Middletown transcript., 1892-10-13
PENINSULA MATTERS.
INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR MANY EXCHANGES.


OUR MANY EXCHANGES
Il Dover school children will celebrate
1 columbian Day on October 81.
+ Samuel Peachy of Odessa, lost
4 two valuable horses the past week
from spinal meningitis.
4: "A frame barn on the farm Of
Wilson-Green, near Port Penn, was
destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Two tons
of hay were consumed, and valuable
i horse was only saved from the flames
\ by difficult work.
| Eugene Davis, formerly of this
town, but who has held position in
the Smyrna National Bank for some
time, has been appointed to the posi-
tion of teller, vice o. B. Voshell
removed.
The First National Bank of Seaford
has $271 AS OF in individual deposits,
The first concert of Wilmington s
re-organized. Tuesday Club will be
given in that city on November 81.
III The bar and pool-room of Cedar
Beach Hotel, seven miles from Mil
ford, were destroyed by fire on Satur-
day evening. The loss is about $500 ];
fully insured.
Fifty colored sports congregated in
an old granary near Milford, on last
Friday to witness three prize-fghts
between negroes. No admission fee
was charged, but purses were raised
for the victors.
Adjutant-General Garret j. Hart
has issued orders for Governor Rey-
nolds,s staff to accompany the gov
ernor to Chicago and take part in the
Columbian exercises. The staff will
leave on October17. Allthe members
must be uniformed.
1t has been decided by the joint
committee on dedicatory ceremonies
of the Worlds Columbian Exposition
that the procession of the line of
states shall be formed as they ratified
the Constitution of the United States.
This gives Delaware a place ct the
head of the procession. .
James L. Pilbeam, the private
watchman at the Delaware Hard Fibre
Works, Wilmington, was found dead
at the works on Saturday morning,
with bullet hole in his left temple.
1t is supposed that his revolver was
accidentally discharged with the
above result.
On Saturday evening while return
ing from FELTON,, Fletcher Downs, aged
55 years, commission merchant of
Hartley, Del, died suddenly in a Del
aware Railroad passenger coach. 1t
is supposed his death was caused by
strangulation, brought about by a
cancerous affection of the throat.
1. D. Carter, aged &C years, of Wal
nut Valley, near Elkton, one of the
Oldest paper manufacturers of Cecil
county, died suddenly Saturday
morning of heart disease. He was
son of the late Robert Carter, who
came there from Pennsylvania in 1916,
and bnilt the Cecil Paper Mills, At
the time of his death, in 1851, Mr..
Carter succeeded the father, and has
since operated the mills.
i, Miss Mary McCord of Wilmington,
who hasbeen spending the summer
with Mrs. Isaac Grubb, State Road
station, shot herself through the head
at Mrs. Grubb residence on Sunday
death being instantaneous.
She had been sufferer from disease
which she feared was .Incurable and
it preyed upon her mind to such an
extent as to lead her to commit the
rash act. She was engaged to be
married during the coming winter,
and left an estate valued at $4,000.
Lieutenant E. G. Brooks has ap-
pointed the following commissioned
and non-commissioned officers for the
two companies Of the Delaware Col
lege Cadets: Captains, G. H. j. Ed
and A. J. Taylor; first lieu
tenants, A. Lee Ellis and Mallery
second lieutenants, Walter W.
Hynson, Frank A.Cooch and A. G..
Plumb first sergeant, w. H. McDon-
aid; sergeants, W. c. Wilson, Joseph
Lieberman, R. DuHadway, and Ed
ward s. Armstrong; corporals, G.. M.
E. F. Mullin, W. II. Steele,
@. Stevens, w. W. Harrington, Carl
F. NJ. G. Choate, I. J.
Andrew Kerr and Edward
W. Cooch. .s:8