Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The Iowa Legislature Tuesday elected
Representative Gear to the United States
Senate.
The New York pilot boat Joseph f.
Louhat went ashore near Amagansett
Life station, Monday night. The crew
was rescued by the life-saving men.
A Chicago dispatch says that there
are about 2, 900 idle men in that city who
refuse absolutely to do any work in re-
turn for the assistance they receive from
public charity.
The employees of the Lambertvllle, N,
j., Spoke Mill have suffered d reduction
in wages of from so cents to 81 a week,
and they will work eight hours instead
of nine each day.
The Pepperell and Laconia mills at
Biddeford, Me-, Tuesday, posted notices
of general reduction In wages of 10
per cent, to take effect January GOTH
These mills employ about 3,400 hands.
A Detroit dispatch says that the
steady decline in the earnings of the
Grand Trunk railroad has led to cut
of 10 per cent in the wages of all its
trackmen, and that other reductions
may follow.
Grave fears are entertained at Port
land, Me-, for the safety of the Nova
Scotia schooner Lizzie B., which left
that port for Boston, Friday last, just
before the storm. She has not since
been heard from.
About go delegates, representing the
10000 river and railroad miners in the
Pittsburg district, met in Pittsburg Tues
day and ordered general strike yester-
day for uniform wages. Another con-
vention will meet on Monday.
Wayne MacVeagh of Philadelphia,
has filed suit in the United States
Court at indianapolis attacking the
charter Of that city. 1t is claimed that
the method of assessment for street i'm
proyements amounts to confiscation.
A Baltimore dispatch says that q re-
duction of 30 per cent in the wages of
1000 employees went into effect yester-
day at the Mount Glare repair shops of
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Com
pany. The men were only informed of
the cut on Monday.
The anthracite coal sales agents, at a
special meeting in New York Tuesday,
decided to restrict the output for the rest
OF the month. The agents will issue in
structlons to cut down allotments to
about 0O per cent, making the total out
put for the month 100000 tons.
Receiver Reinhart, one of the Atchi-
son, Topeka IL Santa Fe receivers, said
~ New York yesterday that whatever
delay mas occurred in the payment of
wages due to employees on some of the
SUBSIDIARY lines OF the Atchison system,
arose from legal complications, and that
the wages will be paid at once.
The total value of the exports from
the United States during the year end
ing December 3lst, 1893, was $S76, 49,
oSS, as against $93S, 420 $50 in 1892.
The imports during the same periods
were 76,745,6Sl and $S40, 930,055 re-
spectiyely. During last year the excess
OF gold exports over imports was
S1OOi,956, while in 1899 it was
$59,OSl,110.
A delegation composed of members of
the Board of Trade, Commercial Ex-
change and the Vessel Owners Associa-
ton OF Philadelphia, appeared before
the House committee on rivers and har-
bors Tuesday and urged the improve
ment OF the Delaware Breakwater and
the mouth OF the Schuylkill river. Presi-
dent Earnshaw OF the Commercial Elk
change, Secretary Tucker of the Board
OF Trade, and MIR. Lloyd of the Ship
ping Association, spoke of the necessity
for these improvements.
Fifteen separate offers, aggregating
$40,O00,O00, to take bonds, should Secre.
tary Carlisle issue them, have been re-
ceived at the Treasury Department.
One offer to take block of $25, 900 900
was received from New York firm,
and another offer to take $175 worth
was received from a mechanic. No
preparations, however, are being made
at the Treasury Department for an i'm
mediate bond issue. Secretary Carlisle
will await q reasonable time for Con-
gress to act, probably until February lst