Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-02-03
IN GEN EEL.

Rear. Admiral Daniel Lawrence
Braine, U. S. NJ. retired, dfed in
Brooklyn Sunday night.
Tho Ceutrevile,r r. l., cotton mills
we're closed on Saturday on account OF
tho strike of the weavers.
The OCEAN Bluff House at Kenne-
bunkport. Me-. was destroyed by fire
Sunday night; loss. $40, 600.
Alfred ". Sumner, purchasing agent
Of the Pennsylvania railroad, died at
Moorestown, N. j., on Saturday.
The Bar Iron Association, at Chicago,
has advanced prices So ton and a
further advance Of 81 is contemplated.
The Pottetown Cold Storage and Ice
Co. q plant, at Pottstown, was damaged
by fire ON Saturday to the extent OF
$40. 600.
The Roman Catholic Church of st.
John Baptist, in Montreal, was burned
on Saturday. The loss will reach
$3.50, 900.
As reault Of race war in Lanoke,
Ark, negro families are reported to be
leaving the town and business Is almost
at standstIll,
The frozen bodies of Mrs. Fanny
Rathburn and her l2-years old daughter,
Mary, were found on Saturday at their
home west of Burlington, 10. Both had
| boon murdered. t.
Two mon wers fatally and several
seriously injured by the explosion of a
boiler of donkey engine on the deck
of the sailing ship benjamin Sewall. at
Baltimore, on Saturday
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Tragabigzanda went ashore on Cedar
Shore, Isle of Shoals, on Saturday aud
ia q total loss The crew Of IA men were
rescued by life saving crews.
The Ohio law which Gays the sum oil
S., 600 may BIO collected from county
by friends of person lynched therein
has been declared Unconstitutional by
tho Common Pleas Court Mt urhana.
Two young men have been arrested
fur incendiarism, in connection witt
the recent fires at Mahanoy City, ant
enc of them has made u confession
They have been lodged in the Potts
ville Jail.
Chief Juatice Shepard Barclay OF th'
Missouri Supreme Court resigned oil
Saturday, and Gov. Stephens appointed
w. M. Williams of Bonneville TO MI tn
vacancy. Judge j. u. CAN'T will b.
elected Chief Justice.
The Pncifio Coast Steamship Co. 7
steamer Corona, hound for Iaska will
PAT passengers, struck on Lewis Island
$50 miles north OF Victoria, .. O.. las
Monday und sank. All of tho paaaon
gers and crew were saved.
S, Trjer g. Sons cardboard factor,
in Brooklyn was burned ON Sunday
together with Samuel Shindelmap'
knitting gonds mill and Schnoide
Bros. e CUT glass factory. Tho Triers
loss is said TO be over 500, COG.
The Camden county grand jury o.
! Saturday returned indictments sgainH
LAWYER II. s. Scovel, Chief of Poliu
Johnson and ex Recorder Milea @
Stockton and John Meshaw, juror, Q
I alleged embracery IN the mistrial OF ri
Shaw.
] Ths Postoilics Department has de
5 cided NOT to mako, for the present, til
: proposed cut IN mail deliveries 10 th
large cities of the East, which was t
Q have been made on February let i
order to avert deficiency in tho pnstt
D appropriation.
4 A suit for $780, 600 damages has bee
began at Wheeling. W. Va, by To
: Alexander Lumber 90. against tue, J
I q. Dun Co. The bill Of particular
v alleges a fal.i and malicious ratin
issued on Janu9.y eth, 1897, by th
9 Dun Mercantile Agency.
Tho California Mining Fair, at Sa
y Francisco, was formally openetl on Sa
!, urday. President Mckinley touched
telegrapbic key at thu White House
Il Washington, and gave the signal 4
G the opening OF the Fair, Congratuli
tory messages were exchanged.