Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-08

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News has been received at st. John,
New Brunswick, Of the wreck Of the
barkentine Minnie G.. Elkin. She car
ried u crew of about 90 men, and it is
feared that all have been lost.
A passenger train on the Baltimore &
| Ohio railroad, which was delayed by the
elevator fire at Locust Point, on Sunday
morning, made the run of 90 miles on the
Philadelphia division in 90 minutes.
In Hartford, Conn, Monday, the
Democrats carried most of the town
offices, although the old Republican
treasurer, Charles @. Strong, was re-
elected by from 200 to 800 majority.
The Rev. Philip II. Garrett, a we'll
victcd in Reading, Pa, of having fraud
ulently obtained $3.50 on a life insurance
policy, was Monday sentenced to ono
years Imprisonment.
An Atlanta dispatch says movement
is on foot to buy up all the rice mills of
the south, put in new machinery, and to
form pool. Options have been secured
on the mills at New Orleans, Savannah,
Charleston and Wilmington.
| Judge Wood of the Federal court at
Evansville, Ind, Monday sentenced
| Charles Ritter, the dcfnulting teller of
| the First National Bank of that city to
six years in the penitentiary at Michi-
gan City. His defalcation amounted to
$4,000.
The Supreme Court of the United
! States will meet on Monday next for
the October term. On Tuesday the
court will begin the regular call of
cases, of which there are 1916, the largest
number ever on the docket at the begin
ming of term.
The Greenlee & Forst oil we'll at Nc
Donald, near Pittsburg, was drilled
deeper Monday, and the flow in
creased to 14,400 barrels day. This
is the largest oil well ever struck in
America, and is believed to be the
largest in the world.
Captain Fitzgerald, of the brigintine
Arctic, from Bristol, England, for Har-
Dor Grace, Newfoundland, picked up
nine of the crew of the steamer Wole-
ston, lost September 18th in mil-Atlan-
tic. The captain and the remainder of
the crew are supposed to have been
drowned.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says that
IS steamboats, loaded with freight and
CARRYING passengers are aground be-
tween that city and Point Pleasant,
West Virginia, and that teams are cross
ing the Ohio river at dozens of points.
At Point Pleasant there is but foot and
inches of water.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
at Pittsburg Monday rendered deci-
sion sustaining the city Of Philadelphia
in its suit against the Ridge Avenue
Passenger Railway Company for the
recovery Of money spent by the city in
repaying with Belgian blocks from curb
to curb portion of the street occupied
by the railways tracks.
The standing committee oil the diocese
of Georgia of the Protestant Episcopal
Church Monday received letter from
Bishop Talbot of the missionary diocese
OF Idaho and Wyoming, declining the
bishoprick of Georgia. A convention to
elect a successor TO the late Bishop Beck
with was, therefore, called to meet No
vember 18th, in Macon.
During funeral at Altoona, Mon
day, one of the teams became fright.
ened at a threshing machine and ran
away, upsetting q number of the car
rlages and causing panic. As result
| Edwin Drestall was killed, Joseph
Pesdue, Mrs. j. O. Mason, f.. S. Sayre
and Mrs. II. G. Lane were fatally in
jured and a number of others were less
seriously hurt.
In the examination in the case Of
Maurice B. Strellinger (San'l of Posen)
for the murder of policeman at San
francisco, Monday, witness who had
| previously identified pistol found near
the scene of the murder ms belonging 10
Strellinger, voluntarily took the stand
and said his previous evidence was false,
and given through fear Of the police and
in compliance with their prompting.
The commissioner of Indian affairs,
in his sixteenth annual report to the
Secretary of the Interior, suggested that
the time has come for declaration by
Congress that hereafter II will not recog-
nize the Indians as competent to make
war; that the five civilized tribes should
form q territorial or state government
and be represented in Congress, and that
the Pueblo Indians should be made citi.
zcns.
Ostrander and Trumpbour, officers of
the Ulster County Savings Institution in
Kingston, New York, accused of steal
ing nearly half million Of the funds,
were arraigned Monday and waived
an examination. They were bound over
to await tho action Of the grand jury
| next week. The other savings banks in
Kingston have required from dcpositors
6O days notice Of intention to withdraw
funds. A company Of militia is held in
readiness to suppress any outbreak.
The state supreme court Monday
handed down an opinion in the Law
renee county Congressional bribery
cases against Messrs. Tate, downing
and Schatfer. The defendants were
adjudged guilty of contempt, for re-
tusing to answer certain questions upon
the ground that they would criminate
themselves. They were sentenced to
three months imprisonment and $500
inc each, but appealed the case to the
supreme Court. Justice Slerrett refused
the appeal, and ordered the appellants
to deliver themselves forthwith into the
custody of the Sheriff of Lawrence
county.
The packing establishment of John
p, Squire & Co., in East Cambridge,
Mass, was partially destroyed by fire
Monday. The fire caught in the hog
building, in which were 500 live hogs.
These animals were all roasted to death
and the building laid fiat. From here
the flames We're driven into the north
westerly wing of the main building.
The three lower stories were used for
cutting up and dressing hogs, while the
upper portion was used as refrigerator.
This section was practically destroyed,
only the walls remaining. Tho loss is
placed 1T &lhO0 600 and Is fully cnYernd