Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-11-17

covered to depth OF two or three inches.
a fire in the upper door of the Millor
| block, in Boston, Tuesday week caused Il
loss TO several tenants amounting to $50
| 900
The La Sale Brewing Company Of OF
| tawa Ill, has made an assignment,
Liabilities being 100000 and the assets
| $4,000.
ESCongressman I.aban 4. Moore. IA dis
| tingushed lawyer and politician of Ken
tucky, died on Wednesday i'll Cattettsburg,
aged "a years.
w. W. Rutland shot and killed S. A.
| Sims on Wednesday in llalf-Acrc Bent,
| Ioosa county, Alabama. The difficulty
was not political"
BY the burning Of a stable and storage
warehouse in New York Tuesday week, 81
| horses were burned to death. The total
loss amounts to 100000.
Commander-in-chicr Weissart has an.
| pointed Corporal James Tanner of Brook
| lvn, Judge advocate general OF the Grand
Army ot the Republic.
a dwelling house in Phillipsburg, n. j..
was destroyed by ire At an early hour last
| FRIDAY morning, and Samuel Wright aged
W years, "a cripple, was burned to Death.
Burrill, HoughtUn n Company, boot
and shoe manufacturers, of Boston, have
ihANAN 80 't'oiElllhGbks ttlI lIlDllllltS
are about Sl25,OOO, and the assets about
| $4,000.
In Il political quarrel at Astoria, New
York, Monday week, Martin Willis, aged
~ years, was stabbed in the abdomen and
seriously wounded by Edward Mason, aged
% years.
AT conference of mill managers at New
Bedford, Mass, Thursday, 1t was decided
ITO follow Fall Riycrss action and in
crease wages of operatives per cent on
the LIST of December"
A dispatch from Austin, Pa. saws that
Blalsdcll Bros kiudling wood factory was
wrecked BY an explosion Of the boiler yes
| terday week. Two dead bodies have
| been taken from the ruins.
simon Poey was bound over in New
| York Wednesday charged with the deralca-
| non d SiuuOO from James n. Ward 4 co..
| the agents OF the Cubau Mail Steamship
Company, OF which he was passenger
| agent.
j. Doyle and wife, an old couple. who
| registered ut a hotel in san Francisco last
| Tuesday week from Davenport, Ia, were
/ found dead in their beds the next morn
| ing, having been accidentally asphyxlated
| by gas.
| a cable dispatch received in Boston,
Tuesday, from the European Union of
u bright comet by Holmes, the position of
which on November 9TH, at midnight,
was right ascension zero hours, 40 minutes
40 seconds; decinution, north IS degrees 30
minutes
The agents Of the National Line have
| received no further information Of the
disabled steamer England, which was
reported by the 'reutonic, $40 miles ont M
sea in disabled condition on November
ith, She wns then south of the track Of
| incoming vessels.
The New York & New Jersey Bridge
Company Thursday notified the New York
Dock Board that they had located one of
| their bridge approaches along the east side
OF the Hudson river, between Ilh street
and 1881 street. The board declined to
ratify the location.
The Directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company iii New York Thurs
terday decided TO distribute II per cent of
the sl3S00u)) additional stock as dyi-
bends, and To place the rest Of il in the
| treasury rs reserve. with which to i'm
| prove the system and erect new lines
The Franklin county aImehopse, at
| Sugar Brick, Pa, was almost totally de.
| stroyed by fire Thurs lay. There We're
about 100 inmates and Ill were rescued.
some of them were unable 10 comprehend
the situation and stubbnrnly resisted the
| efforts of the rcscuers. The building was
valued at #21D,UOp.
A dispatch from Guthrie, Okalahoma,
| says That thc express trim on the santa
| l'e road was held np at Wharton carly yes
| tcrday morning week. The express ear was
| blown open with dynamite, the messenger
| wounded and overppwcrel and the safe
| robbed The amount scared il not know il,
| but is supposed 10 be several thousand dol.
lars.
4 dispatch from Panama, by way of
| Galveston, says that Costa Rica has iust
| been devastated by foods Plantations
| were ruined, bridges swept away, build-
ings destroyed and q large section Of raj
way ruined. y number Of persons were
| reported Ia have been drowned. The dam
aye amounts to hundreds of thousands OF
dollars.
A Washington dispatch says that. "im
| view Of the still lingering possibility If n
fresh outbreak oi cholera in European
countries in the early spring and tile con-
sequent danger Of its introduction into the
| United States, the officials of the treasury
department have determined to maintain
the utmost vigilance in guarding ullr ports
against the entrance of people or mcr-
| chandse that mi 5ht possibly convey the
| germs of the dreaded epidemic. To this
| end Immigration will be generally dis
Outraged and the provisions Of the Presl
dents proclamation of September LIST, i'm
| posing II quarantine of % days on all sIis-
pected immigrants, will be vigorously
| enforced" According to the official con-
| struction, ''all aliens who come to this
| country for permanent residence are i'm
migrants. whether they travel in cabin or
stcerage."
The probability Of All extra session of
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