Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01
IN GENERAL.


bucket shops"
Owing to the depression in the coal trade
nearly all the collieries in the Wyoming
Valley are now working only half time.
Conlon Bros and Miller Il Peck's dry
goods stores, in Waterbury, Conn.,, were
burned early Thursday morning. Loss,
about $4,000.
The Postmaster-Genera has signed a
contract with the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing for printing postage stamps
for the next four years.
In the Roman Catholic Cathedral at
Hartford, Conn, Thursday, the Rev.
| Michael Tierney, d. D., was consecrated
bishop of the diocese of. Hartford.
One white man and four colored men
| were killed and several others injured by
an explosion of the boiler in the oil mill
| of Freeman Il liayne in Compile, La,
| Wednesday night.
Pickpockets on a crowded cable car in
Chicago, Wednesday night, stole a purse
containing $500 in cash and silver certif-
Gates and papers aggregating $25,00O in
value from one of the passengers.
President Wednesday sent to the Sem
ate the nominations of Granville Stuart of
Montana to be minister to Paraguay and
Uruguay, and John NJ. Savage of New
Jersey, to be consul at Dundee, Scotland.
The extensive hardware house of p.
Walsh, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. has made
assignment. Assets and liabilities not
| stated. Many preferences are made to
firms in Canada, the United States, Eng
land and Scotland.
The Rev. &. $. Plumley, d, d., for some
years the New York correspondent of the
Presbyterian. and the editor and compiler
of 1.-The Presbyterian Church Throughout
the World" died in New York on We'd
nesday, aged 81 years.
The steamer Oceanic, which arrived at
San Francisco on Thursday, brought adj
vices from Hong Kong, China, stating
that during January four men on the
United States steamer Concord were
stricken with smallpox, one case resulting
fatally.
The Senate Wednesday confirmed the
nomination of General Joseph Shelby to
be United States marshal of the Western
| district of Missouri, without taking a yea
and nay vote. A great many other nomi-
nations, mostly postmasters, were also
confirmed.
A dispatch from Stamford, Conn.,, states
that the strike of granite cutters at Stony
Creek, which has been in effect for Il
months, during which time about
$l,0O0,0O0 in wages have been lost has
been adjusted on terms favorable to the
trades unions.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says
that the. Mexican government has been
informed by its representative in London
that England, Germany and France are
about to take the initiative Ill convenIng q
monetary conference to determine tie
future status of silver"
A building in st. Louis, occupied Jointly
by the Udell Woodenware Company
and the Tyler Desk Company, was burned
Thursday. The loss of the woodenware
company was 500, 900, and OF the desk
company $4,000. Insurance on the build
ing and contents will cover losses.
The rumor that Mr.. Pung Kwang Yu.
formerly first secretary of the Chinese
legation, had been beheaded on his return
to China, is contrndicted on the authority
of Mr.. Heber j. May, counsel of the lega-
ton in Washington, who investigated the
report and found it to be absolutely
groundless.
Jacob A. Moore, aged So, farmer Of
Bushyille, Sullivan county, N. Y, and his
housekeeper, Mrs. Jane Raymond, aged
80, were found murdered in their home,
Friday morning. The old man was shot
and beaten with a club, and the woman
was killed with a shovel. There is no clue
to the murderer.
]. II. Hopewell, restaurant keeper OF
Des Moines, was found Wednesday with
a bullet in his brain, and his wife dying
beside him. They had both taken NOR
phine, and Hopewell left note saying the
drug would NOT work ON him, hence he
used revolver. Business troubles are
supposed to have been the cause.
1t is announced that the English yacht
Valkyrie, which was defeated BY the
American cutter Vigilant last summer,
will leave Brooklyn about the LIST of May
for the Clyde. Her crew are to arrive here
by the Majestic, which will leave Liver
pool April 4th. 1t is understood that Lord
Dunraven was advised to take the Valkyrie
back, as both the Vigilant and Colona
were for sale, and may not race next
| season.
The remarkable fall in the price of silver
in London is due partly to the. lower rate
of exchange coming from China and
partly to the fact that, as the last steamer
carrying silver that can possibly reach
India before the budget is announced has
sailed, the banks do not care to purchase
the metal until it Is seen what will be the
nature of the budget. In addition to these
causes, the banks are waiting to see
whether a duty will be placed upon the
importation of silver.