Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-27
IN GENERAL.


arrests during the month of July.
The four and half per cent United
States bonds continued at two per cent
to date aggregate s19,esl $50,
Over 1000 delegates from 25 different
states attended the annual reunion of
the Fleming family, at Paramount, w.
Va, Wednesday week.
Postmaster Joseph H. Marley of Au-
gusta, Me-, has issued letter announc-
ing his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for Congress.
Thomas Puce, aged 10 years, fell into
a pool Of molten Stag at the Ensley fur
naces, at Birmingham, Ala, on Tues
day week, and roasted to death.
The competitive drills of the Uni
formed Rank of the Knights of Pythias
took place at Harrisburg Thursday.
Altoona Division, No. 26, won first
honors.
Town Marshal William Sanders and
Police Judge A. NJ. Egbert Of Crab
Orchard, KY, quarreled over a conflict
of authority on Wednesday week, when
Egbert was shot and killed by Sanders.
= General Malone has issued circular
w aQNiolHH tllht
no nominations for the Legislature be
made this fall, fair election under the
existing election laws being impossible.
The Hamburg American packet
steamship Slavonia, at Baltimore Thurs
day from Hamburg, brought 30 'as-
sisted" Russian Jewish immigrants, who
were detained by the authorities. The
exiles are entirely penniless.
A dispatch from Baltimore says that
Charles 0. Scull, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, denies that his company has
threatened TO cut rates from Chicago to
New York or any other point.
At the Farmers Encampment at
Mount Gretna, Pa, Thursday, several
addresses We're made, including one or
two by members of the state and local
oranges. 1t was estimated that there were
$4,000 people in attendance during the
day.
Mrs. Emma Sullivan, aged 45 years,
was found dead in bed, at Jacksonville,
Fla, Tuesday week, and her husband was
arrested on the charge of causing her
death, by III treatment and cruelty. The
parties are said to have come from
Philadelphia.
The dead body of Clark Woodman,
one of the wealthiest citizens of Omaha,
Neb., and director in the Linseed Oil
Trust, was found Thursday afternoon in
his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel,
Chicago. The general supposition is
that he committed suicide.
The terrific rainstorm at Indianapolis
Lat ~ i -
two persons. Fred King, aged ID years,
was wading in Pogue's run, when he
was caught by current and drowned.
and Oliver Eckel, another boy, was
sucked into a sewer and was seen no
more.
A premature explosion of dynamite
charges in the quarry of John T. Dyer,
al Howellville, on the Chester Valley
railroad, six miles from Bridgeport, Pa.
Thursday, resulted in injuries to five
men. Antonio Lombart was so badly
injured that he was not expected to
survive the night.
A freight train on the Kansas CITY.
st. Joseph & Council Bluffs reilroad,
was SHIELD up" and robbed, at Murray
Switch, outside of Harlem, Mo-, Thurs
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rear brakeman, Ed. White, was shot and
killed, and Conductor Cassell's watch
was taken from him. The men escaped
into the thickets.
A Washington dispatch says that an
iron buoy belonging to the United States
establishments recently drifted
across the Atlantic and was picked up
on the west coast of ireland. The light
house board, on being notified of the
fact, presented the buoy to the Irish
light service and it was thankfully ac-
cepted.
At a meeting of the local boiler
makers union, at Boston, on Wednes-
day week, communication from the
national secretary was read, stating that
every employer in the United States had
been notified that the union would de-
mand that eight hours should consti-
tute days work on and after Nav 1st,
1899. A secret circular from the en-.
ployers was also read, calling upon them
to organize for mutual protection.
Senator Hale has brought TO the notice
Of the treasury department systematic
attempt which is being made to evade
the navigation laws of the United States,
which exclude foreign vessels from the
coastwise trade, the plan being to ship
freight from New York for San Fran
cisco and other Pacific ports by foreign
vessels to some European port, and
thence in another foreign vessel to San
Francisco. The collectors on the Pa
cific coast have been directed to insti-
ute legal proceedings in such cases.
Reports were current in New York |
Thursday that the Richmond Terminal |
Company had been compelled to make |
'resh loans to meet maturing obliga-
ions. Later it was stated, and the
statement was confirmed by President
Lnman, that the company had arranged
With bankers for any money 1t may re-
luire, and the money would be put in
,ank to pay the coupons September LIST
D the collateral trust bonds. Among
'ther bankers it was stated that Drexel,
Morgan & 90. had arranged to furnish
o some of the Terminal roads from
100000 to $4,000.
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