Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-29

The Minnehaha Hotel, at Hot Springs
South Dakota, was entirely destroyed by
fire on Thursday, involving loss Of
$4,000.
A. 8. Bacon, superintendent of the Rich
mond Paper Company, at Richmond, Vir-
glnia, was crushed TO death in an elevator
Friday.
From two to four inches of snow fell at
Worcester, Mass, Friday, this being the
earliest snow of the season in that vicinity
since 1876.
| The Searles will case was ended at Salem,
Mass, on Saturday. Judge Harmon sus-
tanned the will Counsel for the contest
ants gave notice of an appeal
| So many Huns and negroes have arrived
| at the coal mines in the vicinity of Pitts
burg, that the striking miners are said to
be thoroughly alarmed at the prospect.
Mrs. MARKETABLE Booth-Clibborn, com
mander-in-chief of the Salvation Army in
France and Switzerland arrived at New
York Sunday on the steamer Columbia.
The Indiana Farmers Alliance, at In
dianapolis, adopted resolutions endorsing
the st. Louis and 0eala platforms and
favoring Prohibition and woman suffrage.
The 125th anniversary of American
Methodism was celebrated Sunday in the
Old John Street Church (the first church
Of that denomination in this country, in
New York.
Every liquor dealer in Bar Harbor,
Maine including the proprietors of summer
restaurants, has been indicted by the
grand jury for alleged violation Of the
liquor laws.
The 10 negroes convicted of the murder
of Mornton Nance, and sentenced to be
hanged at Laurens, S. c., Friday, have
been reprieved, pending an appeal to the
supreme court.
a lspatch from Columbus, s. c., says
thai 9bert ID. Morton, who in August last
was eated at the Pasteur Institute, New
York died Sunday with all the symp-
toms Of hydrophobia.
Eugene f. Garcia, paying teller of the
Louisiana National Bank, at New Orleans,
Is SAID to have confessed to series of de-
faleations, covering a period of 10 years
and amounting to 100000.
A dispatch from Caddo Indian Terri
tory, says that Jackson Fletcher was not
shot Friday. HE has once more been
respited for one week.-Mrs. time it is to
allow him to visit his relatives
Russian Jewish immigrant, who
landed at the barge office in New York
Sunday, surprised the immigrant in
speetors by producing S2550o when asked
as to ability to take care of himself.
1t was "authoritatively" announced in
Washington on Sunday that DR.. Won Hol-
leben, German minis n to Japan, has
been appointed minister to the United
States to succeed Count Arco Valley, de-
ceased.
The Kansas Farmers Alliance at Salina
Kansas, Friday decided to become part
of the National Union Company of New
York, "a gigantic cooperative scheme
An insurance cooperative plan was also
adopted.
In the trial at Los Angeles, CAL, of
Trumbull, Burt and Captain O'Farrell
charged with fitting out and armiug the
ltata to cruise against the government of
Chill, the government, on Saturday, closed
its case.
In the libel suit of Ignatius Donnelly
against the Pioneer Press for 100000 dam
ages a jury in Minneapolis, Mimi, ON
Saturday night, brought in verdict of 81
for the plaintiff and allowed him IS for
counsel fees.
Chancellor Snow, of the State Uniyer-
sity OF Kansas, read d paper before the
American Health Association at Kansas
City on Thursday on the extinction of the
clinch bug by the propagation of q deadly
disease among them.
The New York superintendent of bank
ing has issued statement relative to the
Ulster County Savings Institution, indicat-
ing that the present assets are capable of
paving at least 80 per cent on deposits, pro-
vided time is given. He suggested also a
plan for resumption.
Logan Murphy was sentenced at Louis
vile on Thursday to be hanged at Salyers-
vile, Ky, January sth, he having been
convicted of the murder of his father. The
sheriff Of Salyersyille saws he will resign
rather than hang Murphy.
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Short Line was Friday sold to George
W. Wickersham and A. S. Garettson Of
Sioux City, representing the Manhattan
Trust Company for 5000, 600. 1t is under
stood the road was purchased in the in
terest of the Great Northern.
Spanish fever has broken out at the
Cincinnati stock yards. A dispatch says
that "a novel remedy has been applied to
the sick cattle with apparent success; it is
that Of saving off the horns" The treat
ment has not been tested long enough Ito
determine its ultimate result.m
Postmaster johnson, of Baltimore, hav-
ing made protest against Civil Commits
sloner Roosevelts criticisms of his office,
Postmaster-general Wanamaker has given |
that the whole matter Be in
vestigated by the department inspectors,
and two of them are now engaged in that |
work.
Captain Rodgers the Worlds Fair com
missioner, now in Brazil, reports that
the estimates OF the appropriations |
presented to the Brazilian congress by the |
government was an item Of S550,0oO, for |
the federal exhibit at the Columbian ex-
position. This is in addition to the various
state appropriations.
A dispatch from Halifax says that of the |
1850 seals caught in Behring Sea this
season, q 900 were taken by is Nova Scotia
schooners fishing in that water. 1.-THE re-
suits have been so encouraging that Nova
scotia capitalists are now fitting out fleet
ot ten vessels TO proceed to the Pacific and
engage in next seasons fishery"
K. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade says that the business failures occur
ring throughout the country during the
last seven days number for the United
states 207, and for Canada So, or a total of
80 as compared with $50 last week and
s10 the week previous to the last. For the
week of last year the figures
were 20, representing FOB failures in the
United States and y in the Dominion of
canada.
A dispatch from Newport, r. T.. saws
hat heavy storm prevailed there Fri
lay morning, doing considerable damage
o small craft in the bay. Before daybreak
he severe north-easterly wind was accom-.
'anied by hail and snow, followed by
heavy ram. Steamers plying on the bay in
his vicinity discontinued all trips until
noon, owing to the heavy sea. No fatalities
ire reported, but several small vessels have
zone ashore.
A cablegram has been received at the
lavy department from Captain Schley,
commanding the United Stases cruiser
Baltimore, at Valparaiso, Chill, giving de-
ais of the fight between the American
nd CHILEAN sailors, in which one of the
ormer was killed. From this dispatch il
ppears that the surgeons of the Baltimore
re unanimous in the opinion that some of
he wounds inflicted on our sailors prere h,.