Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-19
STATE AND PENINSULA.

olAlt ANU PENINSULA
PocoMoKE Cry, MD, Oct. 15.-
William Powell, residing in Somerset
county, four miles from Pocomoke City,
cut his throat Friday and died the next
day of his injuries. About o'clock
Friday morning his wife was aroused
by noise in the room, and when she
leaped from her bed to the floor found
that her husband had drawn a large |
knife across his throat and had also
stabbed himself in the breast near the |
heart. DR.. f. A. Adams was sent for,
and an examination revealed the fact |
that. besides attempting to cut his throat |
he had made thirty-fiVe missions in his
breast. He lived through Friday and
died Saturday morning. He was about
30 years old, and for several days prior
to his death had suffered from slight
mental arrangement. He was of one of
the best families of Dublin district,
Somerset county. His father, George Q.
Powell, was former county commits
sioner of Somerset,
CAMBRIDGE, MD, Oct. 15.-Joseph
Brown, drsdge hand on the pungy
Martha q. Moore, Captain james Rob-
bins, was knocked overheard by the jib-
sheet In the mouth Of Choptank river,
Friday morning, and drowned. He was
80 years old, and shipped with Captain
Robbins last Wednesday at Baltimore.
William Pindar, colored, dredge
hand on the.bugeye Longfellow, Captain
| w. w. Adams, was accidentally
drowned by the jibing of boom in the
Choptank river on Friday afternoon.
He lived at Bucktown, in Dorchester
\ county.
| CAMBRIDGE, Nd, Oct. 16.-Ronald
| Patchett was thrown from carriage by
a runaway horse at Puncheon bridge,
ON the suburbs of Cambridge, Sunday
night, and received injuries on the head
from which he died this morning. He
was returning with Miss Annie Parrott
from a religious gathering at Beckwith's
camp ground, when the horse became
unmanageable and ran away. The car
riage collided with a post and threw the
occupants ito the ground. The young
lady escaped with slight bruises. Mr..
Patchett was about "A years of age, un-
married, and was the son of Henry
Patchett, a contractor and builder, of
Cambridge.
DENTON, Nd, Oct. 15.-Mr. Frank
G. Slemmer, who, on Tuesday last, was
nominated for county treasurer, by the
Republican convention, has written a
letter to Chairman Harry A. Roe, de.
clining to serve. A committee will wait
on him early next week and urge that
, he remain on the ticket.
Mr.. Joseph H. Bernard, the Republi,
can senatorial nominee, was also nomi.
mated for the Senate by the Prohibi'
| lne m n
on both tickets.
PRINCESS ANNE, Nd, Oct. 16.-At II
o'clock to-day the convicted murderer
of Captain Frank Cooper were brought
into court to be sentenced by Judge
} Lloyd.
Before pronouncing sentence Judge
D Lloyd asked each Of the prisoners il
{ they had anything to say before sen
tence should be pronounced upon them
r Henry Taylor declined to say any
9 thing. Arthur Courtney said he had {
e statement to make, and proceeded to re
1, peat the statement he had made on thu
r stand on Thursday.
Judge Lloyd then pronounced tn
L sentence of death upon each OF tn
It prisoners. The scene was an impressiv
a one, and the closest attention was pai
: to the Judge, who spoke feelingly an
eloquently.
SALISBURY, ND, Oct. 16.-Mr. Ezekie
Hitch, one of the Oldest citizens G
Wicomico county, died at his home, i
;. Spring Hill, this morning. He was th
p father of Mr.. Frank Hitch OF Sutfoll
Virginia.
St BR1DGEvILLE, Oct. 17.--That the recer
y suicide of Mrs. John H. Deputy, nei
lr Smiths chapel, this county. was premed
IN tated and due to mental malady, is prove
M by note just found about the hous
,e There is no date to the note, but it is ~
~ dressed to Mr.. Deputy, and informed hill
10 that she believed 1t impossible for them
Is live together with the girl child, and TIM
70 either the child must be taken away {
ne she would die and leave il in his charg
The note ended by saying her lifeless boo
ne would be found hanging from the rafte
a. OF the garnet, but instead it was -four
lie hanging in the meat house.
no ]. C. Gorby, proprietor of Greenwot
as Hotel, who has had licensed house f
IN the past six or eight years was, Saturda
be refused renewal by the Sussex coun
n. court. His application was opposed by Il
nv Greenwood Law and Order Society, on Il
y ground that much drunkenness and disc
. der prevailed around the hotel Satnrdi
nights The case was heard in court 81
urday morning and the application W
turned down.
S. A. Brown of Seaford bad the Inisfc
.re tune, while erecting monument at Georf
~ town, to have one of the stone slabs Fl
- on his leg. breaking it. He received me-
oy cal attention at Georgetown and was plac
on In his carriage, and in this predicame
an drove to Seaford alone, distance Of
on miles.
act MAnyDEL, Nd, Oct l7.-Miss Ma
Inv Hall, about 10 years Of age, died at /
70. home, in this town, Saturday night, af
's an illness of only about 10 days OF int
oi mittent fever. She was bright, beauti
90. and promising young girl. and had W
its for herself many friends. She was me
ui- Der OF the M. Il. Church. She was bur
yesterday at Camden.