Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-17


tors last week declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of It per cent.
Steps have been taken at San Fran
cisco to have Sarah Althea Terry com
mitted to an asylum for the insane.
The negro who was lynched near
Hamburg, Tennessee, several days ago,
has been identified as Reub Burris, zone
of the most noted criminals in the
south"
William j. Knowlton, a diamond
dealer OF Boston, yesterday week filed
voluntary petition in insolvency. 1t is
said he owes 100000 and has assets of
$4,000.
Twelve more iron furnaces at Biz
mingham, Ala, reduced wages 10 per
cent Tuesday week, because of the low
price Of iron, The men accept the in
evitable.
Two men were killed and six injured,
one MORALLY, by an explosion in the
Alden mine, eight miles from Wilkes
barre, Yesterday week. The victims
We're all Poles.
A census bulletin issued last week, re.
lating to the wool industry in the
United States, showed that the number
OF establishments reported for 1890 as
engaged IN the manufacture of wooden
goods proper, when compared with 1880,
decreased 67S.
The directors Of the Chicago board of
trade last week issued an order forbid
ding all dealings, either directly or indi.
rectly, In puts and calls, declaring such
business dishonorable and subject to the
penalties prescribed by the board for
dishonorable conduct. The announce
ment was received with cheers.
The general elections in the Province
of Quebec were held Tuesday week. A
heavy vote was polled, and the MERCER
party was badly defeated MERCER him.
self was reelected by $50 majority, but
the legislature will stand: Conservatives,
So; Mercierites, ID Independents 8. In the
old legislature, MERCER had a majority
of %.
The President last week sent to the
Senate the nomination of ,Judson G,
Clements of Georgia, to be an interstate
commerce commissioner, vice Walter L.
bragg, deceased, and William Lindsay,
declined, ard also the nomination Of
George w. Miller, to be collector of in
ternal revenue for the Twenty third dis
trict of Pennsylvania.
A petition containing the names of 800
prominent, residents of the Beaver Val.
ley has been forwarded to Governor
l'attlson and the pardon board, asking
for the pardon of Editors Mellon and
Porter OF the Beaver Sur, who are now
serving sentence for lbelng Senator
Quay. Porter is quite i'll and his wife
and two children are also very sick.
The will of General George w. Cul.
lum, probatcd in New York, last week,
made, among other public requests,
gifts of $4,000 TO the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, $250,000 to the United
States to erect memorial hall at the
West Point Military Academy, and a
residuary bequest, which may amount
10 100000, to the American Geo
graphical Society.
Certain tracks laid by the Illinois Cen
trail railroad in South Chicago, which, il
is claimed, was for the purpose of bar
ring the Baltimore & Ohio railroad from
eifccting an entrance into the Worlds
FAR grounds, wele torn up last week by
the commissioner of public works. The
Illinois Central obtained preliminary
injunction, but the tracks were torn llp
before the order of the court was served.
A letter was received by the sheriff at
Chicago last week from Juneau, Alaska,
from j. G. Howard of that place. in
forming him that w. b. Tascott, the al
legged murderer of Millionaire Smell, is
now in the Yukon river country, 800
miles northwest of Juneau; that he left
Port Townsend, Washington, in April
four years ago; passed through Juneau,
and that he has sent word that he will
return there next August
During a fog yesterday week in
the entrance to New York bay two
steamships Of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Line ran into each other. The
Seneca was going in the direction of
Sandy Hook, bound for Norfolk, va.
The Roanoke was just entering the bay.
bringing 20 passengers and cargo 10
New York. Both steamers were head
on. The Scneca's engines We're promptly
reversed, but not before several of the
bow plates Of the Roanoke had been
badly strained and looseled. There
was great excitement, but no serious
damage or loss Of life.
J.W. Harmony, aged SO years, glass
cutter of Uniontown, Pa, Yesterday
week arose from bed, and, taking a
can of petroleum, saturated his wife's
clothing. lie then dragged her to the
fire place and held her there until her
clothes ignited. Her screams attracted
the attention of the neighbors, and she
was rescued before she was seriously
burned Harmony then took his 4-years-
old child to his mothers, and, after
leaving it in her charge, drew knife
and cut his throat. He severed the
jugular vein and died in few minutes.
1t is thought lie was insane from ex-
| cessive drink.