Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-01
NEWS FOR QUICK PERUSAL
Idaho's SenatorS-EleCt Pre-
pared for the Oath.
THREAD MAKERS BACK AT WORK
Aroher's Sureties Liable for
His Defalcation.
Justice Brown COnfirmed--Hotel Seized
For Debts--Fought His Family With a
Pistol--A Bride Hangs Herself.

Caspar Wright, retail shoe dealer of
Petersburg, Va, assigned Monday.
Liabilities, $4s, 1000; assets, $4,000.
The Senate, on Monday, confirmed
Judge Brown to be associate justice of
the Supreme Court Of the United States
The Manhattan Clothing Company Of
Kansas City made assignment on Mon
day. Liabilities about $4,000; assets
about the same.
Montgomery & Co., auctioneers of
| New York, made an assignment Mon
day without preferences. The firms
capital is stated at 100000.
George Waller was gagged and robbed
In room at the Union Depot Hotel,
Kansas City, early on Monday morning
by two men. The robbers escaped.
E. j. A. Howard & Co., dealer in
ladies' goods and umbrellas, in Boston,
made an assignment on Monday. The
liabilities and assets were not given.
The sheriff Monday took possession
of the large summer hotel Arverne-by-
the-Sea, known as the Hotel Arverne, at
Far Rockaway, Long Island. 1t was
built two years ago, at n cost OF nearly
$250,000.
Receivers were appointed on Monday
for the Argus Company of Jersey City.
The appointments were made upon the
application of Charles S. Clark, Jr., the
manager Of the insolvent company.
The liabilities amount to about 800 900.
The Rev. James d. Paxton, son of
DR.. William Paxton, d. d., LII. D., of
Princeton Theological Seminary, and
graduate of Princeton, has accepted the
call to the 'pastorate of the West Spruce
Street Presbyterian Church, Philadel-
phia.
A large fire was raging in the princi-
pal business block of Burlington, Iowa,
Monday. Wyman g. Rand's furniture
and carpet house and the West End
clothing store were burned and other
buildings were in danger. The loss was
estimated at over 100000.
The carriage house and other out
buildings on the "Boscobel" Place, near
Peekskill, New York, formerly the
summer house of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, but now owned and occupied
by I. NJ. Stewart of New York, were
burned on Monday. The residence was
saved. Loss, 100000.
Mrs. Cobb attempted to commit sui
eide in Abba, Iowa, on Sunday night,
by hanging, but was cut down in time
TO be resuscitated She had been mar
ried the night before to IL medical stu
dent of Keokuk She and her brother
went to Keoku1 the day before, and, it
is said, compelled young Cobb to marry
her, which he readily did
An order for the removal Of all build
ings from the lake front, in Chicago,
was adopted Monday night by the City
Council. This action is in preparation
of the ground as part Of the site of the
Worlds Fair. The Interstate EXPOSE
ton building and the Baltimore Il Ohio
passenger depot, as result of the order,
will have to be torn down.
A dispatch from Towson, Md, says
that Judges Fowler and Burke have
filed a written opinion overriding the
demurrer to the states replication IN the
Archer bond cases. This ruling makes
the sureties liable for the defalcations of
ex-State Treasurer Archer occurring be-
tween February 18th, 1888, and Novem-
Der 18th, 1889.
One thousand girls returned to work
at Clark's thread mills, in Newark,
New Jersey, on Monday, including
twisters, spoilers and finishers. There
is about three weeks work on hand,
and, if the trouble with the spinners is
settled by that time, the girls will be
kept on. The company expects a big
supply of cotton from Scotland shortly,
and will then offer work TO 1000 more
girls. The striking spinners and locked
out men find no fault with the girls for
returning to work, as they were not
organized.
The Milwaukee & Rock Island rail-
roads were Monday prevented from
running their trains across the Union
Pacific bridge, at Omaha, as they have
heretofore been doing under contract
The switches remained locked, and the
trains were obliged to return to the
Council Bluffs transfer. 1t is under
stood that legal steps will be taken to
bring the Union Pacific management to
terms. There is feeling in railroad
circles in Chicago that the affair twill
prove death blow to the presidents
agreement"
In the United States Senate, Mon
day. the credentials Of Messrs. Shoup
and Mcconnell, Senators-elect from
Idaho, were presented Mr. Hoar moved
that, as Mr., Shoup was present, the oath
of office be administered to him. Mr..
Vance moved to refer the credentials to
the committee on privileges and cleo
TONS Mr.. Hears motion was agreed
to, and Mr.. Shoup was sworn in. Mr..
Harris subsequently inquired what had
become of Mr.. Vance's notion and
Mr.. Vance, remarking that the news
papers had reported the election of three
senators in Idaho, pressed for refer
ence of the credentials. After discussion
the motion to refer the credentials to the
committee on privileges and elections
was agreed to.
Henry Reher made an attack on his
family near Fergus Falls, Minnesota,
last Saturday night, with knife and re-
volvers. He began by firing at his wife,
son and three daughters. The son and
one of the daughters were wounded, and
the son was also stabbed in the back In
the midst of the shooting the light went
out and the daughters and son escaped
from the house. The ruflian then turned
upon his wife and stabbed her repeat
eddy, until she was in dying condition.
He then committed suicide, hanging
himself to beam and putting bullet
into his head. There seems to have been
no immediate provocation for the trag-
edy, but all the members of the family
were very disreputable and quarrelled
frequently among themselves.