Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-15
IN GENERAL.

The total proceeds of the Seney pic
ture sale in New York last week were
$213,703.
Peter De Graf was hanged at Win
ston, N. c., Thursday, for the murder
of his sweetheart, Ellen Smith.
The Rev. Dr. Douglass, president of
the Wesleyan College, Montreal, died in
that city on Saturday.
Charles j. M. Gwinn, ex-attorney-
general of Marland, died Sunday, in
Baltimore, aged 70 years.
Five laborers were burned to death
Friday night, by fire at Martins haci-
enda, near Saltillo, Mexico.
The Board of Trade Building in
Duluth, Mimi, was burned Sunday.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Columbian Guards at the Worlds
Fair grounds, Friday night, frustrated
four attempts to set fire to the buildings
James Skinner, postmaster at Culbert-
son, Mont, was murdered Wednesday
night, and the postottice robbed and
burned.
A fire at Wapa- Koneta, Oklahoma,
Sunday, destroyed a number of busiS
ness houses, the losses amounting to
100000.
By fire in Corinth, Miss, Sunday,
an invalid sister of Mrs. w. L. Nichols
persisted and two children received in
iuries which may prove fatal.
Christian Kester, brakeman on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, was caught in
wreck near Sugar Notch, Pa, Thurs
| day, and his body was burned to crisp.
The "jig-house' of the Philadelphia
& Reading Colnpany's coal storage yard,
| just below Schuylkill Haven, was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday, with its ma
chinery.
Schedules in the assignment of Francis
| Frank Walton to Charles l.. Walton, in
New York, show: Liabilities, $249, 567;
nominal assets, $359,357, and actual
assets, $500.
The tobacco factories of j. H. Barrett
| & Co. and r. II. Loaper, at Hender-
son, KY, were burned Saturday, to-
gether with 100000 pounds to tobacco;
loss, 100000.
The schooner Laurel, at Gloucester,
on Saturday, reported the rescue of the
crew of Is men from the sinking
schooner Brunhilda, off Sable Island,
on the 9th instant.
The six elevators of the Farmers
Mutual Elevator Company, at Crock
ston, Mimi, went into the hands of a
receiver Saturday. Liabilities, about
100000; assets, about 100000.
The schedules in the assignment OF
Francis Il. Thurber of New York, show
liabilities of $1S5, $3.50; contingent liabili.
ties (notes endorsed), $102,334 nominal
assets, 1919, 7S9; actual assets, $S0,195.
The Steel Edge Stamping and Retin-
ming Company, whose works are at
Mills and whose office is in Boston,
made an assignment Thursday. The
liabilities are 100000 and the nominal
assets 100000.
A negro man named Collins, charged
with enticing away servants, was taken
from his house at Athens, Ca, Friday
night, by White Caps, tied to tree and
literally flayed alive. He fingered until
morning, when death ensued.
Michael Donahue, the switchman who
had charge of the West Shore railroad
switch in Newburgh, N. Y, which
caused the tragedy of July 18th last,
whereby seven lives were lost, was on
Thursday convicted of manslaughter in
the second degree.
The station office at Sparta, Illinois,
on the Mobile & Ohio railroad, was
broken into and robbed by three masked
men carly Saturday morning. The night
operator was bound and gagged and
thrown into an empty car, where he
was found nearly frozen.
A tornado struck Port Hudson, La,
Thursday morning, demolishing num-
Der Of houses, uprooting trees and level
ing fences. On the De Lombre place
one child was killed and four others
WOUNDED. On the Chambers plantation
a number of colored people were in
jured.
The Cooley Publishing Company,
publishers OF Godey's Magazine and
other books, made an assignment in New
York Thursday. IL is said that the
liabilities are but $4,000, and that the
assignment was made to get rid of UNI
favorable contracts made by a former
owner of the concern. The company
will be reorganized.
The President has selected NIessrs.
Walker Fearn of Alabama and Somer-
vile Tuck of New York to serve on the
Egyptian International Tribunal, to fill
vacancies caused by the retirement of
Victor Barringer of North Carolina and
Ernest II. Crosby of New York. These
places pay handsome salaries, and the
appointments do not require confirma-
ton by the Senate.
Complaints were drawn up at st.
Paul Thursday, in the name of the
State, charging six of the large lumber
firms of Minneapolis and elsewhere
with stealing over 100,000,000 feet of
pine from forests belonging to the State.
The amount of money claimed by the
State is about 100000. The suits are
brought in obedience to the report of
the joint legislative pine land commit
tee.
William Purvis, negro, was 10 have
been hanged at Columbia, Mississippi,
Wednesday for the murder of William
Buckley. He WAS one of gang of
White Gaps, but protested his innocence
of the crime. Purvis was taken to the
scaffold, but when the trap was sprung
the rope broke and the man fell to the
ground. The spectators, among whom
were four of the county supervisors, de-
cided by a unanimous vote to postpone
the execution.