Evening journal., 1893-01-19
General.


day, heard argument on the motion Of
Mr.. Sanford's lawyers for a writ of man
damus TO compel Mayor Gleason TO de-
liver up the office of mayor of Long
Island City TO MIR Sanford Justice Bart.
lett reserved his decision till to-day,
stating, however, that he did not recog-
nize Mr. Sanford os the de facto mayor
of Long Island City.
A Wilkesbarre dispatch quotes one Of
the Coke Bros. q Co as giving an en-
phatic denial to the reports that his firm
has made a deal transferring its coal
tonnage from the Reading to the
Pennsylvania road.
It is reported from Columbus, Ohio,
that the Pennsylvania Company is seek
ing to secure control of the Columbus,
Hooking Valley and Toledo railroad,
which would give it complete control of
the Hooking Valley coal fields.
Mrs Abby Hopper Gibbons. daughter
of Isaac T. Hopper, the Quaker philan
thropist and founder of the Women's
Association in New York city, of which
his daughter was the first director. died
on Tuesday. Mrs. Gibbons was born IN
Philadelphia, on December T. 1901.
The National Board of Trade at Wash.
ington yesterday adopted resolutions
approving efforts to secure uniformity OF
legislation in the several states; recon
mending the passage by Congress Of an
act to register and protect trademarks.
and the Torrey Bankruptcy bill urging
the creation Of a national department OF
commerce and manufacturers; urging
legislation by Congress to foster our
merchant marine engaged in foreign
commerce; aud recommending a system
of consular inspection of immigrants
and the establishment Of national
quarantine A resolution favoring an
extension of the bonded period for spir
its was laid on the table and afterwards
by unanimous consent. withdrawn.
The National Woman's Suffrage Asso
citation at Washington yesterday elected
these officers: President, Susan b
Anthony; vice presidential at large, Rev
Anna Shaw; corresponding secretary
Rachel Foster Avery; recording secre
tary, Alice Stone Blackwell: auditors
Ellen b. Dietrik and May Wright Sewall
The large steamer Gniding Star il
aground in the Mississippi, near New
Madrid, Missouri, and will prove tota
less The ice knocked large hole II
her hull. The loss may reach $3.50, 000
A number Of coal barges, steamers AM
tugs. valued at $1,000, 600, are fast il
an ice gorge in the river near jefferson
Vile, Indiana, and their utter destruC
tion is thought to be probable.
Three new cases Of typhus fever an
one death were reported in New Yorl
yesterday One death from trichinosi
and twenty five cases are reported fror
Lemar, an Iowa settlement, twenty fv
mi les north of Sioux City.
Junk Din Kan. Chinese laundrymar
was found dead in his shop in Chicag
yesterday, horribly butchered Jun
Jack Sin of Kansas City, was found i
the place, his clothes red with the bloc
Of the murdered man. He was arrested
David Williams, colored, was lynched b
a mob in Pickens county Alabama, We,
terday. A 13-year old white girl ha
confessed that Williams was the fathe
of her baby.
The japanese Government, a dispatc
from Vancouver says, intends to prohibl
sealing by foreigners within the intel
national limit of the Japanese coasi
, The value of the seals taken by foreig
vessels during the past year is estimate
, at $S 0, 000 japanese sailors only gC
seals valued at S26, 600 ia the sam
i period. The two sealing companies no
in Japan brought pressure on the govern
ment.