Smyrna times., 1899-08-09
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

The United Workmen of the State
will have a reunion at Brandywine
Springs, September 2.
A distillery owned by Hiram and
Jonathan Williams was seized for
debt by the Sheriff, at Dover, Satur-
day.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Outing Club left Wilmington Sat
urday evening in sail boat for week
at Bowers Beach.
The Legislature Reunion Committee
will go from Dover to Old Point Com
fort and NOrfork, Va, October 1S for a
two-days' outing.
The annual colored college CAMP
meeting will begin on the State Col
lege Campus, near Dover, next Satur-
day, to last two weeks.
Detective Witsel has returned to
New Castle Jail with John Doughertv.
who escaped while serving a life sen
tence, and was captured at Harris.
burg, Pa.
RehObOth City has the prettiest
beach of any watering place on the
Atlantic coast and it has been strained
to its utmost to entertain the visitors
there this SuD,poar
One by one the sensations fall fiat.
The kissing bug" is a back num-
Der, and now it is discovered that the
terrible ''strangling bug" is nothing
but our old acquaintance the electric
light bug.
The Delaware Railroad excursions
Thursday, to Rehoboth and Ocean
City, Nd, were patronized by nearly
1000 people from the lower counties.
and several sections of the train had to
be run from Georgetown.
The property of Warren Darby. of
Frederica, will be sold at Sheriff's sale
on August 23rd. 1t includes nearly
200 acres of land in and around Fred
erica, the water plant of that town, sew
cottages and two fine residences.
Adiutant General J. Hart and Gov
ernor Tunnel are preparing a States
claim for nearly $40, 900 to the United
States Government for raising and
the First Delaware Regi-
ment of volunteer infantry for service
in the Spanish American War.
Rev. John Jones has resigned as
pastor of Canterbury Charge, and has
associated himself with his father in
business at Wyoming. Presiding
Elder G. S. Baker has transferred Rev.
f. Q. Wright from Armory Church.
Dover, to the Canterbury Charge.
The Diamond State Telephone Com
pany, whose offices are in Dover. has
issued additional per cent. bonds to
the extent of $4,000, and filed a mort
gage covering that amount at the Office
OF Recorder of Deeds James Lord.
paying a government stamp tax of
$24. so on the indenture.
Edward Daniels, son of Stokav
Daniels, of Townsend, went to Cali
fornia a few weeks ago, and nothing
was heard from him since then until
last week, when his parents received a
letter stating that he had enlisted in
the U. S. Army and that he expects to
go to the Philippine Islands in a short
time.
Mr.. Henry Wilkinson of the Milton
Times has sold that paper to Mr.. Theo-
dore Messick, of Georgetown. Mr..
Wilkinson and his brother, Mr.. How
ard M. Wilkinson, of Dover, have pur
chased the Milford Herald, which
they will run in that town, in politics
Democratic.
II. B. Cobb, inventor of the Chicago
electric hose, has bought of William
Weightman, of Philadelphia, the Chi
cago Electric Wire Company, and it is
to organize the Chicago
Electric Hose Company, with capital
of $5O0,0 to run a large factory in
Wilmington.
1t is announced by the Pennsylvania
Railroad that plans are about to be per-
fected by which the employees who
have reached the age of 20 years, or
who have been in the service of the
road for thirty years, will be retired
upon an allowance based upon the
length of service and the wages re-
ceived by the employe.
James H. Shakespeare, the brilliant
Philadelphia lawyer, a former Della
and known by all Delaware.
either personally or by reputation, has
has been committed to an asylum for
the insane at Frankford, Pa. He is
suffering from paresis and his death is