Smyrna times., 1894-10-03

NEW MEMBER OF A LAW FIRM
Leonard E. Wales, Jr., has been ad-
mitted TO membership in the law firm
of Hoffecker s. Hoffecker. The new
member of the firm is a graduate of
Yale, from which university he passed
with distinction in 1891 and subse-
quently passed a very creditable ex-
animation on admission to practice in
the New Castle county bar. Mr..
Wales read law with his uncle. tie
Hon. Leonard E. Wales.-EUery EOen'
ing.
SUED FOR LIBEL.-John Long, Mail
Agent of the Delaware Railroad has
brought suit against the EUen!ng
Journal, EUery Evening and Morning
NeaOs, for alleged libel. The summons
was served on the different papers by
Deputy Sheriff Gould on Saturday
afternoon last citing for them to appear
at GEORGETOWN. The Journal and
Ne,Us have retained Bradford and Van
dergrift, and the EUery EUeuing has re-
tanned Mr.. Willard Salisbury.
The quarterly Conference of st. Paul
NJ. E. Church, Wilmington, at its regu-
lar meeting on Thursday evening
adopted a resolution inviting the Rev.
Thomas E. Terry to remain with the
church another year. Mr.. Terry is
serving for the third year in this charge
and the invitation is for the fourth
wear. This is the first action that has
been reported of church authorities
in anticipation of the next meeting of
tba WILMINGTON COnfpranca
The Democrats of Clayton met last
Thursday night and organized Tun-
nell and Bancroft club. A permanent
organization was elected with G. A.
Brown; as President, A. B. Nudge, q.
E. Stevenson, T. w. Downing and
Thomas H. Rees as Vice Presidents,
r. Y. Wallen, Secretary and DR.: w. b.
REYNOLDS as Treasurer. u. L. Handy,
of Newark, delivered the address.
Tomorrow evening, Col. w. Scott
Roberts, editor of the CentreUlLte
Record, Md, will speak to the Demo-
Gratis of that section.
POLITICIANS IN A Row. = Seaford,
Del, Oct. 1.-During the progress of
the registration here, Saturday after
noon, State Senator William M. Ross
became engaged in a heated contrO-
versy with John w. Green, candidate
for Levy Court on the Republican
ticket, over the right of a man from
another hundred to registered in Sea-
ford. Hot words were exchanged, and
the Senator grew so angry that he
struck Green violent blow with his
umbrella, one of the ribs of which
broke and punctured Green's arm,
causing him to lose considerable blood.
Another fire the most disastrous oi
the four which have occurred in Lewes
and vicinity was Wednesday evening
near Ebenezer NJ. E. Church, Reno
both. 1t was the burning of the dwell
ing on the farm of James w. Blizzard
with nearly all the furniture and effects
of the tenant, COard Blizzard. He and
family had been spending the evening
with a neighbor ard discovered the fire
while returning home. The cause oi
this fire was probably burning cinders
falling down on a wooden board in the
mouth of the chimney. Loss about
81 900. No insurance.
A JURYMAN FRIGHTFULLY INJURED
George w. Skaggs, a resident o
Townsend, and a member of the gen
eral jury, was fearfully injured at the
P. w. & B. station last Thursday even
ing. He expected to have taken the
$50 train for his home but missed il
aud was crossing the tracks to the
Delaware railroad office to send a mes
sage to his home when be was ruI
| Io,,,, h., n ,,orfb hound froin TIa uaI
thrown under the wheels of the engine
and one leg so badly mangled, it haC
to be amputated. He was removed t
the Delaware Hospital.
A combined Teachers Institute o
the three counties, New Castle, Ken
and Sussex, will be held in Dover, DC
tober 8, 10, IL and II. Five or six
hundred teachers are expected to b
present, very likely as many spec
tators,a and great preparations are beini
made. The very best instructors o
this county have been engaged. Anon
them are Prof. Bombaugh, Deputy Su
perintendent Houek, of Pennsylvania
Miss L. A. Kirby and others. For tn
evening entertainments, Col. Copeland
the humOrist; Fred Emerson Brook!
the California poet and reciter, and th
leading male quartette of New Yor
have been engaged.
SCARED AT THE IDEA OF DEATH
Michael Faino, the Italian who wf
Friday convicted of murder in the fir
degree for killing Carlo Ruva, is nearl
crazy at the prospect of having to di
on the gallows. The following morI
ing, while in the cells at the Coul
House, he made a desperate attemI
to kill himself by pounding his hes
against the bars of his cell door, an
was badly cut before he was stopp6
by the guards, who came in responi
to the frantic screams of his wife. Z
says he fears the Italian friends of b
! victim will lynch him as he is beir
taken to New Castle Jail in the "Blat
Maria" His counsel have made
motion for a new trial, which will
argued on November 10.
SUSSEX COUNTY CoURT.-The OcI
= Der term of SUSSEX county court CO
/ vened Monday. Chief Justice Lo
: with Associates Grubb and Marv
!. constituted the bench. At the MOI
). ing session a number Ofcivil cases we
O continued until the April term. T
criminal libel suit against Samuel
Roop, formally proprietor of
q Laurel Gazette, was called. The S
u is brought by the State on compla
l. of Major Isaac ]. WoOtten, now Indi
!, agent 10 Nevada, for articles said
Is have been contained in the Lau
u Gazette. There has never been a sill
u lar case tried in Sussex courts a
y. owing to its nature it will attract C,
e. siderable attention, especially amC
IS newspaper men.
a CHARGED WITH HIGHWAY r
g BERY.-WiIliam McGran, alias "BuC
ID McGinnis," and Edward Giver W
IN arrested early Friday morning at V
IN mington, by Policemen MalOney 1
. Lyons, charged with highway robbie
Joseph Manning, of Blackbird, s
st the men robbed him. About midni
be Manning was going to the depot, w
te two men stopped him, and while
to held him the other took his watch {
be pocket-boo Manning met the Off