Smyrna times., 1886-08-18

Henry Latimer of Wilmington died
Monday morning, at the ColOnnade
Hotel, Philadelphia. On Saturday
night last he left his room in the hotel
mentioned, and started to 90 down
stairs on some errand. While descend
ing the steps he fell with a stroke of
paralysis or apOplexy, it is supposed,
injuring the back part of his head. He
was removed to his room, and on Sun
day afternoon became unconscious, con-
tinuing in that state up to the time of
his death.
The Reform candidates, HofFecker
and Cooper at the Jubilee of the Fair
view Lodge near Newark on Thursday
last says the Newark Ledger, were met
by q hOrsemen gaily decorated in
white shirts and lCng-fowing blue
badges fastened with rosettes mounted
on 8 frisky" steads, that looked ever so
handsome in gay cOlored blankets with
the words l. o. of G. 7. inscribed there
or, and wreaths Of evergreen twined
about their necks, presented an aspect
most pleasing to the eye.
THE ACT OF A DEMON.-The good
people of st. Georges were frightfully
| alarmed between IL and l o'clock, Sat
urday morning to find Mrs. Mary
| CAMS house and Outbuildings all
ablaze, with the chances that the
whole town would be laid in ashes, as
| the burning tenements are in the heart
of the community. Everybody turned
out with buckets and began to fight
| the flames. The stables and outbuild-
| ings could not be saved, but at the
house by almost superhuman efforts
the flames were extinguished after the
| interior, including the furniture, had
been fairly gutted A n. SuttOn's sta
bic and five tons of hay and twenty
! bushels of potatoes were also consumed;
| and if there had been the least wind
the Odd Fellows Hall and several
dwellings would have gone down too.
| When Mrs. Gam awakened she found
] the closet III her bedroom on FIRE She
| then rushed for the door, but found it
! locked. As the rest of the house had
been fired in two places, help was cut
of by the stairway and the poor women
had to be taken out of the window by
means of a ladder. She was more
dead than alive, and had literally but a
single button garment left TO her. She
| 70 I4elO ouO Aeku l3OOO III JuC ClOSGJ
of her room, of which $3.50 was silver.
AS none of this silver has been seen
since the fire it is positively certain
that it has been stolen. She thinks the
burglar, who must have been ac-
quainted with her house and habits,
entered the room, took the money,
poured coal oil in the closet and set it
on FIRE, and then went out, locking her
her iu the room The key to her bed
room door is also missing. Both tur-
pentine and coal oil had been used to
set fire to the rest of the house and to
the barn. 1t looks like a diabolical at
tempt not only to rob her but also to
burn her to death. The money she
had drawn out of bank few days
before, intending to loan 81 900 of it tC
her son James of Wilmington who has
recently bought the stock and fixtures
of saloon in that place from Joseph
Stoekle. Mrs. Gam had been in the
liquor business at st. Georges, off and
on, for many years until last spring
when she was refused a license upOI
the remOnstrances on the part of {
number of her neighbors. She has ac-
cumulated a snug competency and the
property destroyed by the fire, which
was only portion of her wealth, wa
worth at least $4,000. The total los
, by fire and theft will exceed $1,000
Morning NeaUs.