Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-03
OVER THE peninsula.

Mumps are raging in Millington.
Georgetown is to have a water supply
system.
Twenty one cases were heard in Will.
mington Court this week.
A United States recruiting office has
been opened in Cambridge.
Many Wilmington milk dealers have
reduced the price to six cents quart.
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1t is reported that the San Jose scale
is troubling some lower Delaware peach
orchards.
New manual training school will
shortly be erected on the Crisfield High
School lot.
William S. Workman, of Laurel, has
been granted an original pension of SO
per month.
Eighteen hotels and two wholesale
houses have applied for liquor licenses
in Cecil county.
fredericksburg is to have new railroad
depot. Trappe. on the Delaware s.
Chesapeake. is also to have one.
big revival is in progress at Imman-
uel NJ. Z. Church Crisfield. Over fifty
conversions took place last week.
Mrs. Eliza Cranmer, aged 40 years,
died of smallpox at the State Asylum at
Farnhurst. formerly of Georgetown.
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Rev. r. A. Robinson was installed
pastor of the Manokin Presbyterian
Church of Princess Anne last Friday.
William Walls was fined $50 and costs
i'll Wilmington City Court for conduc-
ting a speak-easy, the liquor being found
in trunk.
William p. Bancroft has made con-
tingent offer of a gift of $50, 600 towards
a $500. 600 fund for the removal of Della
ware College frow Newark to Whining.
ton.
Mr.. w. T. Vincent, of Salisbury,
messenger for State Fish Commissioner
G. L. Vincent. placed 100000 young
shad in the Manokin river at the red
bridge, Princess Anne, last Thursday.
-Mdryiander and Herald.
The vacancy i'm the legal staff of the
Pennsylvania Railroad on the peninsula
left by the death of Judge Russum has
been filled by the appointment of Marion
DeKalb Smith as its counsel in Kent
county.
Delaware City has a new industry.
which promises to be profitable 1t is
that of preparing herring for trade. A
building over 100 feet long has been
erected, and in this the fish are prepared
for market.
A report received from officials of the
Virginia oyster police states that the
most of the oysters in the Potomac have
been killed by the many freshets Great
damage has also been done in the Rap
pahannock river.
Edward Halliday and Joseph Bailey,
Dover, young negroes, became involved
in quarrel over woman, as a result
Bailey is in the hospital with pistol
ball in him and the woman in Jail as
a witness. Halliday is still at large.
The receivers of the defunct Balti
more Building and Loan Association.
have been authorized by an order signed
by Judge Morris in the United States
Circuit Court to make payment to the
Stockholders of the association on or
before June /, next 80 per cent of the
amount of their holdings.
1t has been decided that the members
of the First Delaware Regiment shall
go into camp this summer. The fact
will greatly please the men who have
been hoping to see this brought about
1t is partly due to the appeals of the en-.
listed men that the order was given.
June 20 has been finally set by Gov
ernor Smith as the date upon which
three murderers are to hang They are.
John Murphy, for the murder of John
English in Allegany county. and Frank
Jones and John johnson, of Ellicott
City, for that of Israel Radetsky, i'm
Howard county. The death warrants
have been signed and sent to the sheriffs
of the respective counties.
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Lawyer J. X. Shinn and Detective
Petit and McVey, of New Jersey, caused
the detention of A. Stanburg Stanford,