Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-30
IN GENERAL.

of recent ENGAGEMENTS at Huasco and also
| the report tliht' the Esiheralda fired on the
French NJ VESSEL Volta, .
The encampment of the Third Brigade
at Mt. Gretna, Pa, broke up Friday night
and the 2,6O0 troops will leave for home
to-day. Governor Pattison reviewed the
brigade Friday afternoon.
About rs northwestern Iowa firms en-
gagged in shipping grain and cattle have
decided TO institute suits against the
| Chicago Il Northwestern railroad, to re-
cover money paid las discriminating rates
during series of years.
The Lehigh Valley express train from
| Philadelphia, due at Elmira at 10.47 last
| night week, ran into Northern
Central freight train, killing the engineer,
| fatally injnring the baggage man and
slightly injuring the fireman.
The experimental free delivery service
in small towns, for which Congress at its
last session made an appropriation of
$4,000, has been established in As places,
at an aggregate annual expenditure, in
GLIDING street letter boxes, satchels, IT,, of
$685..
Michael Heller, member of a chair
manufacturing firm Of ST. Louis, last week
swore out warrant for the arrest of
Herman Il. Kehr, former bookkeeper of
| the firm, who is supposed to he in Georgia.
\ II is said that Kehr's total shortage will
reach $4,000.
A statement prepared at the Post-office
Department shows that the number of
| post-olfices in the country on June Both,
1891, was 6i,39l, as follows: First class,
llG; second class, $50; third class, 2276;
fourth class. 81, 439. This is an increase
OF 1000 offices during the year.
The engine of q passenger train on the
Bald Eagle Valley railroad ran over cow
near Howard Station, Pa, July 22d. The
engine was thrown from the track. Engi-
neer Frank Wood was killed, and Fireman
William Spiker and G. L. Wait, who was
riding on the engine, were badly hurt.
Tuberculosis has appeared among the
herds in the neighborhood Of Haines-
vile, N. j., and the state inspector has had
ten cows killed. The diaries of Benjamin
u. Hursh, William Clark and Obadiah
Beyans are afflicted with the disease, and
it is feared that the malady has spread to
other herds
| The new registration of voters in Lu
zerne county, under the act of 1891, has
been completed. The new law provides
for house to house canvass and the max
lingo an entirely new list of voters. In It's
out of 30 election districts the report
shows that nearly 1000 useless names have
been expungcd.
| lAOAh 1ftllOlb ouJo llltl lAt
whole street railway system of that city,
over so miles in length, was Thursday pur-
chased by Waller, Cook & Wagner corpor-
alton lawyers of Wall street, representa-
sives of New York and Boston syndicate,
for about S5,000,000 This will probably
end the street railway war in Detroit.
The stockholders of the Providence &
| Stoningt0n Steamship Company held a
special meeting in Providence Thursday,
l and Nf,tad IN k.af Il k,-
$500 0CO to s2000,000, and authorized the
directors to dispose of all stock not taken
at $50 per share by the stockholders. The
stockholders also voted TO build two new
steel boats
A man closely answering the description
| of Frank Amy, the murderer Of Christie
| Warden, pawned watch with the agent
at Richmond, Quebec, Monday week,
| for ticket to Montreal, and proceeded on
| has description of Almy's watch, which
| he has repaired twice. This has been sent
to Richmond to establish, if possible, a
| definite clue.
The Dominion government has received
| information that, owing to the bright crop
outlook in Manitoba and the northwest,
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
has ordered so new locomotives and 1850
box cars to transport this seasons harvest
| W tilS hctDOuIu VII LLt DuSls OI IDe bSIl-
mated yield it will require 10 trains daily
for seven months to move the crop.
The police of Hartford, Conn, have no.
titled proprietors of cigar stores that they
must close on Sunday, and the drug stores
were notified that they must discontinue
| selling cigars, Eating saloons will be al
| lowed to sell cigars to their customers. The
Italians who have been ordered to close
their stands on Sunday are said to have
| been instrumental in having the new order
issued.
Philadelphia, with a paid-in capital of
100000, has been chartered. All the
stock is held by members of the former
well-known morocco firms of Selser,
Meurer a. Co., from which Mr.. Charles A.
Meurer recently withdrew, and w. S. Fell
ton e. Co. w. S. FELTON, is president Of the
corporation; John W, Selser, vice-presi-
dent and secretary and William A. Selser,
treasurer.
"move crops" began yesterday week, the
sum of S53S,0OO in small notes being
shipped from the treasury to Cincinnati
and Chicago in exchange for deposits at
New York. According to present indica-
lions the demand will be unusually large
this year, one official estimating it at
Sl5,000,00o. The bureau of engraving and
| pllllllHB HAS IlcTtustu llS lOrCe ana IL
printing the notes as rapidly as possible.
1t is reported from Providence, Rhode
Island, that Joseph Barrigan has arranged
with Mr.. Converse to purchase rubber for
the Boston Rubber Shoe Company through
his Para house, and to sell the entire
product of the Woonsocket and Boston
companies through the same selling
agency. These large companies have been
in active competition since the liquidation
of the Boot and Shoe Selling Company in
1886. The arrangement is regarded in New
York as indicating an immediate rise in
the price of rubber boots and shoes.
In the United States circuit court at
New York, Thursday morning, Judge
Wallace allowed the appeal of the United
states Electric Lighting Company in the
Edison lamp case, and suspended the in
| junction, SO as to leave the United States
company free to manufacture and sell
lamps to its customers. The United States
company Is to file bond of $4,000 within
10 days. The judge gave as his reasons for
the decision the magnitude of the interests
involved and the delay i'll bringing suit.
| The appeal will probably be argued next
fall before the new circuit court Of appeals.
The Rapid Transit Commission IN New
York last week approved a plan for an
underground four-track railway, diverging
from the proposed Broadway line near
Fourteenth street, under Union Square, to
Fourth avenue, to Forty street
and thence westward, under such private
property and streets as shall be found
practicable. to Madison avenue, to Ninety.
sixth street, thence curving to eastward to
point east of Madison avenue. thence BY
viaduct over private property parallel to
Madison avenue to point near 134th street
and thence over the Harlem river. The
engineers have been instructed to make
surveys at once.
jeremiah Hutchinson died in Platts-
mouth Neb., Tuesday week, aged SO years.
He was member Of the Rock Bluffs cleo
ton board when Nebraska was admitted