Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
IN GENERAL.

A warrant in insolvency has been issued
against the Eureka Silk Manufacturing
Company of Canton, Mass.
James A. Chambers, a prominent glass
manufacturer in Pittsburg, has made an
assignment No statement of liabilities or
assets is given.
The Board of Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair by a vote of 56 yeas to. ~
nays, has decided in favor Of the closing
of the Fair on Sundays.
Edward Giilis, o years old, was attacked
by six huge mastiffs, in Wheeling West
Va, on Saturday evening, and probably
fatally injured. Four Of the dogs were
killed.
JakowslSi d schiff, clothing dealers of
New York, on Saturday confessed judg-
ment for $4,000. Their liabilities are re-
ported at about 100000, and assets under
NJ Tabler has made an assignment in
Harrodsburg, Ky. He is interested in
birmingham and Florence, Ala. His
assets are nominally 100000; liabilities
unknown.
The somersworth Company, manufac-
turcrs Of hot water steam heating APP
paratus in Bloomington, ILL.,, has been
closed by the sheriff. Liabilities $4,000;
assets unknown.
Miss Nellie c. James, for many years
school teacher in Utica, N. Y, hanged her
self on Saturday. She Is said to have pos
sessed considerable means, and her rash act
is attributed to insanity.
During August the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company received 5000 more car
loads of freight from the west at Locust
Point than ever arrived there before in
any one month in the history of the road.
A dynamite cartridge placed in a sheaf
sHfx l,.fca
the destruction of a threshing machine,
near Findlay. o., on Saturday. William
Null, was killed and four others injured.
General Il. Burd Grub. our minister to
Spain, arrived in New York OH Sunday
from Havre, on the steamship La Touraine.
He was welcomed at the quarantine by a
delegation OF New Jersey Grand Army
men.
Frank Chaves, sheriff of Santa Fe
county, New Mexico, and ex-ofiicial tax
collector, has resigned. He is short $50 900,
collected by him during several years past,
$4,000 being county and $4,000 territorial
funds.
II is reported from Texas that an organi.
cation of colored cotton pickers has been
formed who have agreed not to pick cotton
for less than 81 per 100 pounds and board.
The organization numbers more than half
million members.
At Dundee, Michigan, three children in
the Gibson family and two farm hands
have died during the last week from drink
| ing water out of a polluted well. More
than twenty other persons are effected,
about half of them seriously.
w. R. Hearst, proprietor of the San
Francisco Erdtninor, contemplates the
erection of building in Washington at q
| cost of nearly S2,O00,000. 1t will be built
with view to accommodating press asso-
Citations and newspaper correspondents.
| A telegram from Atlanta Gu, says that
on Saturday night jeff. d. Stewart and
Mrs. Kennedy, while boat riding on Lake
Ponce de Leon, were drowned. Their
| companions in another boat could give no
explanation. The parties were both mar
ried and were out without knowledge to
their partners"
George b. Parks of Atlanta, Ca, who
has Just returned from Liberia, Africa,
says the American negroes there have as
| sumed the most lyrannical rule over the
natives. No part Of the ground is under
cultivation. Children there offer them
selves for sale, Parks, because he would
not deal in human flesh, was ostracised by
the negroes from America.
Parnell branch of the Irish National
League, in Nashville, Tenn, on Sunday
elected delegates to the National League
| Convention, and resolved, as the sense of
| the members, that Parnell and Mccarthy
should both retire and new leader of the
| Irish party be called to the helm. Parnell
branch has hitherto been almost lnani-
| nous for Parnell.
II is stated that the Ohio Southern will
shortly build an extension from Spring
| field to Lima q distance of 70 miles The
proposed road will traverse strip 50 miles
wide, with no north and south roads, and
tap u very fertile and wealthy country.
| Private subsidies amounting to $3.50, 900
are practically assured, and an equal sum,
it is said could be secured from townships
along the line.
The steamship Mariposa arrived at San
Francisco, on Saturday, from Australia
via Honolulu. Hon. John Dominis, Prince
Consort Of Hawaii, died August 26th from
a sudden attack of pneumonia. He had
been ill some time with govt, which
turned into inilammatory rheumatism.
| Pneumonia subsequently set in. Queen
Liliokalani was much affected by the
death Of her husband.
A mob Of strikers at Lebanon, Penna.,
| on Saturday night attacked Special Officer
james w. johnson, his son George e..
Johnson and two non-union men employed
at Lights Rolling Mill and nearly killed
the first two. The special officer Shot one
of the strikers in the shoulder. The fight
amounted TO riot, which the whole police
force had difficulty in quelling. =. Me-
l.aughlin Jesse Weller, Lewis A. Rickert
and Isaac Reed were arrested and locked up.
The family of W. A. Smith, in Overton
county, Tenn, went TO church on Sunday
night a week ago. leaving two girls, aged
II and l9years, in the house alone About
8 o'clock ncighbor saw the house in
flames and ran over just in time to see the
bodies Of the girls, both dead, lying on
the floor in the centre of downstairs
room. Their faces were covered with
blood and their clothing disordered So
fierce were the flames that the bodies could
not he rescued.
Fifteen thousand acres of ground in.
Guiding the site Of the town of Elizabeth,
KY will be sold next month. A judy
| ment was rendered in the Hardin circuit
court on December 18th, 1850, in favor OF
Paul NJ. Spofford and others of philadel.
phia against John Watson and others. the
amount involved being about $4,000
The property in question was patented bv
the state of Virginia to Nicholas Low in
1876, and the plaintiff secured his iudg,
ment in 1860 for money advanced to the
patentee.
Several years ago George Bullen & Co.
J laid private switch from the North,
western railroad tracks to their malt house
at Illinois and st. Clair streets in Chicago
despite the protests of property owners on
Illinois street. The tracks have been main,
tanned ever since, despite frequent threats
to tear them up. Shortly after Saturday
midnight about 100 men armed with crow
, bars shovels and pickaxes began the work
of destruction. While hard at il the polio,
arrived and dispersed them, arresting sew
eral of the leaders.
In the Tennessee house Of representa-
tives on Saturday,a resolution was adopted
J showing the sense of that body to be that
when the present penitentiary lease ex
pires, there should never be another made
The bill prepared by the Joint militar,
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