Smyrna times., 1900-09-26
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

'S"S uieahSu TIOln All PdrtS OF delaware |
and Maryland.
Miss Lizzie Disch has returned to
Townsend from a delightful visit to
the Rocky Mountains.
Editor Robert G. Houston of the .Sus-
see Republican is ill at his home in
Georgetown with typhoid fever.
The Prohibition League of Wilm-
ingtOn opened headquarters for the
campaign in the Crosby & Hill build
ing last evening.
Socialists Monday called upon Clerk
of the Peace Foard in Wilmington and
announced that they will have ticket
on the official ballot
The largest vessel ever built south of
Wilmington on this Peninsula will be
launched to-day from the shipyard of
w. G. Abbott & Co., in Milford. The
schooner is 1SO feet over ALL
Francis H. Lattomus of Townsend
has announced himself candidate for
the nomination of county commits
sioner from the fifth district. He was
a member of the last legislature.
The three-masted schooner John
Shay, from New York to Philadelphia,
which ran aground off Cape Henlopen,
will probably be total loss, and she
is being stripped of sails and rigging.
Washington Brown and John Burns,
who were arrested in Camden. n. j., on
charge of stealing wire from the New
Castle and Delaware City Railway
Company, will be brought to Whining
ton for trial.
The New First National Bank at
Frederick will be opened for business
October 1st, with a capital stock of
$25, 900. DIR. Thomas V. Cahall has
been elected president, and J. W.
Townsend cashier.
The Republican primaries of New
Castle county have been postponed
until October 9th. This is hard on the
candidates for the various nominations.
1t leaves them exposed to the plaintive
appeals of the strikers" for a week.
President Francis E. Clark of the
Worlds Christian Endeavor Union, is
expected to be present at the State c.
Z. convention to be held in Lewes OF
October "a, 25 and 26. DR.. Clark
account of his recent visit in Chini
will be one of the interesting features
of the convention.
The grand jury of New Castle Co
before being discharged Thursday, con
sidered a resolution adopted b!
Pomona Grange, calling upon th
Attorney General, Deputy Attorne.
General and grand jury, to investigat
charges of alleged mismanagement AM
extravaganza on the art of the Lev.
Court.
The Democrats held large open al
! meeting in Wilmington Saturday
evening. Peter J. Ford's name wa
loudly cheered, all the speaker
pointed out that the paramount issu
q in Delaware is the defeat of Addicks
imperialism and trusts were scored
Governor Tunnel presided and ad
dresses were made by Messrs. Biggs
Whiteman, Davis, Kurtz, Woolle
and Gray.
E The death of Mrs. Sarah Courtne
: of Wilmington was a very sad one
She knew what it was to live well an
then afterwards taste the dregs Of POI
erty. Her husband inherited sui
Q ficient money to have kept her and hC
offspring in comfort, ali their live
but he squandered it with so-calle
: friends, and left his wife and child po'
! indeed. SO poor, that they had to see
: the shelter of the almshouse, where 0
= Thursday she died.
n The Wilmington Sunday Star Civ
h the following incident: Zone ira
IS woman expressed herself preti
h strongly to a coal dealer on Fridi
n when she went to order coal. She hi
p not heard of the rise in coal price
If "How much is coal ton ?" she i
s. auired. ''Seven dollars, replied {
Of dealer. ''The devil ye say. Niver
ar hmm of IL will Oh burn at the priC
le I'll burn wood first" and she hounc
out the Office door.