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Evening journal., 1894-09-06
ATRlo OF MINOR ACCIDENTS.

A Cut Head, Crushed Hand aud Burned
Foot-A Homeless Man Taken to the
hospital.
Two small boys had an argument on
Delaware avenue yesterday afternoon,
during which one of them, Willie CULLEN,
had his head badly cut by stone. DR.
John Palmer dressed the injury.
John Baker, an employe OF the Malleable
Iron Co., had bis foot badly burned yester-
day afternoon by an overturned ladle. he
was taken to the Homeopathic d spital.
While at work in the Lobdell Car
Wheel C3mpany's works, James Monroe
had his left hand caught in the
mschinery aud crushed He was also
taken to the Homeopathic Hospital.
The police, last night, were notified
that a man was sick at a stable at Second
and Washington streets. An officer was
seut to investigate and found James
6eer, aged 65 years, seriously i'll. He
claimed TO have no home nor relatives
and It was deemed advisable to send him
to the Delaware Hospital
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
USE OF POSTAGE STAMPS.
PERSONS WHO PERSIST IN STICKING
ON THE WRONG CORNER.

Annoyances which Cause Delay In tho
Postal Delivery for The City
Dropped in Out-of-Tovn n Foxes Desplte
Warming Notices.
There Is an inherent tendency on the
part of the general public to kick about
the United States mail service. no matter
what grounds there may seem TO exist.
and as a general thing the persons most
responsible for the errors or DELAYS are
the sturdiest kickers. This morning a
reporter Of the EVENING JOURNAL was
standing in the corridors of the post
Office, when a well dressed and ap.
psrently intelligent msn asked Il Just
posted some city mail Ia that box, point
Ing to the reeeptacles over which. In
letters over two inches long, were hung
signs resdlng mot for city mail. "Wiil
it 60 all iight2" was the next remark by
the mailer.
The scribe assured him that the letters
would reach their destination, but
probably would be delayed a little. and
then made his way to the regions below,
where the out OF town mails are sorted
and sent on their way. There he
learned several singular things Said
one OF the clerks:
I'VE certainly have considerable trou
bic with the mailers Of city letters, who
should know better, but who, from care
lessness or dellberation. drop their mail
matter IN the out-of town boxes. Ia
order to obviate this we put plain
aud conspicuous signs over the
drops, but 1t has not resulted In de-
cIeasing this class Of errors In the least
When they are dropped Ia the out Of
town box they so to this department.
When the box is opened and the mail
taken out 1t is frequently too late to get
1t in the first carriers delivery and it
has to lay over one or more deliveries
This causes a delay, and frequently a
kick on the part Of sender or receiver.
OF course it isn't our fault
Another singular thing, Is the fre
quency with which persons mailing
letters place the stamp on the left. hand
corner Of che envelope, instead Of the
right, where It should be You see we
use the csncelling machine and it will
not cancel a stamp II placed elsewhere
than on the right hand corner This
necessitates stamping by hand, loss Of
timd aud source of annoyance.
'Is this displacement Of stamps done
Dy any particular classl asked the scribe
Not that I am aware Of, " WAS the
reply. Foreigners, especially ltalians
and Poles, use the left hand corner to
greater extent and this custom Is
frequently resorted to by persons who
wish to cover the business card OF some
frm whose envelope they are using
Bat the major portion Of these
ceses are by educated and
intelligent people, for what object can
not say There WAS a fad at one time for
putting the stamp on the back Of the
envelope, but this has died out. Many
foreign letters are stamped that way
now. OF course it is only petty annoy !.
ance to MS, and we don't kick, but it
tlkes time to handle many Of these mis-
stamped aud mis- dropped letters, and the
public shouldn't blame us for the deia, s
occurring from them.
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
MILLER is BUSY.
There WIN lie other Candidates Besides
Morton.

ALBANY, Sept. 6.-Warner Miller and
Comptroller Roberts, candidate for the
Republican nomination for governor. with
state Treasurer Colyin and friends of Les
lie w. Russell, another candidate, held a
long conference in tho offiae Of tho comp
trollor Ii is assorted that together with
the frionds Of J. Sloat Fassett they intend
60 pool the counties they control against
Mr.. Morton
LITTLE FALLS n. Y, Sept. 6.-Ex.
Senator Warner Miller, in an interview
in regard to tho probable outcome OF tho
Republican state convention, refused to
comment on the letter written by Levi p.
Morton. Whom the interviewer suggested
Go the x-sonator that Mr.. Morton s friends
were confident thoir man would DO nom
mated, he said; mo man has n mortgage
on the Republican nomination for gov
ernor Up 20 date only a small portion Of
the convention delegates has boon chosen.
Thore will bo 750 delegates In tho conven-
tion, and with what Mr.. Morton has pledg-
cd he has not yet secured a sufficient mum
Der to nominate him.
'Wfll your name be presented to the
convention by one Of the delegates from
Horkimer county,
am not prepared TO answer that quos-
tion now. have not asked any ono 20 do
so, and have no opinion to express about
my future action regarding my course In
tho convention"
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
WATCHED TIE GARBAGE BURN.

A Delegation From Newton, Mass In
spects the Crematory aud Is Well
Pleased-No had smell From There.
Newton, Mass, is talking OF erecting
a cremstory for the disposition OF the
garbage gathered on Its streets, and with
a view of looking at the system, dele.
cation, oonsistiDg OF DR. Francis q Cur
tie, Frederic Curtis, 5. w. Jones and J
10. Brimblecon. visited the crematory
located here. The trip was taken yes.
terday afternoon. the party being In
charge of w G R Colquhoun, secretary
Of the Board Of Health, and s. H. Brown,
inventor Of the system, A number OF
people who live ia the vicinity OF the
orsmatory, who have, in the past, com
planned Of the smell which, they claim,
arises from the burning OF the garbage,
were also there.
The Newton delegates were shown how
tue crematory was operated and expressed
themselves as well pleased with II, while
there was no smell whatever coming from
the furnaces The visitors left here for
the Bsy State at p. M, and from their
conversation, It Is highly probable that
the system viii be introduced in Newton
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
A TOWN SWALLOWED UP
The Coal Mine Under Lofty, Pa,
Suddenly Caved In.
THE HOUSES SANK OUT OF SIGHT.

AAA3 Nihcfa hhou u NhtfoW Escape From
Being Entombed Aiiye-one OF the Bur
led Houses ON Fire-The Number Of Fa-
talitics Not Yet Known.
LoFrl, Pa, Sept 6-The little mining
town Of Scotch Valley, in Lackawanna
county, near this place, was swallowed
up in one OF the most complete mino
caveins ever known In this region.
The scene Of the disaster is on the cnst-
ern slope Of Mount Lookout. the score Of
houses composing tho hamlet being at the
mouth OF the shaft Of Mount Lookout col
licry. Tho widest excitomont prevails
throughout the region, and details arc
fragmontary.
1t is known, however that tho dozen
houses on either side Of the principal street
OF the hamlet are completely swallowed
up In the gaping sink hole, and nothing
can be soen Of the other buildings OF tho
town but the roofs, gables and chlmneys.
IL Is impossible to estimate accurately the
number Of fatalities n any there are
heseuing parties are now exerting every
means 70 release the occupants Of the en-
gulfed dwellings. Ono of tho buried
houses has taken flro
Heard an Ominous RumblIng.
Tho oayein was caused by tho giving
way OF the timber supports IN workings
OF the Mount Lookout colliery, which have
not boon in operation for about two years
and had been neglected In consequence.
Tho Inhabitants Of the hamlet were FIRST
startled by the rumbling thunderlike re-
ports which warned them Of the falling
of tons Of rock and debris into the desert.
ed caverns uf the abandoned mine many
feet beneath them Ominous as were these
sounds, the terror stricken townspooplo
were still further Mortified when tho
ground tremblcd and swayed likean earth.
quake beneath them.
Report was followed by report accom-.
panied by other tremors, and thon tho
village sank out Of sight In the gaping
cavity.
Meanwhile somo so miners woro impris.
oned In the colliory Thoy had been at
work IN a new portion of the mine, and
their usual means OF exit from the mine
were completely wiped out by the caveln.
James Perrin, one Of the Oldest of the min.
ersi got the mon together. however, and
started 10 lead them up through q tunnel
which had boen used as an airshnft but
which loads to the surface through SO.
ries OF steep slopes. Tho resouing party
on the surface had made an attempt TO
cut passage through tho mass Of debris
which blocked the main entrance. Fail
ing IN this, some Of the more daring of
the roscuers descended tho air passage and
penetrated the slope where the imprisoned
miners were struggling upward
The men were carried 20 tho surface,
whoro a great croNaR Of excited, panic
stricken people were awaitlngthom
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
TELEeRAPHIc BRIEFS.

The condition Of OK Permier Mercier of
Canada is slightly improved, but he is
still very low.
The Austrian troops marched and
fought sham battles for IA hours in the
mud and rain.
Pennsylvania coke strikers, after secur-
ing their old places, again struck, but no
trouble is feared.
The Trades Union congress, sitting at
Norwich, England, voted for a compulsory
eight hour day for miners.
Tho famous Viking ship, which was
sent from Norway 70 the Worlds fair, was
sunk in tho Chicago river during a storm
General George Stoneman, ex governor
of California, died in Buffalo at tho resi-
dence Of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin II. Will
liams.
superintendent Linden Of the Philadel-
phia police has issued an order prohibit.
ing the display Of the red flag on public
occasions
w. J. Adams, son Of Judge Adams Of
Pennsylvania, was married in London to
Miss Amina Goodwin of Manchester,
England, well known pianist.
At a political meeting at Wayne,
w. Va, fight ensued between the Cam
den and anti Camden adherents, in which
four men were shot. one fatally.
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
PLENTY OF WORK At THE WIRE MILLS.

The Large Government Contract for Sub
marine Gable About Completed, But
other Large Orders In sIsht-BusIness
Looking Up.
The shipment of the final lot of the
contract with the Chicago Electric Com.
pany to furnish submarine cable for use
OF the United States government In the
b9rpedo service, was begun to-day
Aoout 500, coo worth Of the cable will be
completed and shipped TO Willett's
Point, N. T., by the close of the week
The contract has been a big one, ana
comprised over 700 miles of cable. This
will be stored by the government until a
war 10 declared, when Il will be ready for
use
The cable is made Of seven strands
The core is first covered with iute, then
run through a compound Of tar and
pitch. and then has the seven strands OF
metallic wire, each Of which is covered
with tape, twisted around it, 1t then
passes through another tar bath, and is
then covered with closely twisted Rus
sian hemp and coiled on huge reels or
spools, boxed and shipped.
Manager II B. Cobb informed a re-.
porter of the EVENING JOURNAL. this
morning, that the business outlook Ia
good and that when the government
contract is completed other contracts
with private firms will be taken up He
anticipates having plenty Of orders and
Is already in communication with sev-
ersl firms relative to large contracts
There is no danger OF a shut-do wn In
the wire mills
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
COLORED POPULATION ON THE MOVE.
Fully Two Thousand Wilmington Colored
People Went to Atlantic City with the
Masonic Excursion.

Fully Two Thousand Wilmington C0lOred
People Went to Atlantic City with the
Masonic Excursion.
This is Afro-American Day at Atlantic
City and If every town or city contributes
numbers TO the assemblsge as did Viii,
mington this morning, there will not be re
freshments enough in"Atlantlc'- especial
ly watermelcns-to feed them all As early
as o'clock this morning, both stations
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and
the P, w. & B. station in this city were
besieged by these gay pleasure seekers
in costumes such as can only be enioyed
on big Quarterly" and in such hilarious
good humor that brass bands could
hardly be heard above the din.
The Wilmingtonians were transported
under the suspices of Hiram Grand
Lodge of Masons, distinguished organi.
zstion among the colored folks, with the
"Consistory" aud half dozen subor-
dinate lodges from all parts of the state.
Last night the Grand Lodge made a
street parade.
The line formed on Twelfth street,
right resting on Orange. along Orange
to Thirteenth, TO Poplar. TO Twelfth, to
Lombard, to Eleventh, TO Wilson, to
Penn, to Sixth, to Poplar. to Fifth, to
French, to Ninth. to Tatnall, to Sixth, to
Windsor, to Ninth, to Orange. TO
Twelfth, to the hall and dismissed
While no exact estimates could be
obtained of ths Wilmington excursionists
1t is believed that not less than 2, 600
people went on the special trains Some
OF the pleasure seekers had been
practieiDg pinching economy for months
20 take IN" this excursion.
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
POTTER CONFESSED.
He Told an Omoer How He Killed Ills wife
with Pistol.


EAST GREENwIoH, r. l., Sept 6.-Gil.
bort Potter Of Rice City has confessed tho
murdor Of his wife and Is now securely
guarded in the jail here
Night Officer Michael Lynch went TO
sympathize with Potter. After discussing
the murder Potter arose, pointed to his
wifc's shroudcd form and said, mike,
did It.
llo told him of the temptation coming
over him as he started on his clamming
expedition, and he finally yielded Co It.
He said his wife awoze as he sat on tho
bod on the night OF the murder and COM
planned Of the light in the room. He blow
it out, and when she was again asleep no
fired and killed her Then he disnrrnngod
the room, broke window and started or
TO dig clans
Lynch got Officer james Fisk and ar.
rested Potter, a team was secured and
tho murderer was brought here Justice
Thomas j. Tilly was awakened at mid
night, and Potter was nrrnigned before
him. 81 nin guilty were the only words
the murderer uttorod, and he was nt once
taken 20 jail and locked up. IL Is claimed
that Jealousy was tho cause Of the crime
and that his brother was the man who
caused the trouble. Mrs Potter was found
in bed with bullet in her head Monday
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
BOOM ON THE NORTH SIDE.

Number OF Houses In Course of Con-
struction and Plans for Others Being
Made.
There Is great activity In building In
the neig OF Washington street
bridge. In fact it Is at present the
busiest section Of the city in this res pect
There are several different gangs Of
men at work there. The street and
Sewer Department has pavlors at work
The Wilmington City Railway Company 5
men are putting in switch at the south
end OF the bridge
The Wilmington Coal Gas Company
has gang Of men laying maiu from
the bridge up Washington street, and a
~ for the boulevard line for the light.
ing OF houses on the north side The
Water Department is laying pipes from
Eighteenth to Nineteenth street on
Washington
Workmen are pushing to completion
William Wilson's new houses at Seven
teenth and Washington streets, Edgar
Flnley's two houses or Washington
street, between Eighteenth aud Nine.
teenth streets, and the new Church of
the Presbyterian Alliance. In addition
to these the county is building a small
watch house at the upper end Of the
bridge
Four houses are to be built on Seven
teenth street, near Washington, by Ben
jsmln Downward and William Il. hinton.
Morris Jacobs will build two houses on
Eighteenth street, between West and
Washington streets. Mrs Lydia A. Car.
penter is having plans made for large
three story house 70 be put up on the
east side Of Elliott avenue, between
Jefferson aud Madison streets
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
CITY NEWS in BRIEF.

The believers In the single-tax theory as
advocated by Henry George will have n
meeting this evening at Ninth a d Market
streets.
Wilmington Lodge, /. o of Machiniss g.
Will hold public meeting at Third and King
streets over the marker, this evening, when
James j. Creamer, editor of the Richmond,
va, Machinist Journal. will speak.
"A meeting of the Fame Fire Company
excursion association will be held at 8 O'clock
this evening. Business OF Importance will be
transacted.
Register of Wills Cooch has granted let
Iers Iestamentary upon the estate OF William
NC uenamin, late of Wilmington. to the
Security Trust and Safe Deposit Company.
"A pariyo of MOgnllians leave for Newcastle
this evening 20 attend bungle OF the COM
pected.
"A special car up the w. & n. railroad to-
day carried private party. consisting of the
Misses Bush. Mr.. and Mrs. Cause. Mr. and
Mrs. Bringhurst and families; aud fro,n Mont
chanin. Colonel Du Pont amt family. 10 Bir-
mingham Park, where they will 5; e-d the
day.
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
ASTOR SCANDAL AGAIN.
J. Coleman Drayton Sues His
Wife For Divorce.
H. ALsoP BoRRowE CORRESPONDENT.

Mrs Drayton Has Until Tomorrow to Enter
an Answer In the New Jersey Courts,
Which She Had Not Done Up to This
Morning Reported Reconciliation on.
New YORK, Sept. 6--James Coleman
Drayton has instituted proceedings TO se-
euro q divorce from his wife, Charlotte
Augusta Drayton, daughter of William
Astor Of the family Of which John jacob
Astor was the founder
Mr.. Draytop seeks legal separation upon
the statutory grounds. Hallett Alsop Bor-
rowe Is named as the correspondents.
1t will be remembered that In March.
1899, nt London, Mr. Drayton challenged
Mr. Borrowe to fight duel The chal-
lenge was declined
Action has been brought In the court
OF chancery Of the state Of New Jersey.
Tho first papers IN the suit were fled at
Trenton June a. At that time Mr..
Drnyton, by his attorney Aivah A. Clark,
filed a petition in tho court OF chancery to
Alexander T. McGin tho chancellor, aet.
ting forth that no married Charlotte Au-
gusta Astor Oct go. 1879, the Rev. Dr..
Morgan Dix performing tho ceremony,
at tho residence Of William Astor, 800
Fifth avenue.
Specific Charges Made.
Whilo they are nominally citizons OF
New Jersey, tho bill recites, tho com
plainant and defendant went TO Europe.
They travelled IN England When tempo
rarily soiournlng in London, the bill says,
Mrs. Drayton left her husband and since
then has sometimes been IN New York,
sometimes in England and sometimes in
France. AZ tho dato OF the filing OF tho
bill Mrs. Drnyton, the complainant claim
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
IS LIEBERMAN LIABLE +?
HE CLAIMS THAT HE is NOT, WHILE
THE BANK ASSERTS THAT HE IS.

The Aftermath of p. t. e. Smith.
Examiner John II. Rodney
Heard Some of the Testimony To-day.
MJohn Il. Rodney, examiner appointed
by chancellor Wo'cott to take testimony
IN the injunction case of Nathan Lieber
man VS. the First National Bank, sat in
| the Levy Court room this morning. He
was assisted by Court Stenogrspher
Hardesty
Colonel Benjamin Nields represented
the complainant, while Edward G Brad
ford and United States District ATTORNEY
Lewis Q. Vandegrift appeared for the
bank The hearing did not last longer
than an hour and a ahslf when for the
convenience Of the attorneys an ad
iournment was made to a time conven.
lent 10 them
In this action the complainant. who
was surety for P. T. E. Smith, the de-
faulting paying teller Of the bank, seeks
to have the corporation restrained from
recovering, by egal process the amount
Of the official bond, which is SIS 900
The bill upon which the action IS
tsken states that in 1879 the bank an
pointed Smith paying teller and that lie
continued as such until 1893 That on
November 1, 1879, he gave bond. with
Lleoerman as his surety, ia the sum of
$40 600 That on July 6, 1885.
Smith gave another bond for
like amount with the same bonds
man. On February "a, 1898, the bank
caused Judgment to bs entered in the
Superior Court on each Of the bonds.
each being for the penal sum of Sl5. eco
That on October 49, 1898, the bank
caused writ of execution for the sum
of $4,000 and the sheriff made levy
and took in execution all the goods and
chattels Of the complainant. The bank
charged that Smith had embezzled from
1t during the period covered By the
bonds and for long time prior thereto
and that the bonds have become forfeited
The bank further claims that the com
plsinsnt Is therefore liable to pay the
sum Of $15 600 mentioned in the writ.
The complainant, Mr.. Lieberman,
claims that he is not liable and that he is
entitled to be relieved therefrom, and to
have both the judgments against him dis
charged and aunulled because he saws that
more than eight years and three months
had elapsed after the date of the bond
mentioned before any proceedings were
had upon The Judgment entered thereon,
aud that more than two years and three
months had elapsed after the accruing
of any supposed cause Of action for
which the complainant could be held
liable on the bond
Mr.. Lleberman claims that the
directors and cashier Of The First
National Bank had means Of
knowing that the published state.
msnts they made as to the condition
Of the bank were fraudulent and that
those fraudulent statements, which he
believed to be true, led him to go on the
bond as surety for Smith. Further,
that Smith was required and suffered to
perform the duties of book-keeper in the
bank; that the duties imposed upon
him as book-keeper were not
appropriate to his employment as paying
teller nor within the terms Of the bond.
He also claims that the bank was negli-
gent.
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
IN HoNoR oF LIE NOMINEES.

The Young Mems Democratic Club win
Hold an Informal Reception Next Week.
At a meeting Of the Young Mems
Democratic Club last night, 1t was dc.
cIded to give a public reception in honor
of Ebe w. Tunnel. nominee for gov
ernor; Samuel Bancroft, Jr.. nomines
for Congress, and the legislative nomi-
nees TO be elected on Saturday. After
the meeting committee was appointed
to notify the nominees and invite them
to he present
The reception viii be informal and
open to all Democrats. It will be held
in the Handsomely furnished rooms Of
the club on Market street, probably on
next Wednesday evening. and will bo
one Of tine notable events of the cam
paign
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
The EvolatIon of nrInstTslsr.

The magnitude OF Primrose & Vests
new idea ia uinstrelsy is bewildering. In
fact, nothing so colossal has ever before
been carried out as has been their big
minstrel festival The audacity OF the
venture makes one alarmed. How can
they afford to do it, is the question Their
glorious seventy. forty white and thirty
colored artists, in a mastsdonie spectacu-
lar production Of minstrelsy Of the past
aud present, and the entire aggregation
will be at the Grand Opera House next
Saturday night. \
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
1T HAILED HARD.
Tin Roofs We're Perforated and Fruits aud
Vegetables Cut to Pieces.

Tin Roofs We're Perforated and Fruits aud
Vegetables Cut to Pieces.
MECHANIC FALLS, Ne, Sept 6-The
most disastrous hAilstorm ever known IN
Maine visited this place. Stones Weighing
over one ounce covered the ground One
was found that Weighed threo ounces.
ono could readily pick up palltuls as
large as hens eggs and measuring six
inches I'm circumference. All glass was
broken on tho northwest sides Of build
ings. w. f. Millikon's greenhouse waa
totally demolished Two memorial win
dows In tho Baptist church were ruined
and also the stained glass windows In tho
Univorsaiist church
All tin and motallic roofs were ruined.
Tho apple crop was destroyed, and trees
were stripped Of their foliage Tho stones
came with such force as to penetrate
squashes and pumpkins, while apples were
cut in pieces. IL is not thought the storm
extended over a large area.
Evening journal., 1894-09-06
stambuionr Arrestod and Mobbed.

SOFIA, Sept. 6. - Premior StambuloG
was arraignod for insults and calumnies
directed against Prince Ferdinand. Ho
went TO court accompanied by friends,
who carried with them money for bail
After the party left the court the carriages
in which they drove away were assaulted
by a mob, who ieered the occupants and
threw stones at them. Tho police rescued
the party and escorted them to place OF
gafafv