Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-28
IN GENERAL.

men.
zadoc Nichols, aged SO years, wealthy
farmer Of Attica, N. Y. was gored to death
on Wednesday by bull.
Samuel Sinclair, publisher of the New
York Tribune from 1868 to 1872, died at his
home in New York yesterday week.
The wages of the $50 employees of the
Little Falls, N. Y, knitting mills, will be
reduced 10 per cent on January LIST.
The United States monitor Miantono-
nah, now at New York, has been ordered
to sea. Her destination is not known.
A summary of the return received by
Bradstreets indicates that the total cotton
crop OF 1854 will approximate 6, 100000
bales.
The Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern
Railroad Company, at Memphis, has con-
fessed judgment in favor of @. p. Hunting
ton, for $50, 54S.7l.
Chinese registration began Dec. 10Th. 1t
is expected by the government officials
that there will be a complete registration
on the Pacific slope.
The soap manufacturing firm of Charles
S. Higgins e. Co. of Brooklyn. which had
capital Of S750,000 went into the hands
of receiver Thursday.
II. P. Lucas. who was well known as a
writer on trotting horse subjects, under
baltimore yesterday week, aged AZ years.
George b. Prechaska. president of the
American Rice Milling Company, whose
mil, at New Orleans, was destroyed by fire
on Wednesday, committed suicide Thurs.
day.
A dispatch from Nassau says that an
other boat belonging to the lost steamer
Alvo of the Atlas Line, was picked up on
the shore of Grand Bahama, on November
Goth.
The machinists in the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops in Harrisburg will work nine
hours day, and the blacksmiths and car
penters 10 days month until further
notice.
The Brandt Chair Company, operated at
brandt. Pa, by Scranton capitalists, and
| employing 100 workmen, has shut down
for an indefinite period owing to a lack of
| orders.
| The cruiser New York was successfully
locked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Thurs
cay, the result proving that there was no
ground for the doubts which had been ex-
| pressed upon the subject
The Louisiana rice mill at New Orleans
was burned yesterday week. Chris. Huck,a
fireman, WINS killed, and James Craig was
| seriously injured by falling stack. The
| loss will reach 100000.
Our minister at ST. Petersburg will be in
| strncted to inquire into the statements
4 eabled from there that large numbers of
INDECENT immigrants are being assisted"
out OF Russia and sent to the United States.
| John j. Vail, the former cashier of the
| wrecked Commercial Bank of BROOKLYN,
wa arrested in that city Thursday. He is
charged with perjury in making false
returns to the Stdte bank examiner.
Information has been received at the
| Consulate General Of the Republic OF San
| Domingo of the assassination of General
Joaquin Campo, Governor of the Province
Of Aqua, and delegate in the southern part
| OF the island.
A St. Louis dispatch says that Greenwood
Il. Gonzales, who is in that city, on his
way to New York, is commissioned by the
| Mexican government to purchase I50OUO
stand OF arms for the new equipment of
the Mexican army.
Counsel has been retained in Youngs.
town, o., by employees who were poisoned
at Homestead during the labor troubles,
70 commence suit for damages aggregating
$l,0O0,0U0, against the Carnegie Company,
claiming that by the injuries received they
have been unable to engage in manual
labor.
The Theatrical Managers Association.
organized in 1880 to fight the operation of
the interstate commerce law, disbanded
Wednesday, the purpose for which il was
formed having been accomplished. The
sum OF S1OU in the treasury. will be dis
tributed among professional women in
distress.
Judge .Simonton, in Harrisburg Thurs
day, filed an opinion in which hesustained
the constitutionality of the Revenue act
of 1891, which increases the rate of State
tax on corporate loans from to mills.
The result will be an annual increase in
the commemorative revenues of about
500, 1000.
A freight wreck occurred on the Phila-
delphia q Reading railroad Just south of
the Ph9nixville tunnel, caused by a
broken axle, second train running into
the wreck OF the first. Many of the cars
were thrown over the embankment into
the canal, 30 feet below. Travel was de.
laycd five hours.
The case of Commodore o. F, Stanton
WHO was detached from command of the
United Ssates squadsou at Rio Janeiro for
salutlng the lnsurgent admiral, Mello, was
disposed of by Secretary Herbert, Thurs
day, by an order restoring Commodore
stanton to duty, although strongly disap-
proving of his action.
William D. Jones and ]. Bird Davidson
who pleaded guilty, in Pittsburg, to hold
ing up and robbing station agents on local
railroads recently, were sentenced Wednes-
day. Jones was sentenced to 10 years and
six months on each of the four indct-
ments against him and Davidson to nine
years and six months on each of three in
dictments.
At business mems meeting in Denver.
Col, Thursday, to demonstrate with the
governor for calling an extra session of
the State Legislature, Governor Matte
said ''The people should not look tamely
upon the insults heaped upon them by the
present administration. am in favor of
lighting for free and unlimited coinage.
not alone all summer, but until hell freezes
over"
The Secretary of the Interior, on the
advice Of the legal officers OF department,
has decided that the common law rule.
that the offspring of free persons follows
the condition Of the father, prevails in de-
termining the status of children born of a
white man, citizen of the United States
and an Indian woman, his wife. This de-
cision will probably result in cutting of of
the rolls Of the various Indian tribes
many mixed bloods who are now drawing
rationa and snnuities vs. Indians,