Smyrna times., 1897-09-15


sheriff served notices Monday on n
number OF farmers about Milford who
are alleged to have contracted with
local Gamers to supply tomatoes at se
ton that the Gamers will apply for
an injunction restraining the growers
from shipping the vegetables to the
Baltimore (Md.) canning factories.
which have been paying from $15 to $s5
ton, owing to the shortness of the
crop.
EXPLOSION AT DUPONT's MILLS
Three rolling mills, containing about
three tons of powder, in the Haglev
yards of the DuPonts, blew up in
rapid succession Saturday morning.
causing terrific explosion that shook
the city. The roofs of the mills flew
skyward and landed in the Brandy
wine. The accident was cansed by a
combustion in some of the materials.
due to the excessive heat. No one
was hurt. The DdPonts place their
loss at $4,000.
DESTROYING DELAWARE Fruit TREEs
State Inspector E. H. Bancroft has
issued a circular declaring that the
San Jose scale is the most destructive
insect that has ever attacked the fruit
trees in Delaware. Mr.. Bancroft says
that it is not known that the disease
was ever eradicated by treatment, and
the Only ly safe course for the farmers is
to destroyed the infected trees. Mr..
Bancroft asks all farmers who have
suspicious trees to communicate with
Professor Wesley Webb, of Dover.
KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.-Alfred
9. Kramlich, a prominent resident of
Allentown, Pa, a large Wholesale
whisky dealer.and rectifer, was killed
instantly Monday morning at Lincoln.
MIR. Kramlich was returning from a
short sojourn at Rehoboth, and while
passing from one car to another as the
train was leaving the depot at Lincoln
City, fell between the cars and was in
stantly killed. The cars wheels passed
over the unfortunate mans neck,
shoulder and hands, and decapitated
him. Mr.. Kramlich was aged about
SO years, and was part owner of the
Central Hotel in Milford.
Says the Morning Ne,Os: Wenoticed
at the reunion of the Legislators at Re-
hObOth that none of them showed evil
dences of sorrow for their past political
misdeeds. The only voice heard at
RehObOth, when the members may
have tried to wash away their political
sins in the broad ocean. was that OF
the Hon. Hobert H. Wilson, Of Kent,
who delivered a short speech that
touched on politics. Mr.. Wilson said
that the Democrats of Kent county
would fight the next political battle Oh
the same issues that were in evidence
in the contest last autumn. The only
issue the Democrats were interested
in was to devise scheme to count out
the men on the Republican ticket who
were duly and truly elected.
Mrs. VANCoTT. Mrs. Maggie Van
COtt is coming to Asbury NJ. E.
Church of Wilmington. She Is one oi
the most remarkable women of the
nineteenth century. She has been be.
fore the American public for more thar
twenty-five years as a Christian
worker and evangelist. During that
time she has conducted religious ser.
vices in most of the large cities of this
country and in a multitude of smaller
cities, towns and villages. Tens oi
thousands have listened to her gospe
story and many thousands have made
a profession of religion and begun a
Christian life. She has conducted
several camp meeting with large sue
cess, DUNG ten days service, at st.
John NJ. E. Church, Newburgh, OF
the Hudson river, some years ago
there were eleven hundred prOfessei
conversion. Seven hundred persons
joined that one church. The pastor
Rev. Dr. L. II. King received four
hundred of said converts into full
membership in that church on a sin
gle Sabbath morning. She will be il
Wilmington next Sunday.