Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-17
IN GENERAL.

Indiana, is said to be $1,000 short in his &C.
| counts. He has disappeared.
W. P. Dame, wholesale dealer in paper
and cards, at Boston, is reported to have
| $4,000 OF liabilities and $4,000 of actual
| assets.
The Milford State Bank, at Milford,
Michigan, failed on Thursday. Its liabili-
ties are unknown. The capital stock is
| $4,000.
President Harrison and party went gum
ming Friday and secured ~ birds, rail
and reed The President killed 16 OF the
number.
There is an apparent deficit Of about
$50 1000 in the accounts of NJ. j. O'Brien,
treasurer of the Order of Catholic knights
of America.
Encouragement Miller said Friday
that an agreement had been reached be-
tween himself and counsel representing
the CHILEAN steamer Itata, postponing the
trial which was set for the 10th, to the
18th instant.
After a fierce fight, on Thursday,
United states marshals posse MORALLY
wounded and captured two notorious
criminals named William Cooley and Ross
Riley, near Purcell, in the Indian terri
tory.
The Master Car and Locomotive Painters
Association ended its session in Washing
ton, ID; e., Friday. A memorial was
adopted recommending equal pay to
women for work equivalent to mems in
painting cars.
The Secretary of State has received a
dispatch from our minister to China
stating that an imperial decree has been
issued sanctioning the extension of the
existing Chinese railway from Liu Hsi to
Shan haiKuan.
A atatara,,,t ,.......1 - IL
office shows that during the month of
August last 24,i7s pension certificates of
all classes were issued, the first payments
on which aggregated 81, IA, 1883, or an aver
age OF SllO.s0 for each pensioner.
M. b. Curtis. the actor, better known as
samuel OF Posen,n was arrested in San
Francisco on Thursday night for shooting
and killing policeman VINO was trying to
arrest him. The shooting occurred not
far from police station. Curtis was drunk
at the time.
Cardinal Gibbons received Friday
from the Propaganda in Rome the bulls
authorizing the conservation of the Rev.
Or. Chapelle, rector of st. Matthew's
Church, Washington, d. c., as coadiutor
archbishop to Archbishop Salpointe, the
present incumbent in the archdiocese of
Santa Fe.
At Perryyille Ravine, near Utica, New
York, on Thursday. three of the Justin
proJectiles were thrown from the ordinary
rihed guns. A shell containing IA pounds
OF nitro-glycerine displaced nearly 10 tons
of rock against which il was fired. A
government test has been arranged for the
last of this month.
The Great Council OF Red Men, in Cleve-
land, on Thursday voted down the propo-
sition to reduce the limit of age for appli-
cants for admission to the order from y
to IL years. The movement started in phil-'
adelphla for celebration by the order of
the 4OJth anniversary of the discovery of
America was endorsed by the council.
Twenty-Five rifles belonging to local
military company at Knoxville, Tenn,
have been turned over to the superin,
tendent at Briceville to be used in pro-
tecting the conylcts there. Several thous-
and rounds Of ammunition will also be
sent there. There is much uneasiness all
through the Tennessee mining district.
News has been received in San Francisco
of the safe arrival in Callao of Alfredo
Edwards. the Chilian banker OH whose
head price had been set by Bulmaceda.
Edwards was hiding in Santiago until a
week before its surrender to the Congress
sionalists 1t is believed that on him will
deyolve the rehabilitation of the finances
of Chilli
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the past seven
days. as reported to X. Il. Dun 4 Co., by
telegraph, number for the United States.
ls7, and for Canada 81, or total of pa,
as compared with total of 2l7 last week
and 2l4 the week previous the last. For
the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 1913, representing 1877 failures
i'll the United States and " in the Dominion
of Canada.
The brick barn of John A. Bancroft, in
Worcester, Mass, was partially DESTROYED
by fire Friday. Fourteen horses and
seven head of cattle, the latter part of
celebrated herd of pure bred Swiss, per-
ished in the flames. The loss is placed at
$1,000. and an employee named Frank
Wood, IS under arrest on suspicion of hay
ing set fire to the barn.
Efforts are being made at the treasury
department to devise means for the con-
tinuanee of the work of the two special
experts, Messrs. Lawrence Il, Brown and
Taylor faunce, who have been examining
the affairs of the Keystone National Bank,
ana whose services were dispensed with
owing to lack of funds. The matter, il is
expected, will be settled soon.
Grnberg & Morris, proprietors of the
New York wholesale clothing and notion
house in Roanoke, Virginia, and the Bos.
ton boot and shoe house, in Knoxville
tNHhNssSSf ihAhc all dSSlEillutIl fTlQaV.
Total liabilities are placed at Sl40,00U
assets not known, supposed to be consider
ably short of the liabilities. About $50. 600
of debts are preferred, mostly to Roanoke
and Philadelphia creditors.
The American Tin Plate Company
formed Tor the purpose of making tin |
plate and sheet-iron, near Elmwood, Ind, |
has been incorporated under the laws of |
that state. The capital stock of the COM
pany is 5000, 600. The directors are A. l.. |
S9nnor and W. s. Mcdonald of Akron,
Kokomo, Ind; P. G. Reid, Richmond, |
Ind; John T. Hosen, Cincinnati, and |
James l.. 0verman, Elwood.
At Buffalo, Thursday, the trial of Lee
Sin, Pah Mia, La Ling and Lee Sing, the |
Cinnamon suspected of being illegal resi-
dents, came to close in the United States
court. Lee Sing and Pan Mia were dis
charged, and the other two were found
guilty Of being improperly in the country.
They will be held, along with the three
others who received similar sentences, to
await the decision of the Judge on the
question whether they should be sent to
Canada or China.
In the dominion house of commons.
there was discussion on the
estimates. Sir Richard Cart
right said he thought it was time the
ceased paying out S25O0O0
year on an immigration which was either
or useless, inasmuch as great
majority Of the Immigrants leave Canada
for the United States. In the past ten
years the government had spent nearly
s3,00O,000 on immigration. An immigra-
lion of SS60uO persons was reported, but
the population had increased by only
$4,000.
The jury in the Park Place inquest, in
New York. last week rendered d verdict
hat the people killed by the disaster lost
heir lives by the collapse of the buildings
Nos. Go, 20, y and "A Park Place, caused
BY the giving way of the supporting iron