Middletown transcript., 1900-03-31
PENINSULA NEW S.
A Gang Of Railroad Robbers Are
Caught at Last.
NOT TO SHIP GAME BIRDS
A Postmaster Disappears-A Hospital
to Get $5OOO-State Guard May
Have an Encampment-A
Long Contest Ends.

The saw mill and stables OF Stans
bury Parsons at Bridgevills was de
s'royed by fire last Saturday night
The loss is heavy.
William Clark, of Newark, was ar
rested and placed in New Castle jai
| for attempting to murder bis wife. II
beat her face almost to jelly.
Some medicine tablets left on th'
table by the doctor threw the three
year.old son Of Samuel Sparks, d
Queen An1e's County, into convulsiod
and be died.
Much surprise was occasioned al
Newark when it was learned that Vic
tor G.. Willis, the famous base bal
pitcher, and Miss Minnie Lennox wert
married. The couple we're married by
Rev. Father OFT four months ago and
the wedding was kept quiet bat leaped
out last week.
Thomas B. Windsor, of South Mill
ford, has refused $12, 900 cash for his
two-fifth interest in the Windsor Hotel
building in that town and ground,
stables, ice house and yard, and the
furniture and fixtures of the hotel.
This Is one Of the best locations for a
hotel in Delaware, and grows more
valuable each year.
New, pet cat belonging to Paynter
Frame Of Harbeson, is dead and was
buried in a bricked grave in his garden.
The cat was the Oldest In the State,
being % years old. The body was
placed In a white pine ceffin previous
to the burial. All the family we're
firmly attached to the cat, and its death
caused considerable grief.
The new S ate Board of Education
has just prepared thorough report of
the condition Of the schools throughout
Delaware, showing that S194 300 was
during last year in this State
for school purposes, outside the city Of
Whining ton. over which the Board has
not general supervision. Of this amount
$l41, ,O59.05 was expended in salaries
and So, 9,277.1 Is in books.
Officers and privates Of the First
National Guard Of Delaware
are desirous Of securing weeks en-
this year. The suggestion
has beea made that the regiment en-
camp on the government ground at Del
aware City and serve without pay. 1t
is said that SINE of the government
remains unused and this
might meet the expenses.
The debt Of Sussex County has just |
teen officially reported by com mittee
appointed by Sussex County Levy
Court, showing up to March %, 1900,
county orders amounting
to S13, ,926. At; outstanding road orders,
S6466, 81; outstanding Court orders
s135; interest due, S3426.25; bonded
debt Of 1864, s12 800; borrowed from
the State in 1889, $4,000; bonded debt Of
1898, $25, 900; making a total debt Of
667, ,454. 27.
The contest over the will of the late
Governor Charles Polk, who has been
dead for over forty years, was decided
BY Probate Judge Harrington at Dover
last Saturday. Executor William A.
Polk died before settling up the estate,
and bay shore farm Of HOO acres was
eft in litigation. The contest was be-
tween Theodore Polk, descendant Of
the Governor, and Mrs. Josephine
TTuitt, a niece. The decision grants
letters !. b. 70. and c. t. a. to Mrs.
Truitt.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has issued orders to its freight agents
In this State not to receive game birds |
for shipment. The orders are printed |
in big type, and two are to be hung in
prominent places in all the freight |
stations in the State. The introduce
ton Of the order is as follows: "The |
attention Of agents in the State Of Della
ware is called to the law Of the State |
the killing or destruction Of |
certain birds or the receiving for trans
portation Of the same. The law GOV
ering the case, which is found on page |
No. 46O Of the revised code, is printed.
Under the law Of the State it is un-
lawful for any common carrier or trans-
portation company to receive for ship