Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-05
MONTHLY REcoRDs.
April Reports of Building Iinprovemc
Police Arrests, Fires and vital Statisi

April Reports of building Improvements,
Police Arrests, Fires and vital Statistics.
Lines for new buildings were marked
by the city surveying department
during April, as follows:
Il. l.. Rice, Jr., dwelling, north side Of
Gilpin avenue, between Franklin and
Harrison streets.
James II. Budd, addition to dwelling,
northeast corner of Thirteenth and
French streets. Michael Donlan, addi-
ton to building on west side of Spruce,
between Taylor and Ninth streets.
Kresens Ruehle, addition to building,
on west side of Adams, between Linden
and Elm streets.
Lawrence Coady, six houses, south
east corner of Union street and Shall
cross avenue.
A. L. and A. III. Ainscow, restaurant,
| on Shipley, between Seventh and Eighth
streets.
Mary Ann Forest, three stores on
! south side of Front, between Market and
King streets.
Aument Eckman, dwelling on Gilpin
avenue between Rodney and Rowan
streets.
Dennis Sullivan, addition to dwelling
on Spruce between Eighth and Taylor
streets.
John Cook, addition to dwelling on
Eighth between Pine and Spruce streets.
Ruth Brothers, two dwellings on
Franklin between Reed and Chestnut
streets.
The Diamond State Iron Company,
store-house on north side of Robinson
between Spruce and Church streets.
Anna Purncll, addition to building ON
east side Of Tatnall between Seventh
and Eighth streets.
D. w. Hopes, addition to dwelling
northeast corner Of Seventh and Orange
streets.
Ada Ii. IIephron, addition to dwelling
on Bennett between Eighth and Taylor
streets.
Thomas G. Doud, building on Scott
street between Sixteenth street and
Delaware avenue.
Agnes Munden, two dwellings on
Lincoln street between Lowering avenue
and Wawasot street.
j. j.. Carpenter, Jr., dwelling on
northwest corner of Elm and Van
Buren, streets.
John Long, two dwellings on Ninth
between Lincoln and Union streets.
Thomas III. Melvin, seven dwellings
on Thirteenth between Market and
King streets.
| Nathan Lieberman, store southeast
corner Fifth and Market streets.
Total, 81.
WORK OF THE POLICE.
Chief of Police Blackburn reports 1853
arrests during April, classified as fol-
lows: Assault and battery, IL; assault
on an officer, 1; assault with intent to
commit murder, A; bail jumper, l; beg
ging in the streets, 4; blackmail, /; bur-
glary, 2; carrying concealed deadly
weapons, 2; contempt, Il corner loung-
ing, 32; disorderly conduct, as; DRINKS,
l15; drunk and disorderly, 81; drunk
and exposing person, 5; fighting on the
street, 8; harboring minors for immoral
purposes, /; highway robbery, 1; inter-
fering with an officer, A; keeping an I'M
registered dog, /; larceny, 81; lottery
and policy writing, s; neglect to support
his family, 1; patients, 81; pointing
pistol, 2; return from New Castle Jail, L;
runaway boys, A; selling liquor without
Il license, 1; selling on Sunday, /; tres
passing, 4; Migrants, A; violating city
ordinance, @; witnesses, 8; tampering
with mail, 1; committing crime against
nature, 4; using minor child for i'm
moral purposes, 1; attempt to commit
rape, /. Total, 1853; fines and costs COL
lected, $632.20; committed to New
Castle, 102; wagon calls, 215; number of
dodgers, 434.
THE APRIL FIRES.
Fire Recorder John Green makes this
report Of fires for the month: April Sth,
GAS p. M, box 26, false alarm; April
10th, 4.16 p. M, still alarm, No. So4
Market street; loss $50; April 18th, DAT
a. m, box Ga, fire in jute mill of Will
mington Mills Manufacturing Company;
loss, 81 900, covered by insurance; April
9th, 11.5S a. M, box "a; waste paper in
yard of Chicago Beef Company; no loss.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Registrar Colquhoun's report for the
month shows So deaths, 120 births and
81 marriages, compared to go deaths,
80 births and SO marriages for the CORE
spending month in 1891. OF the deaths,
:. 70 were white, 10 colored; 81 males, AS
females; AZ adults, 43 minors; ~ natives,
ID foreign born. There were 0 coroners
cases. OF the 1870 births, 121 were white,
colored, of which go were white males
and colored males, 81 white and l
colored female. Of the 81 marriages, SO
were among whites and among colored
people.