Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-10

o.. resumed operations Monday, en-
ploying $50 men.
The hardware supply store OF L. M.
Roberts. in Minneapolis, was burned
Fridayi loss, 81, 600.
George A. Wardell, past great
sachem Of the Improved Order Of Rcd
Men. died in New York on Wednesday.
Ferdinand Schnitzer, aged SIS years,
of Trenton, was killed Monday at
Roobling's wire mills, by being caught
in a belt. 80
Whitten, Burdette & Co., wholesale
clothiers of Boston, have assigned |;
liabilities 5000, 600, and nominal assets
about the same.
James Christianson and his son
James were buried in a snowslide in
Logan canyon. Utah, on Thursday, and
both were killed. 5itl
ltlis stated that the appropriation
for pensions for tho next fiscal year
will not be less than $l40, 600, 600, and
it may exceed that sum.
The United States Supreme Court
Monday affirmed the sentence of death
passed. by the late Judge Parker of
Arkansas on Alexander A lien.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Chicago Universal Investment and
Loan Association; liabilities about
$50, QUO and assets about the same.
The Seaboard mills and railroad at
Fairford,7 Ala, were sold Monday by
order Of the court for, Sl56. 600 The
property was bought in by bondholders.
William IS. Harris, member of the
Chester county bar, was held in $500
bail at West Chester, Monday, on a
charge of forging bonds aggregating
81, 500.
Judge Clayton has decided that the
Chester Traction Co. can cross the
tracks of tho Philadelphia, Whining
ton u Baltimore railroad at grade in
Chester.
The California State Fruit Growers
Convention has adopted resolution
endorsing Elwood Cooper of Santa
Barbara for the position of Secretary of
Agriculture,
Edward Curry, a Washington, d. O.,
policeman, Friday shot and killed
London Shears, colored, who was re-
sisting the officer and beating him
with hie own baton.
The executive committee In charge of
the arrangements for the Currency
Reform Convention Friday issued
call from indianapolis, naming January
18th for the meeting.
Eight hundred deaths from the
plague In Bombay are reported TO date.
Crowds of panic.stricken natives are
fleeing from the city and trade and
travel are seriously affected.
The bodies of Alphon Gunden, 6
years old. and Joseph Bernard, years
old, were found on Sunday in Bell
pond, near Worcester, Mass. They had
fallen through holes in the ice.
A st. Johns dispatch says that the
purchase of the Newfoundland railway
by the government will bring the
public debt up to $40, 600, 600. which
is s95 per head of the population.
Tho Hartford Carpet Co. Monday
started $50 looms in the brussels de-
partment of it's factory at Thompson
Vile, Conn. The brussels department
has been closed for over four months.
Tho schooner w. +. French went
ashore in Long Island Sound, near
Peconic, during heavy gale Wednesday.
The crew vera rescued by the life-sav-
ing men, but tho vessel will be total
loss.
At meeting of the New York
National Democrats in New York City
on Thursday evening comnittee was
created to formulate plan for perfect
ing and increasing the present organi-
cation.
George Fowler Sons & Co., of Kansas
City, packers. have given notice that
ON January lst cut OF 10 per cent will
be made in all salaried positions In the
force, that ia the officers clerks and
foremen.
@. j. Boil of Washington, ID. O.,
was Monday appointed chairman of
the inaugural committee. 1t is said
that s. w. Woodward, q Gold Demo-
Graf, had boon offered the position but
declined.
A petition for decree OF incorpora-
tion was filed in Judge Woods court in
st. Louis Wednesday by the Association
OF the Veterans Of Blue and Gray.
This is the first society of the kind to
be formed.
The working time OF the shop and
engine house employees OF the Missouri
Pacific railroad, in Kansas City, Kan,
has been increased from six to nine
hours per day. The order affects about
5000 employees.
Five highwaymen boarded freight
train on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Trenton, on Sunday night, and.
after Knocking Conductor Smith off
the car, held up and robbed two men
who we're stealing ride.
Tho Secretary of the Navy has ap-
pointed board of naval officers to in
vestigate the charge that defective
steel has been furnished by the Car
negie Steel Co. for the battleships
building at Newport News.
Arthur Palmer of Montezuma, O., and
E. l.. Godfrey of Emlenton, Pa, both
oil men, we're drowned in the reservoir
at st. Mary's, o, Friday. Palmer
broke through the ice and Godfrey
went under while endeavoring to rescue
his companion.
Fifty or more sticks of dynamite
explodedW Wednesday while being thawed
by Italians at work near Jay, Me-, on
the Portland & Rumford Falls railroad
extension. Orlando La Rocca was
killed almost instantly and several
others were injured.
A passenger train on the railroad to
Media, Pa, Wednesday narrowly escaped
plugging over the high bridge at Bur-
mont Two rails had been removed by
the track gang, and the train dashed
into the break, but was stopped at the
brink of the precipice.
In New York, Friday, a dynamite
blnst in an excavation in Fifth avenue