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Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04
SHALL VIZ OR SHALL VIZ MOTT
THE ALL ABSORBING QUESTION
WITH OUR TAXPAYERS.

-AAOOCAAAks hb ASFf AAOA ecA . AAe9At
Yesterday Afternoon-A Committed
Appointed to Determine What
is Wanted and Get Estf-
mates.-Another Meeting
Next Friday Afternoon.
Pursuant to call issued by the
Board of Trade, many of taxs
payers assembl d at McWhorter's Hal
yesterday afternoon to discuss thF
question Of bonding Middletown for
another $4,000 in order to furnish
light for our town.
The meeting was presided over by
DR.. Vallandigham. who briefly stated
the object of the call.
Secretary Leatherbury of the Town
Board was called upon to furnish a
statement as to the cost ofsop6rating
the water works, and also an estimate
as TO what it would cost to operate
an electric light plant in conjunction
Herewith, and we present herewith a
copy of his estimates:
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DOIAGS AT DOVER
CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYs EARTH~
LIZ CAREER ENDED.

appointment of Secretary OF State
Marvel to be Associate Justice
- BIN for the Protection ofDel-
aware Truckers-Tne Con-
tested Election Bfll.'
DOVER, Del, Feb. 3.
This has been an eventful week at
the State Capital. and have heard
many funny stories about the ap-
pointments, which ] would like 20
give to the Transcript readers, but
/ have promised to withhold them for
the time being.
Well, Secretary Of State Marvel Is no
more. He has given away that title
to take up the more exalted one of
Judge, and this will necessitate his
moving into Kent County.
Judge David T. Marvel is q native of
Sussex County, and was born Novem-
ber2, 1851, near Georgetown, on the
farm where his ancestors had lived for
hundreds of years. He graduated
from Princeton College in 1878, when
he began the study of law In the Office
of Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. In 1876
he went to Washington as private
secretary to Mr.. Bayard, where he
spent two years. He afterwards took
a course in the Howard Law School,
and was admitted to the Delaware
bar in 1879. For several years
he edited the Sussex Journal, and was
counsel for the Sussex County Levy
County for six years. He was appointed
Secretary Of State in 1891. He is q
man of strong common sense, and lib
eral spirit, and he win fill the judicial
Office with credit TO himself and TO the
State.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Rev. NJ. Maxwell, of the M. E.
Church at Frederick, was in town on
Wednesday.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Mrs. v. L. Culbertsoi spent a few
days this week with friends in Phila-
delphia.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Mine Host Sparks and lady visited
Wilmington and Philadelphia on
Thursday.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

We are glad to see Editor Freeman,
of the New Era on the streets again,
apparently in his usual health.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Mrs. B. T. Biggs, who has been
spending few days with her son, in
Wilmington, returned home last eve
ming.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Mrs. W. p, Miff1in and daughter
Ada will join Mr. Miff1in in Philadel-
phia shortly. Her removal from
Middletown will be greatly regretted
by her many friends.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

We regret to say POSTMASTER A. g.
Cox is still very ill. With other COM
plications erysipelas has developed,
and his condition is very serious.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Mrs. N. J. Williams and little
daughter Mary are visiting in New
York city.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04
VOL. XXvI.-N0. 5.
Soo'Hrr
WHAT HAS TRANSFERRED WITHIN
IT'S CIRCLE DURING THE
PAST WEEK.

Night Operator Anderson Brings
Home a Sussex Bride = Miss Cot
TOMS wedding and Reception at
smyrna-The b. M. 8. KS
Furnish Charming Brides.
Hop at Chestertown.
Weddings and Re-
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

DR.. W. F. Kennedy, of Wilmington,
was in town this week.
Rev. DIR. G. A. Grise, of Georgetown.
was in town on Monday.
Middletown transcript., 1893-02-04

Balance to be met by tax levy $l22l 90
ESTIMATES OF JOINT WATER AND LIGHT DEPART
MENT.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
Walked out Of Jail

SEATTLE, Wash :, Nov. 2S-John Dry
den, alias Hawthorne, aliss O'Nell, un-
der five years. sentence for burglary, and
one of the most dangerous criminals In
the Northwest, escaped from the comfy
jall yesterday. The street preachers held
services at the Jail yesterday afternoon
Dryden joined with them in singing and
praying, and when they went away he
walked out with them, past the guard,
who was new man. He had secured u
white shirt and collar and black tie, and
carried hymn book. One of the pre- ach
ers asked him if he was prisoner. and
was told he had just received pardon and
was determined TO lead better lIfe
Dryden was not missed until lUcklDg-up
time, when dummy was found IN bis
cot by the night .Jailer. The sneritf's posse
looked all night tor him and today Of
tered 800 reward Dryden is said TO
have escaped from the Oregon peniten-
tIary and 1t was learned few weeks ago
that he haG escaped from Walla Wal!a
with two years of an unt xpired sentence
not long before he committed burglares
here. About SIX weeks sgo he was taken
TO Walla Walla to serve five year sen :
tence, but was brought back te await ac>
tioa on appeal to the supreme court. On
the way back he leaped from the tram
at Palmer and was knocked scnseie' S..
Before the train could be stopped he re-
covered sufficiently to crawl into d hol-
low log, where he was afterward found.
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A Magazine fIaWn mn.

New YORK, Nov. 2S-Tbe steamer
Naskelyne, from Rio Janeiro November
5, reports strong tide of public senti-
mcnt has set in sgaiost President Peix-
Otto, who is daily becoming more dicta-
toriai and Mello is gaming sympathy
steadily. November 8 a powder mag-
azlne belonging 10 Mello was struck by
a shot from one OF the forts, causing a
terrific explosion. Lieutenan. Mobray
and Lieutenant Tupper, of British war
ships, and ten Others of iheir party, who
were out hunting and passing the mag
az:ne al the time, were killed. The loss
OF the powder is sai1 not TO have crlp-
pied Meio, who claims 10 have ammuui~
'ion enough 10 last two years. Boyn,on,
the American who attempted to sink one
OF MeIIo's vessels, was arrested aud taken
on board the cruiser CtarsestOn, where he
is held prisoner.
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Many Were Killed.

MILAN, Nov. 29-An express train
from this city for Venice this morning
ran into heavy freight standing at Ire
viglic, causing frightiul wreck. Il is
reported that 35 persons were killed and
10 severely injured Most of the killed
were Immigrants On their way to the
steamer which was to convey them across
the ocean. It will be impossible to
identify many of the dead, their bodies
having been burned to crisp. Half
the train was burned, but the postal
wagon was saved. A German, who was
travelling in a sleeping car, was caught
and crushed under the debris. He pitt
fully cried and appealed for help. A
number of the unlpjured went to his res
cue and managed to get him out, but he
was So terribly injured that his life is
despaired of Doctors went TO the scene
OF the wreck from this and other places
and did mnch to alleviate the suff.rIng
of the injured. As soon as possible al!
the injured were removed to the hospital
here. The hospital has been beselged by
persons who had relatives or friends on
the tram aid who have not heard from
them.
GREATER DEATH LIST.
MILAN, Nov. 29-Forty persons
were killed and 1873 injured by the col
lisicn at Llmitro. 1t is stated a majority
of the killed and injured wers immi-
grants going to America.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Prof. M. S. Eastman, from Portland,
Oregon, is in the city with his photograph
car, and has located rcar the passenger
depot in the East End For the first 25
dozen he will make cabinet photos. for 81. rs
per dr. zen. The regular price FIR these is
81 per dozen. Views of all hinds made to
order. Call and samples AS good
pictures in cloudy weather IN clear.
Although the editors Of the Portland San-
day Mercury have been Indicted and the
property attached and placed in the re-
ceiyer's hands. yet this recorder of sensa-
tional and scaudaous happenings appeared
as usual last Saturday. However it has
been greatly changed. The size of the
paper has been reduced one-half and the
sensational features abolished The famous
column, "Over rhe Teacup," had disap.
peared, aud the usual resume of scandalous
happenings has gwen way to other items,
some original and some taken from local
papers. Receiver Rosenthal briefly an
nounced his appointment and his intention
to make readable paper ous of the Ner-
curry
The Forum, which Its readers regard as
the foremost of our periodicals. reduces it's
price, beginning with the December nun
ber, from SIS to So year, from so cents to
25 cents copy. This is the most note
worthy reduction in periodical literature
that has taken piace-perhaps than can
take place. Magazines Of fiction and ad-
venture, the illustrated monthlies, were
within everybody's reach even before the
recent reduction in the price of some of
them. But no periodical of the class of
The Forum has ever been sold for 25 cents.
1t becomes the cheapest by half of all great
reviews in the world, and it remains the
largest of all our periodicals of its kind, and
its character is in no way changed.
La Grande Chronicle: Two train loads of
miscellaneous products will! leave La Graude
this week tor the Omaha market. Headed
by F. D. McCully combination has beeu
made by some of the principal s;ockmen,
and others. and as result about forty car
loads of the products of this section will 90
to Omaha. Included In the shipment Nc
Gully & Co. will send ten carloads of cattle,
five cars of hogs and two cars of apples.
Fl. P Stewart will send ten cars OF cattle.
L Furgeson six cars of cattle. At Baker
City the shipment will be increased by
about nlne cars of cattle shipped by Palmer
& Weller and other Powder river stockmen.
The first train will be sent to. morrow and
the other will follow the day after.
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An Aged Mans Amusement.

Henry Russell, the veteran com
poser of "Cheer, Boys, Cheer" passes
half the day in making miniature
chests of drawers They are in every
respect work of art, each drawer
fitting with truly remarkable exact
ness. The dear old gentleman has a
room on the ground floor of his
charming house especially set apart
for his work, and therein may be
seen all kinds of tools and nails, two
benches, tins of paint, glue pots and
large planks of wood.
He never attempts to make any
thing else but these little chests of
drawers, and he often sends them to
charity bazaars, where, if his auto
graph is on them, they have been
known to fetch as much as 92 or e3.
Thus he provides himself with an in
nocent amusement and does good at
the same time.-London Tit-Bits.
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A Glimpse of New England Life.

Apropos of character sketching are
the following little bits of New Eng
land life seen on a train the other
day. A couple of middle aged coun-
try women entered the car at way
station. One, dressed in seamworn
black and carrying a bright yellow
pumpkin took the inside seat, and
her companion, settling herself on the
extreme edge of the remaining half,
arranged various bundles comforta-
bly, around her. Presently they en-
tered into conversation. "Hev you
seen Mis- Brown lately2" inquired she
of the bundles. ''Why, hevn't you
heardi" returned the owner of the
pumpkin.
Her voice sounded aggrieved. ''Mis'
Brown an I don't speak jest now, u
she went on. 'It happened like this.
Twas at the last sewing circle. We
were sittin side by side out to supper,
an when the biscuits come along
broke mine open an says I to her,
We'll, I must say I've eat better bis
cults n these. Amt they spottedf
Well, them we're Mis- Browns biscuit
an since then she and me amt
spoke" "You don't say, " commented
her companion. Hadn't Christians
oughter to be careful Boston Ad-
vertisar
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Stoned to Death.

WHITE HALL, ILL.,. Nov. ga piano
tuner, j. w. Morrison BY name, Of
Springfield, was stoned to death by d
mob today near Winchester, small town
not far from here. Morrison was accused
of having assaulted Maude MaIkrock.
Nothing was ever: said against him be-
fore, and when the charge of assault was
made against HIM much surprise was
manifested. He was arrested, but be-
fore his preliminary hearing could be
had mob, Numbering probably 100
men. took him from the constable and
hurried him TO field near the town,
Here he was released and the mob set
upon him with stones and clubs. His
pleadings for mercy were not needed,
and he was literally pounded to pulp
by the stones that we're sbowered upon
him. His body presented sickening
sight when the mob had completed its
brutal work. The face and head were a
bleeding mass, none of the features being
recognizable. while many of the bones of
his body were broken. Some friends of
the man wen: out into the field and
brought the body into the city. There
is much indignation here at the action of
tho,e composing the mob, and they will
be prosecuted vigorously.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-12-02

The Democracy should be satisfied,
for the ways and means committee will
very likely place sufficient articles on
the free list to fulfill the promises of
the Chicago platform. Free trade has
been Democratic dream for years,
and now that party may rejoice and be
exceedingly glad in seeing their desires
realized. But it affords no encourage
ment to the hundreds of thousands of
starving laborers in the country, who
have been thrown out of employment
by reason of factories closing down,
and are now in deplorable condition
because they have no means of fur
nishing food for themselves or their
families. This new tariff bill says to
them, starye or leave the country; for
the economic policy of the Democratic
party must be carried out If every
American industry be destroyed
and want and poverty be the common
lot of wage-earners. There Is ray of
light in the hope that this measure
will not pass congress, and that the
Republicans in the senate will stand
as an impossible wall between Ameri-
can citizensssand Democratic idiocy. If
free trade is inaugurated the nation
has only experienced the beginning of
hard times, and instead of this being
the land to attract immigration it will
be the one from which to emigrate.
After that event the gates of Castle
Garden will continually open outward.
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Attention Paid to Walking.

It is enough to imagine the un-
feigned amazement of a dame of the
old school if the proper position of
the feet in walking were made a
matter of doubt For years the
dancing masters standard in all
matters of carriage and walk has
been an unquestioned one. The fin
de steele young woman, however,
has a mind of her own. She has not
found that the conventional train
ing of the dancing master, valuable
as it undoubtedly is, was all sufi-
cient in producing that grace of car
riage and elegance of manner so de-
sirable in the woman of the world.
On the contrary, she has found
that the physical training of the
woman of the stage has been more
often conducive to the desired end.
Hence it is that schools of Delsarte
have sprung up all over the land,
and systems of physical training, in
cluding boxing and fencing, hereto
fore relegated to the sterner sex,
have found patronesses in plenty
Chicago Tribune.
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LONDON, Nov. 2S-The Times had this
dispatch, dated last Thursday, from Rio
Janeiro: The desu'tory firing cen,iu>
ues day and night. A small party OF
sailors landed at Armacao on Monday
and were attacked by Pelxoto'e men.
The latter lost two officers and 80 men
killed. Five sailors were wounded,
During the past week more than 200
troops have been killed by the artillery
fire on the Nictheroy side Of the barber !.
The majority of the insurgents favor the
restoration of the monarchy with the
Duke of Granpara as emperor. The in,
surgeEts have resolved not to lombard
Rio nnes the government batteries In the
city fire upon the ships from the shore.
The British senior officer reports that a
government battery yesterday shelied
launch flging white flag and carrying
British officer and crew. Tie British
minister today protested.
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RUSSIAN DESIGNS.


The Anglo Russian question is to
the European press what the mann
moth squash and the ive-legged calf
are to the editors of country newspa
pers, says an exchange. 1t "comes in"
considerably of late.
We are treated to dispatches con-
corning the weakness of the British
war navy, as we have been treated to
them on thousand prior occasions,
the fact still remaining, as it has done
for two hundred years, that the Brit
ish war navy is by all odds the finest
In the world. We are treated to dis
patches that advise us of the designs
of Russia against Erzeroum, Constan-
tinople no longer being an objective
point of Russian military policy, ac-
cording to the dispatch maker. We
are told that Greece is to be converted
into Russian ally by the gift of
Crete In the redistribution of territory
that is to follow the new Russian
movement; as if Russia, or anybody
else, cares a fig for alliance with
Greece, with It's bankrupt treasury,
its paper navy, and its inconsequen-
tial sham of an army. We are told
that Turkey is to become Russian
ally, which will be very strange when
it is proved to be true. Still the fact
remains that the Russian policy of
to-day is just what it was in the days
of Peter the Great, and what it ever
since has been, policy of silence and
surprise. Russia seldom strikes at the
point that she menances.
In time of peace she establishes
friendly relations with the tribes that
inhabit the outposts of the British
possessions in ASIA; she works steadily
toward development of post roads,
that. should war come, may serve as
military roads; she keeps dropping a
little colony of Russians here, and a
bivouac of Cossacks there, and when
she has roads fit for transportation,
food supplies obtainable from her
farping colonists, and force of Co.'S
sack scouts all arranged, she moves
column of regular troops and annexes
another slice of military frontier. No
nation more wisely and more patiently
makes "a good get ready" before NOV
ing than Russia.
Wherefore, we give not much cred
ence to the opinions of "Herr Rem
enyi, as famous writer and former
attache of the Austrian Embassy at
Oonstantinople, as set forth in recent
dispatches Since the time of Meter
mich Austria has had no diplomat cap
able of fathoming the purpose of Rus
sia. "On to Constantinople" has been
the Russian watcbword for more than
two centuries, and she has moved
steadily, and, all things considered,
rapidly In that direction. 1t hardly
is likely that she has abandoned her
purpose, though she may be feigning
forgetfulness of it.
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sa,lors rear pr,aal voup,...

A gentleman who has recently re.
turned from Europe tells of an odd
superstition in vogue among the more
ignorant classes of seamen. They
are of the opinion that the presence
of a young couple on their bridal
tour aboard ship portends violent
storm. The Canadian, an Inman
steamship, had a young couple
aboard, and sure enough the ship
was caught in hurricane. A num-
Der of the sailors were intent upon
throwing them overheard, and only
the courage of the captain, who OPP
posed the mutineers with revolver
in each hand, saved the lives of those
who were enjoying the first weeks of
their Observation-Disclosures Com
mercial Gazette.
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Harvard and Pennsylvania

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. S0-With
glorious weather, in the presence of fully
2O, 900 spectators, the Harvard and uu-
iyersity of Pennsylvania elevens meet on
Jarvis field this afternoon to try conclu-
sions at football.
Pennsylvanla had the ball at the open-
Ing, and made 10 yards with running
v. Harvard rallies, and by rushes acd
mass plays forces the ball down to Penn
sylvania's right yard line, then to the b :
yard, then to the 2-yard. Pennsylvania.
playing desperately. managed to force
Harvard back by a series of brilliant
plays. Then the tide turned and the
bali was forced back to Pennsylvania
Toward line. Then the trouble was des-
perate, but Harvard gained yard by
yard inch by inch. With three downs
on the Pennsylvania yard line, the ball
was finally pushed over for touchdown,
and a goal was killed. Score, 6 to IN
favor of Harvard. Pennsylvania then
took the ball. and forced down the field,
finally made touchdown, but failed to
kick goal. Score: 10 4 IN favor of
Harvard.
Harvard started with running V aud
made run for touchdown, and goal
was kicked. Score: 12 to in favor
of Harvard.
Harvard secures smother touchdown
and goal. Score: Harvard 1S, Penn
sylvanis 4.
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Snipes be declared fraudulent and void,
and also all acts performed by the tius-
tees, and that they be enJnlned from
conveying or disposing of any more OF
Snlpes' property. Il claims that about
100000 worth of securities have been
transferred By the trustees and Snipes in
liquidation of his Indebtedness illegally,
and ali these transfers should be nnlli.
fed. 1t also asks for the appointment OF
q receiver with the usual powers. Hear
Ing is expected to como up Saturday
Turner, Graves s. McKinstry, Of Spokane
and Wager & Graves. of Eilensburg, are
attorneys Tor plaintiffs. H. S Sniveiy Ii
SnIpes' attorney, and as all concerned
are IN earnest, a long and bitter fight i;
believed to lie on hand.
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Tryins to KIN Capr,v,.

BERLIN, Nov. 2S-A box containing
an internal machine was received by
Chancellor Won Caprivi, accompanied by
letter dated Orleans. November 23.
The letter stated that the box contained
a sample of wonderful radish seed, In
attempting to open the box Majer Ed
mayer noticed grains of gunpowder fall
ing out of 1t. This made him suspicious
that the box contained a bomb, and be
called police expert. They found In
the interior of tho box a hammer which
was kept down by bands OF India rubber.
The hammer was so arranged that If the
box were opened in the ordinary way it
would strike cap of nitro -glycerine
cartridge. The cartridge was the length
of finger. The whole thing was skill
fully made.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-12-02

The fourth volume of the papers
accompanying Blount's Hawaiian re-
port was given out by the state de-
partment Saturday, and is of the same
import as those previously published.
1t seems that the question has finally
settled down to one of fact be-
tween sx-Minister Stephens and the
commissioner appointed by President
Cleveland. Every allegation made by
Mr.. Blsunt may be true, and yet it
does net furnish the least evidence that
the international policy outlined by
the present administration is very
strong or very protective Of the inter
ests Of the republic.