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VOL. 41.
DOVER, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. 1900.
NO. 101
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Eastern Shore Appointments as
Announcrd Last Night,
CONFERENCE SESSION ENDED.
Delegates Fleeted to General Con
ference After the Liberal Metho
dist Protestant Fashion.—Rev.
N. O. Gibson Returns
to Dover.
At the close of the session of the M.
P. Conference atj Westminster, Md.,
yesterday. President Melvin read the
appointments, part of which follow,
being of interest to the people of
this section. They are:
Accamac—C. K. McCaslin,
Beaver Dam—F. A. Holland
Cambridge— S. B. Treadway.
Caroline—J. W. Norris.
Cecil— B. F. Jester.
Centreville— F. T. Benson.
Chestertown—J. M. Gill.
Chinooteague—W. A. Melvin.
Clayton—J. E. Nicholson.
Crisfleid— O. W. Haddaway.
Crumpton— G. H. Stocksdale.
Deltnar—J. E. T. Ewell.
Benton—J. M. Dickey.
'Dover and Leipsio—N. 0. Gibson.
Easton—!.. F. 'Warner.
Felton— H. L. Sehlincke.
Frederica— E. H. Jones.
Georgetown. D. C —J. Bn. Kinzer.
Georgetown Circuit— G. E. Brown.
Georgetown—J. H. S. Ewell.
Greenwood— E. B. Stone.
Harrington—W. S. Phillips.
Kennedy ville — Bonis Randall.
Indian River—To be supplied.
Laurel—IF. C. Klein.
Mardela—'Elmer Simpson.
Milton— H. E. Bennington.
Newmarket— S. F. Cassen.
Oxford—J. T. Lassell.
Parksley— F. H. Mullineaüx.
Pocomoke City— B. G. Greenfield.
Poeomoke Circuit— F S. Cain.
Queen Anne's— G. W. Hines.
Reliance— H F. Wright.
Salisbury—S. J. Smith.
Salem— R. K. Gewiß.
Seaford—J. W. Balder si' on.
Snow Hill—Avery Donovan.
St. James— E. C. McCosky.
St. Michaels—S. A. Hoblitzell.
Sussex— G . R. McCready.
Talbot— C. S. Daugherty.
Warwick—J. M. Brown.
Wilmington— G. G. Wolfe.
West Wilmington—James L. Nichols
Wicomico—W. 0. Livingston.
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Wye—J. F. Wooden.
Between Easton and Cumberland, the,
eouference decided to meet next year
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at Easton, Talbott County. Md.
The full list of delegates to the Gen-]
eral Conference is as fallows:
Ministerial—'Rev. T. H. Lewis, D. D.. j
Rev. A. D. Melvin, ,D. D., .Rev. J. D.
Kinzer. D, p.. Rev. F. T. Little. B. D.,
Rev. W. S. Hammond, D. D., Revs. J.
O. Crouse, J. L.
Straughan and Rev. -Hugh L. Elderdiee
Lay—Dr. Joshua W. Hering, T. P.
Fisher, Daniel Baker, J. N. Warfield.
Thomas A. Murray, G. T. Atkinson, J.
R. Caton, Samuel Vannort, William J.
C. Dulaney, E. Riggin and W. B. Usil
ton.
M. Sheridan, T.
Cape May Steamers.
A dispatch from Cape May says:
"The Cape 'May Pier and Transporta
tion Co. has been incorporated to open
a line between Cape May and Baliti
This project is part of the
more.
scheme announced some time ago to
run a steamboat between Cape M-ayj„
and Lewes, and there connect with the
Queen Anne's railroad, making a com
bined rail and water route between
Baltimore and Cape May. The Cape
May corporation is to build a pier and
furnish ithe transfer service between
Cape May and Lewes."
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Is your breath bad? Then your
best friends turn their heads aside.
A bad breath means a bad liver.
Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure
constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia,
sick headache. 25c. All druggists.
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T^iUit jour moustache
brown or rich black ? Then use
BUCKINGHAM'S DYE WHS™
bear<\ a beautiful
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BISHOP DENOUNCES GREEO
AND IMPROPER PLAYS.
His Palm Sunday Visit at Christ
Church, Dover, and St.
Paul's. Camden.
Bishop Coleman preached at Christ
Church on Sunday 'morning to a con
gregation which completely filled the
church. His text was Homans 14,7:
"For none of us livefth to himself, and
no man dieth to himself,'
ject was unselfishness. He talked on
patriotism to ithe church, especially
during the special
fasting and prayer, and referred to the
patriotic mayors of certain towns who
had objected to the presenilation of
"notoriously improper plays which
have been profaning the holy season
throughout the country." He said that
he often wished a Socrates might come
among us, as he did in Athens in all it3
glory, and cry ont, when the public
speakers were addressing the populace
upon "Courage," saying: ''Sirs, what
do you mean by courage?" He said
that It is the courageous 'mam who is
needed in the public places, and now
that this state is entering upon a new
struggle for place and position, men
who will guard the sandtity of the
home, and forget self in matters of
public moment, must be chosen if we
are patriotic. The 'Bishop spoke of a
parishioner who had been pronounced
dangerously ii! with nervous prostra
tion, and who had declared to him that
it -was not overwork, but worry alt the
treatment Of It'he publie funds by men
who had gotten into power. The alarm
at this systematic looting of the ptvh
! lie. treasury had brought him to a sick
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and his sub
of
season
At the Close of the sermon the Bishop
confirmed a class of five candidates.
Revs. G. E. Bond and J. P DUIIamel
also assisted in the services.
Tn the evening Bishop Coleman con
[ firme da class of seven at St. Paul's
i Chapel. Camden.
MUCH SMOKE AND G* ç
BUT ! ITT E FIRE.
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A ldicks anil DuPont Mon Use Their
Liberality Test as an Occasion
For Twitting.
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"The Morning News" has received
tlie following from Dover: "To glori
ify the Addicks convention the sub
servient State Sentinel ubtiiushing
l.v says on its own authority that at the
Republican (by it called Baiters')
Convention, 'the janitor did not get a
cent for hie extra trouble' in opening
the hill, whereas 'in the Union Repub
lican Convention the liât was passed
and the janitor received over twelve
dollars.'
"The janitor to-day said, and so cer
tdifies under his hand, that at the Re
publican Convention on March 21. the
j hat contained $11.85, and at the prima
ries of the East Dover Republicans.
held ithe Saturday before, the persons
j present made him up a purse of $1.10.
The 'slight difference' to which the
"•Sentinel" alludes should therefore be
The Ad
characterized as follow*
dicks people make a vulgar parade of
their money; whereas, t'he Republi
cans pay their bills without delay or
display."
"To 'The Morning News':
"The Republican Convention held at
Dover on March 21 passed the hat for
the janitor, and -it contained $11.85,and
at the primaries the Saturday before,
the East Dover hundred Republicans
paid me $110. both organizations hav
ing used ithe Court House, of which 1
am janitor,
"Dover, Delaware, April 7, 1900."
A well-known Regular Republican
"James C. Tomlinson.
has handed in this communication to
The Delawarean" for publication,
"A article apnpeared in the 'State
Sentinel" headed "A Slight Difference"
hut if any person doubts that at the
convention held in Dover March 21 by
the Republican party of Delaware, the
collection was not equal to the Ad
dicks Convention, let them ask the jan
itor.
"Moral—Do not play with Dupont
powder: while it is smokeless, yet it
Is doubly -powerful and capable of
blowing gas -to smithereens."
Want a Clear Channel.
Senator Kenney has presented a peti
tion in the U. S. Senate from several
hundred citizens of Kent county, Del.,
asking Congress to appropriate suffi
cient money to cut a channel through
a sand bar thalt has formed at the
mouth of the St. Jones River, owing to
the heavy storms of last winter. The
petition recites that a steamboat line
has been established between Lebanon
and Philadelphia, which carries large
quantities of grain, lumber, coal and
perishable fruits. The sand -bar has
reduced the depth of water at low tide
from six feet to one foot and the steam
boats are unable to make their trips.
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Woman Disposes of Three of Her
Offspring in Three Years.
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ONE FOUND IN A SOAP BOX.
Bnt Coroner's Jury To-day Found
Direct Testimony to Hold Julia
Holliday for Infanticide.
Coroner Knotts and a jury of inqui
sition were kept busy all this 'morning
investigating a deploable case which
came to the notice of the police of Do
ver yesterday.
Dogs had scratched up the body of
child in Christ Church cemetery and it
was found to have been buried on Mar.
3, in a rude soap box, only a few inches
under ground. The body was identified
«* the child of Julia Neal, alias Holli
day.
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Evidence before the Coroner to-day
showed that it'he woman has coasted
that her illegitimate children should
never see the light of day. and that
hree infants which she bore have, in
three successive years, shared the same
fate of mysterious deaths and rude bur
ials. The coroner, made a thorough
investigation of the ease to-day and,
while the evidence was strong against
the woman in a circumstantial way. it
was noli sufficiently direct, in the minds
of the jurors to hold lier for (trial on
the charge of infanticide, almost as
serious a charge as murder.
The jury's verdict was death from un
known causes, after Dr. A. R. Davis
'had testified that the posit-mortem
held by him showed no evidences that
ithe infant was not still born, as the
woman claimed. The jury, however,
recommended a severe admonition
from the coroner to Julia Holliday .and
her release only on a parole for good
behavior.
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OFF TO WASHINGTON.
State Senator J. Frank Allee to Con
for Again With the President.
State Senator J. Frank Allee, who is
Stale Chairman of the Union Republi
can party, has gone to Washington far
an ifher conference witli President Mc
Kinley and other administration lead
ers relative to the Republican quarrel
in Delaware, and the chances for the
Union Republican delegates being seat
ed at Philadelphia. At Union head
quarters it was stated to-day thaï the
President had personally expressed a
desire to see the memorial presented
to the Regulars by the Union Republi
cans early in the campaign, and to hear
fully the Union side. President Mc
Kinley and Senator Hanna are both
anxious that the Republicans should
end their quarrel: especially anxious
are It,bey that Delaware should send her
three electors and her two new Sena
tors to the aid of the administration
forces.
The new developments in ithe Ad
dicks fight are believed to have caused
a rumor that was published last night
in Wilmington that the two factions of
the Republicans had decided to follow
the same policy as in 1S9S. each work
ing for a separate ticket but eontain
j ing the same names except in the ca.se
of Legislative candidates who would
vote either for or against Mr. Addicks.
This, it was said, would involve the
admission of both delegates to the Na
tional Convention ait Philadelphia,
each man having a half vote.
STATE BOARD ON
DR. MUSTARD'S DEATH,
His Personal Worth and Profes
sional Skill Commented Upon in
Resolutions of Condolence.
Tlie following resolutions were pas
sed by tbe State Board of Health at the
staled annual meeting held at Newark
on Thursday, April 5th, inst:
Resolved, By the members of the
State Board of Health assembled in
annual session -on this day, when the
sad funeral rites are being performed
over the remains of a lamented -broth
er and former member of this Board,
David L. Mustard, Of Lewes, thalt we
desire to place on record our keen
sense of personal bereavement and
public loss sustained in t'he death of
our departed friend and nothing but
ihe discharge of official duty which
can be done on -no other day prevents
our attendance upon -his obsequies.
Resolved, That without attempting
to rehearse the many proofs of his per
sonal worth and private virtues, his
professional skill and patriotic instinct
we hereby extend to ithe afflicted fam
ily and devoted friends our heartfelt
sympathy and condolence in the Irrep
j arable loss realized by all.—Alex. Loiw
I her, Secretary, <
TROLLEY COMPANY
FILED NEW SURVEY.
Proceedings Before the Chancellor
Were Knocked Out By This Ac
tion.—Company Pays Costs.
The new litigation against the Del
General Electric Company,
which has held up its trolley system
work below Dover, occupied the atten
aware
tion of Chancellor Nicholson on Satur
day in the chambers at the State 'House
and while the injuinetion against the
company will not be granted, the diffi
culty was not settled, and the company
is open to another restraining order at
any time.
The motion for a preliminary injunc
tion to restrain them from occupying
the lands of Mrs. Sara'h E. Cooper be
low 'Dover was heard with Messrs.
Higgins and Hilles, of Wilmington,
representing Mrs. Cooper. The rail
way company, by its answer and affi
davits showed thait they had, since the
filing of the bill, withdrawn the con
demnation proceedings and disclaimed
any intenltion of crossing the Cooper
lands.
After argument Chancellor Niehol
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son dismissed the bill, denied the mo- j
l:or\ for a preliminary injunction and;
dismissed the restraining order, but |
required the company to pay costs,
since t'he bill was properly filed upon
file state of facts existing at that time.
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now on the ground that no company !
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Secretary of State.
PRESBYTERIANS AT SMYRNA.
Now Castle Frosbytery's Spring Ses
sion Next Week "Will Fleet Dele
gates to St. Louis,
Tlie Presbyterians of this section are
1 poking forward wiitlh great interest to
the coming sessions o-f the New Castle
Presbytery which meets here on April
17 and IS. An important feature of
the' meeting will be the election of two
(toners to the General Assem- j
St. Louis on j
com mi
bly which convenes in
Mav 17.
E. H. Beck, of Smyrna, will
doubtless lie elected a commissioner. |
Rev. 'Wilfred W. Shaw, of Port Deposit !
—tie moderator—will preach the aer-,
on Tuesday evening, to be follow
ed by the Lord's Supper. Another im
portant item will be the election of a
stated clerk to succeed Rev. Bull her A.
Oates, who removed from Delaware
City to Chambersburg, Pa. Rev. .1. R
Milligan, D. T)„ of Wilmington, is men
At t'he session
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mon
tinned for this place,
on Wednesday morning Rev. T. A. Mc
Curdy. D. D.. and Br. Milligan, of Wil
mington. will make addresses on "Our
Young People "
HUNG ON LIVE ELECTRIC WIRES.
Wilmington Boy Climbed a Polo nml
Current of 500 Volts Passed
Through Kin.
Wilmington, April 7 -As the result
of being shocked by electric light wires,
Willard Lenclernmn. a 13-vear old boy,
living at Ninth and Van Huven Streets,
is unable to use his hands. The hi y
climbed the pole yesterday and euaghl
hold <>!' tlie wiles to pull himself hi tin
top. A current of 500 volts passed
through him. He hung to tlie pole until
he was iiueonseiotls and then dropped
to tlie ground. The attending physi
cians think lie will regain re tlie use of
his hands.
Interesting Cases Before Magistrate.
Before Magistrate Peter L. Cooper
on Friday afternoon, Michael Powell,
of Hartley, brought suit against Isaac
Robinson, the Baltimore canner, to re
cover the value of one and a half acres
of tomatoes which Powell sold to Rob-j
met. Powell delivered to the cannery ;
277 baskets of tomatoes and had near- j
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refused, on -the ground that there was!
a quarter of an acre more than had 1
been bargained for. The amount sued
for iwas $75. The referees, Messrs.
Charles Denney, John Satterfield and
Joseph T. Hoffecke-r, after hearing the
evidence, awarded Powell $50 and costs
A -suit which created some excite
ment was brought -before Magistrate
P. L. Cooper a few days ago, ini the
way of a dog case. Enoch David, a
wheelwright of this town, brought suit
against Walter McGinnes for damages,
David claiming that the canine was
poisoned by arsenic, and thalt McGin
nes -was the suspected poisoner. It was
proven that McGinnes had purchased
some meat at a butcher's in Dover,and
also some arsenic from a drug store.
Upon an examination of the stomach
of the dog, which David had made, it
was found that Ithe dog had died from
arsenical poison. Magistrate Cooper
decided that there was no cause for
action and the case was dismissed.
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NOT TEA. BUT
POISON OAK.
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This is What the Family " of
Captain Hensch Drank.'
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THE MISTAKE WAS niSmUERFfl
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While the Family Were Drinking
the Tea Thinking it Sassafras
Tea, a Widely Known Spring
Tonic.—Medical Aid Pre
vented Casualties.
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The family of Capt. A. C. Mensch, a
prominent and well-known farmer re
siding near Rising 'Sun, consisting of
himself and wife and their daughter,
Miss Ella, made a very narrow escape
from being fatally poisoned on Monday
and as it is they are yet suffering se
It will be known thalt many persons
in this vicinity regard sassafras tea
verely.
ja very healthy Spring tonic and Cap
j win Mensch is no exception to this
rule. One of the farm boys, Leslie
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Springer, was directed to procure the
j sassafras and he, not being well posted
I brought in a bunch of small roots of
I poison oak instead of the roots de
Not noticing the mistake Miss Ella
made the tea of which the family par
took. But while they were drinking it
another boy employed about the place,
named Conner, discovered the mistake,
and no doubt his discovery saved them
much suffering or possibly their lives,
All of them were made very ill, the
symptonis being a swelling of the
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glands of the throat and face and nau
sea. Prompt medical attention, how
ever, relieved the suffering.
j especially when they are desired for
j medicinal or edible purposes.
It was a narrow escape, and the fam
ily realize now that extreme care is de- ,
ma tided in handling herbs and roots.
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Father Waldron's Faster Tide.
Rev. T. F. Waldron, priest in charge
Cross Church. Dover, and
w'hov-te parish extends from Smyrna
down into Virginia, will have a busy : .
day on Sunday,in his celebration
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Father Waldron will arise at •
Easter.
4 a. m„ and after morning prayer.wil!
drive t:
Smyrna, where he will conduct
Hp tntist :
morning mass at 8 o'clock,
re.nr« to Dover in time to hold 10
o'clock mass at Holy Cross Church, af- j
ter a drive of 25 miles.
There will be j
again at St. Polycarp Church, i
vespers
Smyrna, and evening service at Dover, !
all under Faith« Waldron's special su-Ï
Dover I
nervision The decorations at
church will include some of the most I
elaborate ever seen here, and the deco- j
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mors are already at work.
EVERYTHING READY ^
^FOR SPRING - - 1900,
AXT
ROSS' New DEPARTMENT STORES
; PRICES GUARAN TEED the LOWEST 1
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j Clothing, Hats, Furnishings, Dry Hoods, Notions
i m • • . t a tx •
1 ailQ TrimmiDg'S, at LOWDSt PnC8S.
210 M-AJE&IEIIET ST..
13 T0_A_E T 2X3 ST.
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Will be formally opened on completion of our new building, with a com
plete line of Ready-Made Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys and
Chi dren. Lowest Prices.-Spring Goods are now
ready in every department. .
-ALL.THE LEADING 1900 BICYCLES
Stearns, Barnes' White Flyer, Eagle, Spalding, Reading Standard,
Eclipse, Rambler, Stornier and Pennant, Imperial.
Headquarters for Spalding's AtWetic and Sporting Goods. Baseball Goods
Now Selling.
Agents for "Domestic" Sewing Machines, Regina Music Boxes,
Edison Phonographs, and Columbia Graphophones.
ROSS' NEW DEPARTMENT STORES,
13 EAST SECOND ST.
210 MARKET STREET.
WILMINGTON DEL
PR 1CHS GUARANTEED THE LOWEST, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL*
BUSINESS WILL BOOM
IF PEACHES HOLD ON.
Prospects of Buds Cause Some Figur
ing Which Shows That a Million
Dollars Will Come Here.
A peach crop meaas muA t0
Delaware farm«*, and nothing that
grows, perhaps, is given moreatten
lion or watched with more anxiety by
SPOwePS ' sl,ippers 0T people generally
in the early spring than is the welfare
I of the peach bud. As the crop has been
a practical and almost total failure for
the
j several seasons pas: nad as this has
j meant the loss of th >:i«ands dt 'lars,
! much anxiety was felt regarding Its
\ probable fate for the coming season.
The mildness of a portion of the win
ter frightened many of the watchful
growers, but following this came the
cold/ ..d backward spring, which
ditk~_Jstill exist, and this is retard
ing iMe swelling of the buds, so that
universally the prediction now is that
the entire peninsula will be blessed
this year with one of the best peach
crops enjoyed for several years,
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As an indication of what Is at stake
in the success or failure of the crop
for the people of Delaware and the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, It may be
noted that an average crop of say
2,000,000 baskets, selling for 50 cents a
basket would mean a distribution of
$1,000,000. In addition thousands of
dollars would be paid to railroad and
steamboat companies, to extra labor
for harvesting the crop, to basket fac
tories and their employes, most of
(which would drift to the local mer
chants for supplies, and readily it will
lie seen why the interest in the welfare
of the crop is so universal. The sue
cess of the peach crop means prosperi
ty ail over the section.
PROFESSOR HEATH DEAD.
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Teaching. Former Principal of
Wyoming Institute. Pas
ses Away.
Useful Life of Christian
The Rev. Moses .Heath died Monday
morning in Wilmington. He was bora
in Kings wood, N. J., May 13th, 1827,
.mil graduated ar. Colgate University
in 1834. in which year he was married.
: . Two vears later he was ordained as a
Baptist Clergyman and went West, his
• !irat charge being at McKeesport, Pa.
He was in Minnesota nine years doing
missionary work, and saw service dur
: the Indian troubles. While engaged
In this work he contracted bronchitis
j and was compelled to give up minis
j terial work, becoming an instructor,
i He came East, and went to Hatboro, N.
was at Wyoming Institute, this
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county, as an instructor, for nine years
I ami afterward went to New Castle for
I a y ear nml then to Wilmington. He is
j survived by Mrs. Heath, two daughters
: and one son.