Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-07

Hugh Gibbons, aged 60 years. was run
over and killed by an electric street car IN
Harrisburg Thursday
Jacob II. Wight, u well-known tobacco
merchant of Baltimore, committed suicide
Thursday by shooting himself.
A committee of colored men from Vir.
ginia waited on the President Thursday
and urged the appointment of Professor
Langston as a circuit judge.
Between 80 and 40 conductors and motor
men on the Second avenue electric RAILWAY.
Pittsburg, went OH strike Thursday on &c.
count OF recent discharges by the company.
Enough new men were secured to run
seven cars.
The Worlds Fair directors have for.
mally called upon the city government Of
chicago TO turn over three-fifths of the
municipal subscription. A million dol
lars worth OF bonds will accordingly he
paid on February 18th.
A telegram from Albuquerque. New
Mexico, says the great snow storm there il
over, and the blockade on the Santa Fe
road has been broken. All trains between
Chicago and the Pacific coast are again
running on schedule time.
dispatch from the Peaks of Otter.
virginia, says that the residence of Mrs.
Arlington, mother of horse thief. y
49, ~. NhhhOnh Oil w tuUcS-
day night. Mrs Arringtons grandmother,
who slept up stairs, was burned to death.
The Chicago World Company, with q
capital of 100000, was Incorporated under
the laws Of Illinois a short time ago. The
hUeiing Journal of Chicago, saws that
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New
York World, is back of the new journal,
istic enterprise,
A reciprocity arrangement was signed
Thursday between Secretary Blaine and
Senior Calvo, diplomatic representative OF
costa hica at Washington. Az the arrange,
ment has first to be ratified by the con,
gress of Costa Rica, it's publication mus,
await the action of that body
A 30,000-barrel oil tank. belonging In tl,s
National Transit Company, at Osborn
Hollow, near Binghuinton. New York
was burned carly Thursday morning
The oil WAS ignited through Ihe careless
ifess Of an employe, who went with {
lighted lantern to repair break in tn,
supply pipe.
A dispatch from Louisville, KY, saw.
that n. Il. Titus, supposed to be the de
iaulting Wall street broker, has beer
registered at a Middlesboro hotel since
December oath. When, Thurrtlav morn
ing, he read the reports in the papers thai
he was supposed to be short in his NO
counts, he paid his bill and has not sine,
been SEEM
William Sernby, colored, under indict
ment for the murder of Mary Linn, white
escaped from the county Jail ri rrrntnn on
Wednesday week. He unlocked the doc,
leading to the Jail and then Irlua open tho
bars on la window to get out of the court
house. Simon Sullivan, the night watch
man, knew nothing Of the escape unit
morning
The EeminG Nens Of Baltimore nnsspd
into new hands Thurs lay. syndicate Of
Baltimoieans has bought the Wnoie after
est, OF which the majority was held in
Philadelphia. Charles II. Grasty formerly
of the Kansas City Times, Wilt be general
manager and T. X. Worthinglon Of
Baltimore, editor. The paper will be
Democratic on national issues il twill
advocate Mr.. Cleveland's nomination and
oppose any retrosrade movement in the
Democratic party ON the tariff issues. =
Senator Gormani is denied.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days
as reported to X. q. Dun e. Co.. mum Der
for the United States 307, and for Canada
%, or total of 800, as compared with
totals of 292 last week and 1855 the weel;
previous. For the corresponding week OF
last year the figures were 34S representing
81 failures in the United States and 81 n
| the Dominion of Canada. The mercantile
| failures during 1891 numbered ~ 179
against 10, 907 In 1890 The failures in 1891 ex
coed in number those of any previous veal
since the record was kept BY that agency
running back to 1857. The amount of Il
abilities, however, is almost exactly th,
same as in 1880, namely, slSs,000,000.