Evening journal., 1901-09-12
DARING TRAIN
ROBBERY In DOVER
COiOrtd Man Boldly DaSheS
Off With Dress Sait
Case
Special 10 no Evcnlng journal.

e Dover. Sept l2-From all reports
there is something radically defective
with the United States mail service ON
the Delaware railroad. Patrons OF that
service are agitated over the loss re-
Gently Of several checks and valuable
inetters in charge OF their agents. The
Rev. C. S. Baker presiding elder of
Dover district, reports that several let
ters containing checks have been lost
en- route TO Dover from various points
on this road. One from the Rev. II. G.
, Budd. Methodist Episcopal minister at
/ Berlin, Md, containing $3.50, and an
other from the Rev. j. j.. Johnson,
Methodist Episcopal minister at
, Greenwood. for S1S5, have failed to
/ reach their destination. These were
. remittances forthe churches respective
. contributions TO the Conference Acad-
Z emy debt
/ DR.. Baker also reports the loss Of
one sent by himself to Lewes lasl
I week The Rev. B f. Campbell claims
the loss of three checks mailed to him
from Pottsville and Wilkesbarre, Pa
: The postal authorities have been noti-
, fed and search is being made to dis
cover the whereabouts of the lost mail
7 and the reasons for its disappearance.
{ An interesting question arose before
/ Judge Pennewill yesterday in relation
to a landlords right to attach growing
, crops to obtain his share OF the pro-
q ducts OF the farm. where it was not
b money rent Judge Pennewi,l de-
81 cided that growing crops could be at
B., tached.
II is not generally known by Dover
3 people that all the oysters they eat are
Z from tho Chesapeake bay and that it Is
e impossible for the local dealers 70 pro-
p cure any from the many oystermen
who operate on the Kent shores. The
e river at Mahons is the harbOr Of ref
3 uge for not only the guardboat, but for
all the fishing and oyster smacks that
ldredge in the Kent county waters for
q The delicious bivalve. Sometime as
r high as twenty-five schooners take
b refuge within its smooth waters to
[ avoid the dangerous effects of a storm.
b. The State, through its oyster revenue
D collector leases certain portions of the
( bed of the bay, bordering Kent county
to persons wishing to plant beds OF
p, oysters. These persons own fishing
8 smacks which they use TO dredge with
and when loaded carry them to Phila-
a delphia, Wilmington and Chester for
sale. These beds are several miles out
, in the bay and no one IS allowed.
e other than their owners. to dredge
4 upon them. TO prevent this, the guard
boat is placed there by the State. The
oysters are culled into two grades
a primes. for which they receive IS Der
- thousand, and seconds. for which they
receive Sc per thousand, i'm the cities
a above mentioned. Thus none OF the
oysters is brought to Dover for sale
, and the capital city epicure is lucky
= indeed If on visiting Mahon's he can
even then get a basketful of primes al
IS a liberal price. The Oxford, Nd, oys-
ltermen, and Seaford, Del. fishermen
supply Dover tables with their shell
fish. and the Dover epicure is in
the singular position of living on IN,
Delaware bay on one side of a larg,
u Peninsula, and compelled to buy hi.
shell fish on the other side from th,
waters OF the Chesapeake bay. Tn,
r. residents of Frederick eat oysters from
X the Murderkill, and those of. Milfor,
r. from the Mspillion.
a A daring robbery was worked bv ,
is gang OF colored boys yesterday at tn,
g Dover depot White one of the passen
D. ger trains was waiting a few minutes
2. Charles Purnell, one of Dover's illus
le trious jail birds boldly went into
ll car picked up a dress suit case from
y the side of q passenger and walked of
y with it. He jumped off the train. rai
with it up by the side Of the track an,
NJ hid IL, and then disappeared from view
I, The railroad detective has not arrest
4 ed him yet
IN The Middletown baseball team failet
IS TO materialize yesterday. The hom
nc team was ready TO receive them. Thi
n- is The fourth time the Midd,etowl
K, boys have disappointed the Dover az
le creation Il is rumored they wer
afraid TO meet the Dover team wit
Layton In the box
.T Juuge James Pennewill Is rapidl
! completing the additions made 10 hi
beautiful State street residence.
q Ahis ls the hrst year since the pass
ing of the county fair, and a singula
thing is evident. to one who notice
~ ~. the customs Of the people. namel,
y. that no one is ever heard to speak {
IN the lair or express a wish to have
" relnVenated. For many years the a.
sociation lost money. and at lai
~ through lis inability to pay premium
l1' awarded. there were no exhibits wort
Ia spealling cf The Legislature tw
'sr wears ago appropriated $4,000 for u
re- fair each year and it received Il
'N honeHt last wear. The associatio
a singular as it appears. converted d
md fair into a tenth-rate vaudeville sho
'oA cakewalks and pugilistic contest
The audience upon the grandstand h
1 been warned by the Dover minister