Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-09-12

Five laborers were suffocated by the
bursting of gas main in Providence,
r. J., Wednesday.
Secretary Herbert of the Navy De-
partment, will make three speeches in
Alabama on the money question.
Jay Rody and James Woodle, illicit
distilfers, have been killed in fight
with revenue officers near Tracy City,
Tenn.
The Newark Gas Go. and the Citi-
consolidated Wednesday with s., 900, GOO
capital.
Eleven thousand children in Chicago
are without adequate public school
accommodation. All the school build
ings are crowded.
Charles Allen, one of the SPRING
field, ILL.,, postoffice robbers. who broke
out of the ludlow street Jail in New
York, July 4th, as arrested IN Spring
field, Mo-, Wednesday.
The postoffice at Cambridge, Mass,
was robbed on Tuesday week of 81, COG
in cash, 5000 in stamps and several
registered letters, The safe was opened
by means of the combination.
Peter Styers, aged 73, said to be the
oldest locomotive engineer in the coun-
try, died Thursday at Bethlehem. He
ran locomotives for 46 consecutive
years and never had an accident.
The Waco e. Northwestern railroad
in Texas, 81 miles long, was sold under
foreclosure Tuesday week for 81, 800, 600.
The purchaser is understood to repre-
sent the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
road.
The supply of old powder left after
the war having been exhausted, the
army has adopted a new powder of low
explosive power, but capable of making
a great noise, to be used exclusively for
saluting purposes.
In the court of general sessions, in
New York, Wednesday, lumber OF milk
dealers were fined from $50 to $40 each,
with an alternative of from 10 to 30
days Imprisonment, for selling impure
milk. Nealry all paid the fines.
William Pearl, an end man and black
face artist in WIS. Clevelands' min
strels, had a quarrel with colored man,
in Chillicothe, Ohio, Thursday, and
was cut with razor, probably fatally.
A census of St Paul, Just finished,
gives that city population of 140, 292.
A count of eight wards in Minneapolis
indicates that her population is slightly
over 1888, 600. In five years Minneapolis
has added &c, 600 to her inhabitants,
and st. Paul has increased 1900.
s. V. Maggie, who claimed to be Secre-
tary of the Old Hickory Distilling
Co., was arrested in New York Thurs
day, charged with swindling numerous
saloon keepers in Chicago. He sold
them bogus government warehouse re-
ceipts for whisky supposed to be in
bond.
The Secretary of War Wednesday sigr-
ed an order permitting the city of Phil,
adelphia to improve the Delaware and
Schulykill rivers A portion of the
Schooner Ledge, on the Delaware, will
be removed and the channel deepened
along that range. On the Schuylkilli
the channel will be deepened by dredg-
ing north of it's mouth.
The treasury circulation statement
issued Wednesday shows net decrease of
money of all kinds in circulation in
the United States on September LIST Of
$40, $50, 1853, making the total oircula-
ton 81, SOB, 583, OPS or $22. 81 per capita,
based on 10. 1877, 900 population. As
compared with September LIST, 1894,
there is a decrease in circulation of
s43, 600, 600.
Comptroller Bowler's decision in the
sugar bounty cases was made public
Thursday The comptroller holds that,
as there is converted question of law
involved, it is his duty to return the
papers to the auditor for transmission
by the Secretary Of the Treasury to
| the court of claims for the rendition of
Judgment which may furnish preoe-
dent for the future action of the execu-
| tive in such cases.