Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-28
ix GEN ERAL.

The Sligo, rolling mill at Pittsburg shut
down on Saturday night, throwing about
800 men out of work.
st. .Ioseph's Roman Catholic Church in
New Castle. Pa. was destroyed by fire on
Monday. The loss is placed ut $4,000.
An incendiary fire at Gainesville, Texas,
on Saturday, destroyed row Of buildings
and caused loss amounting to S9O0,0O0.
Tho two Jewish congregations i'll South
Bethlehem, between which there were
many fractional quarrels, were merged on
Monday into the Bereth Sholem.
James II. Abbott of New York, was sem
fenced in Newark, New jersey, Monday,
10 five years imprisonment for bigamy.
lie is said to have seven wives.
The loss by the fire at the Edward s.
Wills stock farm buildings, near Penning-
ton, N. j., on Sunday night Is estimated at
$4,000. A number of valuable horses
were burned to death.
The employees of the North Reading
foundry of the Mcllert Iron Company re-
fused to return to work Monday, after a
weeks idieaess, the company having given
notice Of q reduction Of wages Of from q to
10 per cent.
The four large stables of the Cheshire
improvement Company's dairy farm. at
Parkyillc, l.. l.. were burned Monday
morning, together with "a cattle and IL
horses. The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 TO $15,009.
Altoona, Pa, was flooded" Monday
with large amounts of counterfeit money
Of ali denominations, both paper and
silver. Many merchants and several banks
were caught. Most Of the notes were imi-
tations OF the IS United States legal tender.
John X. tiilhooly, u contract labor in
spector at Ellis Island, New York, was
Monday appointed to succeed John n.
Milholland us chief of the bureau of con
tract labor inspectors. THE contract
labor inspectors protested against the up.
pointment, but Colonel Weber told them
il they did not like it they could resign.n
The governor of New York Monday. at
the request of General Lathrop superin-
tendent of state prisons, issued a procia-
nation offering reward of 81 500 for the
capture and return to the custody of the
New York state prison authorities of
Thomas q Brien, who escaped from Officer
luck, ~ Utica, on the morning of April
10Th.
In the Canadian house of commons on
Monday. Mr.. Mcneil moved a resolution TO
the effect that IF the parliament of Great
Britain and Ireland admits Canadian pro
ducts to the markets of the United King
dom upon more favorable terms than ii
accords to the products of foreign coun-
tries, the parliament of Canada be pre-,
pared TO accord corresponding advantages
~ reduction in the duties it imposes on
British manufactured goods"
The Philadelphia Clearing House Asso.
citation, at a special meeting Monday ut
tended by representatives Of 81 banks of
the 80 in the clearing house, discussed the
ordinance of city councils requiring the
payment Of per cent interest on the de.
POSTS of the city treasurer. beginning July
3lst A resolution declaring lit is hereby
recommended that the banks of Philadei
| phia do not pay interest on the deposits
| of the city treasurer was adopted by d
vote of 10 to l., there being four banks
whose representatives declined TO vote.
| At the meeting of the American section
of the Theosophical Society in Chicago
Monday, the general secretary was in.
| structed to devise means of consolidating
the work Of the Oriental Department and
| the services of Professor Driveti we're dis
pensed with The following executiv,
committee was chosen for the coming
| year; Il. Al. Neresheimer New York
| Alexander Fullerton, New York; A. II
| Spencer, New York. Elliott b. Page, st
Louis; u. Il. l,ambo, San Francisco Dr. A
+. buchanan, Fort Wayne, Ind; William
| q. Judge, New York. Mr.. Neresheimer
was elected treasurer, and William O
| Judge was re elected general secretary
| Among the p councillors elected was Mrs
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox.