The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19

) NEARLY oil the evidence lie In In the cele.
DRAFTED trial Of U. 8. Senator R. r. Ken
aey who Is charged with aiding and albeit
ding VIM. N. Boggs in lootiEg the First
Rational Bank at Dover. Colonel E. L.
Cooper, who is serving two years term
10 the Penitentiary ut Trenton, N. j., was
put on the witness stand this morning to
verify conversation which took place be-
tween him and Boggs In the sheriff 8 house
ln New Castle. This Is the first case Of
the kind where convicted man has been
put OH the witness stand and allowed to
testify. Judge Bradford, in granting the
habeas corpus proceedings, said that the
granting Of the application must not be
taken as precedent.
To show how the State of Delaware sucks
the vitals out of the residents of the city
Of Wilmington, it Is only necessary to
mention the assessment Of bonds, stocks
and mortgages held by our citizens. Stocks
s1,6s7, 1885, ~; bonds. $l,l24 20l.25; mort
cages, SC, 49,, 277 90; miscellaneous S23S 9l7;
total, S9,7S337l27. Now note the differ
once in the rural Hundreds. Appoquini-
mink. total, &. 1862 20; Backbird s949i50;
Brandywine $40s, Jas; Chrlstlana $685.
500 20; Mill Creek $215, 3l4 IS; Now Castle,
$685., 1868; Pencader s2i65i; Red Lion
El,25 White Clay Creek s4lS,4G4i.
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The second trial of NJ. lola and NJ.
Perreau1, publisher of the Aurore, result
cd yesterday in both being sentenced to
years imprisonment each. fine OF 5000
and to pay the costs of tho suit For Re
public, tho trial savors much of persecu.
tion for the part lola took in defending
Dreyfuss, who was exilod from France,
charged with selling military secrets Of
the French government. The French are
nothing If net excitablo and hot-healoi.
This trial and conviction will not do the
cause of tho French Republic any good.
THE Engineer Corps, under .ho direction
Of ColousI Raymond, began yesterday the
work Of removing from the Delaware river
the strings Of mines placed there rs a PIE
caution agains, an attack upon Ph!ladel-
phn by the Spanish iiolt. Colonel Ray
moDd received instructions on Saturday
tc remove the mines from the channel near
Delaware City.
TIE Delaware soldier boys are anxious
to go to war They have been On parade
duty now for over two months at Camp
Tunncll. Mid.llotown, and are becoming
very restless and threats have even been
-, H.,
men arc not moved to thu front, and that
right away. We think ourselves that the
Government should give the soldiers some
thing to do to occupy their idle moments.
Foolish Melinda Adams years old. of
Trenton, n. j, held up train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad yesterday after.
noop, and refused to bulge from the track
until picked up and carried off bodily by
tho railroad attaches, She saii her broth.
er told her that none but bad, big men
could hold up o train, but sho knew bet
ter and tried the experiment herself.
a: THE slot machines that were driven out
Of Wilmington over three years ago. have
only now been ordered from the saloons in
New York. New Castle still ha, the ma.
chimes and the city is known as slow
place
THE practice Of men leaving tholr teams
standing unhtched on King street, should
be stopped. A runaway took place this
morning on King street which luckily re.
suited in only a broken vehicle and few
patches Of skin rubbed off the horse.
RAIN Is wanted and that mighty badly
to save the potatoc, and corn crop. Pas
ture Is short and numerous wells have
been drying up. A good rain would be
worth thousands of dollars to tho farm ers
! THE Democrats of New York State arc
aroused at the passage Of new law by the
Republican Legislature Of that state ap-
pointing a Superintendent Of Election,
whose duties are to appoint the election
officers TO hold the elections.
HIS nibs, the Prince of Wales, was in
jured slightly yesterday, by missing his
roofing and falling upon the staircase of
the country scat of Baron dc Rothschild,
Waddcston Manor, Alesbury, where be Is
guest.