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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
FOURTH DELAWARE REGIMENT.

The Association to Have It's Annual Re-
union Mt Brandywine Springs Park on
September 18th.
The Fourth Delaware Regiment Asso-
citation has decided to have its 18th
annual reunion Mt Brandywine Springs
Park on Thursday, September 18th.
Gen. Hoffman is expected to attend and
an effort is being made to interest every
member of the association, with view
TO having all there with their families.
Arrangements are being made for a
most interesting occasion. The meet.
ing will be held at the usual time and
it is expected that addresses will be
made by several prominent veterans.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
TO REMODEL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

Contract for Extensive Work Near Edge
Moor Awarded to William j. Brown of
This City.
The Lighthouse Board OF the United
States government has awarded to Will
liam j. Brown of this city the contract
for relnodelline the buoy station on the
government pier near Edge Moor. The
buildings will be practically rebuilt
and some extensive improvements will
be made.
MI. Brown has awarded the SUBJ
contract for roofing tine buildings to
Isaac S. Bullock and for repainting
them TO William e. Linton. About
lo,0o0 feet of tin roofing will be re-
quirsd.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
I STARS IN PLACE OF STRIPES.

Change in the shape of Service Marks for
Letter Carriers.
A change has been made in the shape
of the service marks for letter carriers,
stars taking the place Of the stripes
which were originally granted the men
for long service. Several of the men
connected with the local Office are wear
ing several stars.
Under the new regulations the order
is as follows: For five years of service,
one black star; 10 years, two black
stars; 10 years, one red star; 20 years,
two red stars; % years, one silver star i
30 years, two silver stars 30 years, one
gold star.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
SALE OF A NEWSPAPER.

Plant of the Middletown Transcript to be
Put Up at Sheriif's Sale.
Sheriff Taylor has advertised that he
will sell the plant of the Middletown
Transcript at that place at 8 o'clock
Monday morning, August 18th. There
are several claims against it, including
three for wages, OF hich that of John
Fl. Sehl for S66 is the highest, and for
rent and supplies, besides Martin B.
Burris' mortgage amounting to Sl,70o.
Owing to the sickness of the owner
and his inability to look after the bust
ness, the paper suspended publication
several weeks ago and efforts have been
made to dispose of the plant at private
sale.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
DELAWARE CITY RAILWAY.


Terminus of the Line.
The men who are wiring the New
southern terminus at Delaware City.
1t is expected that the wiring will be
completed within two weeks.
1t is thought cars will be running
over the road regularly before Septem
Der, and they may be able to start by
tho middle of August The work OF
building and aquipping is being pushed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
WAITED FOR ANOTHER TRAIN.

Boy Prevented by Officer Gordy From
Placing Himself in a Dangerous Position.
Special Officer Gordy, who is sta
toned at the r., W. .& b. railroad sta
tion, prevented what might have been
a serious accident Saturday. The
Baltimore and Washington aocommoda-
tion.N leaving at 10. 20 o'clock, was pull
ing out of the shed. when boy
rushed from the waiting room and was
about to grasp the moving train when
the officer called to him to stand back.
The boy was George Lyman. aged Is,
of Newport. Many people at the sta
ton spoke highly of the officer s'quick-
ness and advised the boy that it was
better to wait an hour or two than to
be crushed to death.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

Lenderman, son of Watson
fman of No. 1923 Van Buren,
10 was severely burned about
some time ago, recently had
ZION performed on his right
etraighten one Of the fingers,
hs left crooked. Some time
I'D climbed an iron pole on the
]Seoond baptist Church and
b hands upon the live wires
from the pole to the church.
unconscious and the
both hands almost entirely
way. The operation has thus
n success and the boy will
the use of his injured hand.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

The Douglas Goal and Coke Go. has
elected the following officers: Samuel
N. Henszey of New York. president;
Samuel N. Trump, vice president; John
Savin Hotieoker of New York, treasurer !;
Octavio Sayer Of New York. secretary.
This company, in which Messrs. IIof
fecker are understood to be interested,
was organized a year ago to operate coal
lands at Dunlap, Tenn.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
CITY RAILWAY co.

lIefVrs Elected at the Recent Animal
|l Meeting of the Stockholders.
y As recent annual meeting of the
|q< htIders of sGne Wilmington City
|pIlMSS 10. the following directors
A. elected for the ensuing year: John
X <iH3F Henry @. Moore, r. N. Car
". s. Bell, Thomas S. Bellah,
'9>tr Ford and II. A. Fichthorn.
Vi change was made in the manage
,Snt ol the system.
nmer1us improvements have been
1f1s during the past year. Changes
z{ been made in the tracks where
6l chry. new rails and switches being
b( Spme places. In fact, the entire
ION and Chester system has
"a improy ement. A full equip
l5i nmmer cars had been provided
X Darby line and some winter
n low being built by the jack
NJ Hrp Co.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
CHILD BADLY BURNED.

Set Her Dress on Fire While Playing with
Matches.
Sarah Houok, a child, while playing
with matches at her home, No. 831
West Second street, Thursday afternoon,
accidentally set fire to her dress.
Siberian to the door, where she was
met by her mother, who, with the
assistance of James Brown, colored, of
No. 23l Searles street. who was passing
at the time, extinguished the hames.
Tie child was pretty badly burned.
After being treated at home she was
sent in the Phoenix ambulance to the
Delaware Hospital.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

David Nutter, employed at the r.,
W. & b. railroad shops at Fourth and
Church streets, fell from the end Of
a car Saturday morning and, striking his
hand across the track, broke three of
his fingers at the knuckles. He was re-
moved to the emergency hospital at
French street station where the in
iurywas attended to by DR.. James A.
Draper, Jr.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

The building No. lO06 King street,
has been purchased from the Whining
ton Club by j. Edward AddioSs for
SO. $780, The Wilmington Club will
vacate ds soon as its new property, No.
1903 Market street, has been put in
shape for occupancy. 1t has not been
announced what Mr.. Addicks prop oses
to do with the King street property,
but it is reported that it will be the
political headquarters of the Union
Republicans.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

Do not say, II can't eat" Take Hoods
Sarsaparila and say, Il am hungry all the
time, and food never hurts me-"
Never say to your friends that you are as
tired in the morning az at night. II they
happen to be sharp they willtell you Hoods
Sarsaparilla cures that tired feeling.
Do not say, MY face is full of pimples I"
You are quite likely to be told by some one,
There's no need of that for Hoods Sarsa,
psrilla cures pimples."
1t is improper and unnecessary to say.
"My health is poor and my blood is bad
Hoods Sarsaparlla will give you good blood
and good health will follow as u natural
consequence.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
WELSH COAST STREWN WITH WRECKS

London, Eng, Aug. 4. : Channel
traffic has been interrupted today by
the gale, and the Welsh coast is strewn
with wrecks of coasters and pleasure
craft. The racing yacht Corsair was
sunk in collision with steam fishing
boat off Ramsgate. A steam yacht, be-
lieved to be the Fairy Queen, was
sunk off Lapwell
Crops have been much damaged,
Telegraph wires in Great Britain and
over half of the continent are partially
down, F
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
Bnited Presbyterian Church.

pited Presbyterian Church of
Is of a different denomination
Presbyterian church. The
|sshyterian Church believes in
Vices an exclusive use of a
fersion Of David's Psalms in
prs the communion table
not United Presbyterians !;
osed to receiving into mem
pse belonging to secret orders.
q Presbyteriahs ale contem-
e erection Of a new house of
lose to Olivet Presbyterian
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

According to the records of Secretary
Cafill of the Board of Health, %
deaths, % births and ! marriage
were reported in the city during. the
week ended at noon Saturday, while for
the same period last year 10 deaths, II
births and marriages were reported.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
LAST WILL or A FORMER RESIDENT.
Probated in scotIand-Profts Sent to Will
inington.


mington.
Register in Chancery Ferguson re-
ceived Saturday from Edisburgh, Scot
land, the return of Alexander Stuart
Duff Thomson, advocate, of Edinburgh,
commissioner appointed by the Court
OF Chancery of Delaware, TO take the
proofs of the will of the late Annie
Watt, former resident of this city,
who died in Scotland.
The will was filod in Edinburgh and
could not be withdrawn from the
Probate Court there. In order to Iass
title to certain real estate in this city
owned by Mrs. Watt, it became neces.
sary to have certified copy OF the will
sent TO this country and particular
proofs of the original taken by special
commissioner. The return and &C.
oomranying papers make volume of
GO typewritten pages.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
FELL OVER A PREClPICE.

Maloja, in the Engadine, 'Switzer-
land, Aug. 4.-G. P. Way and his son
and ID other Americans, accompanied
by Mr.. De La Rue. 40 Englishman.
climbed the Cimadirosso without q
guide yesterday.
When near the summit. Mr.. Way
slipped on stone, and fell over preci-
Eice. The rope attaching him 10 his
son broke, and the Two were killed. Mr..
De La Rue sreturned with great diff
Guilty. The bodies were recovered.
The Ways stopped at the Hotel Maloia.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

From kentucky, chr" said the hotel
clerk, smilinely. l,.
Eyes, sah," replied the man vino
had Just registered; but" and there
was dangerous CLEAN in his eye" M
not membah, sab, CT the Legisla.
tuah, sab. The Smart Set.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

Register of Wills Gro san has granted
letters of administration on the estate
of Catherine Hanna to Abel Hanna and
George III. Becker, and letters Tesla
mentary on the estate of Elizabeth In
gram to the Security Trust and Safe
Deposit Co. gm +
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
BURNS WERE FATAL.
Sarah Houck Dies at the Delaware Hos
pital.

pital.
Sarah Houck, aged years, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Houok of No.
s3l West Second street. who was ACCT
dentaly burned at her home on Thurs
day Afternoon, while playing with
matches. died at the Delaware Hos
pital, Saturday morning, at 8 O'Clock.
At the time that the child was re-
moved to the hospital there was but
little hope OF her recovery. The child
is cousin of the Corson boy, who met
a similar death ut his home about a
year ago, Coroner Vandever rendered
a verdict of death from burns acct
deutally received. a.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

satin or yellow silk, with collar of
amber or reddish brown; what could be
richer or warmer, with the gaslight
shining full upon it and the cold winter
SHOWS blowing outside? Portia.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09

!inur, employed at the Della
! te and Mining Co, IS quar-
Thursday removed TO the
hospital in the Phoenix am
lis back was severely hurt
ling with two buckets of
e shoulders.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
SOLVING THE SERVANT GIRL PROB
LEM.

Redwood Falls Gazette: A group of
Winnebago City people are making an
experiment that may solve the vexing
problem of domestic help. Some
eight or ten families have what they
call a cooperative kitchen and they
have employed young man and his
wife to furnish their house as dining
room and prepare noon and evening
meals for the members The house is
centrally located and the members live
near. The women of the club take
turns in arranging the menus, two
serving each week. The club has been
in operation two weeks and is de-
cided saving in household work as
well as money. An excellent table is
provided at far less cost than ten in
dividual tables. The loss in the home
life of the family gathering around
the table is compensated in cultivating
neighborliness This arrangement
was entered into not SO much from
choice as necessity and the same neces-
sity is forcing others to some such
solution of the domestic problem.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
STATE CONGREGATIONAL ASSN.

President Cooper and wife, Miss G.
W. Haynes and Rev. T. Merrill Ed
mands returned from NorthfeldF Friday
evening. and Mrs. Evan Hughes next
morning. They have been attending
the annual meeting of the state associ-
alton of Congregational churches there
this week. Rev. Clarence Swift, a
nephew of Milton Haynes, of this city,
pastor of Park avenue, Congregational
church at Minneapolis, gave fine
address on the Christian college. There
was very interesting and lively dis
cussion of the temperance problem and
the association endorsed the anti
saloon league, and committed itself to
non partisan methods of temperance
work. Next year is the Goth ami
versary of the founding of the first
Congregational church in Minnesota.
It will be celebrated by holding the
annual meeting at the first church in
Minneapolis, having historical adj
dresses and by raising jubilee fund
for home missions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
NO SUFFERING.
Small Prospects of Any From a
Coal Famine.
Four Seyenths of Supply For West Now
Moved. Soft Coal and Wood Will
Meet Deficiency.

The Minneapolis Times in its COM
ments on the coal situation yesterday
quotes dealer in substance, as saying
that "while there will be considerable
inconvenience from coal shortage,
there is not apt to be much actual
suffering. The irritations consequent
upon such shortage will be expert
enced by those persons in good circum-
stances who own homes which have
been provided with heating apparatus
specially adapted to the use of anthra-
cite coal. As rule, however, btu
minuos coal can be used for almost any
furnace or CRATE when the exigencies
of the occasion require, and the short
age may result in teaching people that
they are not entirely dependent upon
anthracite coal for fuel, as many of
them have assumed
AS the effect in the northwest of the
strike and the possible shortage, the
Times further says
-"That there are small prospects of
suffering through q local coal famine
is indicated by the fact that only 100,
900 tons of anthracite are consumed in
this city in year These figures may
sound large to layman. but to the
man who is familiar with coal and the
rapidity with which it can be burned
they are very small A dealer points
out that he has several customers here
each of whom actually use more than
100, 900 tons of bituminous coal.
"Bad results of the coal shortage
will be much more apparent in the
east than in the west. Approximately
about 80, 900, 900 tons of coal are mined
annually in the anthracite region, and
, only about 10 per cent of this is ship
ped west of Buffalo. While the lake
transportation and docks permit the
winter coal for the northwest to be
stored during the summer and fall, no
such arrangement is made in the east,
the supply being brought in from day
to day. In New York and other large
cities of the east the supply, as rule,
will not exceed more than is required
for twenty -four hours. One of the
dangers which threatens Minneapolis
and the entire northwest is that in
case of an excessive demand for coal
in the east the railroads which own
the anthracite coal beds, might ship
the coal which now is at the head of
, Lake Superior back to Buffalo, to be
distributed from there to various east
ern points. Such action would leave
this part of the country without any
anthracite coal, and the bituminous
product and cordwood would be in
great demand.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
SMALL POx SCARE OVER.

The Winnebago City Enterprise says
that all danger from small pox in that
city is over, and all suspected of hav-
ing been exposed, and consequently
were quarantined, have been released.
The prompt and vigorous measures
which the Winnebago City authorities
took to prevent the spread of the dis
ease, are most commendable, and have
most effectually worked to stamp the
loathsome disease out. This is an
other illustration showing that it pays
to take hold of such matter without
gloves and handle it in business like
manner, rather than to attempt to
cover it up. The danger and the loss
in every respect are far less in the
end. There were but two cases there.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
MINNESOTA's CHEESE INDUSTRY.

A special report on the cheese indus
try in Minnesota. issued by the dairy
and Food commission states that Min
nesota can never be a great cheese pro-
ducing state so long as the price of beef
remains at the present figure. The
increase in the number of cheese fac
tories in the state is commented on as
being inadequate to meet the growing
consumption of the product at home.
A. j. Glover, the commission 8
cheese expert, bases his conclusions
upon recent investigation during
which he visited each of the fifty
factories in the state. He finds that
COWS bring better prices for beef than
for dairy stock. Where creameries are
numerous they take all the available
milk product in the territory tributary
to them. In some cases even the
creameries are pushed to obtain
enough milk. These conditions limit
the field of cheese factories The
opinion is advanced that there is still
opportunity to extend the cheese
business by operating factories in
localities where the milk supply is in
sufficient for creamery.
The report calls attention to the I'M
equal competition which Minnesota
factories are forced to meet in the
shipments of poor cheese from neigh
boring states, sold here as home pro-
ducts
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
STATE CONVENTION OF Y. VIC. A.

Miss Mary Ward, of Minneapolis,
state secretary of the Young Women's
Christian association of Minnesota, is
in the city arranging for the state
convention of the association she rep
resents to be held in this city Novem-
Der I'd, Sd and 4th. The principal ses-
sion will be held in the Pres byterian
church, with reception at the nor
NAL hall Saturday evening.
Among the speakers from abroad are
Miss Bertha Condi, of Chicago. stu
dent secretary of the American COM
mittee of the Y. w. G. A. and Miss
Helen Barnes, American seer etary of
work among factory women. The pro-
gram will contain the names of many
strong men and women connected with
the cause, and the convention will be
of much interest to young women in
particular and the public in general.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

Culver Bros, successors to Chas. J.
Macbeth, hardware, announce in an
other column of the Free Press that
they have completed the inventory of
stock and are now ready for business.
The gentlemen composing this new
firm are both energetic young men,
have come to Mankato to make their
home and propose to sell goods on a
close margin. They offer special bar
gains on several lines in order to close
out quantity of stock to make room
for large invoice of heating stoves
for the trade now opening up in that
line, and which have just arrived.
The Free Press bespeaks for Culver
Bros. share of the business in their
line.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28

Z
The number of districts selling books
at cost to pupils is 60, and the aver
age cost of books to pupils in these
districts is given at 70 cents.
The number of male teachers en-
ployed were SO, female 1866 The
average wages per month for male
was $36 as against $33 for the previous
year, and $780, 2 for females as against a
fraction over 500 for the previous year.
Of the teachers employed % were
high school graduates, 81 normal and
4 college graduates.
Two new school houses were built
the past year and value of same is
81, 637. Of the 142 school buildings
eight are brick and the remainder
frame. Their total value including
sites is $97, 626, value desks SO, 245.
School appara tus, So, 800.
The number of volumes added to
school libraries the past year, $40.
Number of libraries, 70; total number
of volumes, 5, 143 value So, 634.
The aggregate Indebtedness of the
districts is So, 792.
The amount paid for teachers wages
the past year, $50. 575. 90; fuel and
sch COL supplies, 81, 1856. Go; repairs and
improving grounds. So, 779. "a; new
school houses and sites, So, 500. g. for
bonds or interest, 81, 400. 20 for library
books, $158. 90; text books, $435. A.
Apparatus, 1894. 50; other purposes
$50, 118. 81. Total expenditures, includ-
ing cash on hand sos. 094. a.
There were three first grade certifi-
Gates granted to males. and one to
females 81 second grade to males, 113
to females IL third grade to males
and 10 females.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
@
AN OLD TIMER.
.Balch" the Bricelyn Swindler Has
Served Time Before.

1t seems that Balch, which is an as
sumed name, the Bricelyn swindler, a
notice of whose transactions appeared
in these columns week or ten days
ago, and who was suspected then OF
being a professional from the easy
manner in which he handled things, is
an old timer. Sheriff Mcdonald, OF
Faribault county, was in Minneapolis
yesterday looking up facts about Balch,
whose right name is Wheeler, and
called at police headquarters there to
get a record of him. The Journal says:
According to Sheriff Mcdonald,
the night before Wheeler presented
the drafts he went to st. Paul and had
two kilograms sent to himself at Blue
Earth in care of the banks at which
he expected to get the drafts cashed.
The kilograms were opened at the
banks and they were found to state
that the Merchants bank of st. Paul
could be drawn upon by Balch to the
extent of So, 900.
''Sherff Mcdonald did not know the
identity of his prisoner until he met
Inspector Lawrence today. He showed
the latter photograph of the prisoner
and was asked if the man had one
finger off his right hand. The sheriff
said he had, and Lawrence went at
once to the rogues' gallery and got
Wheeler's picture. Wheeler is down
in the gallery as swindler and was
arrested for defrauding the West hotel
about two years ago, for which he has
served term in the workhouse. %
1t seems that suspicion was aroused
in his case by the fact that when he
called at the second bank there to get
his draft cashed, the cashier was short
of money, and went to the other bank
to get enough to help him out, and
learned of the first draft. This caused
the bank officials to make inquiry in
st. Paul and getting on to the facts
which led to Wheeler's arrest before
he left town.