Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-16
IN GENERtL.

~ " AFf' '~''''as
The United States steamer Kearsarge has
arrived at port-au-Prince.
The governor of California has signed
the bill prohibiting prize fights.
The Bell Telephone Company last week
declared dividend OF 81 per share, pay
able April 18TH
Part of a tlree.story building in Chicago
collapsed Friday, injuring four men,
one. Frank smonds, fatally.
system Of electric railways is to he cs-
tab!jshcd between Reading and Myers
town, in the Lebanon valley.
W. r. Wilkins of Sioux city, Iowa, is
said to have disappeared, leaving debts
amounting 10 $4,000.
4 receiver was appointed at Baltimore
last week for the Annapolis * Baltimore
Short Line railroad, and the road will be
sold
An ice gorge in the Maume river below
Toledo Friday, caused flood. and the
docks along the river front were sub
merged
1t is announced in New York that S. II.
~ Clark will resign the Presidency Of the
| Union Pacific railway and return 10 the
Missouri Pacific.
Conrad st. Ieried, who claims to be a
son OF Karl Nv, late king of Sweden,
was married in Chicago Oh Wednesday
evening to Miss Eathk; Petersen.
Patrick Bruin and John O Hearne, Junk
| dealers, about 60 years of age were caught
| between two barses in slip at New York,
/ Friday, and were crushed to death.
An application for receiver for the
! Louisville, New Albany e. Chicago
| tMOnonl railroad was filed in the superior
! court at indianapolis yesterday week.
7 n lirnatnry ia
| Telegraph Company Wednesday elected
General EhomHs r. EckcTt president, IN
place of Or. Nurvin Green, deceased.
Mary Montgomery, a domestic employed
by Mrs. W. Garner OF Pullman, Illinois
was on Wednesday outraged and muir
derei by q burglar, who made his escape
Fernandez Salans, Garaa's private secre
tary, and Rafael kamcreAe, one Of the
revolutionary leaders commanders, hay,
been arrested by United states troops it
Texas.
Under the title of Clerical Rain" I
nuniarr vi French Canadians ut Montreal
have Issued Il @H-page pamphlet, attacking
the Roman Catholic clergy OF the DO
miuIpn.
The Jacobs Hotel in Carrollton, Mo. wa
burned early Wednesday morning. Loss
S25UOU. Eight of the occupants were in
jnrcd three severely, while escaping iron
tic building.
Samuel Smith, assistant postmaster o
Brooklyn dlci Wednesday, aged Ga years
He Was formerly printer and was tn
organizer Of Typographical Union No, u o
Sew York city.
Tie British bark Juno, which left Hall
fax Tor Queenstown, January 10Th. witt
deals, hes not been heard from and Their
is reason to believe that she has been los
VITA all ON board.
The National Hotel. in Danville, Va.
was burned on Tuesday week. One a
the walls fell upon an adjoining building
killing TWO men and injuring four Others
one perhaps morally.
John Mclanahan, a negro, shot an
killed T. NJ. Elillard. the foreman Of til
shelby iron works, in Birmingham. Ala
Friday. McLanuhan then resisted al
rest and was shot dead.
Miss Julia Hall of New Canaan, Conn
last week threw yerself in front of mo,
ing train and was instantly killed. Sh
was an inmate OF an asylum for the insan
al MiddlelOwn, and eluded the attendants
Superintendent Rcbman Of the 0hi
Iron CnmpAny's works ct GAINESVILLE, y
was Thursday assaulted and dungcrousl
wounded by Fred. Andrews. a nUn-uniO
workman, who claimed To have grievanI
against MIR. Rcbman
j Colonel Berker and number of II
| officers Of the Fifth Maryland Regimen
are said to have resigned, owing 10 diffe
cnCcS which arose between the Colonel ar
? l'rigadicr-sene, Brown at the inaugur
parade al Washington.
i The schooner Grace d. Buchanan, whiC
sailed from Baltimore ON February eth fl
Y Portland, Me-, with coal, and the schuOn
+ D. :. Williams, from the same port y
i Crmber 29ti, for Providence, X. l., wit
d coal, are given mp rs lost.
Secretary carlisle last week accepted b
C proposition Of the clearing house
DcGvcr Col 10 exchange 81 Od,Upl Of Ii
!, treasury notes ut the issue of 1880 t
+ $l,001,ulo ia gold. This will increase Il
Z, free gold in tia' treasury to -, $4,000
y Hahwa", NrW Jersey, was shaken
Thursday morning 10y an cartAqua
= whigh occurred q few minutes after
"a o'clock. i did considerable damage III /
city and vicinity, Buildings swaved, ~
the druggists sustained considerable Il
y by brcakagc.
Y The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Nor
Y Michigan railrOat officials claimed T.
u day that all passenger truns were
N time and that II freight trains were sc
u, ont Friday. They expect no furtl
80 trouble by reason of the strike of t
AZ engineers and iircmcn.
- EE'-t pSl lit'9leT -ScIltTal VI unhNakcr
p party left Washington last nIhgt week OF
y tour of the United States and Mexico. I
Y trip will cover l., l6l miles, and "
" traverse twenty states, three territories a
I one province. The party expects to retlt
~ to Philadelphia by May 18th.
: A telegram frum Redwood Falls, Mia
Y says thai Judge Webber has filed decisr
ia the celebrated Tax Title cases ON tt
at the last term of court. "l}y the dccisit
a tide sharks are recognized by the law a
=, more than a Thousand acres of land
~ wre-tnd from innocent settlers
ry Nilliahl llaltoil, last oil the Dalton gal
Is. in court at Independence, Kan, Wednesd
pleaded guilty Of murder in the second
~ gree for bis part in the Coffeyyille ba;
~ last fail lie was at once sentenced to
u pententiary for life, and in charge of fl
II. officers was taken 1T once TO the st
prison.