Smyrna times., 1901-06-05

prisoner Ill New Castle jail, wandered
away Monday about noon, and has not
Deed heard of since He was serving
4 life term for the murder of Noah Ben
son at Delaware City about nine years
ago. He had been an inmate of the
Jail for more than eight years. George
Henry Hutt and James johnson, who
we're pardoned two weeks ago, and
after their departure from the Jail it is
supposed that Miller longed for free
dom, and accepted the opportunity to
leave prison life hehind.
The Daily Republican in speaking
of the city election in Wilmington Sat
urday says: "Out of total of some |
10000 voters registered, only a little
over 10, 900 voted. The most important |
body which should have been secured |
by the Republicans was City Council,
but this, by some foolishness on the
part of the party managers, was
turned over to the Democrats by one
majority. The Ninth and Twelfth
wards, which are nominally Repub-
lican, elected Democrats. In the
Twelfth ward, number of the men
calling themselves Republicans, would
not vote because they were not paid so
much a piece for their votes. With the
cutting of the Republican ticket and
those who held out for a money con-
sideration, if they had given the ticket
their loyal support, the majority would
have been nearer 2OOO than 400. Each
of the two factions of the Republican
party is charging the other with
treachery, but the vote shows the city
to be strongly Republican.
Delaware witnesses are preparing to
go to San Francisco to testify in the re-
trial of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who was
convicted of sending poisoned candy
through the mails and therby murder
ing Mrs John p. Dunning and Mrs. j.
d. Deane. There will be sixteen wit
nesses in the Delaware party, but they
will not be accompanied by Attorney
General Ward or his deputy, Charles
II. Richards, The California courts
will meet in few days, when the date
for the Botkin retrial will be set. The
time for departure of the Delawareans
will be governed, in a measure, by the
date for the trial
The terrible accident on the line of
the Peoples Railway Company in Will
mington on Thursday night, by which
one man was killed, one fatally injured
and score of others injured, was one
of those awful tragedies which, appar-
emily ought to be easily avoided but
still they occur.
The Peoples Railway line is a new
one; its equipment is new and its em-
ployees new at the business, and on q
line, with new appliances, of which
they had no experience. With these
new and untried appliances the COM
pany attempted to do a business that
wonld have severely tested the capac-
ity of experienced employees handling
a tested equipment and under perfect
system of discipline. From noon
until night all the cars going westward
to Brandywine Springs over the new
line were overcrowded, and were run
ming too close together. The tragedy
of the return trip of these cars
at night, proves that there wa
great danger in even this dayligh
crowded travel. All these apparen
dangers were increased by the dark
ness. Happily but one accident Oc
cured. The cause of the accident sp
peared to have been defect in the brak
of car No. 5. 1t is possible that thi
} defect would have been discovered
during few days of ordinary use,
that had preceded the enormousl
heavy traffic of Thursday and the dis
covery would have prevented the acc
dent.