Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16

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an invitation to visit Atlantic City.
The county site election in Franklin
county, Ala, OH Monday. was very quiet.
Russelyille got the court house.
Since the conclusion of the reciprocity
treaty with the United States, the flour
manufacturers in Brazil have consolidated
for mutual protection.
The total value of exports of domestic
mineral oils for the ~ months ended June
Both, 1891 was Sol .3l3, 453 and for 1890 the
figures were $50, S5i ,522.
Reports from 3S counties in Kansas show
that mortgages on farms were paid off in
June to the amount of s7Si, 1852, while new
ones were filed for S47361i,
The domestic breadstuffs exported from
the United States during the year ended
June Both, lS0l, were valued at 1923, l56,-
AIS. In 1880 the value was $l50,690,033.
Five masked burglars entered the house
of William Foster, farmer, in Franklin
township, Fayette county, Pa, ON Satur-
day night and forced him TO give up his
savings Of 20 years, amounting to $500.
Secretary Blaine said on Monday: 1.-THE
sensational reports about my health sent
TO the press all over the country are lies.
| am not a sick man. They have magni-
fled slight illness into something very
serious.
Ralph T.. Langston, son of ex-Congress-
man Langston of Virginia was committed
in default Of 81 900 bail by Recorder Smyth
in New York on Monday He is charged
with abduction and inveiglement by Miss
Helen Won Croft of Brooklyn
The Sucialistic Labor party and Single
Tax League IN Boston have been refused
permission to hold meetings on Boston
Common by the city government. A peti.
| ton has been drawn up demanding the
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Near Kilkenny, Mimi, Monday during
n funeral procession, team drawing a
wagon containing six persons ran away.
smashing the vehicle. Daniel McCauley,
aged 20 years, and Mrs. Young DAILY, aged
| &c. We're fatally injured. The others were
badly bruised
During Forepaugh's circus performance
| in Lyons, Iowa OH Monday afternoon
| William llanlon, one of the famous Han
lon brothers, was by the breaking of a
| trapeze bar, thrown 30 feet to the ground
aud instantly killed, His neck was broken.
Hanlon was 81 years old. English, and
leaves wife sick in New York, Hanlon
once before fell 10 feet in the Academy of
Music, New York, but escaped death. He
had performed in all the principal cities Of
Europe.
p. W. Barney, superintendent of the
Lake Champlain Transportation Com
pany, lost his life near Fourteen Mile
Island, in Lake George. on Sunday. His
little son fell into the lake and he plunged
ashore when it was fonnd that Mr.. Bar
ney's forehead had been crushed in by a
projecting rock, which he must have
struck under the water. and he died
shortly afterwards. The boy was unin-
jured Mr.. Barney was about i5 years OF
age.
AT Winona, Mimi, nearly two years
I ft,,. Att.h fnr l.
keeper of the old Huff House, committed
suicide. After her death about sl2, 600 In
gold coin was found concealed about falce
bottoms in her trunks. and the money
was paid over to her heirs in Sweden. Last
Saturday evening her executor had his at
tention drawn to an old piano stool that
had been used by Lena, and on taking il
to pieces there was found further sum OF
$4,000 in money which she had evidently
slowed away. 1t is now believed that she
stole the money, and that it belongs 10
Colonel Cockrell, former proprietor OF the
HUFF House. A law suit Is expected.
The Hannah Alassa Jewelry Supply
Company in St. Louis Monday received {
telegram from Chicago saying that the
watch trust had gone to pieces under tn,
action of the Illinois ANTITRUST law. Thu
watch trust" was the jobbers' associa
ton Of manufacturers of American
watches, and comprised every large watch
case manufacturing concern i'll the coun
, try. The dissolution was caused by tn
withdrawal of the Elgin Company, which
being an Illinois corporation, was amen
: able to the new law. This was followet
by the withdrawal of others, until tn
trust crumbled out of existence. The dis
solution was also fastened by the with
drawal and suit of the Joseph Fahy Watcl
: Company, recently which first exposed tn
, inside working of the trust.
On Saturday afternoon Hard Bros.
Co., of Oneida, New York, spring be-
manufacturers, failed, owing the Strak
2 Co., bank Of the same place $4,000. The,
secured the bank in the sum of S20,0W
Q leaving a deficit of $4,000 unsecured. o.
: Monday morning r. NJ. Bingham e. Co., G
D Rome, New York manufacturers of car
+ riages, sleighs, saddlery and trunks, close
its doors, they said, for an inventory.
t They owe the bank 81, 800 On Monda
q morning the bank at Oneida also closed il
i doors, but has made no assignment as ye
e The liabilities of Hard Bros g. Co., will b
S about Si25,oO0; of Il NJ. Bingham & Co
Y about SIPS 600 (estimated). X. NJ. Bingham
of Rome, with Il. $. Strak Of Oneida, CON
posed the banking firm. II was organize
in 1875 with $4,000 capital stock and at
# late report had s67, 900 surplus. 1t is sal
d that the Bingham g. Co., wagon firm wi
5, be able to pay fair dividend if IL,