Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-14
IN GENERAL.

The Buckeye Press Brick Co. V Plant
at Roseville has been transferred 90 the
Ohio Press Brick Go. The syndicate
opefstes 20 plants.
The New jersey annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
adjourned Tuesday after the reading
of the appointments.
An explosion in the McKeesport
brewery, in McKeesport, Pa, Tues
day, inflicted damage amounting to
Sl00,0 900 and killed two mon.
Assignments of pastors for the cur
rent year were made Tuesday by the
Central Pennsylvania United Evangeli-
cal Conference, in York, Pa.
Joseph Cont, secretary to the Italian
Consul at New York City, is dead at
the home of his daughter in Montclair,
N. j., at the age Of 81 years.
The battleship Illinois was given her
builders trial off the Virginia Cares
Tuesday. Everything worked salts
factorily, and the contract speed was
exceeded.
City Treasurer John l.. Walters of
Charlottesville, Va, was shot aud killed
Tuesday night by his brother in law.
Stuart Bailey. Bailey was wounded
and may die.
The funeral of Senator Christopher
L. Magee took place Tuesday in Pitts
burg, Pa. Bishop Cortlandt White
head conducting services in Trinity
Episcopal Church.
A rear end collision between freight
and stock train on the Chicago &
Northwestern road at Arlington
Heights, ILL.,, Tuesday, killed two
stockmen, fatally hurt one and injured
seven.
Alfred Convey Tuesday attempted to
kill his wife at Westfield, N. r., but
failing blew out his own brains. Covey
had not lived with his wife for some
time. jealousy being assigned as the
cause.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron 20. is
importing Japanese miners to Hill the
places of strikers 10 their New Mexico
mines. II is stated the company will
also employ Japanese to work in
Colorado.
The Milwaukee Brewing Co. went
into bankruptcy Tuesday on nm in
voluntary petition signed ny creditors
and an admission of bankruptcy. The
liabilities are S105, 600, with assets said
to equal that amount.
The bill to amend the election laws
so as to prevent illiterates from voting
passed the Maryland House Tuesday,
four Democrats voting with the Re-
publicans against the measure. 1t will
probably pass the Senate.
A dispatch from Dawson says that
the stampede consequent upon the
throwing open of the government claims
on February I'D was the greatest since
the days of 1898. The order made avail
able hundreds Of lapssd and unsold
claims.
The official statement of gross postal
receipts for February, 1901, compai ed
with February, 1900, at the so largest
postoffioes, show that the biggest In
crease. 3S. Z per cent, is at Dayton, o. /,
and the only decrease is 4. 7 per cent,
at Syracuse, N. \.
Rufus CummIns Garland 10 dead at
Fort Worth, Tex. He was son OF
Hon. A. II. Garland, Attorney General
in the cabinet of President Cleveland,
and was engaged in the legal dspart.
ment of the Dawes Commission to the
Eve civilized tribes.
The Kentucky State Board of Valua-
tion has refused rel caring to the rail.
roads who sought to induce the board
to revise its rulings subjecting their
corporate franchises to county and city
taxation. Several hundred thousand
dollars additional taxes annually are
involved.
Secretary Wilson has authorized the
Chief Of the Weather Bureau to create
three new forecaaring divisions, Rs
follows: New England, headquarters at
Boston; Western Gulf States, head.
quarters at Galveston, and Central
Rocky Mountain plateau region, head
quarters at Denver.
A member of the House OF Commons
of Canada will move not to allow the
preferential tariff of 80 Id per cent on
English goods unleHs they come ia
Canada by Canadian ports. If this
motion be carried, it will seriously
affect the steamship lines of Portland.
New York aud Boston.
AS the result of conference between
President ingalls,, of the Big Four, ard
| A. NJ. Mnsier, general superintendent
of the Erie railroad, both roads will
use the single tracks of the Erie and
Big -Four, which parallel each other,
between Marion and Grafton as q
double track. The arrangement will 60
into effect April 18th.
Orders were issued at the Navy De-
rartment Tuesday detaohing Rear Adj
iniral Schley from command OF the
South Atlantic station, and detaching
Rear Admiral Cromwell from command
of the Portsmouth Navy Yard and
ordering him to the command Of the
South Atlantic station. Rear Admiral
Read will relieve Admiral Cromwell at
Portsmouth.
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