Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-21

The four Duval train robbers were each
sentenced at Austin, Tex, Monday, to 50
years Imprisonment.
The Galesburg Paving Brick Company's
plant at Galesburg, ILL.,, was burned, Sun
day night loss, 100000.
l., Plokert g. Co., salt and canned fish
dealers, OF Boston, have failed, their
liabilities being sl750o0.
At Pottsville, Pa, Monday, n receiver
was appointed for the Shenandoah Trot-
ting Park and Athletic Association.
A Chicago dispatch says that the Daiiy
GLOBE Oh that city has suspended publica-
ton owing to financial embarrassment.
From January LIST to December 18th of
the present year 35i, S51 steerage passengers
were landed at Ellis Island, New York.
The schooner Jennie &. Pillsburv. from
New York to Rockland, with coal, is a
wreck in the harbor at New London. Conn.
A Buffalo dispatch says that during the
lake season just closed l0,0OOOOO barrels of
flour were received and handled at that
port.
Custom officers at New York Monday
seized over $4,000 worth of wrapper to-
bacco, which is alleged to have been en-
tered as filler tobacco.
Abraham Steers, New York lumber
dealer and manufacturer of doors, sashes
and blinds, made Gu assignment Monday.
II isthought the failureis Tor about $500 900.
AT Minneapolis Monday, Philip NJ.
Scheig, the embe2zling bank teller, was
sentenced by Judge Jameson to seven
years and six months at hard labor in the
States prison.
The Supreme Court of the United States
decided one of the South Carolina Till
man liquor cases, Monday, by dismiss
ing the writ of haneas corpus asked for in
the case of Constable swan.
Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross, has
asked that the Columbian carayels be
turned over to her Tor exhibition purposes,
the proceeds to he devoted to the RELIEF
work among the Sea Island sufferers.
Vice Chancellor McGill at Jersey City,
Monday ordered the sale of the National
COrdage Company, under the plan OF re-
organization. 10 the United Cordage Com
pany. Edward Balch, creditor, appealed.
Albert Benton Pullman, brother of
George NJ. Pullman, and THE man who
did more than any one else To perfect the
modern sleeping car" died Monday at
his home at "lngleside" near Evanston,
LII. He was 65 years old.
A freight train on the Chesapeake Il
Ohio u Southwestern railroad was wrecked
on Muldrough's Hill, % miles south of
Louisville, KY, Monday, being thrown
1876 feet down the embankment. Three
men were killed. and 500 head of cattle
and hogs 'perished.
The Supreme Court of the United States,
Monday, ruled that mandamus may
issue against foreign corporations from
United States courts. This requires the
Hamburg-American Packet Company to
answer in New York for Infringement OF
an American patent
The names and addresses of 41O men
who want to work in the public parks at
Fittsburg, at dollar day, were taken
Monday; 225 of these men were given
work. The others, and all who apply
hereafter, will be given employment. The
subscriptions for this purpose now aggre-
gate Sl4, 432
The appeals of five Chinese subjects
from the Judgment OF the circuit court for
the Northern district of California, refus-
ing them release from custody of the
marshal upon writs of habeas corpus, were
dismissed in the Supreme Court of the
United States Monday. The appellants
had already been released by order of the
department OF justice,
j. Bird Davidson and William s. Jones
have been arrested by the Pittsburg police
and have been identified as COMPANIONS of
Forester in the numerous recent rob-
berries OF station agents on the Allegheny
Valley, Pittsburg & Lake Erie, and
other roads eentreing in Pittsburg, For
rosters mutilated remains were iished out
of the Monongahela river last Sunday.
Davidson and Jones are known to have
been with Forester prior to that time,
and they will very probably be held to
answer the charge OF Forroster's murder,
in addition to the charge of robbery.