Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-19
IN GEN ER4L.

ia Grippe is said to have made its
appearance in New York city.
Natural gas was discovered on Saturday
at Stronghurst, ILL.,, at depth of 125 feet.
UWash McNair, horse dealer of Chambers
burg, Pa, who has also sales stable in
Philadelphia Monday made an assign
ment, his liabilities being estimated at over
$4,000.
Twenty tons of powder in a powder mill
at Miller's station, five miles from Hobart,
Ind, exploded Wednesday week. Much
damage was done at Hobart. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Sister Mary Regina, for many years the
superioress of the Convent of Mount de
Sales, Baltimore, celebrated her golden
jubilee Thursday. She made the renewal
of her VOWS to Cardinal Gibbons.
The San Francisco commissioners APP
pointed to secure the national Republican
and Democratic conventions for San Fran
cisco left for Washington Thursday. So
far about So, 900 has been subscribed.
Thirteen men were arrested in Chicago
on saturday evening, charged with being
members of an organized gang of safe
blowers and thieves that have been oper
ating in ST. Louis and Chicago, Consider
able stolen property was discovered.
At Elizabeth, N. j., on saturday, Samuel
Beekman, colored, and Jennie Wyley,
white, were sentenced to 10 years impris-
onment each in state prison at hard labor
for having caused the death of Beekmuns
little daughter by cruelty and neglect.
Examiner Grfliths has gone to Chey-
enne Wyoming, to take charge of the
Cheyenne National Bank, which sus.
pended last Friday. The banks liabilities
are S3ls, 900, and its assets twice that
amount, and it will liquidate in full.
Azeez Musallem, an Ottoman subject
from Mount Lebanon, Syria, called at the
White House on saturday with portrait
of President HARRISON in silk, framed
with native wood, inlaid with mother Of
pearl, which he presented to the President
James Charles. terra Gotta operative,
was at work inside the roof of the new
Masonic Temple, in Chicago, on Saturday,
| when the scnifolding gave away and he
fell IL stories. Every bone in his body
was crushed and the corpse presented a
fearful sight.
-Four large opium rooms, bearing signs
of recent usage, were discovered by officers
| at Marysyille, California on Saturday.
From labels and packing found in the
house, 1t is thought Mt least $4,000 worth
Of opium must have passed through the
place recently.
About 30 suits, based on claims aggre-
eating nearly S125,000, were begun in
| Chicago on Saturday against Louis Adler,
cloak manufacturer who failed on Friday
evening. His liabilities are estimated ut
nearly S350,0 but his assets, it is claimed,
will enable him to pay in full.
Articles of association of the De PAW
| Plate Glass Company have been filed.
The factory is located at Alexandria, Ind
| The company will operate the old original
| plant at New Albany, Ind, and the new
one at Alexandria The capital stock Of
the company is Sl,20o,000. The plant will
cover 40 acres of ground and will employ
1900 men. Capacity 100000 square feet of
plate glass per week.
Captain John q. Bourke, of Fort Ring
gold, and Deputy United States Marshal
John Jordan. who crossed from Rio
| Grande City into Mexico with permits
| from the customs officials on both sides of
the line, were arrested ut Paras, 80 miles
from Guerrero, on the 18th inst, by a
| drunken militiaman; OH suspicion of being
revolutionists. They were held for 36 hours
| until released upon q message from the
| United States Consul General at Laredo
| The two men went at once to General
| Garcia, .swbo expressed great regret for
| their arrest, stating that all the parties en-
| gagged i'll it would be punished
A dispatch from Kansas City says that
| Oscar Twitchell, "a merchant of Philadel-
| phia,n arrived there on Friday with his
| nephew. Oscar NJ. Preston. aged II years,
! whom he had brought from Americas,
| Kan, He put the young man on a Mis-
| souri, Pacific train, telling him to mind the
! valses while he went across the street to a
| drug store. The train left while he was
away, and oil trace of young Preston was
lost, although he telegraphed ahead to the
railroad officials and followed himself on
| later train Mr.. Twitchell thinks Pres
ton met with foul play. and that the
valses, which contained valuable property,
were stolen.
The Yellow Pine Lumber Company was
organized in New York, OH Saturday, with
a capital stock of S2,500,0 900. 1t has pur-
chased the yards of the following firms :
| South Brooklyn Saw Mill Company, O..
w. Wilson of Brooklyn; Il. W. McClavc 4
Co. OF Hunters Point; Charles L. Buckle
/ & Co. of Hoboken; A. T. Decker e. Co.,
| Rapp & johnson Lumber Company,
A. B. Johnson & Co., and W. A.
Parke & Co. of New York. Every firm
was represented at the meeting, and turned
| in its entire stocks of merchandise, saw
mills, barges, lighters, horses, trucks and
other equipment, at prices appraised in
each case by six disinterested parties
Charles X, Buckley of Brooklyn, was
elected president.