Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-01
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
An Advance of 20 per cent in
Plate Glass.
NATIONAL ALLIANCE MEETING
SawteiIe Convicted of MUIR
dering His Brother.


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| Over 100 consumptives are under treat
ment by the Koch method in New York
hospitals.
The piano and organ store of Peck &
Curtis, at Red Bank, New Jersey, was dam
| aged to the extent of $4,000 by fire ON
last night week
Frank Il. Dickinson and Minnie Brund-
age were drowned at Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan, on last night week, while skating
on mill pond.
Maggie Murphy, aged 10 years. had a
/ quarrel with Edward McDermott at a
party, in Jersey City, Thursday and crushed
his skull with an axe.
Sawtelle was found guilty of murder in
the first degree in Dover, n H., Thursday,
and was sentenced to be hanged on the
first Tuesday in January 1892.
II is reported that the five negroes who
were arrested in Mecklenburg county, Va.
on Saturday night, for the murder Of DR..
p. Il. Reagan, were taken from Jail and
| lynched,
J. E. Brady shot and killed ]. C. Colcutt,
q private watchman, in Norfolk, Va, early
Thursday morning, because he refused to
arrest man who had been offensive to
| Brady.
A syndicate of New York capitalists has,
within the last few days, purchased for
1000, gold, the sugar plantation and
factory known as San Ramon, one of the
largest in Cuba.
The coasting schooner Katie arrived at
| Victoria, British Columbia, Thursday, hav-
ing ON board the captain and crew of the
wrecked bark Atlanta which went down
during the recent gales.
The, large dry goods firm Of Henry Else
man a Company, in Council Bluffs, Ia,
| failed Thursday morning. The liabilities
are reported at 500, 900, the assets at $780,
900. The firm expects to resume business.
The Varwig Manufacturing Companys
building in Cincinnati, was damaged by
tire Thursday morning. The plant was
destroyed, but the building is believed to
be intact. Loss $4,000 covered by insllr-
ance.
Michael Gallwan, proprietor Of livery
stable in New York, shot and killed James
Bummings, 81 years old, Thursday. and
also shot Edward Hurley in the left cheek.
Gallwan claims that he did the Shooting in
self defence.
The Spanish bark Felo, at Brunswick.
Ga, from Havana Thursday, had on
board the captain, his wife and the crew Of
the bark Fred E. Richards, from Philadel-
phia for Havana. They were picked up
from an open boat.
The supreme court of Michigan has de-
clded as unconstitutional the law passed bv
tive voting for representatives to the state
legislatiyes in districts where more than
one member was TO elected.
ALI the western switchmen have agreed
to accept the compromise offered hy the
railroads. under which they will be divided
into two classes, according to the point nj
which they work, the first class to receive
the Chicago scale of wages. and the second
class to receive 50 per month less
The, railroad law of Michigan which
provides that all roads in Michigan whose
gross passenger earnings are s3,000p per mile
per annum are limited to 2 cents a mile;
those whose earnings are between 5000
and $4,000, q cents, and all others cents,
has been affirmed by the state supreme
court.
William Strong, aged % years, while
taking part in Santa Claus entertainment
in the Bingham and Thirteenth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsburg
ON last evening week, was arrested on
the charge of having robbed his former
employers, Schuette 4 Co., of 81 900.
The executive council of the Farmers
Alliance has perfected the insurance planh
of the order. Circulars will be sent out
after the holidays. Only persons eligible
to membership in the Alliance can insure
in the Alliance. The executive council is
SRRosea S8tS. % calling a convention on January
The miners of the Central Pennsylvania
tbhi iVSiOllH nave 6GINtu lOllCe OH IlG coal
operators, demanding change in the
price of mining from so cents gross ton to
30 cants net tom and new working scale
of prices, which they want to go into effect
on the LIST Of January. If the demands
not granted, the men, to the number
l5,UO, will it is said, quit work on the fiji
of the year.
meeting of plate-glass manufacturers
and iobbers will soon be held in Pittsburr.
At the recent New York meeting it was de-
cided to advance prices % per cent, but
since then western men have made stand
tention Of the fraternal combine is to keep
at the highest figures possible,
and at the same time keep it low enough
to shut out all Importation
The Kansas board of railroad conmis-
sioners have rendered a decision in the
case OF j. X. Mayberry of Emporia against
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis,
holding that the company must furnish
ears to transport coal, even though the
haul over its line to the connecting line is
not sufficient to pay the expenses. 1t is the
first decision of the board on this point.
and was bitterly fought by the railroad
The proposed combination of the TO-
1acco warehouses in Louisville and Gin
'innati will, it is stated, probably prove
allure. The articles of incorporation
we're filed some time ago and an organiza-
ion effected, but it does not seem possible
o carry the plan through. The deeds by
which the various warehouses were con-
eyed to the combination have been nulli-
led by deeds which reconvey the same
roperties to the original owners
The bureau of American republics has
eeeived information of the organization
corporation in Brazil with a capital OF
O,OOo0oO, large part of which has been
lrnished by bankers and merchants OF
urope and the remainder by local i'm
estors. The object of this corporation is
J establish 20 agricultural settlements
pom the public lands of Brazil which ara
ven free of cost by the government to
le enterprise.
The house of Samuel Malone, in Holden.
o., was burned Thursday morning. AS
e iiremen arrived on the scene one side
the house fell ont, and by the light of
e fire they saw Mr.. Malone and John
icks, his brother-in-law, crawling to-
ards door i'll their bedroom, attempt-
e TO escape, Then roof fell in, and the
lfnrtunate me n were hidden from sight,
leir charred bodies were POUNDS in the
ms 1t is believed Malone and Hicks
ere druggcd, the house robbed and then
on fire.
The legislative committee Of the National
lance will meet in Washington In Teb-
ary. Thirty-tiye states will be rr,,n,.
nted and the Third party movement Nh
acted upon. President McGrath N tl,s
lnsas Alliance, says: f1he mnvsuic,
II eventually embrace all lie ialor
sanizations in the United states IN
It, about II Of them ARE ry,umi.tr,lt,,st
W, except the grange and plr4t AZ ~,