Evening journal., 1904-05-23
WILL HAVE
To EXPLAIN
Robert Cooper Must Tell
How His Team Happened
in Possession of Thieves
New Castle. May %.

A horse and wagon for twenty chickens
just common, ordinary chickens-is not
a bad exchange That is what a farmer
beyond Hare's Corner did on Saturday
morning
When he arose he discovered that thieves
had visited his hen roost during the night
He soon struck the trail and followed It
until he came up to two men in "a wagon
loaded with his chickens. When the fell
lows saw that they were being pursued
they abandoned the team and the fowls
and cut across the fields ami escaped
The farmer brought the team TO this place
and notified officer Tobin. who later arrest
ed Robert Cooper, colored, owner of the
team on the charge of being connected
with the lerceny OF the chickens. The
Whereabouts Of the thieves is not known.
Fort DUPONT Wins.
The Fort DUPONT team defeated the All
Stars here on Saturday afternoon by the
score Of Z to 5. Mahoncy for the loca S
pitched "a line game but errors lost for
The -Nu-stlcs.
Tha boys have not had enough practice
this season and should get together and
become acquainted with one another.
The story Of the trouble:
R.H.E.
All-Stars.. ...........1 100000 O-5 "A (
For DUPONT. o.. ..e212O0O2O- 4
Earned runs, An-stars a; Fort DUPONT
3; two base hits. Couniiss, Wise, Robinett,
Hobbs; hit by pitched ball. Mckinley;
bases on balls. off Anihoney. 2l off Grant,
i, struck out, by Mahoney. 10; by Grant. z;
stolen bases Long. Roblnetr, Counuss,
Kirby, Atkinson; wild pitches, Grant. i;
Mahonoy /; double plays, Sexton to Rom
lg; left on bases, All Stars 10; Fort Du-
Pont 8; umpires, Walter Bacon and Eu-
gene Chase; thine. 155.
Death of Infant.
Harry S. Gear, the infant son Of John
G.. aAd Mary +. Gear. died at the home OF
ats parents, ON North Fourth street. on
Saturday morning from tubercular az
fections. The Chi was twenty-one months
old and had been an for several weeks
The funeral will be held at the home OF
the ohild's parents this afternoon at 4.3l
O'Clock, Services being conducted by Che
Rev. F. NJ. Munson, l.. l.. d., rector OF
Emmanuel p. e. Church. Interment viii
be made in Glebe Cemetery
John Z. Adams Dies.
John c. Adams, who lived on the sut.
ton farm near Hare's Corner died there
-on Saturday morning from cerebro hem
orrhlges after an illness Of two years.
Mr.. Adams was n years OF age anc
made his home with Nathaniel W. Jones
from whose house he viii be buried to-
morrow afternoon az ! O'Clock with in
/ termenf at ST. GEORGES
Catching Sturgeon.
Sturgeon are beginning to make theil
appearance in the Delaware river in tn,
vicinity of New Castle and the shad fish
ermen, who have had such q disastrous
season, are turning their attention to th'
capture of the more profitable FISH. Thl
roes of the COW sturgeon are much sough
after by epcures. They are salted an,
prepared for the table and for centuries
have been considered as great delicacies
| especially by the Russians
Belford Wood, Of Pennsgrove caugh
eight Of the big fish in the past week
AS five of them were roe sturgeon, Woo,
realized enough to clear expenses for tn
/ whole seasons work.
Dredges at Work.
The jredgers have begun work a shor
distance below Delaware City on the rive
and bay improvements. The mud will b
deposited on Pea Patch Island and th
dumping basins will be above and below
the governments wharf at Fort Delaware
Timely Topics.
Wil1am II. Heine, of Wilmington, ha
secured the contract for laying the sew
er on Delaware street from John Ries
new house. The drain VIII be a foot il
diameter and $50 feet long.
John r. Lambson is undergoing treat
ment at the Episcopal Hospital, Philadel
phia.
Several New Castle people have bee
subpoenaed to testify as to the characte
OF Benjamin Denn. who will be tried q
Cour- on the charge Of assaulting Joh
Ries, on May /.
Samuel McKnitt suspects that severa
Of mis- pigs which died recently have bee
poisoned by some evi.ly disposed person.