Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-05-17
PENINSULA PARAGRAPHS
Interesting News Items from
Various Sources.

Interesting News Items from
Various Sources.
Dover policemen will wear shirt.
waists.
Galena has neither a Justice of the
Peace nor Constable.
Strawberries made their first appear
ance in our markets last week.
Milton public schools will hold their
commencement exercises ON the even
ing of June 9Th.
Myriads of locusts are working their
way out of the ground in lower New
Castle County.
The new building recently constructed
by the Powers Foundry Company in
Elkton will be occupied this week.
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Because of the many students i'll the
engineering departments at Delaware
College it is expected that the buildings
devoted to those studies will be enlarged.
The City Council of Elkton has refus.
ed TO give the Maryland Telephone Co..
permission to extend its line to Main
street for the purpose of establing pay
station.
Mr. Warren Long of Crisfield, has
purchased controlling interest in the
Crisfield Lcader Publishing Company
and will assume management of the
paper.
Edward Holiday, colored, who shot
and killed Joseph Bailey. another negro,
on April %. in Dover. was captured at
Sparrows' Point, Md. by State petec.
tive Francis.
While sitting on the depot platform at
Bridgeville last Sunday afternoon,
Aaron Viven, one of the most promi.
nent men of that town, and a veteran
of the civil war. was stricken with par.
alysis.
Gov. HUM has re-appointed George
s. Capelle. of Wilmington, Zebulon
Hopkins. of Pennington. and DR.. Joseph
b. NAPLES, of Georgetown, trustees of
the Delaware State Hospital for the In
sane, at Farnhurst.
A restraing order has been secured
from the Chancellor against the erection
of the proposed new school building in
Milford on the ground that the building
would be too far from the thickly popu-
lated part of the town.
Six citizens of Ceaarville, N. j., were
before the Kent county. Del. Superior
Court last week ON the charge of taking
diamond back Terrapin in Delaware wa
tiers. They were fined $50 90 each which
they promptly paid and returned home.
The newly appointed Somerset County
board of supervisors of the Election
comprising, Edward p. Fitzgerald, 1. p.
Horsey and Frederick Sterling has or.
ganized, electing Edward P. Fitzgerald
president. VIM. S. McMaster clerk and
H. L. D. Stanford attorney to the board.
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Feeling in the Collins murder case at
Laurel has become so bitter that some-
one went to the pigpen of Capt. James
Smith, near the scene of the crime, and
cut the throat of the largest hog he had
Capt Smith is staunch advocate of
the innocence of Elmer Collins, and
those of different opinion seem to
have taken this method of expressing
their feelings.
Roscoe Lincoln Bounds the ten year,
son of Mr.. Peter Bounds, of Salisbury,
fell off raft of logs, at Salisbury, on
which he had been playing, OH Thurs
and was drowned. 1t seems no one saw
him fall into the water. He was missed
by his parents. but they thought he had
gone on visit to relatives. Some boys
who had been with the boy said they
left HIM on the raft Search was made
and his body was found on Saturday
near the raft.
An accident occurred near Hebron
Tuesday evening that resulted in the
death of twelve. year-old son of Mr..
Wilson w. Wright. Mr.. Wright and
his two sons were at work out in the
field Tuesday afternoon and at turning
out time the elder boy put his small
brother on horse to ride to the house,
giving him small pail of seed corn to
take with him. The rafting of the
corn in the tin pail frightened the horse
and he ran away. The boy fell off and
one of his feet becoming entagled in
the traces he was dragged to death.
The oyster packers of Norfolk and
vicinity have formed combine, and
have been granted by Judge Hanckel,
of the Corporation Court. a charter
under the title of the Virginia Ovctar