Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-01


Three highwaymen impersonated OH
Gers at ROJtofia, ohio, on Thursday night.
arrested Frank Myers, and robbed him Of
Sl,39J.
The Eiisto phosphate and fertilizer
works. near thuriestpn, ). G., were burned
Friday might. Loss, sZO1,olo, covered by in
sitraaae.
John L. TisG4lc has been convicted Of
murder i'll the first degree in l4anGa8i er,
Ohio, for the killing Of George 4. Boger, in
June last,
The Delaware, Laclawanna q Western
director IN Friday declared the regular
| quarterly !ifiiend Of II per cent, payable
january 2uh.
The Kennedy House III Chattanooga,
Tenn, was hadlY damaged by fire early
on Friday morning The guests escaped
without injury.
II a saloon row in Birmingham, Ala,
on Thurs lay night, George Kelley and
Jacob Lynch were fatally stabbed by TN.
known pc8sons.
The schooner a. H. Hurbut Of tilouces-
1 ter, with ice for New York, was wrecked at
4 Black Point, l., T., on t1lduy, AND three oi
| he. crew were drowned.
Benjamin Molina Guiroia, the newly ap-
| pointed minister from salvador was for
| maliy presented to President Harrison by
the Secretary Of State Friday.
Joseph Heiden and John Nelman, lum-
bermen, fought with knives near Reyes
Lake, Wisconsin, ON Friday. Neuman was
fatally and Holden severely stabbed.
The cartridge house Of the American
Forcite Company at Lake Hopaic0ng, n.
| j., blew M on Friday morning. John Il.
johnson and Mahlon Sperry, workmen,
| were killed.
BY the explosion of boiler in Kelly a.
| Wells lumber mills, on Black river near
Newport, Ark, on Friday, Willie Sloan
and John Angus were killed and several
others were injured.
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Robert Evans was to have been celebrated
| in Minneapolis on Christmas Day, and all
| preparations had been made. On Wednes-
| day Mrs. Evans died.
| Roberts Clshman e. Co., dealers in hat
| tiers materials in New York, who assigned
Friday, filed schedules stating liabilities
| at Slb6, 1863 nominal assets, sos, 592, and
actual assets, $437, 800
Mrs. Minnie Wilkes, wife of laundry
man on First avenue New York, had her
| hair caught in the machinery on Friday,
and her scalp was torn from her head.
Her recovery is doubtful.
William f. Ruttner, lawyer in New
York, was arraigned in court ON Friday,
and renandel for examination on a
| charge of forgery, in connection with a
fraudulent divorce obtained for cx-Mayor
| Pendleton of Fort Worth, Texas.
a dispatch from Victoria, British Column
bia, gives the total of all seals caught and
| disposed OF in Victoria as 43,179 valued ut
| si9S, 72S, divided as follows: Canadian yes
sells, 39,5i7 seals American vessels, 3,20l !;
| Adele, the German ranger, 1,03l
The steamship Thanemore, which left
Baltimore OH November 18th for London,
is given up for lost She had on board "a
officers and seamen and II cattlemen.
She carried 43l head Of cattle, and had a
general cargo valued at sl75,527.
The treasury department has decided
| that ballast, 10 be exempt from duty, must
be Of IN entirely understandable charac-
ter, and that heWn Stone blocks, not being
of such character, are liable to duty, even
| though used as ballast of the importing
vessel.
George II. Green and his wife were in
| iured by a runaway accident while riding
| down Ripley Hill, in South Coventry
| Connecticut, on Thursday night. Green
died died two hours later Of internal hem
orrhagc. Ills wife is not expected to re
| cover.
Nineteen Italians have teen arrested in
Pittsburg for passing counterfeit silver
dollars, and |, 100 of the spurious coins are
the best counterfeit standard dollar ever
made The coin was manufactured in New
| Work
The Sanborn County Bank at Woon-
! socket South Dakota. closed its doors
| onsFIidsy morning II was runF5y Leon
| L. Stevens. The latter, who was City
| Treasurer, closed down on $500 of the
| cliy's funds. The county treasurer had
| $4,000 of the county funds in the bank,
/ I., MI
/ Nickel, colored, attacked his wife and
| stepdaughtcr with knife, killing the girl
| aud dangerously wounding his wife. He
| then committed suicide BY shooting him
self in the head. The tragedy was caused
| hy Mrs. Nickel refusing to live with her
| husband.
The bureau Of American republics has
| information from Bogota that the congress
4 Of Columbia has renewed the concession
for the construction Of the Panama canal
10 Lieutenant WYsc, the agent Of the canal
company, who has been engaged n Bogota
| Tor more clan Il year trying to secure this
! privilege.
An explosion occurred on FIJI ay morn
ing in the entrance shaft of the Emitted
Coal and Coke Works, AZ Scottdalc, Pa,
caused by the ignition of Kerosene oil.
| lire fire which followed destroyed nearly
all the loose property in the mine. The
coal was burning AZ last accounts but it
was thought the tire would be eXtin-
i guished.
1t is reported from Springfield Ohio,
| that a grain drill combine Is proposed. 1t
| IS suid that numhnr of the large grain
/ drill concerns in the country are already
| figuring on the deal. The efforts Of these
trusts ,iill he far reaching and Will throw
ont If wof!., it is said, 5000 travelling
agents and middle men vino have been
| selling agricultural machinery for the
4 various companies.
w. y. Simpson, chief justice Of the
stlpret, toart Of south Carolina died at
| h home in Columbia, on Friday, of heart
ulsease. aged fa wears. Judge Simpson was
elected ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with Governor
Hampton on the restoration of the state
government in 1876 to Democratic control.
He succeeded to the goyernorship on the
election Of Governor Hampton to the
United States Senate, and before the close
Of his term " governor was elected chief
justice.
fhe HUGHES Lumber Company of Chat
| tanp0ga, Tennessee, made an assignment
Hnatriday y. W. Hughes, president and
general manager Of the company, who has
made himself personally liable for the
dehis Of the company, ,also, filed an assign
rnent of his property. The liabilities Of the
Hughes Lumber Company aggregate Sl73,-
513. The schedule of assets aggregates
s32l,GsS. The schenle of u. w Hughes
aggregates 1861 liabilities and $475, 277
assets. The excess of assets over liabilities
IN both assignments is over half million
dollars.
Daniel w. Talcott, head bookkeeper fol
IL. w. Sage ~ Co., lumber dealers, in
Albany, New York, was arrested Friday
on the charge Of embezzlcment. After
Sage Il Co.'S confidential clerk, Joseph b.
Abbott who killed himself on December
Sd, had been caught stealing from the firm
an expert was employed to examine the
discovered. II anpears that Talcot and
Abbot operated In collision. Their oper.
ntinns were facilitated by the fnct TINT .tht