Smyrna times., 1905-07-19

railroad train at New Castle curve and
was struck by north bound freight
tram and received INJURIES which
caused his death in few hours.
Apples from all parts of Delaware
were loaded upon refrigerator cars
last week consigned to Boston, while
few were sent in ordinary fruit cars
to Philadelphia. While great train
loads of apples were loaded the first
shipments of fully matured Delaware
peaches were offered freely in the mar
kets, selling by retail at cents per
quart.
Federal Court jury last week gave
Bashcr & Co., of Baltimore, a verdict
against the Peoples Railway Company
for $500, for loss incurred by the firm
in supplying engines to the company.
The defense was that in ordering the
engines, General Manager Crook of
the peoples company exceeded his au-
thority.
After having carried needle in his
arm for 81 years, John G. Hardness, a
grocer at Eleventh and Orange Streets
Wilmington, succeeded in removing it
Thursday with a pair of tweezers. The
needle was broken off in his knee and
Mr.. Harkness entirely forgot about it
until Thursday when the needle pro-
truded and was removed without diff
Guilty.
Physicians are puzzled over a singu-
lar case of what appears to be hydro
phobia developed by Alice Pierce, thir-
teen year old daughter of }. B. Pierce
of Wilmington. She was overcome by
the heat, but soon recovered. Then
she suddenly began to bark like dog
and showed every symptom or hydro
phobia except that she drank water
whenever given to her.
A narrow escape from a horrible
death was that of Frank Hill, employed
in Hurley & Sons mill, Salisbury, las
Thursday. A board which he was handl
ing became caught in rapidly revolv
ing saw and he was thrown off his feet
But for quick action by fellow work
men he would have been killed by tn,
saw. The blade struck him in tn
throat cutting a cash several inche
long.
Mrs. David Purnell, of Georgetown
who recently was operated upon at tn
! German Hospital, Philadelphia, TO
y peritonitis was taken to her home o
|. the afternoon train Thursday. Mrs
Purnell was accompanied by. her hus
= band and her daughter, Mrs. Lind
Rodney, and was under the persons
. care of her nephew, DR.. Frederic
Brown of Philadelphia, on the triI
She appeared to stand the iourne
well.
d ga remarkable optical illusion wa
J. seen in Trappe, Talbot county, abor
z o'clock in the evening of July II b
several citizens. Mrs. John
Mullikin, who saw it from her yar'
it tappeared about half mile distant
the lower stratum of the atmosphel
- as a miniature representation of I'll
Choptank river, the winding of Il
- shores, with the water and the bushe
in perfect representation. The mirai
Ia lasted about 30 minutes. The day W
70 very hot one. with the atmosphe
is very damp. The river is about thr
s. miles distant in direct line"
r The Chestertown Transcript say
ic ''There is a we'll defined movement
foot to establish a peninsula troll
IN line between Elkto and Ocean Gil
ga The line will pass through ElktC
Of Chesapeake City, Chestertown, O.
% treviIIe, Easton, Cambridge, Prince
%. Anne, Salisbury, Berlin, Snow Hill,
h Ocean City. Those interested in
ho movement are men OF energy,
fuence and wealth in the state a
there lie every probability that the i
will be established in the very NJ
0l0 future. This is all the informal
&C. that can be furnished the public
present.
ere Shipping stations all along the L
The aware division of the Pennsylva
ex- railroad were lined last Thursday "
wagons, containing vari-colored fri
ola that would have done credit to the {
"a nival of Venice. Blackberries,
I'm raspberries, Japanese plums, es
aL yellow peaches and red Astrakan
ice. white Early Harvest apples were
Lor the consignments. David W. Mos
"a who started fruit farming few W
,icb ago with nothing and has since becC
known as the Delaware jblackbe
king, received $1s7 and $l56 resp
% iyely for his shipments for the last
inns days of last week.