Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-15

The Florida world s falr conVenIlOn,
at Orlando, Thursday voted to raise
100000 for an exhibit at Chicago.
The Kankakee Crystal Ice CoInpany's
house at Waldron, ILL.,, was burned Fri
day. Loss, $4,000.
The Olympic Theatre at st. Paul, Mimi,
was burned early Friday morning,
causing loss of $1,000.
l. P. Beard, prominent attorney of 81.
Paul, has made an assignment. Liabili-
ties, 100000; assets, S50OO0.
The funerals Of five Of the victims of the
Richardson colliery accident at Glen Car
bons Pa, took place Friday.
Moffatt's mill, with 100000 feet of
lumber at Dalhousie, New Brunswick, was
burned on Thursday night; loss, $4,000.
The storage warehouse of Hunter 4 Co.'S
compress, iii Montgomery, Ala, was burned
on Thursday, with $500 bales of cotton.
Loss, Si25,0O0.
Station Agent Southwick of Tannersville
Station New York, was robbed of 5000 by
highwaymen, Wednesday night week, as he
was going home from the station.
Three men supposed to be implicated in
murder at Grand Forks, were arrested at
Crookston, Me-, on Thursday evening but
while on the way to Jail all three escaped.
During quarrel at Forsyth, Georgia,
Friday, between J. 9; Gassett and four
Thomas brothers, Gassetts daughter,
Lizzie went to her fathers defence and
was shot and killed.
After preliminary examination which
lasted 40 days it was decided at Butte,
Mont, Friday, to hold Kelly, Hickey
and Deeny, the men suspected of the muir
der of Editor William Penrose.
The Reform Democratic ticket at Nash
vile, Tenn, was elected OH Thursday, over
the Regular Democratic ticket, by MAORI
ties ranging from 500 to 1000. George b.
Guild was elected mayor. There was no
Republican ticket.
tional Bank of Enterprise, in Walla Walla
county, Oregon. on Wednesday week,
when three robbers made y raid upon it,.
They put all the money in the counter
about 73, 500--in sack and escaped.
In the United States district court in
| Lynchburg, Va, Friday, Jack Mullins
| of Buchanan county was convicted of
| intimidating voters at the last Prcsi-
| dental election, and was sentenced to six
months imprisonment and to pay fine
of $500.
A Washington dispatch says that the
| United States steamers Yorktown and Bos-
ton have been ordered to Chill for the
| express purpose Of relieving the Baltimore
| and San Francisco, the hulls of which are
in so foul state that they will have to be
| locked.
George A. Dixon has been arrested in
| Toledo, Ohio, on suspicion of completely
| in the robbery Of the Hontzdale, Pa, bank
| of 100000. The arrest was made on the
| strength of statements in letter to Dixon
delivered in mistake to Toledo man Of
| the same name.
The Winchester Presbytery, in session at
| Rridnnylnrt fnnn EridnU andQrqad the
report Of the general assembly's COMMITTEE
on che revision of faith, so fur as it related
to predestination, but adopted an amend
ment relating to the clause on sinfantilt
preordination."
A telegram from Reading says that in
accordance with the action of the Eas
Pennsylvania united brethren conference
that there shall be but one presiding
elder, embracing the entire conference
the Rev. H. b. Dohner, of Harrisburg
was elected presiding elder Friday after
noon.
A fire at Mayfield, KY, on Thursday
burned over nearly six acres Of ground, de
stroying the Newport News and Missis
sippi Valley freight and passenger depots
the Western Tobacco Company's ware
house and 800 hogsheads of tobacco and ,
number of residences. The total loss il
placed at 100000.
Inc DuSlneSs failures curing tne las
week numbered for the United States 240
and for Canada 80, or total of 270, a.
compared with totals Of 2S0 for the weel
previous. For the corresponding week o
last year the figures were 215, representing
1856 failures in the United States and 20 ii
Canada.
President Dill of the suspended Firs
National Bank of Clearheld, Pa, had I
hearing Friday In the Jail parlor. Tn
United States commissioner required bal
in $4,000 for Dill's appearance before hin
at Altoona on Friday Of next week. Tn,
bail was furnished. Dill was then takei
before Judge kreps on writ Of habea
corpus and released on s2l 800 bail for hi
appearance at court.
Briefs for the importers have been flee
in the United States Supreme Court il
two Of the pending cases involving tn,
consttutionality of the Mckinley tariff
act, namely, those of Sternbaeh & Co. o
New York, and Marshall Field q Go. o
Chicago. The arguments in both ar,
based chiefly upon the contention that tn
act is void because of the omission of tn
tobacco rebates section by the enrolling
clerk.
AT the Second Ecumenical Methods
Council at Washington Friday after
noon the Rev. DIR. A. Coke Smith Of Ten
nessee, read q paper on christian Co
|
part in the debate which followed were
The Rev. 7. ]. 0gburn of North Carolina
the Rev. James lie Murray of England, tn
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes of England, tn
Rev. DR.. E. ]. Williams of Canada, an,
Bishops Fitzgerald and Foster
John G. Otis, the Alliance Congressman
elect from the Fourth district of Kansas
has prepared a comprehensive financia
bill for presentation to the next Congress
1T provides for pennies and nickels, silye
and gold coins, and the free and unlimite
coinage of both, and also for $1,000, 900, 90
of paper money, each bill being absolutel
money and not in the form Of promise
1t provides that leach and every kind o
money mentioned in this section shall
interchangeable with each other at pa
and full legal tender for all debts, bot
public and private" It provides furthe
for free treasury funds, the general rev
enue fund the real estate and revenu
fund and the national food and clothin
fund"