Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-04
pELay4RE avn PENINSULA.

W. G. Abbott Of Milford bus con.
trncted with Lloyd S Go. OF Phil8del-
phia to build a 400 ton lighter.
John Il. Colts store, at Ridgely. wns
broken into last Thursday night and
| $3.50 worth OF clothing was stolen.
William S. Bell, formerly of Salisbury
but now of Chicago, will be married to
NJ ISIS Katherine H. Robbie OF Belleville,
Mich, on November 10th.
John Woodland, Ezra l.. Clark and
| William Palmer, charged with rioting
at Chestsrtown, have been sentenced
to three years imprisonment.
| The Lewes wreGkcrs report that the
| beach thioves have stolen and carried
away all the beached cargo from the
wrecked Italian bark Francesca II.
The daughter of George Bacon of
Laurel, who was maL,e Ill by grain of
corn lodging in her throat. is reporteu
to be recovering in Philadelphia hos
pital.
William I. I'arvis of NJ ifurd will be
a candidate for the position of reading
| clerk of the iIouse OF Representatives
at the session which will begin next
January.
Tho Ornhans' Court az Kent county
| has appoinled tho Equitable Guarantee
and Trust Co. of Wilmington guardian
of the heirs OF the late Salie +.
Denning of Milford.
The Port Deposit & Havre de Grace
Steamboat Co. has elected William q.
| Eliason president and general manager.
and awarded to Charles Reuder Il Son
the contract for steel hull steamer.
A meeting in the interest Of the
! Delaware Industrial School for Girls,
Wilmington, will be held in the Mil.
ford Methodist Episcopal Church on
November 18th by the NJ ilford W. G.
I. U.
Walter Judson Sprankle OF Helen
wood, Tenn. aud Miss Madeline Collins
OF Delaware City will be married at
the latter Mace on November 10th. The
ceremony will be performed in Christ
| Church.
W. p. Biggs has bought tho Aldy
i Clements farm, 2l3 ares and including
| live stock and farming implements, near
| Middletown, for Sl3, 900; also, the j. =.
| Dickson farm, lJ3 acres, near Red Lion,
for 81,
Tho wedding of John S. llallett and
Miss Laura Williams the former of
Milford, will take place at the resi-
dence of the bride'a PARENTS Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Z. Williams, at Frederick, on
| November gath.
The steamer Annie f. Gallup, ro-
gently bought by the Delaware Oil and
| Fertilizer Co. of Lawes, will soon 60 to
+. James Tnll's shipyard, ut PoCumoke
City, where she will be cut in two and
lengthened 20 ieot.
The Sussex county Levy Court has
elected Curtis S, Fleetwood a trustee
of the poor, vice Edward A. Salmonu,
deceased, aud William +. Nichols tax
collector for Lawes and Rehoboth hun
bred, vice Samuel j.. Lank, resigned.
Phil Sheridan Camp, S. Of ". has
been organized at Smyrna. Its officers
are: Captain. +. Il. Evans, First Lieu.
tenant, a fired Tilchman; Second Lieu
tenant, William l.. Davis; Memhers of
Council, W, l.. McFarlanu, William
Mcdowell and A. Il. Jardine.
Adial +. Barnes. editor and proprie.
tor of the Worcester Advocate, has been
| indicted for criminal libel of John +.
Moore, mayor of Snow Hill. The hd.
vocate in recent issue charged Mr..
Moore with using the powers of his
office on last election day to intimidats
voters.
The Cecil county Christian Endeavor
Union has elected the following officers
President, A. W. Mather. Bay Viewr
Vice. President. Samuel G. Bye, Fails
Hill; Corresponding Secretary, Mis-:
Helen McCauley, Leeds; Recording
Secretary, Miss Alice Settle, Leeds :
President Cecil County Missions, Mrs.
William S. Evans, Elkton.
Wingate Street, colored, met with A
serious accident near Millsboro laat
| Wednesday. While duGking on the river,
he laid his gun down in the boat with.
! out unlocking IL. When he took il IN,
one of the barrels was discharged, the
Dad entering his side near the heart
and one shot entering his left eyc, tho
sight of which will he lost.
Register of Wills Causey of Sussex
county has granted letters of admiuis
tration on the estate of Elizabeth g,
Conden of Cedar Creek hundred TO
Thomas j. Davis and on the estate of
Harriet A. Taylor of Nanticoke hun
bred to William II. Taylor, and letters
Parliamentary on the estate of Emily
Davis of Seaford hundred to Tilghman
W. Davis.
The l2-years.od son of Charles
Spicer, residing near Middetown, was
bitten on the hand, last Wednesday, by
a dog supposed to have been mad. Dr.
Vallandigham was cOnsulted, and adj.
vised that tho boy be sent TO this
Pasteur Institute, New York, but instead
q local remedy was applied. The Lads
hand is very sore, but serious results
arc not apprehended.
Pomona Grange of Kent county has
elected the following officers: Master.
Charles Rice, FELTON,; Overseer, l.. A.
l1athrop, Camden; Lecturer, Wesley
Webb, Dover; Chaplain, j. H.. Chan
man, Milford; Steward, John Heyd,
FELTON,; Assistant Steward, +. G. Ban.
croft, Camden; Secretary, Il. Fl. Salis
bury, Dover; Treasurer, Z. Fl. Ban.
croft, Camden; Gate Keeper, Robert
Friedel, FELTON,; Pomona, Mrs. Rice:
Flora, Mrs. Salisbury; Ceres, Mrs. "
II. Case; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs.
NJ. a. Webb, Dover.
Recently woman at Georgetown re-
ceived from her husband, who is a
sailor. a letter stating that he had
struck colored sean an a fatal blow,
and that he had been sentenced to be
hanged, and bidding her farewall. Last
week the writer, who it had bsen sun.
posed, had paid the death penalty, was
discovered IN party Of shipwrecked
sailors at Lewes, and ii then was ascer-
tanned that his story was invented for
the purpose of making his wife believe
that he was dead, after which he in
tended to marry woman in Virginia.
lie left Delaware Immediately after the
discovery was made.