Middletown transcript., 1901-03-09
PENINSULA NOTES

Inc Wilmington Coal Gas Company
mas reelected its old board of directors
Francis Barlow charged with stealing a
cape from Lille Erb, was held under 5000
Oall IN Wilmington for General Sessions
Court.
!erraplns are plentiful in some bitches
below Wilmington and hunters are get
'lng a good revenue from them at 81. so
per dozen.
samuel H. Storey, aged 46 years, died
at his residence in Wilmington Monday.
lie was a member of Brandywine Lodge
OF Odd Fellows.
The Penn Social Circle, of Mill Creek
hundred, has elected Bayard Fisher, pre-
sldent; Edward Peach, vice president;
Mrs Bayard Fisher, secretary.
One hundred and eighty additional
steel cells will be installed in the New
Castle County Workhouse at Greenbank
by the Pauly Jail Company, of St. Louis,
Mo.
Daniel Kirk, of 4O2 Adams street,
walked into the Delaware Hospital, Will
mington, Monday, with his right
shoulder blade dislocated. He would
not say how he was hurt.
Preparations are being made for a
grand reception by the members of St.
Peters Total Abstinence Beneficial Union
OF New Castle, in the Grand Opera House
wilmington on Easter Monday night.
Mrs. Elizabeth Klair, aged 81 years,
died on Monday at her residence in Mill
Creek hundred. She had been an inva-
lid thirteen years. Her husband, George
klalr, is about "a years old, and is in
vigorous health.
The Cherry Island Marsh Company
has elected William Lawton, Howard T.
Wallace, William F. Sellers, Jacob A.
Weldin and Isaac S. Talley as directors.
1t approves the measure for the bulk
heading of the Delaware river front.
President William NJ Candy, of the
Historical Society of Delaware, has added
about one hundred new botanical speci-
mems to the society's collection. The
society is becoming concerned at the mu-
tilation of trees in Wilmington and the
State.
The fire companies connected with the
combine" in Wilmington talk of hav-
ing jubilation to celebrate their victory
over tie "anti-combine" companies,
which have abandoned the fight to
change the method of electing officials
of the Fire Department.
The Liberty Fire Company, of vii
mington, has elected John j. Biggins
president; John P. Welsh, vice president
NJ. F. Cannon, secretary, and John May,
treasurer. The vice president is chief
engineer of the Fire Department, and
the Secretary is City Councilman from
the Second ward
The case of John Robert Grimes vs.
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad Company is on trial before
special jury in the Superior Court at
Wilmington. Grimes was on a freight
car, when it was started off and ran into
another car. He was thrown down and
severely hurt, and now sues for $1,000.
Easton lately passed town ordinance
against "crap shooting" then it made
several arrests for offending against the
ordinance. But then it discovered that
the county would not stand the expenses
of prosecution under town ordinance
and dismissed the prisoners rather than
face the prospect of a bankrupt treasury.
The Rev. ]. V. s. Wicklin, of the NJ.
E. Church, Denton, has handed his
resignation to the official board to take
effect at the end of the conference year.
1t has not been accepted as yet and
petition is being circulated among the
members of his church asking him to
reconsider and to return next year. This
is his second year as pastor at Denton.