Middletown transcript., 1900-04-21
PENINSULA NEWS.
CeIIuIoid Comb Explodes on a
Young Girls Head.
INJURED BY A FALLING LIMB
Gave Rirth 70 a Child While House WINS
Burning Down-A Man browns In
WelI-Robbed Man While
He Was Passing Away.

Bridgeyille is now troubled with
gang Of burglars, who 50 faI nave fai
ed to secure any valuable booty. Wha
next?
Hon. David 2. Davis, chief judge 0
the Orphans Court of Cecil county
died at bis residenc at Cecilton las
Friday MOI ming, after an illness of sev
eral weeks, aged 81 years.
Nathan Lieberman, Of Wilmington
on Monday last paid to the FIRST Ma
tional Bank Of that city $33, LAO
Mr.. Lieberman was surety of the de
faulting teller Of that bank, Peter J.
| E. Smith.
A. p ShockIey, for thirty years courl
crier or the Cecil county courts, il
critically i'll at his residence, in Elkton,
Mr.. Shockley is suffering with cancer
on the right side Of the neck, and has
been i'll for about eighteen months.
John Wheatley, small boy living at
Dover, was shot and badly wounded on
Tuesday while passing a crowd Of boys
who were playing war. The wounded
boy g father says be will not prosecute
the boys unless the wound proves seri-
GUS.
While working down well at his
home at Magnolia, Monday morning,
William Reed was drowned. A brick
fell on him from the surface thirty feet
above, striking him on the head. 1t
made him unconscious, and he fell in
to the water.
The growing Of broom corn is at
tracing considerable atten ion among
farmers near Harrington. The price Of
this product is very high owing to a
partial failure Of the crop for the past
two years throughout the West where
it is extensively grown.
Andrew Brown, colored, aged 40
years, formerly +mpl, yed il the Dover
hotels as a waiter, died Monday morn-
ing. While he was dying, someone en-
tered his room, and stole his fine gold
watch. H. possessed other valuable
personal property, and to prevent fur
ther robbery the undertaken had the
room door cked.
Peter Jawry, member Of Battery L,
Fourth Artillery, stationed at Fort Du-
pont, near Delaware City, was fined
S10 and costs in Wilmington last Mon
lay for cruelty driving horse in that
city on Sunday. If he would have
1rove the animal a few miles further it
would have dropped dead.
A report has reached Wilmington
10 the effect that Lieut.. Walter Ell.
Gordon, who was recently captain Of
,he First Del ware Regiment, was
wounded few weeks ago while scout
ing with detachment from his regi'
nent, the Sixteenth Infantry, in the
Philippines. So far as is known, bis
wounds are not serious.
Col. l. D. Davis on Monday sold bis
and valuable country place
lear Elkton to Eugene Fencht, of Ok
ahoma, Indian Territory, formerly Of
New Castle, this State, for $4150. The
lew owner will take possession shortly.
The property consists Of SO acres Of
and, with fine dwelling house, and
with all modern impros e.
nents.
The Smyrna M. E. Church is low
free Of debt, the last Of it, $500, being
paid last Sunday. After Rev. G. A.
Hill, pastor, was returned by conference
10 said he would depend on the con
yregation to raise the debt, which
to $1700, by their own efforts,
and outside of the church service, and
ast Sunday evening they reported the
ast $500 or the same.
Caleb Jackson, Of Wyoming, one Of
he hest-known men of Kent county.
lied on Monday after suffering most
pain for weeks. Mr.. Jack
'oD, some time ago, becams affected
about the mouth and throat, and, upon
himself so treatment at the
University of Pennsylvania, ascertain
3D. that his malady was a cancerous
growth in the roof Of the mouth, An
operation failed to anseat the DESTROYER
and Mr.. Jackson returned to his home
under special treatment, but to endure
an agoniziDg slow death. For weeks
be has been unable to lie down and sat
with his head bowed for
ward to obtain relief, if only temper,
Rry, and able to take but little nourish-
ment. He was one of the most popu-
lar men in Delaware, and gained such
influence that he, though a