Newark post., 1914-09-30

A sneak thief on Friday took So,
half it's contents, from the cash
drawer in John Cranfeld's s store in
Georgetown, while the proprietor
was at lunch. -s."iH
Work will begin shortly on a
new parsonage for the M. E.
church at Marshallton, Rev. j. G.
Mccoy, pastor. Over $1,000 has
been subscribed to the building
fund, and, it is hoped to have the
structure completed by New Year s
The funeral Of James D. Fergu-
son, formerly of Delaware City,
was held on Saturday from the
home Of his daughter, Mrs. NJ. R.
Schoonmaker, 1928 w. Seventh
street, Wilmington, where he died
on Thursday, aged "a years.
William Pierce died at his home
at Marshallton on Thursday, aged
IS years. His funeral was held on
Sunday with interment in the
Kennett Burial Ground.
John F. Castlelow, Civil War
veteran, formerly of Delaware City,
died in Philadelphia on Thursday
after an operation at the Jefferson
Hospital, for hernia, aged 75 years.
Interment was made on Friday at
Delaware City.
Bivens M. Cain, a well-known
land owner, died at his home in
Lincoln on Wednesday, of pneu-
monia, aged 63 years. Interment
was made on Saturday in Lincoln
Cemetery.
The will of the late Remson G.
Barnard of Camden, was filed at
Dover last week. His estate, in
cluding $35, 900 life insurance, is
estimated at 100000.
Prof. E. J. Hardesty, superin-
tendent Of Sussex county schools to
avoid taking header at a sandy
reach Of road, jumped sidewise
from his motorcycle on Friday but
fell under the machine, bruising
one of his legs.
Claiming $4,000 damage for
personal injuries caused by falling
from his automobile when it struck
a stump in newly opened street
in Delmar (Md.), John Venables,
in the trial of his suit against the
town, in the Wicimico county
Court, at Salisbury on Wednesday,
was awarded $500 by the jury.
The Town Commissioners will take
an appeal.
William Sarden, colored youth,
is held for Court at Dover charged
with stealing a diamond ring worth
$50 from Mrs. Arnold, daughter OF
d. K. Reeder of Dover, whom she
was visiting. The boy had brough hit
some goods to the house which he
put in closet where he found the
ring lying in a saucer. He sold it
to another negro for trifing sum.
Falling off the rear car OF a
freight, shifting at Greenwood on
Thursday, Arthur Russell, a brake
man of Glendale, was hurt about
his head and one of his hips and
Law stunned where he had fallen.
The train was backing on the same
track and he would have been ran
over had not Mrs. Mary Crawford,
who lives nearby and saw his peril,
warned the train crew in time TO
save his life.
Repairs and improvements to the
rectory Of the Church OF the Ascen-
sion at Claymont are to be made,
at a cost Of $1,000, of which up
wards of $500 is available.
John Karlson, aged % years,
died at Delaware Hospital on Fri
day of injuries resulting from a
powder explosion in the expert
mental laboratory of Francis |. du
Pont at Granogue on Monday.
Workmen discovered fire in the
building and fled for safety but re-
turned, thinking they could check
the blaze before it reached the pow
der, and just as they arrived at the
building the explosion occurred.
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Fred Benson, Jacob Dobson and
Ernest Brown, colored, who tigur.
!. ed in the Wilmington race riots,