Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-10

The Des Moines cotton MILL at Des
Moines, Iowa, was burned on Saturday
night, causing loss of $l50,000
Buildings were unroofed and other dam
age was done at Upton, Iowa, on Friday
by terrific rain and wind storm.
The Carton Toy Company's factory al
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was burned on Sat
urday. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A Chicago dispatch says that .'present
indications are that the movement to limit
the issue of free passes will not be success
full
The Saginaw Mill Companys mill at
CGur d'Alene Idaho, was burned on Sat
urday. with 100000 feet of lumber, loss,
$4,000.
Secretary Proctor severed his connection
with the war department on Saturday, and
took official leave of all the officers of that
department.
W. IL. Books book bindery in the new
Gilling Building in Buffalo, New York,
was burned out on Saturday, involving a
loss of $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Mills, an aged couple
OF Liberty Centre Warren county, Iowa.
were burned to death on Friday BY the
burning of the house.
The Tunnel school house at Auburn, Pa,
collapsed during the storm, on Friday, and
David Ditzler, the teacher, and two pupils
were severely injured.
A bridge over the Missisquoi river, in
Buckshire, Vermont, was blown into the
river by the storm of Friday night, and at
Richford several buildings were unroofed.
The. greatest snow blizzard for many
years in North Dakota ended on Saturday
morning, after having ragged As hours.
| The thermometer was all the time below
zero.
Three spans of the long bridge at Mono
ton, New Brunswick, were blown down by
storm on Saturday. The structure was
1850 feet long, and about half of it was
destroyed.
Ball Il Lester, wholesale dealers in boots
and shoes, of New York, were levied upon
by the sheriff on Saturday for S47147.
The firms liabilities are said to be $105 900
and its assets $4,000.
The Secretary of the Interior on Satur-
gay settled the long contested case of the
| Las Vegas land grant in Mexico. A new
survey will be made, and this, it is claimed,
| VIII open to settlement from $50, 600 to
$40, 1000 acres.
A large delegation of business men of
fhlladelpha waited on the President and
the Encouragement on Saturday and
urged the appointment of s. 3. Holdings
worth OF Philadelphia, as judge of the
United States circuit court
nv barueiS INTERNATIONAL Union, in
session at Grand Rapids, Mich, discussed
the proposed constitutional changes. II
was decided to direct the efforts of the
union during the coming year To bring
about shorter hours of work and Sunday
closing.
A reply has been received at Minneapolis
from the Russian charge d'affaires in New
York favorable to the gift of a cargo of
four by American millers to the starving
nRnglnfG n Ia "A
have already been subscribed in Mime
apolis alone.
Citizens of Galesburg, ILL.,, have raised a
guarantee fund Of $50, 900, in stock, toward
the building of large beet sugar factory
to cost 100000 The balance of the capital
IS to be furnished by an English syndicate
a similar project is being worked up at
Marshalltown, ia.
The original holders of the s7,00O,o00
bonds of the Three Csh railroad met at
johnson City, Tenn, on Friday. and
agreed to and signed contract for the
issue by the company of S3,000,00O pre-
ferred stock, with which to pay Off the
present Indebtedness of the road and com
plete the same.
north-bound passenger train on the
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas railroad
left the track near Evansville, Miss, OH
Saturday, and, by the collapse of a trestle.
persons were injured. The accident was
caused by the breaking of one of the
trucks of the tender.
A dispatch from Providence. r. l.. saws
that q search was made on Saturday all
through the debris of the Pullman car
Midland, that was burned in the wreck
Friday, and that they. found no pieces of
to have lost his life in the car. 1t is be-
hcved the only lives lost are those of Engi-
neer Tabor and Fireman Fitzgerald.
The grievance committee of the Southern
Pacific railway had another conference
with the officers of the road, at Houston
Texas, on Saturday but little progress was
made, and it is understood that their
troubles are as far from settlement rs ever.
The men ask horizontal increase in
wages on all divisions from New Orleans
to San Francisco, and this the road refuses
to grant.
There was, considerable dissatisfaction
among the pensioners at Washington, on
friday, with the recent order of the Score
tary of the Treasury, under which they
were given checks on the assistant treas
urer at New York instead of on the United
states Treasury at Washington. The banks,
as rule, refused to cash the checks, I'M
less the holders were regularly identified,
and some inconvenience resulted
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days.
as reported to r, G. Dun & Co., number
for the United States 304 and for Canada
20, or total Of $50, as compared with
totals of 295 last week and 2S5 the week |
previous to the last For the correspond |
ing week of last year the figures were 3l2,
representing 27S failures In the United
States and 81 in the Dominion of Canada. |
The Mikado of Japan has made propo-
sitlon to the management of the Worlds |
Fair to erect permanent building upon |
the grounds, surround it with typical |
Japanese garden, and then make the city |
of Chicago a present of the buildings and
100000 on it if the Worlds Fair board |
gives him the site he wants. This is about
TWO acres at the north end of the wooded
island.
A dispatch from birmingham, Ala,
says that Blount county ahas had three |
desperate murders within the week. The
first was the cool assassination of an old
farmer. The second the deliberate muir
der Of woman by her husband, who
in at night. Friday night Robert Gunde, a
saloon keeper, shot and killed George
brazale, an nnarmed farmer, the cause
unknown.
The committee having in charge the
work of the proposed Roman Catholic
congress of 1893 have prepared report,
which was submitted to the cardinal and
archbishops at st. Louis last week and ap-
proved by them. The congress will CON
sist of delegates from every diocese, ap-
painted by the bishops, and the main fea-
ture of Its work will be the discussion of
the economic questions embraced in the
recent eneyclical of the pope.
Application was made to the chief JUS
tice at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Saturday,
by counsel for the Church of England
to show cause why they should