Middletown transcript., 1900-12-08

The Milton shirt factory will be er
larged.
Take back the heart you gave me, tn
angry maid cried, SO the butcher CAV
her liver, and the,m maid was satisfied.
Rev. n. W. Conaway, of Crapo, ha
been appointed pastor of Zoar NJ. E. Cir
cult, Georgetown.
The building fund Of the United Pres
byterian Church, Wilmington, nov
amounts to $4,000
Bishop Goodsell has been assigned t.
preside over the Wilmington conference
which meets in Seaford.
John Loerigan, aged 40 years, once /;
policeman, died on Sunday at his resi-
dence, 1706 Lincoln street, Wilmington.
Mrs. Mary Akin, who had had al
operation performed, died on Sunday al
the Homeopathic Hospital, Wilmington
Letters testamentary on the estate Of
Louis Lagneau, late of Christiana hun
dred, have been granted to Anna M. B.
Lagneau.
Postmaster Hugh c. Browne, of WI
mington, has decided to extend the
special delivery system to all three of the
sub stations.
J. P. Campbell has resigned from the
Wilmington Academy of Music to be-
come manager for the Anna Eva Fay
Company.
William Paris has announced himself
as candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Council in the Ninth ward,
Wilmington.
Samuel J. Cole, Jr., of Bombay Hook,
killed wild white swan last week weigh
ing 10 pounds and measuring seven feet
eight inches from tip to tip.
The general committee of the M. E.
Church has assessed the Wilmington con-
ference $1,800 for church extension.
The committee first asked for $500.
William W. Shockley, of Townsend,
and Miss Annie Malloy, of Green's
borough are to be married in Green's
borough NJ E. Church on December II.
After the completion of the proposed
trolley line from Delaware City to Dover,
it will be possible to ride by trolley from
the State capital to Central Pennsylvania.
The school building of St. Joseph's
Industrial School, at Clayton, which was
burned last week, will shortly be rebuilt,
the insurance money of $4,000 having
been paid.
There is much CONF lairt from all the
river towns, where the oyster industry
is quite important, about the small size
and poor flavor of oysters. Several oyster
houses have closed.
James Pearce, who died suddenly at
Townsend Saturday night, was an Eng
lishman. Pearce's sister, probably his
only relative in the United States, re-
sides in Jersey City.
Rev. Charles Roth, pastor for about
a year of the First German Baptist Church,
Fifth and Walnut streets, Wilmington,
has decided to take up mission work in
Brazil, South America.
A Delmar man by mistake filled his
kerosene lamp with gasoline. When he
applied match and lighted it there was
an immediate explosion, scattering the
gaseous fluid all over the room. In few
minutes the whole building was in flames
and destroyed.
A Maryland undertaken, who had the
body of stranger at his place, wired
brother of the deceased whether he
81 .ould embalm the body for $50 or freeze
it for $50. A telegram came quickly back,
Freeze 1t from the knees up for $40, he
had his feet frozen last winter.
The building boom is still on at Reho
both, and similar to last winter, mechan-
les are all employed and several cottages
going up Although it is not so extensive
as last year yet, the indications are that
the building boom this coming spring
will be repetition of Rehoboth's growth
last year.
The reduction of taxation promises to
be the leading subject under considera-
ton by the Republican leaders at the
session Of Congress. There is
general agreement that the stamp tax
should be abolished, and it is almost
certain that the revenue of the govern
ment will admit of this being done, at
least in part.
In case the Levy Court decides that
Market street, across the Christiana,
must be replaced by new structure, to
meet the orders of the War Department,
there is a suggestion that the present
structure be placed at Poplar or Church
street, on the Brandywine. A committee
from the court may inspect bridges at
and Chicago.
What would our fathers have thought
so years ago had they been told that in
1900 16, 100000 votes would be polled for
President and that the result could be
told to certainty by s o'clock on the
night of election7 This was realized No
vember and is wonderful considering
the length and breadth of the country
and its population.
Samuel Lewis, George Elliott and
George Thompson have been arrested,
charged with disorderly conduct on Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
trains between Wilmington an | Newport,
October and November "a, and Elliott
was also accused Of assault and battery
on son Of District Attorney Evans, of
Maryland, which is alleged to have been
committed en- the train.
Delaware was one of the fields selected
by the Federal Government for its early
experiments in the free delivery of mali
in rural sections w. H. johnson, first
assistant postmaster general says that
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