Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-27
IN GENERAL.

The Schooner Addie Henry, from New
bern, N. c., bound for Philadelphia, many
days out, is supposed now to be lost.
Sehaeffer S powder house, near Hunting
don, Ind, exploded Monday, and Howard
Householder and Hugh Harvey were
killed.
The New Jersey Metal Refining Works,
at Elizabetbport, are closed on account of
general trade depression, and 200 hands
are made idle.
Mrs. Bridget Mullen died at Collinsyille,
Mass, Sunday, at the reputed age OF l07
years. She leaves husband, number OF
children and grandchildren.
The Southern Electric Company of Balti-
| more Monday made an assignment. The
| assets of the concern are estimated at
| S175000; liabilities, 100000.
The rod, wire and nail mill of the Car
negie Company, at Beaver Falls. Pa, shut
down Monday for necessary repairs.
Eight hundred hands are idle.
The Citizens Savings Bank in Ports
mouth, o., which suspended about the
middle Of June, resumed Monday with
new deposits TO the amount of $4,000.
Herman Hirshberg, dentist of Column
bus, o., Monday shot and killed Theodore
X. Miesse, grocer. Hirshberg had gone
to Miesses store to collect bill and q
quarrel ensued with the result stated.
The steamship Alcides of the Donaldson
Line, between Montreal and Glasgow, ran
ashore near Heath Point, Aaticosti. on
Sunday. All the passengers were safely
landed. but IL is feared that the vessel will
be total loss.
The Galance & Grosbeam agate and tin
ware factory at Woodhaven, L. l., said to
be the largest establishment of its kind in
the United States, shut down Monday fol
two weeks, throwing out of employment
, over l 900 persons.
Judge Scruggs, at Memphis, Monday
suspended Sheriff McLendon pending al
, investigation of his surrender of Lee
! Walker to the lynchers, Saturday night
! Harry fFrayser, one of the mob leaders
! was arrested Monday.
A catboat, with several men and womel
on board, was capsized in Buzzard's Bay
off West Falmouth, Mass. in squat
!, Sunday afternoon, and it is feared that al
s hands were drowned. The identity of tn
e boat and of her passengers and crew ha
Il not yet been learned.
r The acting director of the mint Nor
/. day purchased 10000 ounces of silver q
il his counter offer of S.696 per ounce. Ther
2 ury officials OF purchasing the full quot
% of 1850, 900 ounces this month, nor {
l. making up the deficiency next month.
y The electric railway company at Getty
1t burg has stopped work on the battlefield
IS Rails have been laid within short di
1 lance OF the "den." This move is pr
n sumed to be owing to the notification
= the United States commission that tt
a =. railway must yacate the battlefield at ono
~ A sloop was capsized in the harhor {
~ Salem. Mass, during violent squall, SUI
a day. Three men were seen clinging to ii
is boat, but before they could be reached
is sunk and the men disappeared. 1t is no
believed that the drowned men were Ante
LiebisGh, his son, aged l6 years, and Jam
e. Dixon.
IL William Schumacher, coachman f
4. William A.. Thompson of Chicago, W
at killed Monday by blow struck by !
ca employer. at the latter summer residenC
m ON La Belle Lake, Wis. Schumacher al
lie another employe had an alteration al
I'D Mr. Thompson interfered. striking Sch
nd macker under the ear,
i'll Letters received at the Presbyterii
Board Of Missions, Monday, state til
Miss Anna Melton, u missionary station
at Divall, a little village near Amad
nal Turkey, was attacked at midnight, Ju
nd 7th, BY a native, who beat her with hea
*. stick. A statement has been forwarded
.ot the State Department at Washington.
III. Augustus Hamlin, his wife Mary, az
ler % years; Eugene Pettier, Louis Victor a
Rosa Labne went rowing on pond
Great Darlington, Mass, Sunday. 7
boat leaked and sll crowded TO one 81,
in Petter jumped overheard. Mrs. Ham
a., jumped after him and clasped her ar
It around his neck, aud both were DROWN
IT'S Hamlin fell out of the boat and v
md drowned, The two Others chung to |
heat and we're rescued.