Middletown transcript., 1900-02-17
PENINSULA NEWS.
A Narrow Escape From Asphyxia.
ton by Coal Gas.
HELD UP AND ROBBED
Narrow Escape of Two School Teach
ers-Died From a Cat Bite-Foot
Cut off at Saw Mfll-A
Man Decapitated.

| Princess Anne, Nd, will issue nd'
to provide for a FIRE department and
sewerage system.
The dam at Ricketts, Mill, near Elk
ton, Nd, was washed away recently by
heavy rain fall.
I Hon. William Jennings Bryan hai
been invited TO lecture at Salisbury for
the benefit of the Peninsula General
Hospital Of that place.
The school commissioners Of Talbot
county Nd, have determined to in.
augurate the kindergarten system in
the public schools Of that county.
| William B. Hart, Of Elkton, Md,
has purchased the undertaking business
OF William T. Adkins, at Lewes.
Mr.. Hart took possession last Tuesday.
"A census Of the town of Snow Hill is
soon to be taken by the pupils of
the High School under the direction of
the principal, Mr.. Charles s. Richard
son.
The town council Of Denton, Md,
propose to light that town with cleo
tricity shortly. The idea is to use the
water-power two miles north Of town
to drive the dynamo.
Milford people are looking in wonder
at the four-masted vessel being built
there by William G. Abbott, the dimen-
sions of which are the largest of its
kind ever built in Delaware.
A wild boar, weighing l, 100 POUNDS,
was recently killed by Andrew Slsugh.
ter, in Hill Point Marsh, Caroline
coucty, Md. His tusks were six inches
long, and he had been terror to farm,
ers and hunters for years.
At a meeting of rep, esentatives of
agricultural ard racing associations in
Baltimore on Thursday, August 2Sth
to 31st we're decided upon for the Kent
and Queen Anne Fair, at Colchester.
The fair at Easton was given the
same dates.
Mr.. William Galligher, Of Sassafras,
and Miss Mary Haley, Of Galena, Md,
ware married in st. Denis Church, by
Rev. Miles j. McManus, last week.
MFR. and Mrs. Gallagher will make their
future home in Sassafras. They were
given housing serenade.
John Latchum, Of near Milford,
recently lost pair Of mules by death.
that cost $500, and shortly before two
other mules died. Last fall forty head
of hogs died OF cholera on Mr.. Latchum's
farm, and two years ago rabid dog
caused much devastation on his pre-
misses.
While Mrs. William Culveyhouse,
of Dover, was hurriedly passing cac-
tus plant in her home the other day,
she struck the plant and a thorn pierc.
ed her left eye. She was temporarily
blinded, and has not yet recovered the
sight; although her attending physician
is encouraged as to her condition.
The sexton of Double Greek M. E.
Church, in the upper part Of Queen
AnEe's county, noticed in the cemetery
adjoining the church ne made grave,
Of which he had known nothing. To
his surprise he found concealed in
raisin box the body of an infant with
its skull crushed. The child is rumor-
ed to have met its death at the hands
Of cruel father.
The clothing store of Joseph Nathan.
at Dover, was robbed Of over $500
worth Of clothing last Wednesday
night. The burglary was committed
by four men who took the articles out
the back way and hauled them away in
wagon. The same place was looted
of over 5000 worth of goods last fall,
but most Of the goods were recovered
shortly afterwards.
The Board Of Education Of Milford,
have issued call for q public meeting
to be held on March 18th, for the pur-
pose Of getting the feeling Of the peo-
pie in regard to building new school
building. A new building was to have
been bull. some time ago and the con-
tract for the same given out, but at
that time public sentiment was SO
much against the matter that it was
dropped.
Several days ago the 17-months-old
child Of Thomas Fl. Short, who lives
on a farm near Gumboro, this State,
was bitten by pet cat. The child was
eating a piece Of bread and the cat in
attempting to get it bit the boys finger.
3 the Cat was pet and did not act at
all strangely nothing was thought Of
the affair until the child's finger began
swelling. A physician was summoned
at once, but the poison had gone too far,
and the child died within few hours.
Samuel Reed, who lives near State
Road, was held up and robbed of I'll his
clothes by six negroes last Saturday