Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-09
IN GENERAL.


Desha county, Arkansas, is missing. lie
is short in his accounts about $4,000.
Clarence Busbee, assistant treasurer of
the Buena Vista Saddle and Harness Com
pany, IN Lexington, Virginia. has disap-
peared. His accounts are short.
At Brerfield, Ala, yesterday week, DR..
G. b. Grove shetland fatally wounded b. /.
Glass, a prominent citizen. The trouble
grew out of remark made by Glass.
The Right Rev. Mhelbert Talbot mis-
sionary Bishop of Western Idaho and wy.
omng, was last week elected Bishop of
Georgia by the Protestant Episcopal Do
cesar Convention.
The Asbury Park National Bank, at AS
bury Park, New Jersey, was closed yester-
day week by order OF the comptroller
of the currency. Impairment OF Its capl-
tai is assigned as the cause.
The coroner's jury, in New York, in the
case of Theodore Larbig, found last night
week that death was caused by pistol
shot, fired by Darwin Meserole and that
Mrs. Comstock was an accessory to the
killing.
The strike of the $50 cloakmakers of
Landesman, fleischeimer e. Co., ut Lou
don, Ohio, was settled Tuesday week by A.
W. Wright Of the general executive board
of the Knights Of Labor. who went from
Columbus for the purpose.
New York card sharpers Tuesday week
drove from Saratoga to Ballston and
buncoed Eli Rathrick, farmer, out of
5000. Later they dined at White Sui
phur Springs and then, driving to Way
VILE. caught Fitchburg train and es-
capped.
The President last week approved the
rules and regulations prepared by the
Civil Service Commission, which, from
October list next. will govern in the ap-
pointment of Indian agency physicians,
| superntcndents, assistant superintendent,
teachers and matrons of Indian schools.
William Mizener wealthy farmer Of
| West Salem township, near Grcenville,
| Pa, was buncoed out of $1,000 last week
| by two confidence mon, who succeeded in
| getting him to play three-card monte.
Mizener did not have much cash at home,
and the party induced him to come to the
bank and get the money.
1t is understood that President Harrison
| will appoint William II. Simonds of Hart
| ford, Connecticut, to be commissioner of
| of patents, vice Charles Il. MITCHELL re-
| signed Mr. Simonds is member of the
firm of Simonds ~ Burdette of Hartford
and represented the First district of Con-
necticut in the last Congress
Governor Pattison has appointed Miss
Mary $. Garrett of Chester to be member
of the commission TO select Il site and erect
suitable home for the training in speech
| of deaf children under the school age,
vice John Il. Lewis The commission or
ganized yesterday week by electing Gov.
Pattison president and Mr.. Megargee Sec
rotary.
The commissioner of pensions has re-
ceived reports from pension agents giving
the unexpended balance Of pension funds
in their hands at the close of business June
Both. All have not yet reported, but the
indications are that the balance in the
hands of agents will be about S5000,000.
Under the law the balance unexpended is
turned into the treasury.
The Pixies Peak railway in Colorado is
now in operation, the first passenger train
having gone to the summit on Tuesday
week. The lower terminus Of the line
is $500 feet above the sea level, the upper
li.l47. The distance is nine miles and the
steepest grade in 40 The style of the
road and arrangement of the engine and
cars resemble those on the Mount Wash
ington railway in New Hampshire.
DIR, !. |. Kinyoun Of the Marine Hos
pital, arrived at New York last week. The
doctor was sent to Berlin last December
under special commission Of President
Harrison with instructions TO study the
operations of the Koch lymph. After in
vestigating this matter thoroughly DR.
Kinyoun visited Paris and studied with
Pasteur. The doctor will proceed to Wash
ington and take charge of the Bacterlo-
logical Laboratory in the Marine Hos
pital
Daniel Burch, colored, aged IS years, at
tempted to fcloniously assault young
woman, whose room he entered near
Blnifton, Georgia, on, Sunday week
Being captured he confessed his guilt. A
mob of 30 men took him from the sheriff,
and after horribly mutiatinG him with /.
pocket knife, strung him to a tree and
riddled him with bullets. Brush had
served five years term in the pcniten-
tiary for an offence similar to that which
cost him his life.
1t is learned that the western sales
agents of the anthracite coal companies,
decided that the July output be limited TO
3,OOO,000 tons and that the July circular
be us follows: For free burning coal, free
on board, net--ljroken, $3.50; egg, 1915;
stove, 81 chestnut, 1878, and no coal to
be sold for less. .Iuly's schedule for the
east provides for an increase Of 10 cents a
ton on egg and chestnut coal and 10 cents
on stove grades, CRATE being unchanged.
Secretary Rusk said last week that tho
results of the pork inspections at Chicago
have been very satisfactory. The proper
ton of animals found effected Ia less than
was expected, and he believes less than
exists in the hogs of any other country.
Our pork, he continued is themost whole.
some of any produced. in the world
because our hogs are raised under the hes,
sanitary conditions. They are not confined
TO small pens and filthy quarters, as in
other countries, but they have the run OF
large fields and are led upon clover and