Evening journal., 1897-02-11
A LARGE OvERDRAFT
contin ned from rlrst Psso.

gene VI. odNtiH, OF WlllhlhbloHi Mcle ~
town Yesterday.
Representative Whitney gave notice
Of an act to divorce Mary d. and Dur
bin Smith of Greenwood.
At its morning session the House
passed the House bill authorizing the
recorder OF deeds of Kent county to
make indices and appointing John B.
Pennington and James II. Hughes to
examine them after they are made.
Representative Smith introduced a
bill to incorporate Glendale, and Rep
resentative Mccoy introduced one to di-
yorce Caroline and William r. Bolte
The petitioner lives near Bear station
Tie Senate passed the House bill
transferring the lands of Mary II. Rose
from school district No 54 to united
school districts Nos. 80 and Al, Pen
cader hundred Now Castle county
The House passed the House bill
changing the name OF Benlet Mas to
Bennett Maze
Representative Dempsey gave notice
OF bill TO establish the Country Club
OF Yorklyn. a rural social organization.
EX-State Treasurer Atkins is prepar-
ing fer the printer the copy of his BIZ
ennial report. He is assisted by George
NJ Jones.
Senator Pierce introduced a bill to
change the name of Mary c. Steel, of
Milford. to Mary c. Johnson. and it was
read and referred under suspension of
rule
Senator Pyle will introduce a bill re-
ducing the price Of certified copies of
divorce bills from $40 to $40.
IL is said that Governor Tunnel will
appoint Jacob Lewis, Of Dover, collec-
tor of oyster revenue. He has been a
cfnnniprr unnIfrnpt afnnn fNauqrVa1ff
Biggs time
James Norton, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenirotentiary from the
Mahon river oyster beds, is again in
the State House agitating legislation
taY0rable to the oystermen.
John S. Crosby, the Single Tax ora
tor, is here working up the Single Tax
bill in the House
Governor Tunnel is in Dover to-day
State Auditor Beniah l.. Lewis is sick
at his home at Harrington
The Divorce Committee will sit this
afternoon and evening and hear sew
eral cases while the General Assembly
is In Wilmington attending the funeral
OF Judge Wales.
In the Senate the House bill to di-
vOrce Fannie and Harvey G. Beach was
read first time.
Senator Meredith introduced a bill to
divorce Christian and Margaretta
Bonish.
Representative Wilson gave notice of
an act in reference to the purity of the
ballot, but he does not yet know the
provisions of the bill.
The House adopted a resolution offer
ed by Mr.. Cheairs. instructing the clerk
to forward TO Senator Gray a COPY of
the joint resolution endorsing the An
glo-American arbitration treaty.
The Senate bill TO divorce Ella and
Charles w. Dellop was read first time
in the House.
Representative Dukes introduced a
bill TO transfer the farm of Eddie w
Gardner from school district No. 81 to
school district No 100. Sussex county.
a bill 10 divorce Jennie and Robert
Rickaby was introduced by Represen-
tatve Adams.
The House Committee on Corpora
tions has instructed the incorporators
of the Yukon Mining Trading and
Transportation Company 20 have 20C
copies Of the bill printed
10. l.. Jones, of Dover, wants to be
state boiler inspector under the House
bill, now pending, creating such an Of
fee.
Elmer e. Benson, OF Wilmington, was
State House visitor yesterday
Peter L. Cooper, Jr., who was dowr
yesterday, explained to the Senate com,
mittee the meaning Of the supplement
10 the chattel mortgage law.
The Glendale charter may not gC
through, as Joshua T. Ellegood auC
other prominent citizens Of the towl
are against it.
T. Bayard Heisel William T. Kurt
and James W. Ponder were here yes
terday urging the passage Of the reso
luton carrying with it the allowance,
for the Cheairs- -Dickey contest
The Senate bill granting 10 J Thomas
Lowe the title of the state 70 ten acre.
of unclaimed marsh land, near Littl
Creek, Kent county. was read and re
ferred in the Senate
The Senate concurred in the Hous
joint resolution authorizing the print
ing Of $50 copies OF the ninth biennia
report of the State Board of Health.
The Senate without comment, con
curred in the House joint resolution
commencing the Cleveland administra
tion for its efforts to establish a cour
of arbitration 10 settle all difference
between this country and Great Britain
and urging the United States Senate 4
ratify the arbitration treaty.
The Senate passed the Senate bill va
eating Rockford road, Wilmington
when Woodlawn avenue is opened {
Delaware avenue.
Representative HAZEL introduced tn
bill to amend section 12 chapter 13S
OF the Revised Code relating 10 tn
payment OF Witnesses in cases wher
the defendant is convicted and indi
gent.
Somes OF the members OF the senat
yesterday afternoon examined the Die
OF the survey OF the boundary line be
tween Kcnt ana SUSSEX counties Ii wa
exempliiied by Surveyor Hopkins.
Ia the Ellendale charter the Singl
Tax feature is apparent IL provides tha
when manufacturing plant locates i