Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-01
IN GENERAL.


The supreme Lodge, knights of Pythias,
selected Washington as the place for hold.
ing the ucxt encampment.
Theodore Bird, shoemaker of Muncie
Ind, shot his wife Monday murning and
then killed himself. Jealousy led to the
crime.
A wagon bridge spanning Pine Greek mt
Black Wells, LycOming county, Pa, col
lapscd Monday and two men were fatally
injured.
The Penn Iron Company of Lancaster,
resumed operations Monday after an
idleness of two months. The puddlers AZ
cepted u reduction from 81 to S3.65 ton.
John Obermeyer aud wife committed
suicide at their home, s35 First avenue,
New York, Monday, by taking chluro-
form. They were Is years old and had no
work
The explosion of the boiler in the cleo
tric light station at Brandon, VI. Sunday,
resulted in the killing of Adolphtls Gocr-
mund and serious injury of Joseph Cioer-
inund and Charles Halle.
DIR. Exum. the Third Party candidate
for governor Of North Carolina was
arrested in Goldsboro charged with using
profane language in the post-oilice in the
presence of ladies. lie was fined by the
mayor.
The ship Alameda, from Philadelphia,
Colidcd with the schooner Maid of Orleans
IN san francisco bay ON Sunday. Captain
Trcnor and two men on the schooner were
swept overheard and lost. Neither vessel
was seriously injured,
The Eastern millers combination, under
the name of the Hccker, Jones n Jewell
Milling Company, which has absorbed five
large flour mills in New York and Brook
lyn began operations Monday. The cor
poration is capitalized ut S7,5OO,OOO.
A dispatch from Cincinnati saws that a
party of capitalists from that city, Phila-
,ielphia and New York, has secured pos
session of II tract of land along the st.
Johns and Indian rivers, 80 miles long and
from 3 to q miles wide The land is to lie
drained at an expense of Si,OOO,0OO and
devoted to the cultivation Of sugar, enough
Of which can be grown on the strip to sup
ply all of the United States.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Butteriield, aged 80 wears,
wife Of A. q. Buttcriirld aged 10 years, d
ieweller OF R0ckaway Reach, disappeared
from boarding house at Good Ground,
Long Island, Sunday night, leaving note
saying il was her intention to commit
suicide IN SbinncCock bay. The bay was
dragged, but no body was found The
woman was later in the day found near
the house, III an unconscious and helpless
condition. IT,.
The contract between the Pacific Mail
steamship Company and the Panama rail
road expires on February next, and the
Panama railroad threatens that, ii a new
contract is not signed by Thursday, il will
establish its own steamship service be-
tween New York and san Francisco The
Pacific Mail Company has had exclusive
rights over the Panama railroad under a
l5'ycar contract, paying $4,000 monthly
70 the Panama railroad for transporting its
cuilstWise business.
A company has been Incorporated under
the laws of New Mexico for the purpose of
constructing u dam across the Kiu tirnnde
river for the purpose Of irrigatinE both in
Mexico and the United States. William
Hamilton Of New York is at the head of
the project, and the company is incorpor-
ated with u capital Of sl6,0o1,00O. The
dam will be built about five miles above
III Paso, in Mountain Gateway. II will DO
$50 feet long, of solid masonry from cliff
to cliff, resting on solid limestone founda-
tion and will lie 10 feet wide. II will make
lake 10 miles long and % feet deep. The
cost of dam aud rrigating canals is esti-
| mated at 81 50O,u0O