Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-05-11
PENINSULA.

Horace Cooper will be executed ut
Elkton June Dist for the murder of
Maggie Pitts.
1t is stated that the erection Of a
telephone line from Easton to Ches-
tertown via Centreville is probability.
The w. w. Tunis Il Bro. Lumber
Co. of Talbot county, are rebuilding
their mill which was destroyed by fire
few weeks since
Workmen have been engaged for
the past few weeks rcftting and paint
ing the rolling stock of the b. G. q A..
Railroad Company.
John Richardson, of Princess Anne,
who was thrown from a cart, received
an injury on the head that has rem
dered him cross-eyed.
q. T. Redden Il Co. are putting a
pea-viner in their factory at Denton
Bridge, and farmers will not be
obliged TO pick their peas. but can
haul vines, peas and all, to the iacto-
~ and have them threshcd.
The n. u p. Il n Railroad have
completed their new depot at Eden.
1t is a very neat and attractive build
ing. The old one was destroyed by
fire few weeks ago. Would that
Crisiield could say the same.
The One Hundred and Ninth An
nual Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Diocese of
Delaware will Cd. VI meet in St.
Peters Church, Lewes, ON the first
Wednesday in June, A. d., 1895.
The Protestant Episcopal Diocese
of Maryland is bequeathed an estate
estimated to be worth over 100000, by
the late Diversified Frazer Keerl, whose
will is contested by his fathers sister,
Miss Susan II. b. keerl.- Milford
Nems.
Ata meeting of the Board of Trade,
of Crisfeld, on Thursday petition was
sent to the b. G. &. A Railway Co.
requesting them to allow their
steamers running between this point
and Baltimore to stop at Deals Island,
going and coming.
James Anderson, colored, who was
serving ten.year term in the Mary
land penitentiary for assault with in.
tent to murder in Kent county. died ut
that institution on Saturday from pneu-
monia. Anderson was sixty five years
old and was Il native of Kent county.
The body of Captain John Stevens
who was drowned in Hudd's Narrows
near Hog Island, last February, was
found on Wednesday last by some
Chincoteaguc oystermen on Sandy
Island, more than a mile from the
place where Captain Stevens was
drowned.
Thirteen freight cars on the New
Castle cutoff of the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore railroad were
wrecked on Thursday afternoon of last
week. Nine of the cars were complete
ly demolished and the remainde: so
badly damaged that it will cost much
to repair them. The wreck was caused
by the rails spreading.
The Delaware Senate on Wednes.
day killed the House bill to amend
the charter of the Queen Anne's Rail
road Co, extending for one year the
time to complete the Delaware branch
and for nine months the time for max
ing the first expenditure of $4,000.
The asked-for delay was considered
an indication Of bad faith and was re.
fused
Mr.. Frank {. Spence, one of the
proprietors of Easttord Hall, Oxford,
at the time it was destroyed by FIRE last
September, has again suffered by fire.
This time it was summer hotel in
course OF construction at Madison,
Dorchester county, which he was to
have occupied when completed. He
had already placed considerable iurni-
ture in it when the fire took place