Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
ON THE PENINSULA.

The Delaware State Medical Society meets
in Ninety-ninth annual session in George
town on Tuesday, Iath. There are usually
about fifty members in attendance.
DR.. Joshua A. Elligood, of Laurel, has been
appointed assistant surgeon Of the First Cav
airy, NC. D., to rank as first lieutenant He
has been assigned duty in Troop B, and will
report to Captain Rice at once.
Agents Of Ignatz Pfortner, of New York,
are buying large quantities Of corn cobs
near Odessa. Mr. Pfortuer IS the we'll
known manufacturer of corn cob pipes.
They are paying Eve cents bushel for the
cobs
The Interstate Commerce Commission has
fixed June nth as the date for hearing the
case Of the State Grange Of Delaware VS. the
Pennsylvania R. R., on the charges of dis
elimination in rates, in service, and other vio-
lations of the Interstate law.
Charles Davis, white, and Asbury Miller,
colored, while working on a farm near Dover,
recently got into a quarrel, resulting in Davis
fracturing Mi,ler's skull with a singletree.
Miller is now lying at the point of death.
Davis was arrested and placed under bail to
await the result.of Miller's wound
A government hospital is being erected
near the Delaware Breakwater at Lewes to
receive any persons from foreign ports who
are afflicted with any contagious diseases.
This is for the protection of the towns along
the bay and river, which have heretofore
been exposed to considerable danger from
incoming vessels. No quarantine station has
ever been established below Chester and this
one is for the protection Of the river and har-
Dor as well as Philadelphia.
On Friday afternoon last Adjutant- General
X. R Kenney visited Brandywine Springs
with view of ascertaining if that locality
would be a suitable place for holding the an
nual encampment Of the National Guard
troops next summer. General Kenney came
away with very favorable impression. R.
W. Crooks, who has charge of the hotel at
the springs, has offered to erect the necessary
buildings in case the place is chosen for the
ampment.-M0yNiHg Meas.
Sussex county industries will soon have
an important addition in a large kiudling
wood factory which is being built at Oak
Grove, five miles from Seaford, on the Cam
bridge and Seaford railroad, by the Sussex
Kindling Wood Company, of which Ralph
Peverly, formerly of the Jackson Lime and
Coal Company, of Wilmington, is the Presi
dent. The factory will furnish employment
to thirty men and boys, and will turn out
carload of compressed, kiln dried, bundled
kindling wood daily.
The boiler of portable engine, which was
being used in Smelling corn, exploded about
II O'Clock on Friday morning last on the
farm occupied by Benjamin Pleasanton,
about three miles below Port Penn, killing
one man and injuring three others. The
killed was Benjamin Pleasanton, the tenant of
the farm, Walter Burton, farm hand
employed by Pleasanton and Wilson Green.
rolored, are seriously injured but will proba-
bly, recover. Samuel IYoAand, another farm
hand, was slightly injured. The force of
the explosion was terrific. It is supposed to
have resulted from low water in the boiler |
and the bad condition of the boiler and in
jector. The engine and boiler belonged to
Pleasanton, but had not been in use for two
or three years and had become rusty, but de-
spite this fact the boiler was put in service
without being overhauled. The exact cause
Of the explosion is not definitely known, but
It is thought that although the indicator
showed sufficient water, the boiler itself was
almost depleted ofwater and that the injec-
or did not work properly, and connections
between the boiler and indicator were rusted
md out of order.