Smyrna times., 1899-07-19
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

The streets of Rehoboth will soon
be lighted by electricity.
Mrs. Sirman, wife of ex-Speaker
William L. Sirman, died last week in
Delmar, aged SO years.
Milford will employ a supervising
principal for it's public schools, at a
salary of $1O0 month.
Justice of the Peace, John B. Hut
ton of Dover, has been quite i'll with
typhoid fever, but is reported as inn
proving.
At Woodland a young man dived
from the steamer Clyde and stuck in
the mud. He was rescued with an in
jured neck.
Benjamin Wilson, Union Repubh
can. the newly appointed postmaster
at Houston, took charge of the office
week or two ago.
Rev. DR.. George E. Reed, president
of Dickinson College, will deliver the
address at Camden Camp-meeting on
Education day, July 81.
L. Irving Handy and John g. Gray
have been invited to attend the meet
ing at the Auditorium, Chicago, on the
evening of July Goth, in connection
with the meeting of the National Dem
ocratic Committee.
J. Edward Addicks who has been
in ArizOnia for sevaral weeks inspect
ing some copper properties in which
he is interested accompanied by Mrs.
Addicks, returned home Saturday.
The Delaware Iron Company has
been sold to the National Tube Co., of
New Jersey. Price S75O,OOO. The
deed of conveyance required revenue
stamp duty of $3.50.
The Benson Company, of New York,
to deal in stocks and bonds, capital,
1925, 900; and the American Citris Man
ufacturing Company, fruit importers,
, capital, 5000, 900, were incorporated in
Dover, Monday.
Altogether Sussex county is in good
shape and its people have abundant
reasons for being thankful over the
: outlook for prosperity This is the
best county on earth anyway, and Sea-
ford is very near in the centre of it
.SeGtOrd NeIUS.
= George B. Rodney, of New Castle,
son of John H. Rodney, Esq, has
been commissioned first Lieutenant by
President Mckinley. The appoint
ment is the result undoubtedly Of
Judge George Gray's recent visit tt
the White House.
Y Says the Sunday Star: 'Witsil an(
: McVey, the two greatest State detec
1 tives in Delaware, are in the sulks
: They are not on speaking terms will
each other, but it would be more t.
their credit if they were not on speak
y ing terms with certain gambler
II around town.
KILLED HIS BROTHER IN Play
While two sons of James Mitchell, a
:. Rehoboth Bay, were playing with
:, shot gun, which they thought was un
:, = loaded, Monday, one accidently dis
charged it, and the other was killed
! The dead boy was II years old.
II ''KIssING BUG'' AT LAWN PARTY.
h. A Milford dispatch says: ga ''Kissin
o Bug" an inch and half long, bit Mis-
10 Josie Clifton on the lip, while she wa
70 entertaining friends on the lawn, an
II her face was terribly swollen, so thu
70 she could not eat for two days, unit
,e the swelling was reduced.
I'd OFFICERS FOR EXPERIMENT STATIol
a The trustees of Delaware COlleg
III Monday, elected these officers for tt
De experimental station: Arthur L. Neal
as director; Frederick ID. Chester, m.
as cologist; Charles l.. Penny, chemis
Il William H. Bishop, meteorOlogist; {
Il H. Powell, horticulturist; S. Dwigl
tie Sanderson, entomologist.
The physicians of the prison at Trel
ton, do not think that E. I. Coop
died from other than natural cause
see They say: 'The incessant hiccougl
40 40 ing had a distressing effect upC
ID Cooper and early Tuesday morning
F. died. DIR. Mackenzie said death w
w due to shattering of the nerve centr
- or cirrhosis of the liver which is ge
ng orally the result of hard drinking al
to high living.
he HYMENs CARDS AT ALL HOURS.
lis The demand for marriage licens
i'll among the young people of this coun
q cA has become abnormally brisk tn
it. Robert S. Downs, Clerk of the Peac
ne who issues the licenses, is out in an a
OF vertisement giving notice that her
less after they can be secured after bus
ba ness hours from r., S. Downs at Hs