Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-06
~ GENER.tL.

The President has issued proclamation
announcing the ratification of the treaty
OF reciprocity with Spain.
About 800 clerks were dismissed from
the census Office on Friday and other dis
missas will follow until the force has been
reduced TO 900, ut which point it will be
maintained for some months.
Secretary Tracy has decided to award
the contract for building Cruiser No. IL to
Cramp ~ Sons at S269O,00O. This vessel
is to have guaranteed speed Of q knots
for four hours on the open sea.
A telegram from 1liddlesborough, KY.
says that Il syndicate of English and
American capitalists has Just purchased
100000 acres Of land Immediately north of
that section in southeastern Kentucky,
and almost adjoining the property Of the
American Association, limited. The land
contains valuable coking coal, iron and
other minerals. The average price paid is
Sll per acre.
Passengers who arrived in New York
on Friday on the steamship portia, from
Halifax, say that the closing of the lob
ster canning factories on the west coast of
Newfoundland has created perfect panic
among thousands Of workmen formerly
employed in thep, and they are actually
starving. They say Ito report OF the con-
ditlon of affairs could be exaggerated
During a terrible thunder storm at Dry
Ran In Franklin county, Pa, On Thurs
day night, four children, Denny, Harvey
and Annie skinner and acolored boy, took
refuge in barn belonging to the father of
the skinner children. The building was
struck by, lightning, killing Annie and
Harvey Skinner instantly and seriously
stunning the other two. The barn was
destroyed.
The Northeastern Miller gives the flour
output of go merchant mills with l5i, 255
barrels daily capacity, for June, as /, T67, $50
barrels. The ratio Of -four ground for the
month to the barrel of capacity Ql.9
hnrrels) vas two-tenths Of barrel ahead
OF June, 100, though the lowest of any
month since August Nearly all the most
important grppps of mills show lighter
running than IL May last,
uislateli rom Topeka, Kan. says
that, although cars have been generally
distributed By the railroads, but very little
Wheat is flowing eastward from that state
Alliance leaders attribute this to the circu-
lar sent out from Washington, advising
farmers to hold their grain. Grain dealers
declare this is not so, but insist that the
reason is that the wheat Is yet in shock
drying and that the little that has come in
is damp and musty and unfit for -four. In
the southern part of tho state, where the
yield was the greatest. wheat has been
thrashed, and Just enough has been sold to
pay pressing debts, while the bulk has
been put iii storehouses to await higher
prices.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road has issued instructions to its agents as
follows: You will at once call attention Of
coal dealers to the fact that If they do not
lay in their winters supply within the
next six or eight weeks, it is almost GER
tain that there will he great suffering from
lack of fuel before the winter is over. Last
year, in the face of the comparatively light
crop, western railroads were unable TO
supply the demand for cars. From infor-
NATION now at hand it is evident that
within the next two months the demand
for cars will be greater than we can supply
"a car famine is highly probable Not
wthstanding the fact that we are ncreas-
ing our equipment as rapidly as possible, it
is not likely that we will be able to supply
our stations with fuel unless dealers pro-
vide for the inevitable emergency.
Patrick Toohey, a dissolute fellow in
Milwaukee, has confessed the shooting and
attempted robbery of August Grothe,
street car driver, on the evening of Novem-
Der list, iSS3-a crime for which two young
MEN served about three years in the state
prison at Waupnn. The shock of the
shooting caused Mrs. Grothe, the wife Of
the wounded driver, to become a ,unatic,
and eventually killed her. Grothe him
self who is now in Chicago. has been
mental wreck ever since the shooting, the
bullet having lodged in his head after de-
stroyng the sight of one eye, and Mahlon
McDonough one of the men convicted of
the crime died as a result of his contne-
by Governor Rusk. Toohey now says
neither of the men convicted had any
thing to do with the crime; that lie alone
did the shooting,