Middletown transcript., 1901-01-05
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terest of the other owners i'll the VIII
mington Democrat, weekly publication
Emma M. Palmer has been elected
commander of Star of Bethlehem Lodge
Shepherds of Bethlehem, of Wilmington
Rev. J. r. Milligan, pastor Of Olivet
Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, has
received call to St. Georges's Church
and has it under consideration.
S. G. Fisher, Of Glendale, has secured
through the efforts of United States
Senator Kenney, a position in the Agri'
cultural Department at Washington.
The Delaware Construction Company,
of Wilmington, has a $45, 900 contract for
the erection of three sets of stocks from
the Maryland Steel Company, at Spar
rows Point, Md.
When girl goes away for few weeks,
and kisses young man good bye on the
depot platform, two things are indicated:
One, she thinks she loves him; two, she
has mighty poor taste.
The john Marshall Day committee of
the New Castle County Bar Association
comprises Anthony Higgins, William F.
Kurtz, Tilghman johnson, Peter L.
Cooper, Jr., and Andrew c. Gray.
Persons who are in the habit of using
standard dollars as target in pistol prac-
tice will find after this that their amuse-
ment will cost them dear, for the govern
ment has decided not to redeem any coin
that has been mutilated.
The Commoner, the new Democrat
weekly published by William ]. Bryan
will appear in January The subscrip-
ton price is 81 year payable in ad-
vance. The paper will be issued from
Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mr.. Br, an will
be the editor and publisher.
John Sanders, an aged colored man,
living near Blackbird, was walking alopg
the railroad track unmindful, because he
was deaf, of the approach of train.
The locomotive grazeC his coat, and the
wind of the train threw him in a bank
of mud.
The resignation of Joseph c. Lugar a
general superintendent of Wilmington
City Railway Company will take effect
January 81. He will become general
of the Ohio Valley Electric
Railway Company, with headquarters in
Huntington, w. Va.
George Darrell, who is a resident of the
Buttonwoods, near New Castle, heard a
noise at his hennery at an early hour
Monday morning, and, creeping around
the side of the house, saw two negroes. |
He fired at one of the men, wounding
him. The negro managed to escape.
Blood showed that he had been cut by
the shot.
The people Of New Castle are anxious
to learn what the intention of the new
owners of the branch of the National |
Tube Company in that city is in regard |
to the plant, and are hoping to hear that
the works will be started up The plant,
it is stated, is TO be absorbed by a still |
larger trust, that is to develop the tube
business on greater scale and make the
tubes more cheaply than formerly.
The New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Telegraph Company, which has
on the Peninsula, has asked
the Wilmington Street and Sewer Depart
ment for permission to build a line in
to connect with the Postal
Company's building.
This is to form part Of the line in opposi-
ton to the Western Union on the Penin-
Sula.
Delissa Jacques, the Frenchman who
was pardoned on Tuesday last by Cover
nor Tunnel, after serving eight years of
l ten years sentence in New Castle Jail,
loes not know what to do with himself.
He leaves the jail in the morning,
boards the trolley car and spends the day
n Wilmington. He returns at night
md firmly believes that the Jail is his
lome. He does not seem to understand
otherwise. {
The farmers of lower Delaware are still
eporting large numbers Of big hogs killed
his season. Probably the largest was
hat owned by w. S. Marsh, OF Angola,
which weighed 7413 pounds. William
v. Mustard, of Cool Spring, killed four,
Weighing, respectively, 542, sos, sos and
80 pounds. Josiah D. Walls, Of Robin
on, owned four, whose aggregate weight
vas 1885 pounds. Three hogs, the prop
rty of R. Henry Mumford, of Old Furn-
zee, weighed $50, AGO and 800 pounds,
While boring an artesian well near
CASTOR last week the suction pump, when 8
! depth of one hundred and twenty-five +
eet had been reached, threw out num-
'ers OF Holsters, small fishes and toads,
potless white in color, and what appeared
o be the teeth and fins of sharks. The
ish and HOLSTERS, which were each about
TX inches in length, died soon after being
jected by the pump, but the toads, lived
or hours. The pump is being bored :
through bed of rocks and it is believed / l
hat cavern containing animal life exists
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Coroner's Work for a Year
Coroner Alfred D. Vandever, who closed v
,ic forT,o MonI.-. c