Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-17
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enre Of II, 600 people in Omaha Monday
evening.
Secretary Carlisle has announced his
intention OF stamping Kentucky for
Palmer and Bucknor.
The Norfolk & Western railroad was
sold at Norfolk, Va, Tuesday, to the
bondholders' committee for So, 600, 600.
S. w. Loomis, Boston wholesale
clothing firm, has assigned. The
liabilities are said to be under
800, 600.
DIR. Barth Of Berlin, who has come
to the United States to study our
politics, was one of Major McKinley's
callers Tuesday.
For the first half of September the
United States Treasury receipts have
aggregated sig, 900, 600 and the expendi-
lures Sl2, Col, 900.
A Iter an idleness of two months the
Joliet branch of the Illinois Steel. Co.
started M Tuesday, giving employ
ment 10 1000 men.
FIX. Mayor Abram s. Hewitt was Tues
day nominated for Congress by the
Sound Money Democrats Of the Twelfth
New York district.
The executive committee of the
Southern Freight Association decided
ut Atlanta, Tuesday, to restore the old
rates in effect before the rate war was
started,
j. V. Northam & Co., wholesale and
retail liquor dealers of Chicago. have
failed. The liabilities are supposed to
be from Sl25, 600 to $3.50, 600, with
assets at least 20 per cent more.
In Minneapolis, Monday, A. F. &
| l.. II. Kelley, real estate and mortgage
loan brokers' made an assignment.
| Their liabilities are estimated at from
| 500, 600 to $3.50, 600; assets unknown.
In the Fifth Massachusetts district
Democratic Congressional convention,
| Monday, Jeremiah l.. O'Sullivan OF
Lawrence, the Original" silver man,
was defeated by John ii. Harrington
of Lowell.
Tho miners and operators of the East
st. Louis district reached an agreement
| Monday. 1t is return to the scale
of January 1st, which is 12la per
cent raise above present figures. The
men wanted 20 cent?.
Cullen & Newman. extensive china
and glassware importers Of Knoxville,
Tenn, assigned Monday. The labili.
ties are a quarter of a million dollars,
with no preferences 1t is thought the
firm will be able to pay in full.
An application has been made to the
Federal court at Madison, Wis, fol-
the appointment of receiver for the
Land, River & Improvement Go. oil
Superior, the debts Of which are
alleged to amount to So, 900, 900.
A San Francisco dispatch says thai
the North German Lloyd Steamship
Co. is about to establish a line Of
steamers between Bremen and Calves
ton as feeder to the Southern Pacific
railway. The same fare will b'
charged for passengers as from Bre
men and Hamburg to New York.
After waiting all day for fusion
proposition from the froe silver Demo
cratic State Central Committee, tn,
Populist State Central Committee o
Kentucky, Monday, put out a full
Bryan and Watson electoral ticket
According to Chairman Parker of tn,
Populist committeo this action give
the State to Mckinley.
Secretary Carlisle has written lette
to a Kentucky correspondent, in answe
to question as TO how silver dollar
worth SO cents each are maintained a
a parity with gold. After explaining
the matter fully, the Secretary says
at is not doubted that whatever cal
be lawfully done to maintain equalit.
In the exchangeabe value of the tw,
metals will be done whenever 1t be
comes necessary, and, although silve
dollars and silver certificates have not
up to the present time, been receives
IN exchange for gold, yet, if the tim
shall ever come when the parity canno
, be otherwise maintained, such OK
J changes will be made"