Middletown transcript., 1900-03-03
PENINSULA NEWS
A Revival Meeting Stops Work IN
a Basket Factory.
LARGETELEPHONE DEAL
A sink MN May be Started &c Eikton--
Horse Had Hgdrophobia- Small
Girl Gets Drowned
skeleton Found.

A house at Pdcomoke City. Nd.
owned by G. 2. Byrd and occupied hS
George Evans, was destroyed BY Ore
Sunday.
A 20-pound white swan was killed
on the Susquehanna flats. near Perry.
willie, Nd, q. few days Ego BY Rev. J.
P. Fitzgerald. OF Havre de GraOs.
Germans are making extensive puf.
chases of land In Dorchester coHuly,
Nd. and there Is aedecided activity 10
the real estate market ut Cambridge.
The people Of Annapolis. Md are
becoming nervous over the Eumor that
the Naval Academy il 10 be removed
elsewhere, and will vigorously protest
against such removal.
Hon. John Bsssett Moore, late AS
sistaht Secretary of State and Secrs-
tary Of the Peace Commission that met
at Paris, will deliver the commence
ment address at Delaware College, June
20th.
Mr.. Willard Buell., Of Washington,
D. C.. has begun the erection OF very
nice hotel at Ocean City, Md. The
hotel VIII be somewhat after the stgle
OF the PIimhimmon and situated near
TO the Life Saving S alton on Atlantic
avenue.
While the little daughter OF Ephraim
Vandevonder was crossing The foot
log that crosses the south branch OF
the Potomac Tuesday afternoon, on
her way from school, she fell OF into
the water twenty feet below and was
drowned.
While the plassering was being torn
from one Of the upper rooms In the
dwelling OF weII-knoWn merchant at
Creagertown, near Elkton, an old
skirt was found hanging back Of the
plastering. Upon examination IL was
found to contain the skeleton OF q
child. The affair is mystery.
The wrapper factory at Laurel.
owned by George H. Buchapan, viii be |
enlarged. The property will be over. |
hauled and thirty new ,mschiRss will
be put In, which win make the faetery |
one OF the largest in the State. When
the factory was started, one year ago,
it had but one machine.
Several things have developed this
week TO give encouragement to those
interested in the location Of large
silk mill ut ElktoR, Md, BY the Liberty
Silk Company, OF New York. More
than one-third of the required capital
has already been subscribed and a. re-
number Of prospective in.
yestors Mr.. Frank r. Scott, President |
Of be Scott Fertilizer Company, viii
90 to New York the flrst Of the coming
week and look into certain details be-
fore the final contracts are made.
Religious services are being held In
The M. E. Church at Greenwood and
over 100 persons have professed con-
version. So intense has become the
fervor that persons are daily becoming
In stores. on the street and
while ut work. Last night several
toughs from Nanticoke, who had come
here for the purpose Of laiting dis
turbance, chanced to go BY the church,
and. hearing singing, went in. Later
In ths evening they were converted.
All the stores are closed at 7 o'clock,
P. M, and persons come for miles to
rttend the meetings.
On Tuesday Mark Cole, who resides
on the Jacob Friedel home farm two
miles west Of Felton,, was compelled to
kill one Of his horses, as Il was afflicted
with that terrible disease known ss by.
drophobla. The horse had been bitten
by dog belong'ng.t to Mr.. CoIe some
three or four weeks before on the nose.
Soon after biting the horse the dog !
went of, whereto The owner knew not
for several days, then be learned that . /
mad dog. the description OF which tai
lied with the dog be owned had been
at or near the Simpson Phosphate Fae'
tory in South Milford.
Harry A. Richardson, OF Dover, who
owned the telephone lines Of Cecil
county, Nd, has decided all, OF these
lines to the Eastern Shore Telephone
Company. The Union Telephone Com.
pany, of Talbo county, has also decided
its lines in Dorchester and Talbot c0un-
ties, 10 the above named company;
The Eastern Shore Telephone and Tele- /
graph Company. Of Caroline. has exe-
cuted . mortgage to w. III. Dewesss IS
attorney, In the sum Of Sl00. 600 10
secure bonds TO that amount, the pro-
ceeds from the sale Of which is to Be
used In building new telephone lines
and to improve the old ones already
owned by the compans. The Bee Line
Company is separats corporation from
The Eastern Shore Company and win