Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-27
LOCAL BRBrIrIEs.

Charles W. Stigers has been granted
an original pension.
John A. Taylor of Washington has
become steward at the Clayton House.
Chancellor Nicholson has appointed
Henry G. Conrad as guardian Of Anita
ID. Roberts.
On Sunday Carl Linderman, aged
years, fell from tub at his home and
fractured his right arm.
Farmers attending the markets are
complaining about petty thieving from
their wagons and stands. ~
Letters testamentary on the estate
of Miss Susan Cornelia Broom have
been granted to Levi G. Bird.
The Rev. Jacob Todd, D. D., of
Philadelphia, will preach in Grace
/ Church next Sunday morning.
Local railroad officials are now MAX
ing estimates for the needed repairs
and expenses for the year 1899.
Peter j. Ford, the owner of the
property at the southwest corner of
Tenth and Market streets, will prob
ably erect six-story office building on
the site.
The indications are that Albert Ver-
non, the lad who fractured his spine
last Saturday week, will recover. He
is at the Delaware Hospital under the
care of DIR. Ogle.
Repairs to the steamer Weehawken,
which was burned October 18th, on
the Delaware River opposite this city,
will be made by the Erie Basin Dry
Dock Co., New York.
~. Grace Church choir will present a
Special musical programme next Sun
day evening. Chief Justice Lore will
preside and Henry 9. Conrad will de-
liver an address on "Voices of the
Past.''
The Rev. Lyman W. Powell, who was
formerly layreader at ST. Andrews
Church, this city, went on duty Sun
Lansdowne, Pa. He succeeds the Rev.
W. H. Manning.
Some of the merchants on King
street have made complaint that all Of
the farmers do not comply with the
market ordinance, which requires them
to move their wagons by 2 o'clock in
the afternoons on market days.
On Sunday morning two-mast
schooner, which had discharged cargo
at the pulp works, while proceeding
down the Christiana crashed into Mar
ket street bridge with great force, tear
ing away the iron railing of the bridge.
At meeting Friday of the Pilots
Association for the Bay and River
Delaware, Pilot H. I'll. Church was
elected director to fill the vacancy
made by the resignation of F. s.
Eldridge, who resigned because of his
election as treasurer.
The P. A.. B. Widener yacht
Josephine, now the auxiliary cruiser
Vixen, has been transferred to the
government for the sum of $3.50, 900.
The Josephine was remodeled at the
shipyards of the Harlan & Hollings-
worth Co., last winter.
Monday afternoon Frank Cleland
of No. $40 Harrison street, employed
at the shops of the Hilles & Jones Co. +,
had the second finger of his right hand
badly mashed by having it caught in
a lathe. 1t was amputated by Drs.
Forrest and Buckmaster.
On Saturday the sloop George Elliott
capsized in the Delaware River near
Reedy Island. Two men who were on
the vessel had narrow escape from
being drowned. They clung to the
bottom of the vessel until rescued by
the crew of the tug Louis Pasteur.
The sloop finally sank in the channel.
Extra Conductor e. L. Maddux of
the Delaware railroad has been ap-
pointed to the position Of conductor on
the D., M. & v. division and Edgar G.
Harrington is to be baggagemaster on
Mr.. Maddux's train. Heretofore there
have been only three trains week to
Franklin City, Va. Now there is u
daily train service. 4. L. Davis sue
eeeds Mr.. Maddux on the Delaware
division.
Capt. Momsen of the Norwegian
steamship Banan, which was detained
ut the National Quarantine, while
bound from Jamaica to Philadelphia,
states that the passenger who died on
his vessel was named Owen, and was a
native of Baltimore. Death was due
to malaria and liver troubles, and not
yellow fever. The sum of S127 and
considerable jewelry were found on his
person, and were forwarded to his wife
III Baltimore.