Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-24
IN GENERIL

liar reports come from all over the state.
The cold north wind was accompanied by
heavy rain.
run on the Savings Bank of Rockville,
Conn, was started Thursday by rumors as
to its condition. A large amount was paid
out to dcposito-s. The bank is considered
one of the strongest in the state.
Two children of William Pierce of
Struthers, Ohio aged s years and Is
months respectively, were fatally scalded
on Tuesday week by the accidental over
turning Of boiler, which stood oil the
stove.
The schnylkill, Tunnel Ridge and Elm
wood collieries, near Mahanoy City,
operated by the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal and Iron Company shut down in
definitely last week, throwing 1000 men
men out of employment.
g. n. Roos, who was arrested in At
lantn Tuesday week, charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretences i'll
New Orleans, committed suicide on the
street by shooting himself in the head,
while he was being taken to Jail.
Suits were begun in the chaneery court,
at Chattanooga, yesterday week, by the at
torneys Of the Catholic Knights Of America
against the bondsmcn of NJ. J. O'Bricn,
the defaulting treasurer of the order,
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The National League of Musicians, in
New. York last week, passed a resolution
forbidding all members of league local
unions to play at the coming tricnnial
conclave of Knights Tcmpar in Denver
if any United States military bands are
employed.
The boiler of locomotive attached to a
fast freight train on the Catawissa Division
of the Philadelphia IL Reading railroad
exploded yesterday morning week, and
Clarence Campbell, the engineer, and
Frank Proschie, fireman, were probably
fatally injured.
The planters in the vicinity of Jackson,
Miss, are said to be ''up in arms against u
gang of whitecaps, who. the other night,
took negro named Williams from his
house, tied him to q stump, gave him 300
lashes and ordered him TO leave town. The
planters fear the effects on the rest of the
colored population"
Clifton Wright of Akron, Ohio, went
into q saloon on Wednesday night, and,
calling for glass of settler, poured into ii
n quantity Of choral hydrate and then
drank the mixture, announcing To the
hysianders that he would be dead in five
minutes. Domestic troubles are supposed
to be the cause Of suicide.
The schooner Tecumseh, of Taunton.
Mass, which sailed from Norfolk over
three weeks ago for Boston, has not been
heard of since, and it is feared that she has
met with disaster. Vessels which left the
Capes when she did have been in port and
sailed again. The Tecumseh was COM
mandcd BY Captain Penny, and had large
cargo of coal.
quo warranto proceeding has been
burg against the Philadelphia Inquirer.
which is alleged to be doing an insurance
business in violation of the laws by offer
Ing to pay fixed sum to the heirs of any
one killed with an Inquirer on his person
within "a hours after its issue. The writ
is rcturnable March 10Th.
Assistant Factory Inspector Castles of
Scranton, who has been Investigating the
violation of the semi-monthly pay law by
l.entz. Lilly II CO., operators of two col
leries at Park Place, swore out warrants
for the arrest of the firm on Wednesday
night, About $50 miners employed ut
Morea colliery, which has relapsed into
The old monthly pay system, have decided
to make complaint.
II is stated that arrangements have been
made for re-establishmcnt Of full diplo-
matte relations between the United States
and Italy on the same basis us existed
before the New Orleans incident. Ournin-
lister, ii is stated. will soon be ordered TO
return to his post at Rome and it is cx-
pected that the appointment Of an Italian
minister to he accredited to this country
will be announced in short time
The steamship I'll Sud (the south), of
1890 TONS, was launched yesterday week at
the yard of the Newport News Shipbuid-
ing and Dry Dock Company at Newport
News, Virginia. She is the first large
steamship built south of the Potomac, and
and will ply between New York and
Galveston, After the launch those present
Including many Congressman witnessed
the laying Of the keel of another vessel, to
be called lei Norte,' sister ship of "El
Sud"
Deputy United States Marshal Corrigail
has arrived at San Antonio, Tex, with
three more prominent Mexican ranchmen
of the lower Rio Grande frontier charged
with being Cara revolutionists. They
claim that they and their families "have
been prosecuted by Captain Bourke, and
that Captain Bourke has succeeded in
thoroughly terrorizing the country, and
has abused and mistreated the most promi-
nent people there"
John Merget, an officer of the Philadel-
phia y Reading railroad police, was shot
and killed at Tamagua, yesterday week, by
three men whom he and another officer
were attempting to arrest on suspicion that
they were burglars who had been opcrat.
ing during the night at Evansville, five
miles away. About 90 members of the
| Tamaqua militia organization were called
out to aid in the pursuit of the murderers,
and they were subsequently captured in q
swamp near the city and lodged in jail.
The coal sales agents, at their meeting in
New York last week, decided upon an ad.
vance OF % cents per ton for chestnut coal
to take effect Immediately The prices fol
mi al in, 81, a.
stated that this advance was made in order
TO equallze the prices of the various grades
| chestnutcnal having been unduly depressed
| by parties carrying a large amount Of that
| grade WHO have now worked off their sur
| plus stock It was decided to restrict the
output for March to 2,500,000 tons.
/ Secretary Foster arrived in New York
| Thursday from Southampton on III,
| steamship spree. The secretary had quito
a rough experience on the voyage. On
the 18th, while sitting in chair on tn,
upper deck, the snip gave sudden lurcl
and precipitatcd him against the port rail
lie struck his head, which gave him d Sc
we're shock, and blackencd lis right eye
Otherwise he is in good condition, havin,
been very much improved in health py
the trip
The supreme court of Indiana Thursda,
handed down an opinion on the new Aus
tralian ballot law. II is held that thi
legislature has the right TO enact such
law; that the failure TO stamp ballot di,
not invalidatc it; that board should no
refuse % count ballot because clerk ha.
written his name in the right hand corne
instead Of the left, and that where count,
and state boxes were used 4 ballot shoul,
be counted, no matter in which box it WI
deposited.
The district court at Springfield. Kansas
was reconvcned on Wednesday to try tn
rest of the Dunn murder cases, Judg
Vandervert ruled that mo juror coul,
qualify who entertained the opinion tina
sheriff Dunn had been lmlawfully kille
by mob, Each talcsman swore that tina
was his opinion, and each was disqualife,
from jury service. The special venire .