Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-09
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
HARTFORD HOTEL PROpRI ETORS
ARE PLACED UNDER BONDS.


dieu lhursuhy at Calais, hIe. aged "a years.
The Cass Drug Company's store at Eau
Claire, WIS, WIS burned Thursday morn.
ing. Loss, 1000 insurance, 1928 900.
The public debt statement issued yes.
terday shows decrease Of SO ,UI5, ,249.
Total cash in the treasury, $439, ,O23, 740.
Over 200 cases Of diphtheria are re.
ported in Wilkinsburgh, an eusteTn suburb
of Pittsburg. Defective drainage is said
to b6 the cause.
The smelling and furnace portions OF
the Augustine smelling and refining works
Mt Kansas City, were burned Thursday
morning. Loss, $25, 900 insured.
Caesar Robinson, colored, was iynched
at Florence, South Carolina, on Tuesday
week, for in attempt to feloniously as
seult a young white woman.
A number Of laborers and repair men
employed by the Reading Railroad Com
pany ut Reading, struck Thursday morn
ing because Of the reduction in their
wages.
The customs officers at Sau Francisco,
Thursday, seized $40 600 worth OF opium
on the steamer City Rio de Jantiro, which
recently arrived from Chinn. The drug
was found in the coal buukers.
Chief Justice Beasley, at Trenton, New
Jersey, has refused the motion for new
trial for Janitor Titus, convicted of the
murder of Tillie Smith. Titus will be
sentenced on the first Tuesday in January.
The losses by the hog cholera in Miami
county, Ind, are estimated at S25, 900.
Two Thousand dead hogs were taken to
Peru Tuesday and yesterday week, to be
turned over to the grease refners, rs re.
suit of the disease.
At York, Pa, Thursday, Theodore
Noedel, late clerk of the South End Build
ing and Loan Association, was arrested,
charged with embezzling $1,000 of the
funds of the association. He furnished
bail for his appearance on the 18th inst.
The William A. Beader Glue Company's
building III Aver, Mass, was burned early
Thursday morning. The total loss is about
$125, 900, only partially insured. Ineen-
diaiism is suspected, rs there was much
objection to the factory on account of the
stencil created by it.
A telegram from Matamoras, Mexico,
says that Manuel Barrient and his wife
Maria yesterday week celebrated there the
The husband is l02 years OF age, the wife
96. A large gathering OF their de-
scendants, including great great grand
children, were present.
George Seaman and Jaraes Seiders,aged
respectively IL and IA years, Bbsented
themselves from school in Kealing ON
Tuesday week. Afraid to so home for fear
Of punishment, they crawled between two
hot ovens at the Henry Clay furnace and
were sufIocated. Their charred bodies
were found yesterday afternoon week.
in Hartford, Conn, Wednesday week,
eght proprietors of second-rate hotels
and restaurants were arrested for using
oleomnrgarine on their tables without
displaying the placard "oleomargarine
used here" as required by law, under
penalty of $50 fine. The cases were con
tinued one week, under 5000 bonds each
These will be regarded as test cases.
Near Bellaire, Ohio, Thursday after.
noon, an explosion of powder in the store
of Robert Hall blew ont one end of the
building and injured seven persons, three
fatally. The explosion was caused BY
some one stepping on . parlor match
lying ou the floor, The fatally injured
were Robert Hall, Jacob Weiss and
George Williams.
il liz reported by q member OF the
Dominion geological survey stail, invcsti
eating the coal deppsita in the Sasknt
chewdn region, that the coal supply il
the north west isnbEplutely intxtmastiblo,
The whole district lying between Rock!
Mountain House and Fort Pit ls Que Yaai
s"rius of coal GeAs, both hard AID soft
of the best qhaiity.
At Harrisburg Thursday The q mmon
wealth brought suit ngsaIst Geuerai =
81 Bailey, late state treasurer, Hnd hi'
boHdsn4.n u recover &7Uahu I stlSt'
funds which Bailey lost by the Hthb o
ihr EXGiauEa Bank 0i Bfalliofa ~ whicl
this anlOun, " the states money wan do
posted. General B,lilgy'a suit ag4ioet q
bank Las not yet beeu decided by ~
supreme ronrt.
A special dispatch from Montreal t.
the New Yurk Eesaing Post sHys tha
Madalue Francois BoulanRet OF hatasko
wan, ON the north shore OF tho ~. Law
renee, gave birth in November TO fou
children, ull healthy. The year preyiou
she became the mother Of triplcts ant
tine year before that of twins, maxim
nine children within two years ami fey
months.
The steamer Westernland, which al
rived nj New York ThursdAy frcn Ant
werp, reported that on November 27th
in latitude AZ so, longitude 43 81, she en-
countered terrific hurricane, durin
which, at 2.I5 p. M, an immense &c
struck the vessel over the bows htavin
in the whaieback, killing four seamen an
two steerage passengers, and severely II
juring l3 other seanen and passelgers'
Professor Forbes, the State Entnmolt
gist of Illinois, has just fiuidued
thorough examination OF the whea'-grov
ing counties in the southern part of ths
state, where losses have been caused b
the rayages of chinch bugs. He find
that the infested area has largely IL
creased during the year, and consider
the outlook in consequence very gloom
for the 1857 wheat crop in that section
unless SONS unusual state of the wealth.
should destroy the brood while hStchint
A Telegram from st Louis say that
syndicate of capitalists of that city ht
bren formed for the purpose of establish
ing an immsnse cattle rancho IN lhexic'
The ranch will comprise l,25O, ,Otil acre
in what is known ts the FreezinG Ion
in the state of Dhihuahue, and i'll o0
the syndicate more than $5O0,OO0. it
well watered aud convenient to tie ral
roads. An effort will be made to raise
= better class of cattle than orC mari
produced in the southwest, and tiocdt
stock will be crossed with native.
The New York Commercial B9ll tin 9
Inmates the November fire loss in I'll
United States and Canada at s 10 000, w
which is An increase Of one.third upc
the November average since the Bostd
fire Of 1879. There were l6o htes 7
corded whose reported loss was Sl0,O'
and over The large fires OF fro
100000 up to $9OO00O numbered
and caused u loss in tue aggregate
$4,000,0O0 or 40 per cent OF the enti
loss of the month. According to u
RullettH there has been destruction
fra Of $t05, 900, 600 in the eleven liont
Of 1886.
L B. Frankel ,& Co., of Virginia CIT
Nevada, tine Oldest mining stock hrm
that state, failed Thursday. Llablllti'
ss9l5 QUO. Among the creditors are ma
prominent shareholders in the Oomsto
mines L. p. Frankel, the senior partn'
r4tirld FROM business several years eg
1t il said that he is millionaire, and,
he still retaius an interest in the buslnei
the creditors of the firm hope to recove
part Of their losses through him. IL
said the three younger Frankel brother
4l,a N ols,ya YnnFnInru Of tha firm He'd eHl