Smyrna times., 1893-07-26

have none they reply that "you lie and
have got to divvy up.-EUery EUening.
COMMISSIONER MASSEY IN Town..
Delaware State Worlds Fair Commits
siOner Massey returned to Delaware
Friday and was highly complimented
by his friends on the stand he took
against the opening of the Fair on SuD-
day. He enjoys good health and re-
turned to Chicago yesterday.
POSSIBLE MURDER OF A House.
KEEPER.-With her ribs stove in and
her face smashed to jelly, Mrs. MIN
ME Maull, housekeeper of Henry smell,
of Christiana Hundred, is lying IN
dangerous condition at Delaware hos.
pital She accuses her employer OF
having done the deed. Smell was ar
rested by Detective Witsil, and a mag
istrate held him for court.
There was quite a ripple of excite
ment among the local peach buyers at
the Milford station on Thursday.
Light receipts in the cities of both ap-
plies and peaches sent prices up and
the buyers there bid Early Rivers off
at 60 to 80 cents per basket. One lot
of ripe fruit was sold by Isaac S. Truitt
at ST OF. The total number of packages
of peaches shipped on Thursday was
about 200. Apples were also in better
demand, red ones bringing from so to
go cts. per crate. --
SUDDEN DEATH NEAR BLACKBIRD.-
AdOlphus Wilson, living near Black
hfV1 u
in his usual health Thursday and in
Blackbird seemingly very cheerful.
He was living with his sOn-in-law,
Caleb johnson. Mr.. johnson hearing
a slight noise got up to learn the cause
and found Mr.. Wilson leaning out the
window, bleeding from % hemOrrhage
but before they could get DIR. Ferguson
to him he was dead. He was 60 years
old.
PRESS EXCURSION POSTPONED. The
excursion of the Peninsula Press As.
sOciatiOn to Delaware Water Gap,
which was to have taken place last
Thursday, has been postponed. Dover
Inder says: THE failure of the men,
bers of the Peninsula Press Association
to respond to our call for a meeting
this month at Delaware Water Gap
renders it necessary to postpone the
meeting tC some time in the fall, Oc-
tober or November. The committee
will then make an effort to call meet
ing.
Col. Albert #. Hyatt died at his
home, in Wilmington, of typhoid fever
Monday. Colonel Hyatt was a prom
inent musician and has been closely
identified with bands in Wilmington
for many years. He served with the
First Delaware Regiment during the
war and was member of the Grand
Army. There are at present four bands
in Wilmington that were organized by
Colonel Hyatt. The deceased was
ifty-nine years of age and leaves a
widow and two sons.
HEAVY WHEAT YIELD.-AmOng the
heavy yields of wheat this season, there
are some that by far exceed the expec-
tatiOns of growers. 1t was thought
that Register of Wills Cooch took the
palm at 334 bushels to the acre. But
Recorder of Deeds Shallcross beats that
as his average is 35 bushels. But the
largest yield yet is that Of Jonathan K.
Williams, near Odessa, who averaged
80 bushels to the acre on land formerly
occupied by asparagus, and on a field
OF l6O acres the average yield is 80
bushels, which, for so large an acreage,
is the largest average in this county, if
not on the peninsula. -MiddLeto,Un
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A HARD STORM BREAKS A DROUGHT.
The prolonged dry spell, which Las
existed in sections of Kent county for
some weeks, was broken by copious
general rains last week The storm
did considerable damage in some Sec
tiOns. Charles McClary, on the Will
mer farm in MOrgan's Greek Neck, had
IL sheep killed and two badly injured.
Harry Davis, living near Still Pond.
had valuable mare and colt killed
by lightning while in the pasture, and
the barn on the William McKennev
farm, near MillingtOn, was set on fire
by lightning and was totally destroyed
and one horse slightly injured. Tele-
phone poles were blown down by the
high wind, and in Gelena shade trees
were twisted off aud blown across the
street.
WOMEN WAGE A CORY DUEL
With a razor as the weapon on one
side, and sticks of wood used as cudgels
on the other, Mrs. Owen Isaacs. of
South Milford, and Mrs. Harry Belts
fought a desperate duel, almost to the
death, on Wednesday. Mrs. Isaacs had
charged Mrs. Belts, her next.door
neighbOr, with alternating the affections
of Mr.. Isaacs, and accordingly made up
her mind to end her rivals life.
While Mrs. Belts stood in the rear
doorway of her home, shortly before
noon, Mrs. Isaacs approached and at
tackled her with an open razor, remark
ing as she did 80 that she did it for sat
isfactiOn. As the assailant slashed at
the throat of her rival, the latter duck
ed her head and the razor instead laid
open her scalp from crown to fore
head.
Fearing that she would be killed,
Mrs. Belts sprang to the kitchen wood
box, followed closely by her assailant.
Selling stick of wood she whe eled
around, threw the cudgel at the mad
woman, and knocked her down. But
Mrs. Isaacs got up and renewed
the murderOus attack. The injured
woman could do but little in defense
Three times the razor gashed her, and
had not the husbands of the women op-
portunely arrived home for dinner.
Mrs. Belts would undoubtedly have
been hacked TO death.
The men seized Mrs. Isaacs. and
after a scuffle got the razor. Then
they turned their attention to Mrs.
Belts, who had meanwhile fallen to the
floor in faint. While DIR. ]. S. Pret.
lyman applied restoratives and dressed
Mrs. Belts many wounds, her Jealous
assailant escaped and the town au-
thOrities have thus far failed to find
her. 1t is believed that Mrs. Belts is
not fatally injured.
The Peach Association of Kent
county have made arrangements to
send MIR. E. Bailey, of Dover, through
Western Pennsylvania, &C., for the
purpose of opening up new markets for
Delaware fruit. If enough contribu.
tions come in they propose to send an
agent into the interior towns of the
New England states to open up that
section to our peaches. There is no
sense in having our fruit sell for only
nominal price. We can get good
prices for our fruit if we 90 to work
ana secure the markets. There are
hundreds OF towns on our north and
west that could and would take a car
load of peaches two or three times a
week If the proper effort was made tn
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