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Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
DELAWARE COLLEGE
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

The annual Commencement of Della
ware College promises to be one of the
most interesting ever held by that insti
tuition, it beginning on Sunday, June
10th, and closing with the annual hoE
on Wednesday night, June 18th. The
following is the program:
Sunday, June l6th-11.00 a. m. Ser
mon before the Young Mems Christian
Association of Delaware College, by the
Rev. J. Harry Mitchell, '03. 500 p. m.
Baccalaureate Sermon, by the Rev.
Charles R. Erdman, D. D., Princeton
Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. j.
OratOry.
Monday, June 18th All day meeting
of farmers at the College Farm. Ad-
dresses by Hon. Daniel o. Hastings,
Henry B. Thompson, ESQ.,, and Samuel
H. Derby, Esq Luncheon served to
visitors. 3.00p. m. Glass Day exercises.
Oratory. 600 p. m. Evening parade.
Tuesday, June 18th-11 90 a. m. Meet
ing of the Board of Trustees. 2.30 p. m.
Inter-class Field and Track Meet on the
College Athletic Grounds. 600 p. m.
Evening Parade. 500 p. m. Joint An
niversary Exercises of the Athenaean
and the Delta Phi Literary Societies.
AuuIGSS ny LLt IAtN. LII. w ilbuL 4
COrkran, Wilmington, Del.
Wednesday, June 18th 1890 a. m.
Commencement Exercises; Student Ora
tions. Address by the Hon. Charles w.
Heuisler, of the Supreme Court of Bal
timore. 100 p. m. Luncheon for Wis
itors. Recitation Hall. Luncheon for
Alumni Association. Gymnasium. 200
p. m. Meeting of the Alumni Associa-
tion. $50 p. m. Review and Competi-
tive Drill for the Roberts Medal. 4.30
p. m. Baseball game; Alumni VS.. Va
rsity. $50 p. m. Farewell Hop given
by the Glass of 1913 to the Glass of 1912.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
FISHING TRIP FATAL
TO CONGRESSMAN
R. C. WICkIiffe Run Down and
Killed BY Train

Representative Robert G. Wickliffe,
of louisiana was run down on the
tracks of the Southern railway in Pc.
tomac park, near Washington, and in
stantly killed. He had left the capitol
on a fishing trip.
How Mr. Wickliffe happened to stray
on the railroad tracks has not been
cleared up. The engineman of the
train said he saw the congressman
too late to avoid the accident. News
OF the tragic death Of the prominent
southern representative travelled fast,
but did not reach Mrs Wicklife be
fore she had started for the capitol, as
was her daily custom, to watch tie
proceedings in the house.
That body was about to adjourn out
Of respect to the memory of Nh
Wiclline when several members hap
pened to catch glimpse of his vie
in the gallery. There was a hurried
conference.
Representatives Estopinal, of Louis
lana, and Cullop, Of Indiana, made
their way quietly to where Mrs Wick
life was sitting and invited her down
stairs to Speaker Clark's office. There.
as gently as they could, they broke
the news to her. Mrs. Wickliffe fanted
Mr. Wickliffe was alone when killed
The accident was on the railroad EN-
bankment at the north end of the
railroad bridge over the PO.Omas river, |
just at the entrance to the Potomac
park, which borders the river in the
southwest section Of Washington.
Despite a sign at that point warning
against trespassing on the railroad
property there, Wickliffe was seen to (:
climb the elevation, apparently uncOn- .
scious of the oncoming train. He was
struck and instantly killed. a deep
cash was cut on his forehead ana the
body was badly crushed.
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CALHOUN DISTRICT

We are having very pleasant weather
at this writing, only little cool.
Mr and Mrs Wilbert Coverdale and
family were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Lyndale on Sunday.
Robert Johnson and leighton Donovan
attended the Children's 5 Day services at
Slaughter Neck and Lincoln on Sunday.
Emma Carpenter has been attending
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Onis Carpenter,
who has been very i'll.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Morgan are the
happy parents of a nine pound baby girl.
Mrs. Henry Bennett and son, William,
have been the guests of her mother, Mrs.
John O. Donovan, whois on the sick list.
The young people of this vicinity have
been enjoying the strawberry picking,
and very much amused by their friend
Polly"
Samuel Roland Wilson was the guest
of his brother, James, on Monday.
Roland Beauchamp was Slaughter
Beach visitor Sunday evening.
Davis and Horace Draper have returned
home from near Ellendale, where they
have been very busy threshing peas.
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sors, and really the advances which
first were disclosed to the profession
here marked another epoch in medi-
cine and surgery.
The amazing report of DR.. Alexis
Carel, who is in charge of the research
work at the Rockefeller institute, of
New York, surpasses anything that
has ever been done in the line of sur
gerry, and the possibilities of his dis
covery are such that one mi sht almost
be led to believe that science had
solved the problem of restoring life to
the dead.
DIR. Carrel told the surgical section
assembled on the steel pier that any
time they had occasion to use parts
of human heart, nerves, blood yes
sells, spleen, skin, and even some of
the smaller glands Of the body, all
they had to do was to order them
from the institute and they would be
accommodated forthwith. The cornea
of the eye, diseased portions of the
various bones of the body, cartileges
of the knee which have given out and
need replenishing, can be had from
this wonderful research laboratory.
There was something almost un-
canny as this scientific man told the
surgeons and physicians that with the
millions that John D. Rockefeller has
endowed this institution, it has at last
become possible to make these por-
tions OF the human anatomy live after
they have been taken from the b, dy.
Dr.. Carrel has worked along the lines
laid down by Tufiet, Magitot ani
Lawenhaek, famous scientists Of Eu-
rope, and he has discovered that he
can make these tissues ami parts Of
the body live and grow for as long as
nine months after the life of tle hui
man body from which they have been
taken has ceased to exist.
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senator Nixon Dead.

Senator George S. Nixon, Of Nevada,
died at the Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat hospital in washington. after
an illness u less than a week.
The ser '.Dr was operated on last
Thursday r5r the removal of a nasal
> aoscess Blood poisoning and menin-
8 is set N Previously he had been in
good health to all appearances and was
about his Official duties in the senate.
Hope for his recovery was practi-
cally given up Monday night and the
senator's wife, who was in San Fran.
cisco. was advised by wire and left for
Washington at the earlist opportunity,
accompanied by her son.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
Shot Man Who ANNOYED Her.

Mrs. Maggie Peppers, twenty-five
years old, and the mother Of four chill
dren, sent a bullet into the back Of
John Ramp. thirty-fve years old, an
insurance agent and married man, at
her home ir ShamOkin, Pa.
The victim staggered from the wo-
mans house and fell unconscious tG
the sidewalk. He was rushed to a hos
pital.
When several men -aeched the
scene Mrs. Pepper was standing over
the victim and would have sent an
other bullet into his body had it not
been for timely interference. Mrs. Pep
per gave the weapon to a neighbor,
kissed her children and gave herself
up to the police.
The woman alleges that Ramp has
bounded her for several years, that
she shot him once before. had him put
under bonds to keep the peace, and
that when he insisted upo entering her
home she shot him in self-defense and
the protection of her home.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
CHILD HAD ECZEMA
MOTHER SAYS SAXo sALVE
MADE HER WELL.

'My little girl suffered with eczema
on her hands for nearly a year ant
reading about SaXO Salve one day
bought a tube and found it helped
her. After using two tubes my baby's
hands are entirely we'll" Mrs. E. P
Hook, 224 E. 18th street, Conners
vile, Ind.
In all forms of eczema, and all 9th
er crusted or scaly humors and erup
tions, Saxo Salve allays the itching
at once, and penetrates the pores OF
the skin, reaching the very roots OF
the disease with it's germ-destroyingi
healing power and soon banishes the
eruption, leaving the skin smooth
and unscarred.
We sell Saxo Salve on a positive
guarantee for all sorts of skin affec.
tions. If it does not give satisfaction
you get your money back. Try it,
H.T. o. Moore, Druggist, Milford, Del
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
ROBBINS.

Our town is experiencing a building
boom. Cove S. Lynch has built fine
summer kitchen, James Abbott has put
a commodious barn and Thomas Jester
has built an addition to his residence.
W. S. Spicer and c. H. SammOns Wis
tied T. H. Williams on Sunday.
John Sandon, our mule dealer, lost a
valuable mule recently.
Charles Banning and family visited c..
L. Clendaniel on Sunday.
Our boys aud the Redden boys gave
c. B. Dickerson an old fashioned sere-
made last Wednesday night, and invited
it to table loaded with good things to
eat.
Strawberries are about gone, and the
farmers have realized a nice little sum.
They brought from 3 to 10 cents a quart
at the station.
We were visited on Sunday morning
by frost, but it did not do much dam
age. SLY JIM.
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Shot Dead on the street.

Charles W. Adams, Of Sharpsburg,
superintendent of the national GENE
terry at the Antientam battlefield, was
shot and killed on the avenue lead
ing from Sharpsburg to Burnside
bridge. near Hagerstown, Nd, by
Charles W. Benner, a resident of
Sharpsburg Benner then went to his
home and committed suicide.
The cause of the shooting is said
to have been a grudge Benner held
against his victim because Of testi-
mony rejecting on Benner's character,
which Adams gave in a court a few
years ago.
Adams was seventy years old. He
was a doOrkeeper Of the house of rep
resentatiyes during the Fifty-frst con,
gress and was the Republican leader
of Washington county, Maryland. Ben.
ner was fifty-fve years old.
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Turkey Trot Kills Her.

Mrs. Agnes E. Day, twenty-one years
old, is dead at her home, 10 Mount
Vernon avenue, Atlantic City, N. J., as
the result of her zeal to master the
turkey trot"
Friends who heard of her sudden
death learned that she had been prac-
ticing the dance with her husband
prior to going on one of the piers to
witness experts do the trot. She was
seized with a sudden pain in her side
and stopped the strenuous step.
Ten minutes later, when she, with
her husband, started from the house
the young woman fell to the floor IN
conscious. Before physicians had ar
rived she was dead.
Examination showed that she had
burst a blood vessel in her side.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
FIND MISSING
men ON ISLAND
LGaDa1 Into Delaware Bay From
Burning Motor Boat
were G%Ea UP FOR DEAD

N two LIE Savers Struggled Cesper-
lrs a.ey In Water to Reach sland Two
Iisi miies Away.
- Exhausted and nearly famished, tell-
drsfng a s,Or5 Ol a D-arVeIO-s escape 4 fOm
Wideath. D. r. Hoover, OF Camden, ami
w Ge0r.e l.. As.Ger OF COlingswJ0d, ~.
HrsJ., the TWO N Iiu~ oCd lie qua d5 wIo
llWere Ier..ted as be.ns drowned be-
, iloW B-ys.4e, n. j., were picked up on
i'Kent island. in Delaware bay, which
,erbey had re1cued a..er two-mile swim
eriwhen Jue.r M5.yrDOlt caaght fire and
enblew up.
ce Relatives who mourned the men as
lildead and were preparing to c9ud ict
Funeral services in case the bodies
I:weer relo3 ereI from the deep were
.r,irantic with joy when taey heard the
sgood news.
er The pair LETT Camden last Friday
1enight in H1oyer's twenty-five foot mo
ytor5oat, bound for Wildwood, waere
n'4bey were TO go on duty.
Il The boat suddenly caught fire and
sahe men barely had time to leap over
board with their clothes on when tho
craft blew up.
Hampered by their heavy shoes and
dIothing, the guards made a desperate
iisffort t0 reach the shore, mile away,
dbht the wind and tide were against
ahem. and they were swept toward
Kent island For a time they enter
gained little hopes OF reaching the isl
and. First one and then the o her
twould become exhausted. Each took
surns at keeping the other aAoat. Once
iDelker said in despair:
Its no use, Hoover, old man.
can't keep up any longer. I am tired
10 death"
He was sinking when Hoover grab
bed him by the hair and dragged him
to the surface He beat his friend
vigorously about the arms and shOuli-
ers to restore warmth to his chilled
blood.
Soon after this Hoover succumbed to
the chill of the water and sank with
out word. Then it was Delker's turn
10 act the part Of friend and rescuer.
Then they saw the island close at
hand But a swift current raced
around both sides of the little piece
Of land. Exerting every ounce of their
remaining strength, they batled with
The undertow until they felt their feet
strike against the bottom. Then they
Staggered to the shore and fell ex
shausted on the beach.
They passed the night on the beach,
but could not make the.r cries for help
heard
At last in the late afternoon, the
3 occupants Of motorboat observed a
man standing on a rock and wavins
bis undershirt 1t was Hoover. Del
ker was lying on the beach. too weak
10 stand BO,h men had to be assist
a into the boat Of their rescuers.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
U. S. BLUcJACKrTS LAND
sixty-fvs Sailors With Mountain Gun
GIz ang Cuban Mines.

Sixty-five Sailors With Mountain Gun
GIz ang Cuban Mines.
The In ed States gun6oat Ma h
vile landei at Mayari, Cuba, a9ou
five miles s1uh OF Nipe bay, on tH7
northern coast, detachment Of ST &
five bluejackets with a mountain gun
for the protection Of the Wooiire
mines.
The sailors viii later be replaced
by marines. The scene Of depreda.ions
seems now to have shifted to this To-
cality.
Absolute quiet prevails in Havana
and no news of any disturbance in the
vicinity of the capital has come to
hand. The government declares that
no dispatches have reached it contain
ing news from the province Of Oriente.
During the night the police made many
arrests of negroes who are charge
with conspiracy.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
Fight over Number of Children.

Henry Gillin, of Smithfeld, near
Uniontown, Pa, and his wife had a
dispute regarding the number of chill
dren of which they were the par.
ents.
The woman was positive that they
numbered fourteen, while her husband
was certain it was sixteen. The argu-
ment became warm, and Mrs. Gillin
alleges that her husband struck her
on the head.
Gillin was taken before Judge Van
Swearingen on a charge of assault and
battery. When the court heard the
cause of the trouble he discharged
Gillin.
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have an operation. Iwould not listen to
that, and when a friend of my husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, 1 was willing to take it.
Now look the picture of health and feel
hkeit too. can do my own housework,
hoe my garden, and milk COW. l can
entertain company and enjoy them. l
can visit when l choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. / wish 1 could talk to every
suffering woman and girl. Mrs. DEMA
BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Murrayville, Ill.-"I have taken Ly-
lia E. Pinkham's s Vegetable Compound
for a very bad case of female trouble
and it made me a we'll woman. My
health was all broken down, the doctors
said l must have an operation, and Twas
ready to go to the hospital, but dreadedit
50 that began taking your Compound.
/ got along so well that gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
tion. ~ Mrs. CHARLES MOORE, R. R.
No. 8, Murrayville, III.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
FARMIIGTON

A festival will be held at this place
on Saturday evening.
Children's Day services will be held
at Todd's Church, also at Prospect and
Staytonsville.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
Got Anva

The fall Of the year always lays a
special strain upon the nations finan-
cial resources. For not only is there
the money needed to move the crops,
but also those great rolls Of bills which
prudent men, in putting away their
light clothing. do not forget to forget
in the pockets thereof in order that
they may come joyfully to light next
summar.-Puck
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
SAYS he KILLED IA HcR
Youth Confssses RE Poisoned Brutal
Parents Whisky.

Youth Ccnfesses he POISONED Brutal
Parents Whisky.
George FINER Watt, eighteen years
old. in a written confession which
made before Squire Trux3l aId A Sc
sistant District Attorney Cope in
Greensburg. Pa, says he m rder i
his father, Thomas r. Watt, on SUI
day, May 10, by poisoning whisky his
father drank.
A tale OF a son not yet Of age he.
ing gOaded to desperation by the b-l-
tality of a father was unfolded when
Corporal Carl Dresser, Of Troop A
state police. fastened the crime upon
young Wat, whom he arrested at his
home in Franklin township. Wat is
now being held in the county jail.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14

1 was IN Deu lOE 1OuI
or five days at a time
every month, and so
weak I could hardly
walk. Icramped and
had backache and
headache, and was
so nervous and weak
that / dreaded to see
anyone or have any
onemovein thereon.
The doctors gave me
medicine to ease me
said that I ought to
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
To NaturaIize MAN Without Flag"

To Nsturalize "Man Without a Flag"
Eugene Prince. born in Russia, bat
a "man without a flag" wouli receive
American citizenship by bill favor
ably reported to the house. W.ila
Princes father was an American. e
state department contends the son is
not citizen of ether the United
States or Russia.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
Heart Llves After peath.

The third days session Of the
american Medical association in At
antic City, ~ j., was not a bit less
important than either Of its predeC es-
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Honors For &. H. Biashfield, Artist.
Edwin H Blashfeld, of New York.
was appointed by President Taft To
fill the vacancy on the National Com
mission Of Fine Arts, caused by the
death of F. D. Millet, lost on the Ii
tanic
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
Postoffee sac Rohhed.

The safe in the postoffce in STRAIT
ford, Conn, was 5'9Eu with dynamite
and about $500 IN stamps taken.
Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
WOMEN SHOULD
Be PROTECTED
Against So Many Surgical OPP
erations. How Mrs. Bethune
and Mrs. Moore Escaped.

Sikeston, Motor seven years Isuf-
fered everything. l was in bed for four
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16

those days and weighed about 122. The contrast between the two can best be imagined, each one accentuating the others size and build. At the closing scene when Damon saves his friend and hostage from the block, the diminuitive Pythias completely disappeared amid the ample proportions of the gigantic Damon. However tho play was a great success barring enc incident that oc- cured in a seen between the valorious Pythias and his sweetheart Calanthe. l n one of tho scenes Pythias and Cal anthe enter from the left wing of the stage, Pythias' strong arm Is clasped about the slender waist of the fair Calanthe. his eagle eyes look into her limped ones as he murmurs the sweet. sweet story that was old even in those early days
 This part of the performance suited John to a queens taste. He clasped the waist and held the hand of his temporary sweetheart with all the en- thusiasm of which he was capable and leading her on the stage with the grace of a Chesterfield he commenced his lines. which started with My dear cal anthe." Barely had the words dropped from his mouth when the lights went out. leaving the thatre in total dark ness John dropped his arm from the lady's waist. The lights flashed on again as suddenly as they had gone out.
 John resumed his position with the lady and again started. My dear Calanthe. thou art A second time the lights went out and John, in spite of his iron nerve. was beginning to get em- barrassed. He could feel the sweat trick ling down from underneath his tin helmet and running down the back of his neck. The young matron was also perturbed. Just to reassure her John leaned forward and putting his mouth to her ear mur- mured words of encouragement
 Just as he did so the lights flashed on again and as they did so John and the lady broke away. While there was nothing to it they. both looked like they had been caught with the goods, and believe me. the audience roared. John made effort to regain his composure He had all the feelings of a thousand school boys rolled into one who had for gotten their pieces at commencement. As for the young lady. she blushed so hard that it melted the grease paint on her charming though embarrassed face.
 By a great effor. John resumed his lines. In front of him was sea of grinning faces. but calling up all his courage, he commenced again, My dear Calanthe-" but the rest was lost in the roar that followed. John kept at it. however. and eventually finished the speech.
 John never posed as a scrapper, but when the curtains dropped he right then and there offered to fight with one arm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16

One of the most important economic aspects of floods in the Mississippi valley watershed is the immediate direct and in- direct damage caused hy the floods.
 Starting with the upper regions of the tributaries of the Mississippi river, the valley of the Ohio river has for many years been devastated by destructive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16
Burglars Aid Collections

From the New York Times.
 ''Being moral member of the commu- nity naturally derlore burglaries, said the church treasurer s'If 1 studied the welfare of the church alone l should en- courage them, for next to the burglars themselves. the people who profit most from an epidemic of small robberies are the churches.
 With peace and safety reigning in a neighborhood, householders leave most of their money at home when they go to church. consequently they contribute in driblets, but just let that same locality become infested with burglars, and every body takes his money to church and in- ereases his contributions approximately"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16
A Wnrld.Wide' Cry

From the London Chronicle.
 .sHow's your poor feet?'' writes cor respondent, who remembers the tradition of a volunteer grandfather did not refer to the weary crowds of the 1851 exhibition. Much the street boy knew or cared about their fatigues; whereas the sight of a liImping volunteer was before his eyes. and a pure delight. According to thls tradition, then. the cry dates from the early sixties, and the first great volunteer review, held on Easter Monday on the Brighton Downs. And then MT. Spurgeon said: "The question is not, How's your poor feet?' but 'Hows your poor soul?' ''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16

tied behind him the man who had manip- uIated the switchboard kicking, scratch- ing and biting not barred. No one ac- cepted the challenge so John let loose d flow of explosives that would have been the envy of a Jersey longshoreman.
 But when he cooled down no one ap- preciated the ludicrous incident more than he and to this good day John will re- count it with ghsto and great glee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16
Riotipg in Canton

Canton. June 15.-The disbanded troops before release from the army were known to be subject to the military governor of the city, but they have started rloting, which resulted in considerable fighting last night Regular soldiers pursued a numoer of rebels past the foreign concessions, fir ing ndiscrimnntely, killing and wounding several onlookers.