Smyrna times., 1896-11-25

| cry lot ufm IN DdlUlmOr6. Iley are
working night and day.
The Republican Committee of Will
mingtOn is preparing more warrants
for the arrests of election inspectors
accused of violating the law.
The expenses incident to the the last
election in Kent county amounted to
$4,000. This does not include the $11OO
paid to the Registrars and their asso-
ciates by the State.
j. Edward Addicks has purchased
from the Delaware Acetylene Light Co.
right to handle the lightning appara-
tus in the State of Massachusetts. It
is said that the price paid was $780,
900.
Lewes people want the police of that
town to enforce the law which forbids
persons riding bicycles on the side
walks. They claim that the streets
are roads about the town are good and
there is no necessity for usiug the side
walks.
NJ. H. Beckwith has resigned the
position of horticulturist and ento-
mOlogist at Delaware College Agricul-
cultural and Experimental Station, and
Harold Powell has beena ppOinted to
succeed him.
Jacob G. Brown, of Wyoming, one
of the largest peach growers of Della
ware, died at his home. Nov. 18th, of
heart trouble. He was II years of age.
He was born at Lewisburge, Pa, and
moved to Delaware in the apring of
1868.
The engagement of ex-Congressman
John W. Causey and Miss Annie D.
Watson, sister of Governor Watson,
has been announced. They have been
warm friends for twenty years. The
date of the wedding has not yet been
| fixed.
A boom has struck Georgetown. A
new -four mill, with a capacity of forty
barrels day, will soon be erected,
and it is expected that the old Treat
factory will shortly be leased to man
ufacturing concern. The new NJ. E.
| Church is being completed and a num-
Der of new buildings will shortly be
erected.
Attendant William Thompson, of the
County AlmshOuse, was brutally as
saulted in the hospital room by Samuel
Griffith, of Brooklyn, an inmate. The
two were working together, quarreled
and then Griffith set upon Thompson,
beating him numerically and almost
knocking him unconscious. Griffith
fed to Philadelphia.
The police of Chicago, Ill, have
been asked to search for Mrs. John NJ.
Harper, of Townsend, who suddenly
disappeared from her home recently.
Mr.. Harper, the woman's husband,
said she was lured from home by an
attractive-lOOking foreigner, whe prom
ised to find her employment in Chica-
go. The last heard of Mrs Harper in
Chicago was that she had said she was
going to walk home.
The case of malicious libel against
George W. Roberts, editor of the State
Sentinel, was continued by the Court
of general sessions, Friday afternoon,
until the February term. Mr.. Roberts
established the legal ground.by making
affidavit that he could not safely pro-
ceed with the case on account of the
absence of John Donoho, a material
witness, who lives in Boston. Bail
was continued in the sum of $1,000
George w. Vernon, president and
W. Scott Vernon, city editor of the
Daily Republican, Saturday were ar
rested upon a capias by Deputy Sheriff
Ratledge for alleged criminal libel.
Michael Butler, of Elkton is the COM
plainant. He bases his suit upon the
recent publication of an article which
he charges brands him horse thief
1t appears that he was adjudged inno-
cent of the offence.
The Grand Jury of New Castle in
dicted the following election officers,
charged with falsifying the returns:
James E. Drane, Fourth district, Eight
ward; Charles O'Connor, Fifth district
Tenth ward; Albert Abbeger, Sixth
district, Eighth ward; Alfred Cochran,
Seventh district, Eight ward; Hugh
Wallace, Fourth district, Second ward
All of the foregoing are Democrats ex-
cept Cochran. The case of bribery
against John NJ. Clayton, of Middle
town, will be tried on Monday.
The Constitutional Convention which
meets at Dover on the First of Decem-
ber, has quite task before it in giving
the people of Delaware a more modern
constitution. The last constitution
was framed in 1852. The convention of
1776 framed us our first constitution;
those of 1892 and 1881 merely revised
or amended it and that of 1852 attemp-
ted to revise or amend it. The first
three conventions did not submit their
work to the people: the last that, that
of 1852 did, and the people rejected it.
The legislature has suggested that the
work of the convention should be sub
mitted to the people and we think that
is the right thing for the convention to
do. Let the people act upon it.
SUICIDE OF PENNINGTON HIGGINs.-
Pennington Higgins, of Philadelphia,
a brother of ex-senator Higgins of Del
aware and newspaper man of wide
experience, committed suicide Friday
night by inhaling gas. His body was
found in his boarding house. He is be-
lieved to have become Respondent over
financial matters. From the circum-
stances surrounding the case, it is evil
dent that his suicide was deliberately
planned. He had pulled his bed in the
middle of the room, and after turning
on the gas from a side bracket ON the
wall he attacheh to the chandler over
head and placing the end in his mouth