Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-10

h Twelve Of the Newfoundland sealers
ewho were blown out to sea from Trinity
Bay are known to have perished, and II
are still missing.
Iron companies representing capital'o
between S16,000,0O and $4,000 900 have
been organized to work the deposits found
on the Misaba Range, in northern Mime
sofa.
The strike in the Wellington coal mines,
i'm British Columbia, which lasted two
years, is reported to have come to close
1t cost about 1874, 600 to provide for the
workmen during the time they were out.
Clarence Greaves, aged % years, while
standing on the roof of his home, in Har-
risburg, on, Thursday night, watching a
fire in a building nearby, was seized with
an apoplectic fit and fell to the ground,
breaking his neck
BY an explosion of fire-damp in the
Glenwood colliery, at Mahanoy City Fri
day, Frank Strouse, Charles Croscosho
Charles Arnolavage aud Henry Kline were
fatally burned. The men were working
with naked lamp
The Republican conventions throughout
Indiana on Thursday elected Harrison
delegates to the Minneapolis convention.
In the Twelfth Fort Wayne) district the
Allen county delegates left the convention
and adopted resolutions repudiating its
action.
A passenger train on the James River
division of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
was wrecked by huge boulder on the
track, II miles west Of Lynchburg. Va,
on Thursday night Engineer Il. II. Plapp
and Fireman w. c. Moseley of Richmond
were killed.
The notion store of Marcus Cohen, inst.
Louis, took fire on Friday, and an explo-
sion ensued the building being wrecked
Abraham Cohen was unable to escape
from the store and was burned to death,
and Marcus Cohen was so badly burned
that he died soon afterwards.
Captain David II. Steambridge, COM
mander of the British steamship Ottoman
which arrived at Boston on Friday from
himself iii his state-room on Thursday. No
cause is known for the act. He previously
commanded the Norseman. and this was
his first Voyage in the Ottoman.
Mrs. Sadie Stewart, wife of William
Stewart of Uniontown Pa, was on Friday
found hanging 10 the rafters of the barn
at her residence. She and her husband
had quarreled on account OF the latters
drinking habits. and Stewart left home,
saying that he would never return. II is
supposed that Mrs. Stewart committed
suicide.
John C. Newmycr. ex-statc senator and
now prothonotary of the supreme court
of Pennsylvania for the western district,
being n sufferer from erysipelas, became
maniacal on train going from Jersey
City to Harrisburg. and fourishcd re-
volver. He reached Pittsbnrg Friday night
in charge of m officer and was taken to
hospital.
A telegram from Duluth says that "a
contract has been made through the
Merritts by which il is agreed that any
in Duluth which will take and
smelt iron ore shall have ii at cost of so
cents per ton under the current price at
Chicago less the cost Of transportation
from Duluth to that city, for a period of
10 years. This would make difference in
favor of Duluth Of nearly SO per ton"
The court at indianapolis on Friday dis
missed the charge of contempt against
President Frenze Of the street railway,
and the receivership was ended. Whether
another strike will result is yet TO be de-
termined. President Frenzel says he has
given written agreements to give employ
lnent to some of the new men employed
during the late strike which will necessi-
tate the discharge of some of the old ones
A conference was held in Washington
on Friday between Chairman ST. Clair and
other members of the Federal legislative
of the Worlds Columbian Com
mission and President Baker of the Chicago
directory, when il was decided to ask Con-
sress to appropriate s6,200.000, of which
s5,000,0O0 il for the completion of the
work on the buildings and grounds and
81, 100000 for the expenses Of the national
including the payments for
Judges and awards and the expenses of the
board of lady managers.
According IN n Chirnpo nnner IN Friday
he Siemens e. l1alske Electric Company,
II Berlin, the largest electric company In |
he world, is about to locate in Chicago, |
making that city the centre of extensive |
operations throughout the United States.
Articles of incorporation have bee, filed |
With the secretary of state, at Springfield, |
~ the men acung rs attorneys fos the |
company, and it is said the magnitude of |
he work contemplated will be far greater |
han the combined Ed son and Thomson
Houston companies,