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


copei & McNulty of New York, dealers
in ostrich feathers, made an assignment
Friday.
Beck & Co.'S salt works in ,Pittsburg
were destroyed by fire on Thursday night.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The fire at Alfalfa, Alabama, on Thurs
day destroyed whole brick block in the
centre Of the city, causing loss OF nearly |
S75, 900. lncendiarism is suspected.
The upper portion of the bronze statue
of Henry w. Grady was successfully cast |
on Thursday at the foundry OF the Ames
Manufacturing Company Mt Chicopee,
Mass.
The decomposed and almost naked body
Of John Lucas logger. was found IN the
woods near Seattle, Wash, on Thursday
morning. He is thought to have been
murdered by fellow workman.
1t has been learned that the amount
stolen by the men who held up the
Southern Pacific. express in Texas on
Tuesday was much larger than was at tirst
thought, and may reach $4,000 or over.
The Judiciary committee Of the National
Columbian Commission Friday made a
report endorsing the appeal fora S5,OOO,ooO
loan from the government and recon-
mending that Congress pass the necessary
acts.
Norris II. Smith, the sole surviving part
ner af the brokerage firm Of #. b. Wallace
e. Co., of New York, made an assignment
Friday to John P. Crawford, with a
preference of S13,400 to Harriet NJ. Beck
with of Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Montreal says that an
action for $780, 600 against Senator Ogilvie,
one of the directors Of the defunct CONSOLE
dated Bank, has been taken by the share
holders, on the ground that the, directors
are individually, as well as collectively,
responsible for the banks failure.
The emperor Of Germany has bestowed
upon DR.. w. j. Hoffman of the Bureau
OF Ethnology, Smithsonian institution,
the decoration of the Royal Order of the
Crown. Dr.. Hoffman served in the
Franco-Prussian war. and is the fourth
American who has received this decora-
ton.
The business failures during the last
week numbered for the United States
1877, and for Canada 20, u total of 2l7, as
compared with 226 last week and PIG the
week previous. For the corresponding
week OF last year the figures were 2o3, rep
resenting l67 failures in the United States
and SO in the Dominion of Canada.
Harmon Murray, notorious colored
outlaw who has deiied the authorities of
Alochua county, Florida, for nearly a
year, was shot and killed Friday morn
| ing by Handy Early, colored lad of II
years. Murray had killed seven men, and
a reward of $1,000 was offered for his cap
tnre, alive or dead.
The early closing down Of the lumber
mills ut the head of Lake Superior is re-
ported as probable, the cause being the
lack of logs in the Aminincon and Middle
rivers. Twelve million feet of logs were
frozen together SO solidly in the spring
that before they were thawed the water be-
came too low to raft.
A dispatch from Fall River, Mass, says
| the manufacturers deny that there is any
desire on their part to break existing con-
tracts by determining to reduce wages. "A
| majority of contracts now held by print
cloth mills will have run out by October,
and there was no prospect to renew them
at this time at fair prices"
The B. v. Page Company, oil and lard
re6ners in Chicago, made an assignment
Friday. The assets as scheduled mainly
consist of stock for S205,000, bonds for
$4,000 and amounts of outstanding ac-
counts Liabilities, 100000. The assign,
ment was caused by the recent failure OF
the Columbia Oil Company.
| ]. Eggleston's steam yacht ;Albatross is
reported to have been wrecked on the
rocks of Gull Island, on the Newfound
land coast. The yacht had large party
of guests on board, all of whom were
safely landed excepting DIR. J. b. Eggles
ton, the only son of the owner, who is be
lieved to have been drowned.
The Norristown Steel Company, at Nor
ristown, Pa, made its first heat OF stee
Friday. The operation was successful
The open hearth process is used in the two
furnaces thus far erected. The company
will use the new process of making steel
direct from the ore. The enterprise give
employment TO about 100 men.
The president of the West End Passen
ger Railway Company of Boston Frida,
announced to the employees that he wa
satisfied he had been mistaken in his inter
probation of the agreement with the EN-
Iloyes and that the company woul'
tarrange the timetables in accordanc!
with the agreement as now understood
with the least possible delay"
Adyices received at st. Paul, Mimi, iron
members of the Glazier expedition stat
that the party has discovered two tribu
taries to Elk Lake at the head-waters o
7 the Mississippi, which are not laid dow
Gated at Camp frost, on the shore of tn
Elk Lake, and surveying parties are notin
the depth. velocity, length and other pr
culiarites of all Mississippi river feeders
, A dispatch from st Louis states that tn
Interstate Commerce Commission has rer
dcred an important decision regarding th
separate coach laws of Texas. The dec
! sion is given in the case Of negro pun
: chasing chair car ticket from Louisian
l to Texas, and who was transferred to tn
SEPARATE coach when he reached Texai
/ He claimed the Federal law had been vic
= lated, and the commission sustained hin
saving that the Texas law affects loo;
{ state transportation only
: Louis Bulling, who was under sentenc
y of death for wife murder, and whose ham
. ing was fixed for Friday, Mt Savannah
! No, shot himself in vain attempt
/ suicide Covered with blood he W,
g dragged, struggling and blaspheming. I
the gallows and had to be held while tt
r rope was adjusted His neck was broke
!, by the fall. One of his spiritual adviser
: the Rev Mr., Lavake, was arrested charge
:, with having given Bulling the revolv'
q with which he attempted suicide.
. Last Friday two trains at the Brookly
J end of the New York and Brooklyn Bridi
cullided and three persons were iniure
Mrs. w. G. Bolton, wife. of q Brookly
:, druggist, and Mrs. DR.. Frank +. Carpe
> ter. also of that city, who were seated
- Mrs. Bolton was seriously injured int
!, naily and Mrs. Carpenter received CO.
y cussion Of the brain. John Fitzpatric
I, the brakeman, of the train, had his II
y broken.
a The National Columbian Commissio
o. at Chicago, Friday, reconsidered res
Y, luton heretofore passed for the appoin
le rlent of committee to recommend &c
h. tain notifications of the tariff law in u
A. in the interests of the exposition, il beil
" stated that the rules Of the Treasury D
ID partment provided fully for that matte
r. and that the resolution had been misco
to strued as an attack upon the Mckinl'
err bill. A resolution was Unanimously pass
III pledgng the commission to take up Al
e. consider the Sunday closing question.
W soon as it should properly come befo
that body.