Milford chronicle., 1891-06-26
ON THE PENINSULA.

Sheriff Cole sold at public sale on Tuesday
the house of A. Carson on New Street, IN
Dover, to Hazel & Pennewill, for $1,000
also, a small piece Of land near DUPONT s
Mill, to same, for $500; and the farm of VIM.
P. Seward, near Cowgill's Corner, contain
ing nearly 400 acres, to Joseph X. Whitaker,
for $4,000,
The committee on degrees of the Delaware
College trustees at their meeting On Tuesday,
reported that they deemed it inexpedient for
the college, being distinctly an agricultural
mechanical-scientifc institution, to confer
the degree of Doctor of Divinity. After a
lengthy discussion the report was adopted
by a vote of IS to :. The degree of IL. D..
was conferred upon the president Of the
board Of trustees, DR.. L. P. Bush.
Captain Clampitt ana crew of the Lewes
life saving station rescued the crew Of the
schooner George Henry, Captain D. r.
Smith from Philadelphia for Baltimore with
coal which sprung leak on Thursday morn
ing and sank near the upper end of the
Shears, about five miles above the Delaware
Breakwater. One of the crew, John Glees,
colored, of Chesapeake City, was drowned.
The captain and the rest of the crew, three
colored men, chung to the rigging and re-
NAMED there till taken off by Captain Clam
pitt early Saturday morning. They had
been in the rigging forty hours without food
or water, and were nearly exhausted. The
vessel is a total loss.
Laura Waites, the Young colored woman
who was found Sunday morning lying by
the track of the New York, Philadelphia &
Norfolk railroad, near Salisbury station, dy-
ing OF injuries received about the head ex-
PRED on Monday night. She did not recover
Consciousness, and died without being able
to disclose the name of her assailant. John
Gordy, a young colOred man of Salisbury is
held in WicomicO Jail, charged with the
assault which proved fatal to the young
woman. The circumstances Of his arrest
are about as follows: When the unconcious
girl was found Sunday morning suspicion at
once attached to GoTdy, because he had been
heard, it is stated. to say to her a short time
ago if she did not let him keep company
with her he would kill her. On hearing Of
this Chief of Police Shockley began to search
for Gordy, but could not find him. Sunday
night after the girl died, Gordy went to
MI Isaac Ennies, an employe of the rail-
road, and asked him what wss best for him
to do, since lie had been suspected Of the
murder Of Laura. Mr.. Ennies replied that
it would be best for Gordy to give himself
up to the authorities whether he he guilty
or not Acting upon this advice Gordy
went to the house OF Chief ShOckley last
night, and calling him aside told the officer
that he had come to Weld himselfup, though
he was innocent of the grave charge against
him. Officer Shockley lodged him in Jail.
This morning DR.. George W. Todd made a
post.mortem examination He discovered
that death resulted from bullet wound, but
that the fatal injury was caused by a blow
on the ocbipital bone made with some sharp
instrument. That portion of the Uranium
was badly fractured, the fracture extending
in all directions from the small hole origin
ally supposed to have been made by bull
let The brain Of that side of the head was
severely confused aud internal hemorrhage
A jury of inquest was summoned
and held GoTdy for the crime