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rür^ & Où 1 3; • \ ' rr £%Ê& P a D g dS. 0 a pë» ''C DOVER, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1900. VOL. 42. NO. 9. THREE MEN I« Held Without Bail in Georgetown! for Criminal Assault. DRAGGED IYIISSTYRE INTO WOODS The Alleged Assailants, All of Re spectable Families, Admit They Were With the Girl But Committed No Crime The Lower section of Sussex county •was stirred to an (intense feeling on Sunday night by a reported outrage upon a young woman of Baltimore hundred. The victim, Mies Marcella J. Tyre, 17 years old and daughter of aged Minos Tyre, was returning from church at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and had consented to Everett Derrlckson ac companying her, as he had been going with other girls of her acquaintance. According to the affidavits of Miss Tyre, her father and her half-brother, she had reached a wooded place along the road, when Derrickson enticed her into the woods, and there she discov ered (two other young men, Elbert Dawson and Harry Godwin. The girl attempted to flee, she says, when the three men seized her, and muffling her cries, dragged her into the woods where they assaulted her. Two of them succeeded in their purpose and the other was about to, when the girl's father was attracted to the place by her smothered moans and saw the appal ling sight, just before the trio had time to make good their escape. Searching parties were started out at once, and at 4 o'clock Monday morn ing Attorney-General White was sup plied with affidavits taken before Mag istrate Green of Baltimore hundred, and soon after daylight Sheriff Short had started out searching parties. The three young men implicated by Miss Tyre as being her assailants who dragged her into the woods and (there outraged her, are now in Georgetown jail. They were arrested by Attorney General White, who had traced them to Berlin, Md. The attorney-general was assisted by a constable. When the fugitives realize their position, they consented to return to Delaware with out requisition papers, although stout ly denying that they had committed any capital crime. Asked where they were Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the (trio admitted having been on the spot. They asked for a hearing in George town, evidently fearing to return to Baltimore hundred, and an examina tion was arranged for Tuesday morn ing at 10 o'clock before Magistrate Purnell. When arraigned before Magistrate Purnell in Georgetown yesterday all three men waived a hearing and were committed without bail. John Richardson appeared for them. Everett Derrickson. the largest of the three young white men thus committed for October Court of Oyer and Termin er to be tried for their lives for felon iously assaulting Miss Marcella J. Tyre, near Roxana lln Baltimore hundred, later made a statement since his com mitment which does noit materially re lieve the strong public feeling against the trio of well-dressed young fellows. Asked whether he knew very well his 17-year-old victim, Derrickson said: 'T have been keeping company with M'iss Tyre for several months. Last Sunday, a plot was made between Daw son, Godwin and myself that I should 'bring her Ito the woods, which I did. No alarm was made by her until her father appeared on the scene, when she screamed for help." The statement was made in the pres ence of Godwin and Dawson, who ad mitted 'that Miss Tyre met with im moral treatment from them, but that no assault was committed. Attorney-General White, who went after the men and had them arrested late in the afternoon ;at Berlin, Md., alarmed the whole country hereabouts as he passed through. Fearing that the men might escape the sheriff's searching parties, and thus open up this rural section to crimes of this character, officers were summoned to meet the attorney-general at every station, where he gave them an ac count of the affair and description of the three men. 'In this way they were discovered at Berlin. M. To Can Rabbit. Delaware 'boys and girls have been advised ito go into the rabbit business. The announcement that a Maryland man has recently taken a contract to furnish 10,000 English cotton tails to a Pennsylvania firm within a year for canning has caused the boom in rab bit stock. r SENATOR KENNEY STIRS UP THE U. S. SENATE By Launching Some Questions That Will Give the Public Inside Facts. Washington, May 20.—Senator Ken ney, of Delaware, created a stir in the Senate yesterday by launching a series of questions asking for the exhaustive array of facts as to 'the status of the Philippine war. Mr. Kenney brought the matter before the Senate by pre senting a resolution calling upon the Secretary of War for information upon the condition of military affairs in the Philippines. The Senator from Delaware said the call is based on the "official statement that the insurrection in the Philippines has been successfully suppressed, and that preparations are being made to return the troops now serving in the islands to the United States." The points upon which Senator Ken ney requests information are as fol lows: First—The Territory over which the military operations in the Philippines extended from September 1, 1899, to April 1, 1900. Second—The places in which garri sons were established during the per!r* from September 1, 1899, to April 1, 1900. Third—The places occupied as garri sons by American troops on April 1, 1900. Fourth—-The number of officers and enlisted men in active service in the Philippines on April 1, 1900. Fifth—The number of deaths in the army in the Philippines from all causes from September 1, 1898, to April 1, 1900. Sixth—The number of wounded or sick soldiers in the hospitals and sol diers disabled or incapacitated for ser vice in the Philippines on April 1, 1900. Seventh—The number of enlisted men discharged from the service in the Philippines for any' causes since Sep tember 1, 1900. (Eighth—The number of additional enlisted men sent to the Philippines since July 1, 1899, to recruit regiments stationed in the ardhipelego. Ninth—The number of American soldiers who have become Insane since the occupation of the islands and what disposition has been made for their treatment. Tenth—The number of American sol diers belonging to the army in the Philippines who have committed sui cide since the occupation of the islands. of THE BEAUTIES OF DAKOTA. But a Delawarean Returning From the Far West Will Not Exchange With Any Westener. A. H. Cahall of Hickman, Kent county, returned home last Monday from a business trip to North Dakota. Mr. Cahall left home on April 10, and left Bismarck, N. D., 'on May 10. In an interview with your correspondent Mr. Cahall said that he had a pleasant trip with health good. Being asked what he thought of Dakota he replied that it was a wonderful country, fine wheat and grass lands, and a great cattle country, the only drawback being the lack of rain. He made the statement that there was land there that had not been wet since the flood, except on the surface, by the spring freshets. He stated that if we had the geological status of Dakota with our present ad vantages our State would be a farmer's paradise, or if they had the moisture we had it would be the same there. Speaking of grass, (he said that at the sale of his brother's personal property (Mr. Cahall went west to settle the estate Of William E. Cahall, his brother who died February 13, 1900), 24 tons of timothy hay sold for $24, or $1 per ton, and that the whole country was checkered with hay stacks. He thought one lack Of great success with the peo ple there was not producing a great variety of products, that the majority of farmers bought all their meat, but ter, etc., in town, articles that they could produce cheaper than they could buy, depending entirely On stock and wheat. The weather for the time he was there averaged warmer than it did here. Mr. Cahall took care to leave the 'impression with us that for no consideration would he exchange his home in Delaware for one in the west. Greenwood, Del., May 19, 1900. Opportunity is the Cream of Time.' Now is your opportunity. There is no time when the system is so much in need of a good medicine, like Hood's Sarsaparilla, and no time when it is so susceptible to the benefits to be de rived from such a medicine. By puri fying, enriching and vitalizing the hood and toning up the system Hood's Sarsaparilla starts ycu right for a whole year of health. to a Constipation is cured by Hood's Pills. Citizens Want It and Set About to Get It. COIYIIYIITTE PREPARING ESTIMATES U7ill Call Another Meeting for Next Monday Night to Report to the Citizens on Their Work. The movement for a new Opera House and public auditorium for Dover has now been placed directly in the hands of' the people, and the people have signified their intense desire for such a modern hall by appointing a committee of five to at once devise ways and means for action with this end in view. At the public meeting last Friday night, Caleb S. Pennewill was called to the chair and A. R. Benson was select ed as secretary. There were several plans suggested to the meeting, one to have the pro posed building on Loockerman street where festivals and fairs might be held ' pro'fttably, particularly on Saturday ' nights. Another idea was to erect building adequate for these purposes on State or King streets. Members of he Century Club expressed the opinion that their club might be willing to co *; * * * * * * ********** ********* * * * * ! NEWS OF THE WORLD ! ; AT A SINGLE GLANCE. : I 97/onstrous frauds in Cuba.—XJrayedy ai * * o Caurei, *Del — 7/ew 77/ethodist Sftishops * The contest for the Republican Vice-lPresidential namination is * * believed to now lie between Secretary Long, Senator Fairbanks and * 'Governor Shaw. Senator Cuilom s no longer seriously discussed for * the place. Admiral Schley is said to be averse to accepting second * * place on 'the Democratic ticket. * Down in Laurel yesterday, standing guard over his aged mother, * * Oscar Miller shot and possibly fatally wounded his father, William * * Miller, a veteran of the Civil War. The tragedy occurred at the son's * * home, to which Mrs. Miller had fled for protection, it is alleged, from * the assaults of her aged husband, who was crazed by drink. Drs. David H. Moore and John W. Hamilton were yesterday elec- * ted bishops by the Methodist Conference; women won their fight for * admission to lay electoral and general conferences and the new con- * stltuti'on was adopted as a whole. *' * *i * * Another move to protect the United States in the Cuban postal * scandal was made in New York yesterday, when Charles F. W. Neely * was arrested a second time, 'this time for the wrongful conversion * of Government property to the amount of $45,375.25. $50,000 bail, which he could not procure, and spent the night in jail. * A surprise was created at the Presbyterian Assembly yesterday * by a committee report on the proposed revision of the Creed. * * * He was held in * It was * recommended that the question be placed in the hands of a commit- * tee of fifteen, which would make a report at the next Assembly. Philadelphia police say that the capture of the brutal murderer of * Professor Roy Wilson White, the University structor, who was robbed by footpads, is bound to be made within a * few hours. The funeral of the victim will take place to-day. * Two companies of Filipino insurgents came into Tarlac and sur- * rendered voluntarily to Colonel Liscum. It was the first instance of » surrender of organizations. * * * * * of Pennsylvania in- * * * * * * * Britis'h troops under Colonel Bethume were ambushed by Boers * near Vryheid and lost sirtty-six men. * Louisiana Legislature elected ex-Governor Foster and re-elected * Senator McEnery to the United States Senate. ****** ************ * * * * * * * * «il!*#****** operate in the scheme, and that if the old Baptist Church property were se cured, a building 100 feet deep by 70 feet in front might be there construct ed. The matter was finally referred to a committee, consisting of 'George M. Jones, chairman; Walter Morris, Eldad L. Clarke, H. Ridgely Harrington and Mrs. R. L. Holliday. The committee has since been at work and has decided to submit its plans and a thorough re port of its work to another citizens' meeting to be held next Monday night at the headquarters of the Fire Depart ment. £&' ;émê 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. ~VYnV jt moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich blaek ? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S DYEMlrs msusi . aaaü (!) (D (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) "The President:.. ..having (!) (!) done ;his full duty in preserv- (!) (!) ing a strictly neutral position (!) (!) -feels that in the present (!) (!) circumstances no course is (!) (!) open to him except to persist (!) (!) in the policy of impartial neu- (!) (!) trality. To deviate from this (!) (!) would be contrary to all our (!) (!) traditions and all our national (!) (!) interests, and would lead to (!) (!) consequences which neither (!) (!) the President nor the people of (!) (!) the United States could regard (!) (!) with favor." (!) (!) (!) (!) -Extract from Secretary Hay's(!) reply to the Boer delegates. (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) NEVER SAW THE CARS IN ALL HIS LIFE. So 'Tis Reported of the Late Captain Thos. Muncey, of Little Creek. and never drank liquor. Little Creek is not on a line of railroad. A widow, Captain Thomas Muncey, aged 90 years, died Sunday at his home in Lit tle Creek. He never saw a railroad train, never smoked or chewed tobacco eight children, twenty-five grandchild ren, seventeen great-grandchildren and a;one great-great-grandchild survive him. Bitten by a Dog. Carrie Harris, a small colorefl girl, was bitten by bull-dogs on State street yesterday morning. The dogs are said to be the same animals which attacked Edna Price on the State road last week. Preacher Jefferies Fisticuffs. Chicago, 111., May 20.—According to Rev. Alexander Jeffries, father of the pugilistic champion, there is Biblical justification for prize fighting. "God had two sons, and one was against the other," said Rev. Mr. Jef fries. "One was the son of light, the Lord of Hosts, and the other was the son of darkness, the Prince of the Bot tomless Pit. One was opposed to the other, and they fought and the best son won." "Then Adam had two sons ,and they fought," continued Mr. Jeffries. ''And there was Abraham, who had two sons. One of them was against the Other. "Then you are not opposed to your son's career in the ring " "I don't want to see him work too hard. All I am afraid of is that my boys will get to drinking. If they don't do that I have nothing to say against their following the calling they have chosen. "What are riches? I go about with scrip or purse, traveling the earth. Sometimes I have thousands of dollars, and again I go for a week with only two meals. I do not belong to any church. I am attached only to the word of God. I used to chew, smoke and drink, but quit them all 25 years 'ago. 1 BOARD ELECTS Re-elects Professor Carroll for the Twenty-First Year. ALLBUTONE INSTRUCTOR CHOSEN Vacancy Caused by Resignation in Department 7 Was Not Filled. T. O. Culbreth Elected Assessor. There was much interest centered in the annual election of teachers Dover High School and the other de partments of the public schools before the Board of Education last night. There had been a movement on foot to supersede some of the instructors and a contest for was expected when President George M. Jones called for the electron to be proceeded with, but the Board unexpectedly acted almost unanimously, there being but two votes against the majority. Professor James E. Carroll was re elected as superintendent. For twenty years Professor Carroll has served (in this capacity and is believed to have held the Dover schools up to as high a degree of efficiency as any other Del aware town. When Mr. Carroll came here at the solicitation of the Board in 1880, Charles Brown, who was really the father of the public school system of Dover, was the president of the Board. (Since then Messrs. Edward 'Ridgely, N. B. Smithers and George M. Jones have served respectively as president. Postmaster Casson is the only member of the Board who served as a member in 1800, and has continu ously since then occupied a seat there. Miss Roberta Hobbs, formerly of Federalsburg, Md., but lately of New York, was elected assistant principal and in charge of 'Department No. 10. Miss Sue Bateman was re-elected to Department No. 9, and Miss Julia Jones to Department No. 8. No. 7 was left vacant because of the resignation of Miss Brenneman; No. 4, Miss Cannon; No. 3, Miss Hutton: No. 2, Miss Sat terfield; No. 1, Miss Pardee. T. 0. Culbreth was chosen as as sessor. TO WIN BY APPOINTMENT. Latest Scheme to Land Mr. Addicks in the Senate. The manager of the many evening hours in D-ver. The very air down there is impregnated with politics. And a fellow can't help but inhale it even on tihe str other night the Call man accidently listened to the unfolding of a brilliant Addicks scheme. The latest out. It was a plan by which tihe Addicks men Call spends The :ec. were to put up a strong Addicks man who could be "worked" for Governor. They are to give the Regulars the Lieutenant-Governor, the State Treas urer and Auditor, the Congressman and any old State office they want ex This it is hoped j cept the 'Governor, will ring the Regular support in on the .State ticket. They are also to help the Regulars in Wilmington, and this again it is hoped will clinch things. Havipg got the Governor in nomina tion and having roped the Regulars in for their support, the Addicks men are again to deadlock the Legislature on the Senatorship. Then just before ad journment they are to begin voting for two candidates other than Addicks. One of them is to be an out and out Regular and the other is to be a very conservative or better class Addicks man. This bait the Regulars are sup posed Ito swallow and elect these two men. Then comes the springing of the trap. As soon as the Legislature Shall have adjourned the conservative or bet ter class Addicks man is to resign and the Addicks Governor is to appoint John Edward Addicks to fill his place. This will be a legitimate vacancy—and Addicks attains the ambition of his life,hoodwinks the Regulars and every thing is lOvely.—Smyrna Call of yes terday. Has a Cast-iron Stomach, Al'tOpass, 111., May 21.— F. M. Spawn, aged 19, a school teacher here, has ex ploded all physiological theories re garding the capacity of the human stomach by eating and drinking in one evening, in addition to his regular sup per, one can Of tomatoes, one can. of Prisoners in the CentrevlUe jail will be put to work on the streets of Centre peas, one can of sardines, seven glasses of soda water and two quart bottles of temperance drinks. This is only one of many like achievements by which he has aston ished his acquaintances. ville. HOW "PECK" STEVENS LANDED $18 HE NEEDED. Drove Employer's Horse Off; Traded It for a Mule ; Got the 818 ; Said Horse Had Colic. Smyrna, Del., May 22.—Manuel Ste vens, better known in this is wanted by Wilbur Calloway Stevens has been In jail once or 'twice and bears a bad reputation. Recently he secured a position with Mr. Callo way. He was sent to Smyrna with a load of wood, driving two horses. On tihe road he stopped at a farmer's and said he had taken a fancy to a mule he saw grazing in the field and offered to make a trade, finally swap ping one of Calloway's horses for the mule, getting a money consideration to boot. Coming to Smyrna he remained all day and in the evening the section as "Peck," owner of the team, having become alarmed at Stevens' prolonged absence also rived here. ar He found Stevens who gave as the reason he had not returned home that one of the horses had the colic .and he left It with the farmer. Mr. Callo way was loud in his praise of the man's kindness, but later could not find "Peck," to return home with him. This morning he found out (the trick that had been played on him, but Stevens had left town to avoid arrest. It is said Stevens secured $18 as boot in the trade. THIS MAN DRESSED IN WOMEN'S ATTIRE. Knew No Other Apparel and When Placed in Prison Clothes Was Ashamed of the Pants. Chestertown, Md., May 21.—'Silas Saul, alias Mary Davis, was taken to the House of Correction from Kent last week. He or she, as the case may be, had insisted upon being a woman, while the Kent county officials had in sisted that he or she was a man, and ordered that he or 6 ; he don mafe ap parel. When the prisoner was entered at the House of Correction, the perplex ing question reached a climax.. All went along well until Superin tendent King happened to see the new arrival. He at once called to the fe male assistant, and said that '''woman is a man." To this the prisoner an swered: "I am neither man nor wom an." The matron, in the meantime, had taken a good look at Saul, and she be came convinced that some mistake had been made In defining the prisoner's sex. Superintendent King questioned the prisoner, who asserted that she was Mary Davis, and not a man. The 'Superintendent ordered the prisoner to the clothes room to change her wearing apparel for prison garb. Steward Hagadorn, in whose custody she was placed, insisted that the matron should be called, as the prisoner was a woman. Superintendent King, however, ordered him to proceed to the clothes room; with the prisoner. When the prisoner had donned the prison apparel the steward found tha. he or she had taken off a tailor-made J gown, a corset cover, a pair of corsets. j five underskirts, a pair of fancy female hose and other female garments. When questioned by the guard the prisoner told the following story: "I don't know exactly how old I am. I was born in West Virginia. When, a small child I was attired in female clothing by my people, aind in Wash ington and in various places I have served many prominent families as cook and house servant. All during these years I have associated with women, with the exception of times when I have had steady company with gentle men. I have never worn male attire, and really I am ashamed at myself when I look down and see these trous ers. No one has ever questioned my sex during all these years and I have always been considered a woman. I am a first-class washer and kroner, and have always been hired out as a maid, and nurse." The prisoner then held but both: hands and said: ''Do these hands look like they ever worked in a harvest field?" and added "I think it is a shame that I have been treated this way for wearing women's clothes, knbw any other kind, aïs I have worn them for so many years. I always have my dresses made for me at the dressmaker's, and at my home in. Chestertown I have hats to match my I don't of gowns.* * While the prisoner was making this statement he or shie stood with eyes downcast and told the story with a well modulated voice, and with evident em barrassment. The -prisoner stated that the trouble was due to envious people of his or her own. race in Kent county. He or she seemed particularly attested when they cut his or her hair off. The long tresses were wrapped and braided about the head in a neat plait, resemb ling an old time water fall. of