish station at Woods
Holl, Massachusetts, was on Monday
elected professor of biology at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. DIR. Wilson
is graduate of JOHNS Hopkins. Under
act Of the Legislature Of North Carolina
DR.. Wilson will be assistant shell fish
commissioner for that state and scientific
expert to the commission.
Charles O'Connor Hcnnessy, city edi-
tor of the Ecening Neps in New York,
| was Monday arraigned before Recorder
Smyth, for misdemeanor, in having pub
: lished the details of the recent electrical
, executions at Sing Sing. His counsel at
| once handed up demurrer TO the in
: dictment, which was entered. The re-
5 corder will notify counsel when he will
be prepared to hear argument on the de-
murrer.
A charter was issued on Monday at
: Harrisburg to the Bradford g. Western
. PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company to run
/ from point on the Buffalo, Bradford
I, & Pittsburg railroad and the Buffalo
: Rochester & Pittsburg railroad known
!. as Lewis run, in the county of Mexican
to a point on the Bradford railroad
! near Marshburg. Length of road, seven
n miles, capital stock, $4,000. G.. s. Whit
:. ney Of Belmont, N. ", is president Of
;. the company.
: A telegram from st. Paul says that or
e Thursday the affairs of the great trus
y formed in 1879, and consisting of A. II
/ Wilder and +. Drake, to which wer,
@ given the lands granted to the five road.
r which form the present Omaha railroad
e by which trust nearly 100000 acres Of
n land have been sold and 100000 peopl,
brought into Minnesota, the trustees
having handled millions of dollars in ii
affairs, will come to an end, its worl
% being completed.
y A special meeting Of the stakeholder
y of the lead trust will be held on Angus
d 9th, to act on proposed plan OF reor
Is ganization which the trustees desir
" them to approve, The plan provides TO
/. the scaling down of the capital fron
1t $s7,000,0 900 to $50 900 900, of which hal
n will be seven per cent preferred stocl
in and the other half common stock, an
If also authorizes the issue of SO 100000 il
IN bonds. The reorganlzed corporation
O. subject to the New Jersey law.
Of Judge Brewer of the United State
ly Supreme Court, arrived in Omaha o
Monday and proceeded to the FEEDERS
court room, where he announced HI
=, decision in the famous Union Pacific
-, - Rock Island bridge case The decisio
&c is against the Union Pacific, and hold
I, that the contract entered into by I'll
y. Union Pacific with the Rock Island an
- Milwaukee roads is valid Notwitl
.af standing the variety of the interes
y, affected, Judge Brewer holds that III
m contract was approved by the propt
~ officials.
ter Articles of incorporation of IL
ire Wrought Steel Company were MOI
* day filed at Trenton, N. j. The cap
tai stock authorized is $2,000,000, an
the incorporators are William p. Shin
of Pittsburg, Smith NJ. Weed, Georl
ais w. Nentley, Edward A. Smith an
ne Nicholas w. Nivan Of New York al
all James w. Roach of Camden The cor
an pany will manufacture wrought sol
ny steel car wheels for railroad use. M
en Shinn will be president and Villa
ne Smith of Philadelphia will probably
er. treasurer.
At San Francisco Monday in Il
suit of George w. Taylor to recov
$4,000, alleged to be due him collective
in from "a state senators, members of b
hat last California Legislature, for servic