Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-23
IN GENERIL.

Thomas Mackin. wel-known resident
OF Chicago, died Thursday, aged So years.
His estate is valued at 100000.
William II. Beers, ex-president Of the
New York Life Insurance Company, died
in New York Thursday, aged 20 years.
Treasury officials assert positively that
no agent has been sent abroad by the
United States to enter upon any negotia-
tions for gold loan.
The trial of James Newton Hill, at Pitts
burg, for the murder of Mrs. Roetzler, last
March, resulted last week in verdict of
murder in the first degree.
Congressman Draper has announced
himself as candidate for the United
States Senate from Massachusetts, ION
condition that Senator HoaB does not want
TO go back again.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern
freight depot at Owensburg. KY, together
with 10 loaded cars, two Tobacco ware
houses and other property were burned ON
Thursday night. Loss, Sl5U,000.
AT Cripple creek, Col, Wednesday night,
George Lear, an ex-prize fighter, entered a
saloon and shot and killed girl named
Irene Good. Sam Jones, the bartender,
then shot and killed the murderer.
A telegram from the City of Mexico re.
ports the theft of 100000 from bank
clerk who was carrying the bills in cigar
box, from Vera Cruz to the city. The box
was snatched from him ut the station, and
the thief escaped.
By Judge Archibald's decision. in Scran-
ton, Pa, Thursday, the town of TAYLOR
becomes borough. The coal companies
made hard fight, their objection being to
the increased taxation that borough
| government would entail.
A dispatch from Tacoma says that, not
withstanding the general commercial de-
| preston, trade between ports OH the North
Pacific coast and the Orient was never
heavier. The Northern Pacific steamer
Tacoma, which sailed few days ago, was
unable to take all the freight Offered.
| The general term of the supreme court
| in New York, Friday reversed the deci-
sion Of the lower court Diminishing the
action brought by William r. Laidlaw to
recover 1900 damages from Russell Sage
for injuries received by Laidlaw during
the dynamite explosion in Sages office. A
new trial is ordered
The United States circuit court of ap
peals at San Francisco, has given de
cision in case concerning drawbacks oil
coal imported from Australia and subse
quently used on an American vessel, thu
effect of which will be the refunding by
the United States of about S400, 900 to loca
coal men and shippers.
Mary McDermott, 10 years of age, EN-
ployed IN laundry in Buffalo, n. y, wa
caught in the machinery Friday. He
clothing was stripped from her. and sh
was whirled round and round the shaft
ing till every bone in her BODY wa
broken and her flesh terribly mangled
Life was extinct long before she was re
leased.
The Treasury Department has decides
| that the charges for transportation of ma
T tional bank notes to the Treasurer of tn
United States for redemption must be pai
by the party making the remittance. 1t i
believed this will decrease the amount o
money sent on for redemption, and reliev
the government Of advancing the none
to the banks,
A passenger train on the Eastern Ala
bama road was derailed and wrecked nea
Lafayette. Ala, Thursday. The coache
caught fire and Thomas Driver passer
ger, was burned up in the smoking Cal
The other passengers were rescued, bu
, Dowdell and Il. j. Mitchell were probabl
, fatally injured.
, Early Thursday morning convicts en-
ployed in the Pratt mines, near Birminj
ham, Ala, saturated the bath house wit
coal oil and set it on fire, in an effort [
escape Two white convicts, who wei
asleep in the building, were burned I
uehln. Ing BuAfua prevented all ESCAPE
: and extinguished the flames with bu
/ | slight damage to the building.
! The net Treasury balance continues
! decline, and at the close of business la
I Friday stood at SOC, 666 $40, of which SS5
: 794, 757 was in gold and SIC, 1857, O62 in Gu
rency. So far this fiscal year the custor
4 revenues have fallen off 81. 900, 900 as con
0 pared with the corresponding period {
last year. For the same period ihterni
, revenues receipts have decreased onl
v S5,000.000.
A dispatch from Martins Ferry, O
says that three crews of mill men fro
Apollo, Pa, who have been working
> the Etna Standard Mills. have returnt
: home. There has been great dissatisfactic
among the other mill men since their a
4 rival, and, through some mysterious i
, fluence, every move of the Apollo me
!, was attended by bad luck, causing a lurl
Z number OF costly Dreakages OF machiner
A dispatch from PIttsburg, Pa, tells
!. the disruption OF the National Plate ella
), Company zone OF the strongest trusts
/ the country 1t included in It's mem be
q ship q number of the largest manufa
turers in The United States, and was car
.. talized at si0,UOO000. Secretary Wheel
!. gives as the causes Of its dissolution Il
y financial situation, light demand for pla
/. glass and foreign competition. IL is said
y number of smaller outside concerns hs
been freely cutting prices.