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Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
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Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14

Senator MeLaurin came very near
making bull's-eye when he said:
"There ought to be a law that every
President Of the U. S. should first serve
term in the Senate or the House. A
very large degree of President McKin-
ley's popularity is due to the fact that
he has been through the Congressional
mill and knows how to deal with Sena-
tors and Representatives. He apprec-
iates their difficulties and helps hem to
the utmost, manifesting towards them
4 friendliness. which they appreciate.
IfPresident Cleveland had had a Con-
gressional training he would not have
made SO many enemies. His lack of
that experience was cne of tbe rocks
upon which he was wrecked.
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KENT COUNTY,

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inside pages.)
Harry Richards aged 81 years, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. Rickar ds, a
prominent young stockdealer living
near Leipsic, died January 10th, after a
lingering illness, consumption causing
his death. The deceased was kind
and indu]gent parent and tender and
loving husband. He leaves wife and
three children to mourn his loss. .-Ex.
The Milford Board of Education
have practically decided to consolidate
the schools Of North and South Mil.
ford, and to consider plans for new
and modern school building, where the
13 teachers can be under one principal
a0d thoroughly modern regulations,
the building 70 be centrally located.
North Milford is in Kent and South
Milford in Sussex county. The two
school boards met jointly as the "Mil
ford Board of Education" to talk over
the matter. Some favorable legisla-
tion may be desired.
After $500 mile trip from the great
Northern lake via the st. Lawrence
river and Atlantic ocean to The Della
ware river. the steamer built for the
Vinyard Bros, in Wisconsin, to run
between Milford and Philadelphia,
proved not suited for the route, and
has been sold by her owners to parties
in Smyrna. A boat similar to the En-
deavor at Frederick is what the route
between Milford and Philadelphia re-
quires, and If such boat is perman-
emily placed there, it will prove pay
ing investment. Water navigation is
badly needed in that sectiou.-Ex.
The appointment of John B. Hutton,
Esq, of Dover, a son Of John Hutton,
q prominent temperance man OF this
county, as Justice of the Peace, in
the place made vacant by the death Of
John Jester, meets with general ap-
proyal, and Governor Tunnel made no
mistake when he appointed this rising
young attorney to the Office. Mr..
Hutton is well and fayorably known
throughout the county and State. He
is q capable young man, having an sx-'
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The late James G. Blaine foreshad-
owed the annexation of Hawaii and
Philippine islands in an editorial in a
Maine newspaper, years before he be-
came prominent as a statesman. He
wrote-it seems like inspired prophecy
when read in connection with recent
eVents-that the time would come
when the U. s. would have TO enlarge
its boundaries, If it was to hold its fair
share of the commerce of the world,
and pointed out that Hawaii and the
Philippines were within the natural
sphere of our influence, and predicted
that it would become absolutely neces-
sary for this country to control the
Philippines, as the key to the trade of
Of the Orient.
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MrDDLETowN. DEL. JAN, IA 1895
MYMARYLAND.

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inside pages.)
Under the new law in Queen Anne's
county, Md, all delinquent taxpayers
names will bs advertised as such Ly the
county treasurer after January first.
According to the Baltimore Sun the
collections in the internal revenue dis
trict of Maryland show an increase of
81, ,153, ,581.65 over 1897. This large
increase is patty due to the war tax,
which went into effect July 1st, 1898.
The war tax measure applies to fer
mented liquors, tobacco and special
taxes, but for the first time, it is said,
no decrease is shown In the taxes col
lected on any taxable article.
The beginning Of the year eighteen
hundred and ninety.nine marks an
epoch for the married women of Mary
land. They may regard it as the date
of their emancipation from the re-
striciions of out-of-date laws concern
ing her right to make disposition OF
property absolutely her own, without
the concurrence of her husband. And
with the increased privileges came also
greater responsibilities. The law en-
acted by the last legislature did not go
into effect until the lrst day of the
present year. By it a wife is given the
power to make contracts, but she is
held responsible for any wrong commit
ted by her either before or after mar
riage. She can sue and be sued separ-
ately, nor is the husband liable for any
wrong committed by his wife out Of his
presence, without his consent or parti-
cipation. In fact, the new law practi-
cally places husband and wife on an
equal footing, as the husband is given
the right of dover in the wife's real
estate, as the wife now has in the hus-
bands.
/ There is prospect now that the Re
publicaDs of Baltimore are going to
have very jolly time in the spring
when they hold their primaries for the
municipal election. The Goo Coos are
making an effort to. forcibly retire
Mayor Malster from the contest, and
the Mayor won't be retired worth
cent. He has decided to stay in the
ring and the opinion now is-that be
will be in 1t when the primaries close,
as be has all the political machinery Of
the city behind him and with him.
Senator Wellington, chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee
has been asked to take hand in the
matter to prevent the Mayors renomi-
nation, but it's most likely the Senator
has learned "a thing or two." The
Senator no doubt has a very vivid rec
ollection Of the part he played in 1897
to prevent Masters first nomination,
and the downfall that followed at
Ocean City. The Senator has probably
learned by this time not to monkey
with Malster buzz saw. The Mayor
in the meantime is ''sawing wood. p
Salisbury Advertiser,
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With less than one third of its men,
bers in attendance, the House, by a
majority of six, while sitting as Com
mittee of the whole, voted to strike
out theappropriation or the Civil Ser
vice Commission, but the vote was re-
versed to day, when the matter came
up before larger attendance.
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SUSSEX COUNTY.

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inside pages.)
John Ellingsworth. Of Bridgeville, q
prominent farmer, died suddenly Jan.
S, Of pneumoDia. resulting from the
grip.
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Owing to the illness of Chairman
Hull, ofthe House Military Committee,
the Army Bill has not been called up
in the House, but Mr.. Hull expects to
return to duty this week, and to push
the bill through the House without
further delay.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14

In the penitentiaries, Kansas, there are
at the present time fifty-nine convicts
under sentence of death for murder,
Signing death warrants is optional
" Kansas Executive sand no Cover
nor of the State has seen fit, under the
law, to affix his signature to such a
document. 1t is proposed now to cor
rect this weakness Of official temper by
mandatory act compelling the Gov
ernor 10 sign all death warrants; but
even this may fail, in view of the gen.
eral disinclination of the people to see
the death penalty enforced.
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Il IS said that the soldiers who had taken
Hoods sarsaparIlln stood the long marches
IN Cuba mush better than the Others.
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rIiddletown Directory.
Hsr1nzrr,rp I I. nrrrr,rra,

MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
President, J. r. Nc w horters Secretary, J, A..
Euydam; CharlesH. Howell, George q. Rowe
VIM. r.. Cochran.
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BLaukETs& ROBES.


AS the seasons come and go so
does an immense stock Of season
able goods in our line. Simmer
as it fades from sight leaves
memory Of a great season with
us.
Our immense stock of sheets
and busters have disappeared
and again the space is taken up
with winter goods.
We come before You today
with onr fall opening You will
find in our stock room BLAN-
KETS and ROBES all sizes,
grades and patterns. Before
you make a selection call and see
US. We will appreciate your call
and will take pleasure in showing
you through our immense stock.
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IDaily. aDaily except Sunday.

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining.
ton and points north, or take passengers for
points south of Delmar
'f' Stops only on notice to conductor or agent
'i' Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south.
'p" Stops to leave passer gers from points
south OF Delmar, or take passengers for VIII
ming and points north.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRA1Ns-Leaye
wilmington BIB, li.04. a. m, 50, Al, and
. 90, p. M. week-davs Leave New Castle 8.3l,
9-46, ll.04 a. M, AT and 81 p. M, week.
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington sos q. M,
and arriving at 6.53 p. m, week-d days run
through solid to and from Baltimore, via Porter
and Newark.
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Senator Morgan will endeavor to get
the Senate to set time for voting on
bis Nicaragua Canal bill, this week, and
be is confident of success.
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Peoples National nk.-President, g. W,
w Naudain Cashier, Geo. ID. Kelley Tel or.
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank. President, Joserh
Biggs; Cashier, John s. Crouch; Teller, .is.
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
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sECRET sOCIETTEs.

SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. o. q. A. II.
Meets every. Monday night In McWhorter's
Hall at o'clock.
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. f. q A. NJ. Meets
first Tuesday of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 9, ]. .. o. F.
Meets every Thursday night In McWhorter's
Hall at o'clock.
Damon Lodge, No. Il, z. Of p. Meets every
o'clock.
Major John Jones Post, No. q, G. A. r.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
ing at o'clock
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night in x
of p. Hall.
Union Lodge, NO. 8, A. o. u. w, meets every
I'd and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall
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The Washington Star in finding
reason for the constant agitation of the
negro problem in the South, expresses
the belief that "the great trouble in the
South is political intolerance. For
generation now affairs political there
have been pitched in key Of such Bit
terness that the public discussion in
many localities has been impossible.
Elections have either been riots or far
ces, and such thing as minority
party has been out of the question.
And unfortunately for the South, the
disfranchisement of the negro is not
likely to correct SO grave sn evil"
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ODS|lTlDfiOl

AND TTs cURB
TO THE EDITOR :---I have an absolute
,.medv for Consumption. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been already
permanently cured. So proof-posltive am 7
,cf lis power that | consider it my duty to
srad tsDo bottles free to those Of your readers
Who have ConSumption, Throat, Bronchial or
Lung Trouble, If they viii write me tteir
sxrYess and postoffice address. Sincerely,
/. 4. SIocUi6, N. c., Iss Pearl St, New York.
ma- Tho Editorial and Business Management oa
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LooALoRaAN1zATIoNs.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Fri
day night of each month in Hose House.
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BRANCH ROADS.

DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA R. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
statiods 1889 m 6.37 p m week days. Return
ing train leaves Franklin City $50 a. N. and
Isl p. 10. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) LAB p. M, week days Returning
leave Chincoteague 442 a. m, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown, Lewes
at 1888 M, 6.37 p M, week days. Returning,
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m. and 800 p. m.week!
days
Leave Harrington for Berlin, TO- SO q. m. and
637 p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlin
6.57 a m and 2.40 p. m. week days.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT 2. R.-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations q g.. M, and
5.3l p M. week days Returning, leave Centre
Vile 7.26 a. M. and 2.37 p. M, weekdays
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE R. R.-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations LBS q. m, and
DAT p. m week days Returning, leave Oxford
6.45 a. m. and 40 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRn R. R.--Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II. IL q.
m. and lis p. m, week days, Returning, leave
Cambridgel7.OO and 250 y. m. weekdays
CoENEcTIoN.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay Railroad. At Har-
rington, with Delaware. Maryland & Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge & Seaford
Railroad; At Delmar, with New York, Phila.
delphia & Norfolk, Wicomico & Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads.
]. B. HUTCHINSON. General Manager.
J. r. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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There was no significance in the
adoption by the Senate of Mr.. Hoal IS
resolntion-asking the President, il not
incompatible with public interests, to
send t. the Senate all the instructions
given to our Peace Commissioners, al
though some Of the anti-expansionists
are trying hard to make themselves and
the public believe there was. The re-
solutions is no more binding upon the
President than his discretion makes it;
be can give the information asked for.
The auti's have somehow got the idea
that it will hurt expansion to bring out
officially whateyerybody has known un-
officially for months; that our Commis-
sioners were originally instructed to
only demand the island of Luzon of
Spain, and that their instru ctions were
changed upon reports made by them,
after their arrival at Paris. So much
has been told to individual Senators al
ready by their colleagues who were
Peace Commissioners, and the story
would doubtless have been more fully
told as soon as the Senate begins to
consider the treaty of peace in secret
session, regardless Of this resolution.
Whether all his reasons for changing
those instructions will be told at this
time, is question that President Nc
Kinley will decide for himself. The
Committee on Foreign Relations will
this week favorably report the treaty
to the Senate, and then it will speedily
become apparent whether the anti's
will dare 70 delay the ratification of the
treaty, knowing that it will be impos-
sible for them to defeat it by votes.
The appointment of BENZ. P. Fiheld,
to succeed the late Senator Morrill,, of
VT, was somewhat Of a surprise in
Washington, although those who know
Senator Fifield speak in the highest
terms Of him. The general belief in
Washington is that Gov. Smith chose
Mr.. FiHsId to serve until the legisIa-
tnre meets in October 1900, because
he did not care to decide between the
stronger political claims Of Ex-Goy.
BilIingham and Representative Grout.
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The TRANscRrrT. sl.OO per sear.
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Editor Henry Waterson, of the Lou
isville Courier Journal, nominates as
the Democratic Presidential candidates
in 1900 this ticket: For President-Ad-
miral George Dewey, Vermont. For
Vice President, Fitzhugh Lee, Of Vir-
ginia. Editor Waterson says the free sill
yer issue is dead and the tariff issue is
laid upon the shelf where the Cleve-
land Administration left it. He thinks
Dewey and Lee are platform and an is
sue within themselves. But like Horace
Greeley, Dewey is Republican. Wat
erson says Mckinley and Gen. Joe
Wheeler will be the Republican ticket.
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Dime GabIe
Plila. Wilm. and Baltimore B. B
DELAWARE DIVISION
SOUTHWARK.

On and after Nov. ist 1898, trains win,
leave as follows:
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When the wire connecting with the
clock in the Washington Observatory
licked the midnight hour into the new
clock mechanis i, of the City Hall at
Philadelphia on Saturday night, Dec.
81, the greatest municipal clock in this
country, if not in the world, started its
hands on their ceasless journey, $40 feet
above the street. AS the great glass
dials glistened in the bright electric
illumination and the massive hands
pointed to the midnight hour, which
ushered in New Year, shout went
up from toe crowd on the streets. The
great clock is not only one of the lar
est in the world, but it has the largest
dials in existence. The four dials are
each twenty-five feet in diameter. The
frame and glass in each Of the dials
weigh over five tons. The minute hands
are steel framed and copper covered,
and each with theil counter weights, six
teen feet long-weigh 225 pounds, while
the hour hands are nire feet long and
weigh 175 pounds each, making total
of 400 pounds to each pair. The illu-
mination at night is perfect. Back Of
each dial is set huge metal disc, en-
ameled to dazzling willingness, and
each disc is studded with 1913 incandes-
cent, 16 candle-power lamps. The light
is SO great that the time will be distin-
guishable at greater distance after
nightfall than during the day. Motion
is given the mechanism by compressed
air.
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inside pages.)
Under the new Law in Queen Anne's
county, Md, all delinquent taxpayers
names will ba advertised as such ty the
county treasurer after January first.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-05-24
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Formosan advices give details of the
massacre of 80 unarmed villagers by
about 60 headIhunting savages near
Taiko. After the massacre the saw
ages INDUCED in feast at which the
heads of the murdered villagers were
conspicuously displayed.
A large warehouse belonging to Tar-
stadt 4 Co, at Brunswick. Germany,
was totally destroyed by fire on the
18th. Five girls lost their lives in the
flames and several others were injured,
one of whom has since died.
A dispatch from Allahabad, India,
says that 4 serious epidemic of cholera
has followed in the wake of the plague.
At Kurrachee, the principal seaport
town of Scinde, there were "a deaths
on the 18th from cholera.
A building in course of construction
at Crefeld, Prussia, collapsed on the
Goth and killed ~ worEmen.
Kang Iu Wey, the Chinese reformer,
who fled from China, is reported to be
behind scheme to form companies
in every city of consequence in the
United States, Canada and Australia
which will attempt to control Chinese
capital in order to further all Oriental
industries.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-05-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

John F. Potter, famous abolitionist
and former congressman, died at
East Troy, Wis, on the 18th from a
paralytic stroke, aged SO years. Mr..
Potter was one of the founders of the
republican party. He served three
terms in congress from 1857 to 1868.
Complying with the earnest request
of members, Senator Kyle has with
drawn his resignation as chairman of
the industrial commission.
Rev. Edward +. Hale has resigned
the pastorate of the South Congrega-
tional church of Boston after a service
of 43 years.
James Fairy, organizer and first
president of the Journeymen Horse
shoers' international union, and also
the first general secretary of the
Knights of Labor, is dead at his home
in New York City, aged 46.
EX-United States Senator r. Buck
alew died at his home in Bloomsbury,
Pa, on the 10Th.
Marion Chester is dead at his home
in Washington, aged 81 years. He was
born in Ohio, served with credit in the
civil war and invented a machine for
making paper cigarette holders. Then
he invented a machine for making the
paper straws or tubes that have dis
placed the straws used for cold drinks.
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, the founder and
patron of the Bradley Polytechnic in
stitute at Peoria, ILL.,, has placed on file
deeds of Peoria property for the endow-
ment of the college, valued at s1,OOO,OOO.
Last year she gave the institution $780,
mn
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-05-24
The BIind Godde,..

Intensely modern is the new murder story
by Randall Irving Tyler, entitled "The
Blind Goddess" There is, It seems, eyolu.
ton IN murder stories as well as in every.
thing else
Those who read Tyler's -Four Months
After Date, sand said the book was clever
though perhaps weighted down with busi.
ness transactions, will find in 1.-The Blind
Goddess" just issued, novel drawn in a
new vein, but full of dramatic climaxes.
10 bring home the thoughts it contains to
many who never read murder stories, in.
eidents are used familiar TO all who have
followed the recent poison cases.
The prosecuting officers theory Of the
crime, the appalling accusation Of the in
nocent daughter of one of the murdered
men, the web of circumstantial evidence
around and against a man of unblemshed
character, who is also accused, the defense
less position both of these people occupy
before the coroner, the subsequent indict-
ment without hearing before magistrate
all these things make the reader think.
The underlying motive for the crime in
troduces diversion in the person Of an ad.
ventures, for whose presence no apology is
offered, as it turns out that she is the real
culprit.
The occasional glimpses of an exclusive
social circle, the charming heroine Helen
Brownell, the strong willed but intensely
human Sanford Crane, offer opportunities
for Mr.. Tyler's ability in character sketch
ing which he has not neglected; even the
adventures challenges admiration at times
by the boldness and coldness of her method.
The title, as will be readily understood,
applies, to the more serious side of the novel,
which has to do with prosecution for cap
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running through it all and the satisfactory
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with surprises in its movement and its lit.
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