Democratic messenger., 1888-09-29
PENINSULA.

tenant house on the farm oil WIN. IL
Allaband of North Murderkill hundred
was burned OH Thursday night The house
has been untcnantcd for some time aud
the fire was undoubtedly the work Of an
incendiary-D De,a'rarsdn.
Wyoming presents very different ap.
pearance now from what il did few
weeks ago, when scores Of trains werc
waiting 10 be loaded with fruit. There
were shipped from Wyoming this year
AS, 900 baskets Of pcachcs.--Dorer Safi.
mel.
A farmer residing few miles west Oi
this town stated on Tuesday that the
heavy wet weather OF the last few days
has stripped his peach trees Of their fruit,
and that he had then on the ground in his
orchard about 5000 baskets Of peaches
which were not worth picking up.-Deia.
ndFedn.
II has been known for many years ,ha,
iron ore existed in West Dover hundred
near Lockwood's Chapel. hut whether OF
not in sufiicien, quantity to pay for work
ing was the question. II Is reported that
Mr. George Steele has sold the ore on his
farm, IL Philadelphia Company who will
soon commence operations Docer !SRti.
nei
Calvin 7. Boggs, rabbi. fancicr u,
Cheswold. Del, and only a 9.ycar.old boy,
has completed an arrangement to furnish,
u large seed house in Pennsylvania with
100 pairs of Belgian hares between now
and next June at 81 i25 per pair lie pro-
poses to exhibi, alsoS, the State fair At
Dover the largest pair of rabbits ever seen
ON the Peninsula. Farm and Home.
Harry Lec0mptc, threc-yearo child,
was drowned at Riverton, Wicomico coun-
ty, Md, from the steamer Nanticoke ms
she was leaving the wharf going up the
river on her return trip from Baltimore
on Friday morning OF last week. Mrs.
Belle Ingram, formerly LcCompte,l moth
er of the child, was sitting in chair AFT
Of the saloon on the second deck when the
child lcaped from her arms overheard AZ
was drowned near the wharf The a
body was not found until next day Airs.
Ingram stated that she was on her way
home to Georgetown. Del. She said that
she had been working in cannery NJ
still Pond, and was there during the Sc.
we're cyclone that killed so many persons
there in August, she being among the
number who escaped unhur,.
stcdmanTilghman wickcs, aged 90 years,
promising young lawyer ofChestertown,
and son Of Judge Joseph 4. Wickcs. oi
,ha, place, died on Saturday II, his father
residence. after an Illness Of about month.
lie was also II nephew OF Judge Perc l..
Wickes, of Baltimore city. About four
weeks ago Mr. Wickcs was taken sudden
ly i'll with vertigo on the street in Centre
Vile, Md. lie was taken TO his home and
physicians summoned For some days
GuuulliuH WIS SCIiOUS, tllt uuCtO5S
said hc was suffering from malarial fever
On Wednesday morning Of last week his
condition was so much improved that his
father left for Elkion 70 attend court The
same evening Mr. Wickes had relapse
and his father was summoned home. 4
dispatch was send tn Judge wickcs. M.
~. East Chase street. Baltimore. inform.
ing him Of his ncphcw's death lie lei,
Baltimore the next morning with several
members of the family to attend the funcr.
al, which took place Tuesday. Mr. Wickcs
was educated at Washington College,
Chcstcrtown. and at the Chester Military
Academy. near Philadelphia. lie studied
law with his father, and was admitted "a
the bar not quite three years ago. lie
was progressing nicely as a young lawyer
and showed traits which 80 To make a
bright man. lie was also well known and
popular in Eastern Shore society. lie wa
the only son, his brother, B Chamber,
wickes. having died in 1888 Mr.. wiekc'
was unmarried.