Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-11
IN GEN ER1L

the depth of eight inches.
A dispatch from Newport says that the
torpedo boat Stiletto has been laid up for
the rest Of the winter.
Two hundred men at the Continental
Tube Works, at Pittsburg, struck Fri.
day against piece work"
The President Friday issued a procla-
nation promulgating a reciprocity treaty
with the British West India Colonies,
Trinidad, Windward and Leeward Islands,
etc.
According to New York dispatch,
negotiations are in progress looking to a
consolidation of the Edison General Elec-
trio Light Co. and the Thomson Houston
Co., Of Boston.
The barbed wire trust, composed of all
the barbed wire plants in the country. has
been dissolved. President Gates attributes
the collapse to over production in the
south and the immense output of barbed
wire.
The collector of customs at Bridgeport,
Conn, has reported to the treasury de-
partment that the story of the assault
upon the British ship Glendcn, because
she came into port without the American
colors flying, was hoax.
Edward Hall, of the detective firm of
Alexander & Hall of Philadelphia, was
locked up Mt Beividere, N. j., Friday night.
He is charged with having kidnapped
Nellie, daughter of Professor Hooper of
that place, some years ago.
@rhe conference committee of the Worlds
Fair directory and the national commits.
sion, at Chicago on Thursday, reached an
agreement that Congress should only be
asked to appropriate s4,0O0,000 for work
expressly delegated to the national COM
mission.
A New Orleans despatch says that one
effect of the Supreme Court decision sus-
tanning the anti-lottery law, and Morris's
letter withdrawing his proposal for a
renewal of the Louisiana Lottery charter.
has been to increase the price Of Mexican
Lottery shares.
Acting Secretary Spaulding, in a letter
sent to the House Friday, recommends
an appropriation of 81, 500 to reimburse the
committee Of citizens who advanced money
to complete the Keystone Bank investiga-
tion, and also TO complete the investigation
OF the Spring Garden National Bank in
Philadelphia.
John A. Morris of the Louisiana Lottery
Company, was arraigncd in the United
States district court at New Orleans, Oh
Friday, under the indictments found
against him by grand juries in I'll Paso
and Austin, Tex; Sioux Falls, South Da-
H IL.
ton of the anti-Lottery Postal law.
The treasury department is informed
that l03 alien contract laborers were de-
ported from the port of New York during
the month of January last. being the
largest number ever deported in any one
month at any port. The number was COM
posed of y Italians, So Hmgarians, 10
Poles IS Austrians and Russian Jews.
Frank Bergen of Elizabeth, n. j., re-
celved serious stab wound Friday night.
Bergen, with some others, was torment
ing Edward krefs, d green German boy.
who, in his anger, struck at them with his
lunch basket Bergen was hit, and at once
a tellow-workman noticed a knife sticking
n ms back. krets says the knife was in
his lunch basket and must have slipped
through when he struck the blow
The business failures in the United
States and Canada during the last seven
days, as reported to Dun & Co., mum bered
for the United States 273 and for Canada
46, a total of 3l9 against totals of 297 last
week and ~ the week previous to the
last. FOR the corresponding week of last
year the figures were BOG, representing 26l
failures in the United States and 40 in
Canada.
The Manchester electric street car strike
in Plttsburg is virtually broken, and all
the old men who can lie accommodated
with situations without displaclng the nom
union men will probably be At work within
week. The surrender of the men is un-
conditional. lorpedoes were placed on
the tracks Friday and some Of the new
men became SO fris htened that eight of
them resigned
II. Is. krutschnitt chairman Of the anti
Lottery Democratic executive committee
of Louisiana, said Friday that the fight
against the lottery would 90 on notwifh-
standing the announcement of Mr. Morris
withdrawing the lottery proposition. lie
intimated that the reason for the with
drawal was ''the curtailment Of the
revenue OF the lottery through the late
decision Of the Supreme Court of the
United Statcs'
Judge MARITIME, in New York, Friday
dismissed the indictments for misdemeanor
against the newspapers of that city which
published details of the execution by cleo
tricity OF the murderers Wood, Smiler,
Sioeum and Jugiro at Sing Sing, in July,
1881. III recommending the dismissals
District Attorney Nicoll said that the
statute under which the indictments were
found had been repealed, consequently no
convictions could now be obtained.
The Baron Raymond Maris Nicolas Sal
liers, who arrived at New York on Thurs.
day on the French line steamer La Eolir-
| gogne from llavre, had his baggage seized
by deputy sheriff upon writ OF execu-
ton on Judgment for s4,562 Friday
Charles II, Miller and Manning C. Wells,
surviving partners of the law firm Of Dew
| I'M a. Miller, secured an execution on a
| Judgment for Sll ,l62 but the sheriff failed
to lind any more luggage or other property
of the baron.
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