Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-01-07
IN GENERAL.

AobH.s w ipuuuhys dEeu iUS ybhrS.
Major Edward Schofield was in sugu.
rated Governor of Wisconsin Monday.
| The Citizens National Bank of
Fargo, N. D., was closed ON Saturday,
A receiver has been appointed for
tho Little Rock d. Mississippi railroad.
Cardinal Guglielmo Sanfelice di
Acquavella. archbishop of Naples, died
Sunday.
The Sullivan Savings Institution of
Ciaremont, N. H., has been placed in
the hands Of assigne.s.
The Hotel Peermont, on Seven Mile
Beach, N. j., was destroyed by fire
Sunday. Loss, S25, 900.
The German Lutheran Church at
New Bremen, o., was burned on Fri
day night. Loss. $50. 600.
The stateniont that the Japanese are
assisting the rebels in the Philippine
lslands is officially denied.
The borough OF South Chester, Pa.
is to he annexed to the city of Chester,
making city of 30. 600 inhabitants.
William Ridall, who built the first
boat that ran on the old Pennsylvania
canal, disd at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sum
day.
Commander Joshua Bishop and As
sistant Engineer r. L. Carney have
been placed on the retired list of the
navy.
A fire 10 Montreal on Saturday
damaged McFarlane & Co. Is wholesale
stationery store to the extent of about
$40, 600.
Assistant Surgeon l.. w. Aztec, u.
s. ~. has been transferred from the
Richmond to the Naval Hospital at
Philadelphia.
Afreigbt train op the Missouri Pacific
railroad ran into landslide near
Holden, Mo-, Sunday, and three of
the crew were killed.
The Western Paper Bag Co., of
Batavia. ILL.,, one of the Van Nortwick
plants, was placed in the hands OF a
receiver on Saturday.
Thirteen miners were suifocated or
burned to death as result of fire in
the santa Gertrusi silver mine, Mt
Paehuco, Mex, few days ago.
Thomas Bran, mate of tue barken-
tine Herbert Fuller, was found guilty
In Boston on Saturday of the murders
committed on that vessel last July.
according to cabegram from
Berlin, France and Russia have agreed
to intervene to prevent breach be-
tween tho United States and Spain.
a young man, supposed to have been
Charles Scranton of Rochester. N. T.,
was blown from train at New Bruns-
wick. N. j.. on Saturday and killed.
The q. I'll. Gibby and Boston e. Lock-
port Block Go. Is boundaries, IN East
Boston, Mass were damaged by fire
on Saturday to the oxtent of $40, 600.
Senator Wolcott sailed from New
York for England on Saturday to confer
with European bimetallists as to the
prospects for an international confer
snce.
A fire in Nashville, Tenn, yesterday
destroyed number of large business
houses on the public square. The total
losses, it is estimated, will reach
5000, 900.
The employees of the Illinois Steel
Go. have been notified that their wages
will be cut on February let. There
are 3, 800 men employed ut the South
Chicago mills.
The employees OF all the mines in
the Massillon. o., district, about
1000 men, have struck on account of a
reduction in the price of pick mining
from 81 to 81 cents per ton.
A traffic arrangement has been
entered into between the Wheeling 81
Lake Erie railway and the Baltimore &
Ohio, whereby the former company is
to enter Cleveland over the latter line.
Richmond's dry goods store. at
Kingston, Ont, was burned on Satur-
day; loss, 100000 to $4,000. The
South Essex Preserving Co. -. factory,
at Kingston, was also destroyed; loss,
$50, LOCO.
John A. Wood, a porter in hotel at
White River Junction, VT, shut him
self twice with shot gun on Satur-
day, and, failing to inhict a mortal
wounh, jumped from a fourth story
window.
Bella Smith, colored, killed her !,
husband in New York Sunday by
stabbing him in the neck with pair
OF scissors. She claims that she acted
In defence Of her 6-years.od child and
herself
Ii is said that the California Con-
gressionai delegation has received as
surances from Canton that il they can
settle their fractional differences the
Golden State will receive u cabinet
appointment
At Fonda, N. y, on Saturday, two
poyb tub DUuy DBWlB Erkel-
brack, a wealthy farmer of YOUNGSTOWN,
on the bank of the Mohawk river. 1t
is believed that Erkenbrack was muir.
dered and robbed.
Safe blowers started fire in the
building of the Charlotte, n. c.,
Observer on Saturday night. 1t
spread 30 rapidly that the men in the;
newspaper composing room barely had
time to get out, losing thsir clothing
and other effects.
Tho kitchen range in the residence
of Chief of Police Pilon of Great Bar
rington, Mass, was wrecked by an OK.
plosion on Wednesday. IL ia surmised
that some nerson who had grievance
; gainst the chief or his family placed
a bomb in the ,coal.
A Toledo dispatch says that the
Sugar Trust is now tie sole owner of
the Woolson Spice Co. g stock, having
on Saturday purchased from G. Nj.
'Acklin of that city the GO shares held
by him for 500. 600. This makes a
total Of 81, 905, 900 which the trust paid :.
for the plant.
The body of Richard Cornelius cashier
of the National farmers and Planters
Bank of Baltimore, nf which the late
Enoch Pratt was for long time presi.
dent. was found Monday in a pond in
Druid Hill Park. He is supposed to