Middletown transcript., 1900-03-17
LATE PENINSULA NEWS.

At the present time twenty-seven new
cottages are being erected at Rehoboth.
John EVeritt, for many years overseer Of
the Cecil County Almshouse, died last
Wednesday.
Charles B. Silver's canning house, al
Liberty Grove, near Elkton, collapsed yeter.
day under the weight of 4, 500 cases of can.
| ned tomatoes.
The Wilmington Mills Manufacturing
Company, which manufactures jute, has
been sold at private sale for $s6, 900 to the
Planet Mills Manufacturing Company, q
New York concern.
Captain Augustus Scout, we'll known
citizen of near Smyrna, died last Saturday
morning. He was in his 83rd year, and was
during his life captain of sea going vessels
and has travelled the waters of nearly the
whole earth.
John Ball, one of the best known farmers
of Mill Creek hundred, and father of State
Treasure Lewis Heisler Ball, died at his
home at Milltown, on Tuesday after five
weeks illness from pleuri-pneumonia, the
result of an attack of the grip,
Thomas Briscoe and John Ross, the latter
colored, broke Cambridge Jail Sunday
night about s o'clock and have not been
heard from since. Briscoe was from Balti-
more and Ross from Somerset county.
Both were under charges of larcency and
were to have tried been at the April term of
court.
There was a joint m Getting in Easton last
Saturday of the Boards of County Com
missioners of Talbot and Caroline counties
to consider the Dover bridge break down.
1t will take another meeting to bring mat.
ters to a conclusion, both counties wishing
to replace the present wooden structure
from the draw to Talbot shore with steel
bridge and put steel sliding draw. The
only impediment is the cost. A rough es-
innate made by Pittsburg concern puts
the cost at $4,000. The bridge is now steel
from the draw to the Caroline shore, three
ffths ofitslength. Mr.. George NJ. Wingard,
whose traction engine broke down the draw
and now lies at the bottom of the Choptank
river, says he will make no attempt to raise
it. He will send bill for damages to the
County Commissioners, and if they refuse
to pay it will bring suit.
WI Davis. of Galena, Mary land, COM
mitted suicide Saturday afternoon by
drowning. He had been suffering very
much lately from bladder trouble and was
heard to make the remark that if there was
a river close by he would drown himself
Saturday morning he suffered greatly and
arose about O. clock and went to W. A. Hy-
lands machine shop and stayed there un-
til breakfast. He left Galena in the morn
ing after telling Mrs. Ruth, with whom he
boarded not to wait dinner for him if he
was not back in time. He was seen walking
around the river shore at Rasin's wharf
early in the afternoon. This was the last
seen of him alive. Not returning home by
night, a general alarm was given, and
searching parties secured the river shores
and woods bordering on it. About 10
o'clock am object was noticed about 20 feet
from the shore on the Constable farm, three
miles from Galena, which proved to be the
body of Mr.. Davis. Attached to the corpse
was stone from a rope around his waist.
The ston . weighed Al pounds. Mr.. Davis
was about 65 years of age and was foreman
of Hylahd's machine shops for 80 years.
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