The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-02-21
NEW CASTLE NEWS.
What is rranspiring Ia the Pretty Town m
the Delaware.
Correspondence OF the Republican.
NEW CASTLE, Feb. 81. 1895.

~ EW 1AbIl.Et E0D. 81. lotOs
The REPUBLICAN salubes Captain Rod
gers day and congratulates him and
Company H., N. G.. D., on his elevation To
the RANK OF captain.
At the meeting of Company II. held last
evening. Second Lieutenant Edmund Rod
gers wis elected captain There was no
opposition to him and when President
Lancaster announced that the active
national guar'lsman who has so credltably
filled olner positions would hereafter be
the Com Hpuny's captain long burst OF sp.
plause greeted the good news
Sergehnt John Hamm was unanl-
mOusy chosen as Second Lieutenant.
First Lieu tonant Booth made q stirring
speech. In the course OF which he congra-
tulated the Captain on his past record
and trusted tnat by harmony there would
be great progress in the Company under
the new command.
The mbniUers OF the company have their
eyes on the Legislature. watching what
will happen to tho National Guards Ap.
preparation bill. 1t will ask for an mp.
preparation of $500 for each company and
$4,000 for camping purposes.
Next saturday evening the Brotherhood
OF st. Andrew will hold a supper. 1t
promises to be grand success. Nearly
500 tickets have already been sold.
Eight hungarian laborers employed in
the shipping gang at the Delaware Iron
Works quit woik yesterday morning be-
cause they were refused increased wages,
Rev. BurGette Snort. pastor OF the
Harrisan Street NJ. Il. Church, Whining
ton. will deliver his interesting lecture
entitled Sim simmons Abroad" in the
Nj. Il. Church on March o. The proceeds
will go for missionary purposes to Tho
mas Erhzers class.
Lieutenant boyd has presented group
OF the stall of ex Governor Reynolds to
Company II, N. u, D.
LII Ihe First Baptist Church next Sunday
morning the ordinance OF baptism will be
I Administered by Rev DR.. Cook. class
OF three ladies' and one gentleman Will be
bnpised.
Harry ". Herbert has not resigned from
tho Board OF Directors of the Q. A. Q. as
reported III an afternoon paper.
While loadtng trolley poles at the Della.
ware Iron Works yesterday "a Hungarian
| laOoreT had his hand badly mashed.
)bert anu Joseph Wilson. sons OF
day wkrden Wilson, are Ill with scarlet
| fever IT tIeir home at OKletown.
| Tie funeral OF Mrs. Fislds, an elderly
colored woman. took place yesterday af.
| ternooh 1nterment was made at Union
| ChuIc eli Cemetery.
Tho ice In the harbor has nearly all float
sd out The river Is one solid mass of
hoaLin. Ice and every vessel passing up
or down has to MAKE hard battle to get
| through IL.
When tho German steamship Bayonne
passed up yesterday she had on board
| man with several broken ribs which he
| recent storm.
lie was John W. Joseph, a Delaware
pilot, VINO was carried away two weoks
ago on tho lark Salina.
On the night of tho 18th instant Pilot
Josrpl was put aboard the Sallua, and
the vessel WAS anchored oil Indian River
until daylight tho next day. Before the
break Of day sail was set on the vessel
to work her Into the Delaware Break.
water The wind suddenly began to
blow with hurricane force from tie west
northwest. Immense seas broke over the
vessel. and the Intensely cold atmosphere
enca5ed her In mass OF ice. To make
things worse, the crew were frost-bitten
and helpless. During the height OF the
storm the mainmast was epllt and no
one was able to so aloft. Despite tho
cold and ice, Captain Salter soon cut
away tho hanging wreokage single hand-
cd, which helped TO right the vessel, and
she was with difficulty kept before tho
| gale.
She was driven through vapor storm
III the Gulf Stream, where the Ice on the
rigging thnwed of, but the storm was to.
severe Tor her to reach the mainlaud and
her PRIV was turned toward the Bermuda
Islands. where she arrived, and now re.
mains in q disabled condition. On the
same day that the Saina arrived the
Dayoune put into that port for coal. and
MIR. Joseph took passage back To Phlladei.
phia. lhe Bayonne. formerly a British
vo5sel but now under the German ilaR,
was bound from Savona, Italy.
Running snort OF coal she put into the
BERN Rdas to I'LL her bunkers From the
9th to llth instant, during hurricane.
the companion hutchways. doors of deck
houses aud other movables were carried
away. Parts OF the standing rigging and
all fuhnell stuys were broken. The decks
were under water continually, and
throughout the passage the vessel labor cd
and only narrowly ESCAPED destruction,