Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-24
TN GENERAL.

OF brooklyn, N. ", committed suicide
in Harrisburg, Pa, Thursday by drown
ing himself.
The payments of the Treasury De-
partment ON account Of pensions so far
during the month of September aggre-
gate $6,557, 900.
Nichols & Moul, felt hat manufac-
turers in Danbury, Conn, made an as
signment Thursday. Their liabilities
and assets are not known.
Col. H. Clay King. convicted in Men,
phis, Tenn, of the murder of David II.
Posten, was Thursday sentenced to be
hanged on November 9th.
The Bank Of Lyons, Kansas, made an
assignment Wednesday week. The notice
of suspension says it is believed the as
sets will equal the liabilities.
The Rio Grande National Bank of
Laredo, Texas, has suspended. II is said
the depositors will be paid in full and
that all the banks obligations will be
met in time.
Charles j. Kirschner Of Toledo, Ohio,
was Thursday elected supreme treasurer
Of the Catholic Knights Of America at
Chattanooga, to succeed the defaulting
treasurer, O'Brien.
Edward Albertson, the defaulting
secretary Of the Fidelity Trust Company
of Tacoma, Washington, has been ar
rested in Gardiner, Ore, with Frederick
Chandler, his accomplish.
Mayor Grant Thursday nominated
and the board of health confirmed
Thomas S. Brennan to be street clean
ing commissioner for New York, to
succeed Hans s. Beattie, removed
The survivors Of the One Hundred
and Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers, held reunion at Asbury
Park, n. j., Thursday, Gen. Turner L
Morehead, the old commander of the
regiment, presided at the camp fire"
that night.
j. w. Montgomery, on Wednesday
week, shot and killed Miss May Adams,
in Woodland, CAL, and then committed
suicide. The superstition is that the
murder and suicide is the result of q re-
fusal on the part Of the girls parents to
permit their marriage
Sir Henry Tyler, who was in Kings
ton, Ont, Thursday, said that ii would
be some years yet before the double
tracking of the Grand Trunk Railway,
between Montreal and Toronto, would
be completed, and that over sixty miles
CT the line have still to be contracted for.
The Society of the Army Of the Cum.
berland held its 22d annual reunion in
Columbus, O., Thursday. The following
officers were chosen: President, General
w. 5. Rosecrans; Corresponding Secre-
tary, General M. NJ. Cist; Recording
Secretary, General j. w. Steele; Urea.
surer, General J. 5. Fullerton.
The examination by an expert of the
books OF NJ. J. O'Brien, absconding
treasurer of the Catholic knights o.
America, was finished in Chattanooga
on Wednesday week. The defalcatiou
is slightly in excess of S7l 900. The
Fidelity and Casualty Company of New
York are o'Brien's bondsmen for $50,
600. Nothing is known of his where
abonts.
A dispatch from Denver, Col, says
that ex-senator Tabor has received az
order from the supreme court of Mexico
giving him possession of Endiwig golt
mine, over which he has had severa
years litigation. The mine is located n
Jesus Marih, and has produced already
from $l0,000,000 TO $15,000,000 Of gold
The ore assays 5000 to the ton, and il
still good for millions.
The Flour City Bank, OF Rochester
N. ", Thursday morning levied ON tn,
property Of the James Wick (seedsmen
Corporation, on a chattel mortgage 70
$4,000, held as collateral security. Tn,
liabilities of the corporation are esti
thought the assets will more than cove
| Tnt AFta1. Mill n.
business on smaller scale. An appli
cation for receiver was to have beef
made Thursday afternoon.
Baldwin u Backer, merchants of Geor
gia, have obtained judgment in tn
supreme court, in New York, agains
the Baldwin Fertilizer Company o
Georgia, and Benjamin Einstein, the as
signee of Abraham Backcr, for SAP 90
on l19 notes. These notes belonged t
the customers of the Baldwin Fertiize
Company, and were payable to til
plaintiffs, who forwarded them I
Backer TO discount, before his assign
ment, and at present are held by tn
assgnees.
A decree entered by Judge Collins, i
Chicago, Thursday, in the suit brough
by Frederick Harvey, restraints the Al
Gibson, Topeka IS Santa Fe rairoa
from running or operating dining car
upon its road west of the Missouri rive
Harvey has number of eating house
along the defendants road, and had
contract 10 supply its passengers wit
meals and lunch. But, as he asserts, i
violation of the contract, the compan
undertook TO run dining cars from CHI
cago to Denver, to compete with tn
Rock Island road.
Colonel Samuel B. Pickens died {
his home in Charleston, South Carolini
Thursday, aged so years. During til
war he commanded the Twentieth Reg
ment Of Alabama Infantry, Confederat
Army, being probably the younge;
colonel in the service, the rank {
colonel having been conferred on hil
when he was % years old. He was
all the battles fought by his regimen
except when wounded, and surrendere
4 at Appomattox, Since the war he 10
lowed railroad pursuits, being at I'll
time of his death general freight an
passenger agent of the south Carolin
e. Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicae
Railroad Companies.
). Galliyotti, superintendent of Il
s Derbes Drift Mine, was murdered /
& highwaymen Thursday morning viii
J. driving to Nevada, California, vii
5 $4,000 in gold bars from the mine. Ga
i livotti and j. d. Ostrom were togeth,
e in two-horse wagon ascending riv
i grade when they were fired upon fro
= the bank above and Galllvotti W,
I killed. A second shot was fired, whiC
e entered the neck of one of the horse
! but Ostrom, holding the dead and blee,
ing body Of his companion, whipped u
team beyond the reach of the robber
He left the body at hotel on the rout
!. hid the bullion in the bush, and rode