Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
In GENERAL.

1
DR.. Henry Lehman Tuesday sent to
Governor Pattison his resignation as ply
stefan of the port of Philadelphia.
The Shook Glove and Manufacturing
Company of Syracuse, N. r., has failed,
with liabilities amounting to $4,000 and
assets of $4,000,
The 10th Pennsylvania Regiment
known as the "Bucktails," held its ninth
| annual reunion Tuesday at Huntingdon.
Colonel John 1. Irwin was elected president.
| William Coy, at Pittsfield, Mass, Tues
day confessed the murder of John Whalen,
whose body was found buried on the
mountain side at Washington. Mass. last
Tuesday. He claimed that he killed Whalen
| in self-defence.
The Allient Packing Company of Ar
mourdale, Kan, made an assignment oh
Monday evening. The liabilities are esti-
mated ut 100000. and the assets at slightly
over that figure.
The warehouse Of the Speer New Jersey
| Wine Company and the office and plant Of
the Passaic Item, at Passaic, New Jersey,
were destroyed by fire Tuesday, the loss
amounting to 100000,
Return Jonathan Meigs who had been
clerk OF the supreme court OF the District
OF Columbia since its organization. in 1868,
died ut his residence, In Washington, on
Monday evening, aged % years.
Judge Hunt. at Cincinnati, Tuesday,
dissolved the temporary injunction re-
straining the use Of certain proxies held in
the baltimore and Ohio interest in CON
nection with the controversy over the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
Judge Loney, at Louisville, Ky, Tues
day, sent the mayor and city council of
Newport to Jail for six months, or until
further order of the court, for contempt
IN refusing to obey the order of the court
in the matter of certain street lights.
Rumors that the Yonkers Savings Bank
was in an unsound condition caused run
on that institution Tuesday, about 1000
depositors withdrawing about 5000, 1000
The officers of the bank say thcinstitution
Is perfectly solvent and able to pay all
demands.
The. Secretary of the Navy Tuesday
signed contract with the Iowa iron
Of torpedo boat No. 2, similar to the Cush-
ing, for the sum of Sll3,500. She is to be
of 40 tons displacement, and must be
completed within one year.
Beatrice Collins, the young woman from
New York under a two years sentence for
passing counterfeit money, and John
Bush, alias John. Miller, aged 65 years a
on Monday night. The wonan's cell door
The Secretary of the Navy Tuesday di-
rected the appointment OF court Of In.
quiry in the case,of the U. 8. S. Despatch.
in order to determine whether any OF ali
of the officers of that vessel shall be tSied
BY court martial for neglect OF duty result
ing in its loss. The detail Of the court will
be announced to-day.
II was announced in Chicago Tuesday
by President Bensinger Of the Brunswick
Balke-Collendcr Company, that "the cabi-
net makers strike, which has been in ex-
istence since the first of September, in
volving about 800 men, has ended in a
complete victory for the employers" The
men return to work at the old terms-l0
hours and piece work.
A dispatch from Tuscaloosa Alabama.
says that Tuesday contract was closed
between L. NJ, Abbott, representing Penn
sylyania capitalists, and the Tuscaloosa
COAX Iron and Land Company, whereby
the former undertake to build a railroad
from deep water, at Tuscaloosa northward
to the coal fields. They also contract to
build coke plant at Tuscaloosa.
The, United States Supreme Court Tues
day advanced the hearing of the case of
Boyd vs. Thayer, arising out of contest
over the Nebraska governorship and as
signed it for argument on the first Monday
in December, after cases already assigned
for that day, namely those of two New
York murders under sentence of death bv
electrocution, and the Chicago anarchists
cases.
Judge Hughes, in the United States cir.
cult court, at Norfolk. Va, Tuesday, gave
decision releasing from custody a pav-
masters clerk in the Norfolk NAVY Yard
who was condemned by a naval court.
martial, for misappropriating government
property and sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment in the pententiary. Tho court
held that the court-martial acted without
authority.
Application for a postponement of the
hearing OF the suit brought to determine
whether title to land in California, below
highwater mark, was originally vested in
the United States or the State Of California.
, was denied. Presiding Justice Field said
that the case was merely suit over d land
patent, that no important constitutional
question was involved and that it did not
need full bench for its trial.
a. b. Montgomery of Stephens county.
Kansas, has filed at Topeka a charter for
i the Artificial Rain-producing Company. =
! As directors there are named six Stephens
county men. The capital is placed al
,, 100000. and the object of the company is
TO furnish water to the public by pro
snss Paa ns' esn th %dSo IF 5y y
, the rain producing, and the company has
! contracted to pay him 10 cents per acre fol
!, all the land watered by him during next
!, summers season.
The concluding sessions Of the Second
: Ecumenical Methodist Council were held
J in Washington Tuesday. The general
topic appointed for the discussions Of The
} day was THE Outlook and among The
I speakers were the Rev. John s. Simon 81
/ England. and the Rev. DIR. Watts Of Eng
= land, on THE Christian Resources OF the
: Old World Chancellor Edward Mayes Of
|, Mississippi, and the Rev. J. A. M. Chap
( man of Philadelphia, on 'The Christian
a Resources Of the New World" the Rev
I DR.. w. " Tudor Of Virginia, and the Rev
Z DR.. j. q. Price Of North Carolina, anc
I Others. The council adopted a resolution
deprecatng "the subtle and persistent
efforts of the Roman Hierarchy TO max,
4 Its power felt outside it's own proper sphere
8 in many lands to the detrirnent and
!. danger Of the civil and religious lihertie.
: of the people," Addresses on 1.-THE Church
4 of the Future were made BY the Rev. Dr
!. J. N. Buckley of New York; the Rev. W
: J. Dawson Of England, and + W. Bourne
> Of England, after which resolutions d
9 thanks were adopted, and the council ad