Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-12
IN GENERAE.

Dexter, Lambert & Co.'s silk mill, at |
Honesdale, has resumed work with its en-
tire force on full time.
The Bar Association of New York, last |
Tuesday, passed resolutions denouncing |
the nomination of Judge Maynard for the |
court OF appeals.
At Lawrence, Mass, Monday, Warren !
Il. Daggett, indicted as an habitual criml-
nal, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
25 years Imprisonment.
Highway robbers stopped an electric car
in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday night, cut the
trolley and robbed the conductor, motor
man and one Of the passengers.
The International Irrigation Congress
met in Los Angeles, CAL, Tuesday. Sew
eral hundred delegates were present, and
were welcomed by Governor Markham.
Levi L. Griffin has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the First
district of Michigan, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of j. Logan Chapman.
Bob Hudson, colored, was shot and
killed at Dresden, Tenn, Sunday night,
while defending his wife, who was being
whipped by White Caps, who were all
white.
Sir Richard Webster Attorney-General
of Great Britain called on Secretary Gres-
ham at the State Department Monday,
accompanied by his son, and later was
presented to the President by the Secretary.
The paid admissions to the Worlds Fair,
Monday, Chicago Day, were 7l3,646. Sev-
eral accidents occurred. Six persons were
killed and number injured. The paid
admissions to the Fair Tuesday were
30S.6l3.
Senator Hill Tuesday presented to the
Senate a huge petition, signed by $4,000 New
York business men-and not a banker or
broker amongst them-praying for the re-
peal Of the purchasing clause of the Sher-
man act.
Secretary Smith sent to the House, Mon
day, Il letter submitting u supplemental
estimate of $500, 900 for the investigation
| of pension cases for the current fiscal year.
This is in addition to 5000, 600 already ap-
| propriated.
The annual convention of the CONNER
cial Travellers Association was held in
| Syracuse, n. Y, Tuesday. A committee
reported recommending the location of the
proposed Commercial Travellers Home at
| Binghamton.
Howard L. Balm, the ex-cashier of the
Home Savings Bank, of New York, who
was convicted of embezzling Sl6,Sl5 in
bonds from that institution, was sentenced
by Judge Fitzgerald Monday to serve four
years in the State prison.
There is excitement throughout the
of black smallpox at Pozoland and other
cities. The authorities are trying to pre-
vent the spread of the disease, but many
deaths are reported daily.
The South Baltimore Car Works Com
pany of Baltimore Md, has been placed
in the hands of receivers with assets of
s6l7,000 The liabilities are said to be
only $294, 800. The action was taken with
the assent of the company.
Representative Bingham of Pennsylva-
mia, Tuesday introduced bill appropri-
ating SiS5, ,Oo0 for the purchase Of ground
adjoining the postoffice at Philadelphia, SC
as to give full and free ingress and egress
to United States mail wagons.
The United States Supreme Court was
Tuesday asked by ex-Attorney-Genera
Garland to advance certain cases which
involve the question whether or not beel
is an Intoxicating liquor, within the mean
ing of the United States statutes.
A freight car, containing 200 kegs of
powder, exploded on the Pittsburg, For
Wayne d Chicago railroad, near Alliance
O., Monday evening, wrecking the traii
and tearing out the road bed for 100 yards
The engineer and fireman were fatally
: burned. The damage will reach $3.50 900
: Sixteen indictments have been founC
against James C. Darragh and Elmer @
, Sattley, the president and cashier of tn
defunct Kansas City, (Mo.) Safe Deposi
: and Savings Bank, charging them witt
} grand larceny. Depositors of the banl
} will probably realize % cents on th,
dollar.
The warp dressers in the Valley Fall
: Company's Woonsocket, r. l.. cottor
mills struck, Tuesday, against the wages
reduction which went into effect this week
They claim that weavers have been re-
duced II per cent and warp dressers 3
.. per cent. They object to the excessive
! amount of the reduction.
. 1t is feared that the William Penn an,
:. all the colieres on the Girard estate, il
! the vicinity of Pottsville, Pa, will be com
|. PEELED to cease working in a few days be
n cause of q scarcity of water. The reseI
= yoirs have become so nearly empty the
: the company supplying Mahanoy City an
Shenandoah is turning the water off fror
: Up. IN. to q a. m.
4 The coroner of San Francisco has bee
/ investigating the San Francisco Foundlin
4 Asylum, where 80 babies have died With
n the past six weeks. The official undel
/ taker of the institution testified that whei
e the infants died the attendants put tn
g. bodies in box under the doorsleps, wher
/. they remained until he took them away
!, The asylum has been closed.
IL National Bank Examiner Lazear, VIII
II had charge Of several of the suspende
II national banks Of Denver, Colorado, las
summer, is under arrest on the charge
n receiving stolen goods. This condition G
o things arose from Mr.. Lazear's determin
1t ton TO get all out of the assets of the D.
e Norte National Bank to which the institl
At ton is entitled, and his character is m
r, ilnpeached.
m The liabilities of ]. S. McCabe, who col
Quoted banks at Uniontown and Connel
% Vile, Pa, which recently suspended pa
70 ments, are believed to reach, il not excee
a Sl73000, while the assets amount to on
$1,000. Last night number of HUI
l garian and Italian coke workers who ha'
.e deposits i'll the Uniontown Bank asser
7, bled about the place and threatened
y kill McCabe on sight.
~ T. Two deaths and So new cases of yello
az fever were officially reported at Brunswic
n Ga, Tuesday. Nine OF the stricken pc
u = sons are white and 26 colored. An inspe
?, tion of all the small places along the ra
~ ~ road between Savannah and Waycro
~ ~ failed to find any signs of the disease.
% relief train of six cars of provisions al
y, supplies was started yesterday from Nc
'S ie York, where upwards of $1,000 have be,
III collected for the fund.
DIR. jenkins, health officer at the Port
IN New York, issued bulletin Tuesda
% stating that psychological examinatit
IL in the case of Ida Aue, one of the passe
gers on the steamship Russia, who died
he Swinburne Island, on Tuesday, show
the presence of the cholera germ. r
RS bulletin adds that there is no cause (
Isl alarm, as the steerage passengers q
healthy and cleanly and they and the VI
sci are being subjected to all known qui
antine measures.
,et In the case of Frank Ellison, sentenc
IN Monday by Recorder Smyth, in NJ