Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-15
IN GENERaL.

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The bond of the assignees of ex-Sen-
tor Wallace, approved in Clearfield, Pa,
on Saturday, is for $l655,000.
The Sedalia, Warsaw & Southern rail-
road has been sold by the sheriff to
trustees for the bondholders, for $500,
600.
Mrs, Harrison held her first public re-
ception of the season on Saturday after
noon, from to 5. There were large
number Of callers.
The famale clerks in the Treasury
Department have started u movement 10
erect II monument to the late Gen. +. u
Spinner, ex-Secretary of the Treasury.
The Democratic Club of New York
City on Saturday opened its new house,
on Fifth avenue, by a reception to eX-
President Cleveland and other political
leaders.
The large saw mill of the Tunis &
Serprll Lumber Company in Norfolk
county, Virginia, opposite the navy
yard, was burned on Sunday. Loss,
$4,000.
The building in Iowa Circle, in Wash
ington, nov occupied as the residence
and offices of the Korean Legation, has
been purchased on behalf of the King Of
Korea by the charge de atfaires.
1t is stated that a syndicate is trying
to buy up all the rubber in the world in
the hope Of clearing up something of
the losses made by buying up rubber at
the high figures of few months age.
Andrew II. Dill, United States mar
sb frr ,,ortar,, Jictt.i f,f DaOpeVI-
vania, died on Sunday morning at his
residence, Forty second street and Ches-
ter avenue, Philadelphia, aged So years.
The stone yards in Chicago closed on
Monday for an indefinite period, making
600 men idle. The shut down is the
result Of an attempt by the proprietors
to enforce new schedule of wages,
hours and rules.
The managers of the Joliet branch of
the Illinois Steel Company, in Joliet,
have made satisfactory arrangements
with their employees regarding wages,
and the entire plant will be putin opera
ton by February LIST. Fifteen hundred
men are employed at the works.
AT Elmira, New York, Monday, the
Rev I. Il. Beecher preached the fun
eral sermon of the mother of Mrs. 5. l..
Clemens. Neither Clemens nor his
wife attended, but they listened to the
service by long distance telephone at
Hartford, Conn, 400 miles distant.
A car on the Second Avenue Electric
Line in Pittsburg on Saturday night ran
off the track on trestle, ran along the
bridge for 40 feet and then fell to the
ground, some 10 feet below There
were 80 pas engers on the car, and II
were injured, two very badly, but none
fatally.
A delegation of lawyers from Phila-
delphia, accompanied by Senator Cam
eron, called upon the President and the
attorney general on Saturday,and urged
the appointment of Samuel Holdings
worth of Philadelphia, to fill the
vacancy caused by Judge McKennan's
resignation.
The 13-years-old son of Councilman
]. D. Sullivan Of Lynchburg, Va, while
walking along the street Sunday, laid
his hand on guy wire from an electric
light pole and was instantly killed. A
companion who endeavored to release
| Sullivan from the wire was knocked
| down, but escaped injury.
]. j. Barnett shot and killed Margaret
Castine, woman with whom he had
been living, in San Francisco, on Friday
night, and then fatally wounded him
self. Barnett says the woman often asked
| him to kill her, and that on Friday
night, while both were intoxicated, he
shot her through the heart and then shot
himself.
The ground in the vicinity of Port
Bowkley, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, is set
Ting and the people are becoming
| thoroughly alarmed The pillars have
been "robbed" in the upper vein of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company's colleres
and the sinking of the surface is at
tributed to this cause. The second dis
trict school, a handsome new building,
has settled eight inches and will have to
be rebuilt
The Hampden watch works, in Can
ton, Ohio, employing 1900 men, are to
resume work this week, 90 citizens OF
Canton having guaranteed payment of
| S9S,000 balance due from Mr.. Dueber
on total of $350,000 which he con
tracted for a controlling interest In the
company. This arrangement also re-
lieves the Watch Case Company, which
has assigned, Of $213,000 in claims,
which led to its embarrassment.
In view of the alleged purchase of the
Santa Fc railway by Jay Gould, aud
the consolidation of that road with the
| Missouri Pacific, the Kansas City Egen-
ina Star has had an examination made
| of the statues of Missouri on the subject
of consolidation of railroads, with the
result that sections 1868 and 2570 of the
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proceeding under the penalties of $4,000
for the first, $4,000 for the second, and
annulling of the charters of the roads
for the third offence.
Champagne county, and in fact, all
central Illinois, is, at present having the
most severe water famine ever expert
enced in the history of the state. Farm
ers in all parts of the county are COM
PEELED to either sink artesian wells or
haul water long distances for domestic
use, and those owning cattle are IN dis
| tress Observations show the rainfall
for the year to be 10 inches less than the
annual rainfall during the last 10 years,
and during the month of December the
| precipitation was but 5-100 of an inch.
John 'fierney attempted to replace a
globe of an lncandescent light which
hand become broken in a building in
Boston, on Saturday, and in so doing
took hold Of the brass ring at the small
end instead of the glass end. He re-
ceived II heavy shock which killed him
instantly, and in his fall he carried the
globe and wire with him to the floor,
the former so tightly grasped in his
hand that the wire had to be cut before
it could be removed. Tierney was 81