Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-28
IN sES ERAL.

Saturdays paid admissions to the
Worlds Fair were 2l5,452.
Lord Mayor Shanks of Dublin arrived
in Now York, Saturday, on the steam
ship Campania.
The total number of claims now pend
ing in the Pension Office is 700,279, of
which 14l ,45l are under the act Of june
9th, $780,
The malt houses of the W. H. Purcell
Co., in Chicago were burned Saturday
night, and IL firemen and workmen
were injured; loss, 100000.
A Milwaukee dispatch says that the
question of reduction of salaries Of
operatives in the employ of the Chicago,
Milwaukee e. 81. Paul railroad has been
definitely decided in the negative.
In the United States, from January to
| September of this year, $50 State and
private banks failed, and 72 have re.
sumed business In the same period
1866 national banks have failed and 20
resumed.
While digging a well near Jefferson.
Vile, Ind, Sunday, l.. A. Kurtz, a
| farmer, was overcome by gas. His
wife, who went 10 his rescue, was also
overcome and both died before assist
ance could reach them.
Miss Ella Knowles, the assistant az.
torney-general Of Montana, had con-
ference in Washington ON Saturday with
Secretary Smith and Assistant Attorney
General Hall regarding the Montana
school lands and other State matters
before the Interior department,
An explosion, supposed TO be OF dyna-
/ r.la tt,f s,f xatf
sailor boarding house in San Francisco,
early Sunday morning. Two men
were killed and two fatally injured,
while another received serious injuries.
Three union sailors were arrested on
suspicion.
Gerald Griffin and Stephen Doyle,
both aged II years, were initiating
scenes from "Wild West" show in a
woods near Scranton, Pa, Sunday,
when Doyle, in swerying rife to fire
at imaginary Indians, accidentally shot
Griffin through the heart, killing him
instantly.
Two gangs OF street railway laborers
in Brooklyn, one composed of Italians
and the other Of lrishmen, engaged in
street battle Sunday afternoon, In which
number were seriously injured, A num-
Der of the Italians were arrested. The
fight originated with quarrel between
the foremen of the two gangs.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, at Milwaukee, Saturday, con-
firmed the action of the grand secre-
tary in declining TO furnish Archbishop
Katzer a copy Of the ritual ION the
ground that no authority exists for re-
vealing the secrets of the order to any
man except by initiating him as mem
ber."
Archbishop Satolli, in Washington,
Saturday, when asked as to tho accuracy
of the statement that Archbishop Ken
! drick Of st. Louis had been deposed by
, his authority, aud that Archbishop
, Kahn, his coadjutor, had been vested
, with full archepiscopal powers, is said
: to have replied: ut is all true. l have
nothing further TO say on the subject"
Samuel NJ. Rghtley and his wife,
/ Lena, aged respectively "a and 80 years,
were found murdered in their bed Sun
a day morning at their home in North
ampton township, about two miles from
!. Newtown, Bucks county, Pa. The MUIR
derer had attempted to cover up his
n crime by pouring kerosene on the bed
) and setting fire to it. The bodies Of his
victims were partly consumed.