Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-14
IN GENERAL.

| isaac Y. Lewis, president OF the Merlden
britannia Company, died Thursday in
Meriden, Conn.,, aged 81 years,
The. Virginia Legislature Thursday
| elected Thomas 5. Martin United States
Senator to serve the long term.
| The Glove Manufacturers Association Of
Fulton county, N. Y, have decided upon
q 10 per cent reduction in wages.
| The Plano National Bank in Plano,
| Tex, was robbed Friday night. The
amount taken is estimated at from $4,000
| to S60,0
| A. saloon was to have been opened in
Ossian, Ind, on Thursday, but the previous
night the building was almost totally de-
molisbed by dynamite.
The Rev. DIR. ]. ]. Moore senior bishop
OF the. African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, died at Greensboro, N. e., Satur-
day. He was 90 years of age,
The treasury officials in New York have
had their attention called to number of
counterfeit 500 treasury notes. II is a
production by the photo-pen and ink pro-
cess.
An examination of the accounts of the
Gunckel Banking Company of Middle.
town, Ohio, is said to show that the liabili-
ties are SllO, 2O9, and the available assets,
Sl4.444
Royal w. Merrill, a well-known news
paper man, formerly of Philadelphia, and
later financial editor of the New York
Press, died in New York, Saturday, of heart
failure. He was AZ years old
The auditors report in the matter of the
assigned estate of Thomas Baumgardner
OF Lancaster. Pa, who failed two years
ago for $5i2000, shows that the creditors
will receive 81 cents on the dollar.
A 5-years.old son of Mrs. Healy of Mid
dletown, Conn, fell down stairs Thursday
while carrying. a lamp. A piece OF the
glass. penetrated his throat and severed the
1ngular vein causing death almost in
stantly.
Whitney i. Boise, chairman OF the Re
publican state central committee of Oregon.
and ex-Collector Lotan were on Saturday
indicted at Portland on the charge Of
having conspired to unlawfully land
Chinese.
Jacob Huffman, aged 2s years, in Pitts
burg, Friday, after failing in an attempt
to Kill his wife, murdered his 10-months-
old boy, and then committed suicide. He
had separated from his wife, and was
drunk Friday.
Judge Winter, in indianapolis, Saturday,
approved the recommendation of the re-
ceiver of the Iron Hall that dividend of
10 per cent be paid to all certificate holders
who will file and prove their claims by
December 10th.
The South Bend (Indiana) National Bank
was robbed of $4,000 at noon Thursday.
II is alleged that the thief got in at the
rear OF the bank, the assistant cashier hay
Ing. been called to another part of the
building by confederate.
K More than a majority of the dioceses Of
the Episcopal Church OF the United States
have confirmed the election of Father
Hall to be bishop of Vermont. There is
no doubt but that the assent of the bishops
will be given to his conservation.
The police in Scranton, Pa, Thursday
began an inquiry into the death of Syi-
vester Robinson, who died in that city on
Sunday. He was cripple of means, and
1t is said lived with woman who has dis
appeared, leaving no clue as to her where
abouts.
A telegram from Attleboro, Mass, saws
that the manufacturing jewellers of Plain
Vile, North Attleboro, Attleboro Falls and
Attleboro, 06 i'll number, and those of
Providence, have suffered losses aggregate
ing S5UO,0OO by reason Of failures in the
past year.
Eleven collieries of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, in the wy
oming Valley are at present in full opera
ton four days In each week. Ten thousand
men and boys are employed by the COM
1000 tons per day.
The delegate convention of railroad coal
miners of the Pittsburg district Friday
decided to accept a 65-cent rate reduction,
reduction of ii cents. This rate is not
permanent, but only until such time as
the reorganization Of the miners will en-
able them to make stand for the 79,cent
rate.
AT Kansas City, Friday, Mrs. G. F.
Nichols locked her two little children,
Freddie, aged years, and Minnie, aged 9
years, in a room while she went down
town. During her absence the children
played with the stove and were fatally
burned, the body of the boy being burned
to crisp.
W. N. Bishop, wealthy cattle dealer,
and his invalid-wife, of Bluefield, w. Va
were overpowered by three masked rob
bers, who forced an entrance to their resi-
dence. on Monday night, and robbed
them of 5000 aud some valuable papers.
Mrs. Bishop was so badly frightened that
her condition is now critical.
Information comes by way of Pittsburg
that the puddiers employed by the Oxford
Iron and Nail Company. Of Oxford, N. j.,
have gone to work at $3.50 per ton, on a
guarantee Of Is days steady work each
month. This is the lowest wages ever
paid for boiling iron in the United States"
The company operates % pudding fur
naces
a receiver was appointed at Lima, O.,
Friday, for the Ohio Chemical Com.
pany, q concern which has done an i'm
mense business all over the country selling
so'called bichloride of gold tablets for
drunkenness and the tobacco habit, and
carries large advertisements with leading |
newspapers, which will probably get |
nothing.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company will |
shut down Its plant AZ Steelton, except the |
bridge and construction departments. em-
ploying about GOO men, from December |
23d to February list. This action is owing |
to lack of orders. but il is said that il |
orders increase sufficiently to Justify it the |
plant will be in operation before February. |
About $500 men will be thrown out Of |
employment.
A special town meeting at Danbury, |
Conn.,, on Thursday, voted an appropria- |
ton Of $4,000 to give employment or tenn |
porary aid to idle workmen. The hat |
manufacturers, whose mills are idle, say |
that their property represents but one |
thirteenth of the grand list of the town,
and that they can stand that proportion of |
the tax if the rest of the taxpayers can |
stand 1t to make up the remaining twelve
thirteenths."
The. ocean tug Edgar F. Luckenback
brought to New York, Friday, Captain
j. W. Bedford and his crew of six men, OF
the schooner Manitou, from Vinal Haven,
Mainer for Philadelphia, with stone,
which sunk off the Five Fathom Bank
Light, on December LIST. The crew took
to the boat, and were barely clear when
the schooner went down. They were
tossed about for six days, and were not
seen by passing vessels till the Luekenback
rescued them on Thursday.
Postoffice Inspector Stuart of Chicago,
Friday rnpatuad Frrt,, ID ~