Middletown transcript., 1891-11-05

? deBt.
Fish are caught in the Chesapeak
Bay by dynamite explosions beheatl
the water.
The Peninsula Horticultural Soci
ETY. win meetlat Dover on Januar.
. 10, 90 and 81, next.
A decayed tooth caused bloot
poisoning and killed Ovide Roches
ter, a Denton merchant.
Eighty-five-year-old Thomas Mid
dleton, a prominent farmer nea
Smyrna, fell dead on Monday.
Frank Ball of near Milltown, Mil
Creek hundred, lost his right hand II
steam corn-sheller on Monday.
Sheriff Amos Cole has levied the
canning plant of McGaw and Brother
Smyrna. Their liabilities are moi
known
The Kent County Court is adjourn
ed to December 2S. The Cummins'
will case win be taken up on the
Monday following.
The Burrisville, Queen Anne coun-
ty, colored church, was destroyed by
an incendiary fire. Loss $500; in
surance 81, 1000.
| The Delaware Pilot Commissioners
have reelected John P. Virden presi-
dent and B. Frank Townsend secre-
tary and treasurer.
Fire did $1,000 damage to the furni-
ture store of J. B. and B. Reed, Sixth
and Tatnall streets, Wilmington, SUM-
day. Insurance partial.
A large barn on the Bell Hill farm
owned by William .DeGoey's heirs,
NEAR Elkton, was burned on Monday.
Loss 5000 insurance partial.
Nicholas Goldsborough, a we'll
known civil engineer, aged go years,
was found dead in bed Saturday, at
his home Powell Point, Talbot county.
After an exciting chase down the
Delaware Bay, United States Marshall
Mahaffy and Deputy Watson libelled
the sloop Henry and Howard at Bow
er's Beach on Saturday for seamen's
wages.
The Levy Court has sanctioned the
hiring of a second night warden at
New Castle Jail where 40 prisoners
are confined, in fearfnlly close quar-
tiers, 100 of whom will be tried at
the November term of Court.
Halloween depredators greatly dam
aged Wilmington property on Satur-
day night and Newport vandals built
road distractions with stolen corn
stalks and torn-down fences.
Henry Hirzel, aged three years, was
run over and killed by an electric
street car in front of his home No.
221 West Eighth street, Wilmington,
on Saturday. He was literally cut
in half.
Captain George LIE Roy Brown, q.
s. A., military instructor at Delaware
College, Newark, has been transferred
by President Harrison to Pine Ridge
Agency, 8. D., where he will act as
Indian Agent.
The November term of the New
Castle County court will begin in
Wilmington on Monday, November
2S. Two hundred and twenty-five
cases are marked for trial.
Seven year-old Leslie Sharp of No.
$50 Monroe street and three-year-old
Elwood Mckay of No. 1877 Monroe
street, Wilmington, were severely
burned Tuesday while playing with
matches. The former died yesterday.
Last month in Wilmington, SO build
ing lines were drawn, 400 arrests were
made and nine fires occurred. Nine
hundred and twenty-four dollars and
seventy-five cents were collected in
fines and costs and the fires did 81, 900
damage; insured.
The New Castle County Levy Court
tax receipt investigating committees
still in session. About all Of the Will
mington clergy were returned as
errors by ex-collectors Mckee and
Dougherty, Bishop Coleman being
among the number.
W. H. Wirth of Falkland met a
negro burglar coming from his house
with a big bundle on Saturday night
and in the tussle Mr.. Wirth was shot
slightly in the shoulder The bur
glar escaped and lot of jewelry is
missing.
The Queen Anne county grand jury
is investigating the lynching of
Asbury Green, colored, at Centre
vile in May last, for feloniously as
saulting Mrs. Howard Tolson, a
young white woman. Green's SEN
tence was 81 years imprisonment.
The New Castle County Levy
Court and invited guests ate one
hundred Pumpkin, pies and drank
cider on Tuesday in Wilmington. The
feast was provided by Solomon Her
sey and was the outcome Of a gift of
a 10O-poundspumpkin to him by Com
missioner Sutton of New Castle hun
dred.
Maris Taylor Democratic ex-Coun-
Gilman of Wilmington, and for thirty
years resident of that city, died on
SATURDAY.. He was born at Sandy