The sun., 1898-12-14
[INGTON DELAWARE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IA, $685.
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

ROUND ABOUT TOWN.
The Water Department has received
another consignment of water pipe.
Members Of the Eidelweiss Social will
give dance and cake walk tonight.
A large number of fish are being killed
by the blasting in the Christiana river.
Mrs. Nelson Warner and son, Of near
Elkton, Nd, are visiting relatives in this
city.
Station master William H. Hickman, o
the French street station, is taking a
vacation.
Mrs Edward F. Pride has returned to
Georgetown after visit Of several weeks
to relatives here.
Routine reports were adopted at the
meeting OF the Womah's Indian Associa.
tion on Monday.
Frames for a monster car float have
been placed in position by the Jackson &
Sharp Company.
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
are preparing to lay the keel of the Porto
Rican steamship.
The barge Iantha was towed to Pusey
4 Jones' yesterday by the tug Martha.
A number OF repairs will be made to
her.
A verdict Of accidental death has been
rendered by coroner's jury in the case
of Frank Gibbony, who was run
over and killed at Seaford on Decem-
ber 5. "a
J. F. Crew has returned from three
weeks sojourn in the South. He brought
with him coacoauuts and a branch OF a
lemon tree with twenty-three ripe
lemons. to 2
A carload of pine and spruce Christ.
mas trees from down the Maryland divi.
sion were received by local dealer
Yesterday. They were the first of the
season. ~.
Mrs. George P. Allcorn, ofStanton, was
buried at st. James Cemetery yesterday
afternoon. Services were held at the
residence of her son.in-law, Isaac H.
Taylor, at Stanton.
Joseph Benoit, Canadian tramp who
was taken i'll yesterday morning about
$50 o'clock while at the police station,
was sent to the Homeopathic Hospital
in the patrol wagon.
The schooner Florence and Lillian
took load of bone rock to the Liebig
Chemical Company's works yesterday
morning. The tug Rambler took the
schooner to her destination.
Currinder's Hotel at Christiana, was
burglarized on Sunday night, entrance
being effected by means OF the cellar.
All that the thieves obtained was 40
cents in change and cake.
George Edgar Folk, graduate of Della
ware College, class OF '98, who served
in the First Delaware Regiment, has ac-
cepted the position OF principal Of a
school at Cape Charles, Va.
While visiting friends in this city
James Frazer, of Baltimore, was taken
i'll on Sunday with slight attack of
paralysis. He was able to return to his
home yesterday morning although quite
lame in one leg.
A committee appointed by the Will
mington Bicycle Club will meet the
officers of the L. A. w., this evening, to
discuss plans about the good roads bill
to be presented to the Legislature this
coming session.
Arrangements for the celebration of
Christmas in School No. 8 are being car
ried out. The celebration will be held
on Friday, December 90, and will include
addresses by Chief Justice Lore and Gov.
ernor Ebe W. Tunnel.
A meeting OF the Peninsula Press Asso.
citation will be held in Dover in the near
future, when officers will be elected, and
it may be decided to take short trip
somewhere, the winter trip to New Or
leans having been abandoned.
Register of Wills Crossan has granted
letters Of administration on the estate of
John Husbands, late of tBrandywine
Mrs. Hannah P. Husbands.
the widow, and Joseph E. Husbands, q
son, will administer the estate.
Extensive improvements are being
made at Calvary Episcopal Church.
The interior OF the auditorium is being
repainted and recarpeted and is to be
renovated. It will be re-
opened with special services on Christ.
mas.
The case of four colored women vs.
Police Commissioner Hart for insulting
him, which was to have been heard be-
fore Magistrate Pritchett yesterday, will
not be heard for about two weeks, as
Mr.. Hart is sick at his home and unable
TO testify. rs ~,
Robert Reynolds has sold to Deputy
General Peter L. Cooper, Jr.,
one of Henry B. Seeds handsome houses
No. ll04 Jackson street, for 81, 900. In a
few weeks Mr.. Cooper and his family
will move into the new home, which
fronts on Tenth Street Park.
George Henry Pierce, OF New York
,ity, who drew the plans for the pro.
posed new High School, has sent to each
of the Board of Education q
OF the structure as it will
look when completed, the picture being
from the drawings.
The Wilmington and Northern Rail-
road Company is rebuilding at the local
shops locomotive No. 10, the boiler of |
which recently exploded. A new boiler
was received yesterday from the Baldwin
Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and
he engine will be ready for service in a
lew weeks.