The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-05-31
NEW CASTLE NEWS
Correspondence Of the REPUBLICAN,.
NEW CASTLE May 81, 1897.

The funeral of Mrs NJ. Jordan, mothe
this afternoon. Interment will be made
in the New Episcopal Cemetery.
The devotion of the Forty Hours com
menced at the 1880 O'Clock mass yester'
day in St. Peters Church. The impres
sive ceremonies are largely attended ant
tho floral decorations are handsome.
The Col. Evan S Watson Post No. s.
G. A. R., observed Memorial Day on Sat
urday. The different cemeteries wero Wis
tied and flowers strewn on the graves Of
their dead comrades. Last evening In the
First Baptist Church the members of the
post were addressed by Peter b. Ayars.
The address was truly interesting one
and was listened to with marked atten.
ton.
Contractor David Dangcl, Of Whining,
ton, began the work Of erecting a new
pavilion at the jefferson House on Tues
day last, and expects the work completed
about June II. The pavilion will afford
an excellent view of the river. The hotel
stables will be torn down and moved to
the side op posite of the yard.
The new filter for the New Castle Water
Works Company now being built by the
Robert Wetherill Company of Chester
will be ready to be placed in position about
July /. 1t is hoped that the filter will be
in working order by August lst The
water in this city has been so bad that the
writer company was compelled to place tho
filter in
On Satorday while at work in the Della
ware Iron Works, Harry Davis met with
painful accident.
He was engaged in running q cutting
machine when the clutch bar slipped and
struck him on the left sido of his face dis
coloring his left eye and cutting the flesh
on the left check bone.
Tho sbad season is practically at an end,
and the fishermen are SO incensed at the
small money returns from their work that
the details OF the seasons catch are likely
to be aired in court. During the first
month Or so all the shal wero given to
King g. Sons, commission merchants, who
wholesaled part of the fish at New Castle
and sent tho balance to New York.
IkThe fishermen became dissatisfied and
refused to give the fish to king, and John
A. Walls was selected AS their agent,
King s. Sons then had committee to in
vcstigate the retsrns from Now York, With
the result that 1t was shown that the fish.
ermen had received $50 which belonged to
King as his commission.
A committee was sent to Now York to
visit the commission men for the purpose
of verifying the accounts. Now, they al
lege that the returns given were doctored.
1t is almost impossible to see how such a
thing should occur as tho accounts were
taken off the regular slips on the bill heads
Nof the New York commission houses.
wv boso who attended the services in the
enChurch last evening were highly
au interesting account OF the
Rfe of q Christian in Macedonia. The
yb&Ss<hn who told the interesting mar
ratfva Was threatened with death by his
father when it became known that he
W, about to become Christian.
The authorities had to protect him from
his religious enemies when he reached
Bulgaria
The base ball enthusiasts who wended
thc.r way TO tho Battery Park on Satur-
day saw a fairly good game.
The FennelI club of Chester and the c.
A. G. Contendcd for honors and the homo
team won by the score of to 5. The game
was marked by good plays and rank
errors 1t is understood that catcher Mad
den is about to quit the diamond.
George Russell is matched to fight tho
Black Pearl of Philadelphia in Chester in
few days.