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m 4 ♦ / Yes, we do all kinds o< Job Printing and do it right. Look \p "Th& Transcript for the latest and most re liable local news. M y « / MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, SATDBDAT MOKNINO, JANUARY II, 1902. PEICE, TDEEE CENTSl ?0L. ÏXA.V.— NO. 2 The Middletown Grocery a First-class is tbe place to find everything that goes i m 7B.TJXT Your attention is especially called to our line of CAXTXTEZ) GOODS. 8c. can. BAKER'S CORN, (New,) MISTLETOE PEAS, best to be found. Quality guar anteed or money refunded. Regular price, 18c.can. Especial price, We claim to have the finest line of Dried Fruit to be found on the market. Regular 10c. Prunes, sold at Our Sausage and Scrapple is far above the average. Prices right. CLIFTON F. F. F. FLOUR, Everything to be found in a First-class Grocery and Meat Store. 14c. can. 8c. lb 33C. bag. MIDDLETOWN GROCERY HOUSE PENINGTON'S CORNER. JOHN ARMSTRONG, Manager. THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE FARMER. For sixty years the NEW-YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE has been a national weekly newspaper, read almost entirely by farmers, and has enjoyed the confidence and snpport of the American people to a degree never attained by any similar publication. A THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE FARMER is made absolutely for farmers and their families. The first number was issued November 7th, 1901. . Every department of agricultural industry is covered by special contributors who are leaders in their respective lines, and the TRIBUNE FARMER will be in every sense a lngh class, up-to-date, live, enterprising agricultural paper, profusely illustrated with pictures of live stock, model farm buildings and homes, agricultural machinery, etc. Farmers' wives, sons and daughters will find special pages for their entertainment. , .. .., Regular price $1.00 per year, but youean tavitrthyour favorite home weekly newspaper, THE MIDDLETOWN TRANSCRIPT, one year for $1.25. Send your subscriptions and money to THE MIDDLETOW N TRANSCRIPT, Middletown, Del. NEW OLD PAPER. Send your name and address to TH K 1 Wi ^ Vo K K TRAN8CKIIT, Middletown, Del., or 1HK NFW-YOK^ I'KIBUNK FARMER, New-Yor» City, aud a free sample copy will be mailed to yon* WHEW IM HEED OF ANYTHING IN THE LINE OF STOVES, HARDWARE, TINWARE, WOODENWARE, ETC., call and see ray stock. I aim to keep a large stock of every thing in my line always on hand and would be pleased to have you call and examine the same. W. S. LETHERBURY, MIDDLETOWN, DEL WM. DENNCY.SBC'Y *NDTrEAS. HON. JOHK W. CAUSEY, t'RBSIDBKT. Kent County Mutual Insurance Co. DOVER, DEL. -INCORPORATED 1847. Insures Buildings and Contents-gainst Loss by Fire and Lightning, BUSINESS CONDUCTED ON THE MUTUAL PLAN Insurance in Force $8, 88T» 176-00 W A. Jester, Agent, Delaware City, Del. AGENTS IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS. D. B. Maloney, Agent, Townsend, Del. YARD G.£. HU KILL Middletown. Del. White Pine, Yellow Pine', Hemlock and Cypress. All kinds _ T - ■ Building LUmOer, Singles, Lath Pickets. Mill Work of all kinds in stoçk and to order. Build ing and Agricul tural Lime. Woven i Wire Fence, W oven Picket Fence, Barb ■ Wire land Plain Wire. si : .1 -» ", ^ . Best vela* of * JfrM HARD AHD'SOF? COAL John W. Jolis, Dealer In The Wm. Lea & Sons. Flour Fancy Patent Rolled Mill Feed of all kinds. Seeds, Coal, Etc. COAL. COAL )UDDLETO- T V, DEL. DEALKK in Geo. A. Harter, President, 1rs. THOMAS MASSEY, IN ; Watches, f Clocks, ; Jewelry, ; and Silverware. AND VARIOUS ARTICLES IN GOLD AND silver FOR wedding AND BIRTHDAY GIFTS' & submitting Specialty. ^ ALSO A LARGE STOCK OF Cut Glass, 4 V. ; • Mrs. Thomas Massey, Main Street, Middletown, Del. Nasal 3 CATARRH BA 4 Si In *11 lu stages tun raw Ely's Cream Balm d*Rn***,*oothe>*ndU*i* the disMMd membrane. 30! It euren catarrh and drim* w qoicklj* Cram Balm 1a pieced Into tU noatriia, apreada war tha membrane and la absorbed. Raliaf 1* Im médiat* and a cm* follow*. It la not drying—do** not produce aneMlng. Largo Sire, 50 c«nti at Drag gilts or by mall ; Trial Si**, 10 eenU by mall. KLY BROTHERS, M Warren Street, New York. Attention Farmers! A short course in Agriculture lasting from January 7, 1902, to March 28, 1902, will be given at Delaware College. Address, Prop. W. II. Bishop, Newark, Del. For general information concerning the College, address, I I 1 WASHINGTON LETTER. A FARCE comedy presented by the members of the Democratic minority is on the tapis for this week and promises something in the nature of a relaxation for the Republican members of Congress. On Friday the committee on resolutions appointed at the December caucus is due to report and the struggle between Tanr and Texas for the dictation of the many party policy promises to be a "merry The New Yorkers desire to rid the party of the free silver incubus and all connection with "the silver The Texans are whetting 11 war. sever jawed orator, their oratorical bowie-knives and declare they will have the scalps of the "traitors" as thev term the Easterners. * * * It will be remembered that among the resolutions presented by Representative McClellen, and which were recognized as having been dictated by Mr. Edward M. Shepard, and as his first appearance in the aiena of national politics, was one declaring in favor of the gold standard. This aroused the fury of the fiery Wester and the oily diplomacy of Mr. ners Richardson alone prevented the bursting of the cords with which the Democratic leaders have attempted to bind together the populistic fiat money theorists and the remnant of the Democratic party in the East, with a view to formulating a minority sufficiently coherent to worry the majority in their efforts to enact nec essary legislation. That the Democrats will accomplish anything in their coming, belated caucus, beyond further demon strating the utter disruption of their party and the antagonisms of its compo nent factions, is not expected. * » * f In the Senate there are also signs o 1 disruption in Democratic ranks and a con spiracy lead by Senator Culberson, whose position as a member of the im portant Philippines committee has mater ially strengthened his influence, has been carefully nurtured with a view to over throwing the leadership of Senator Jones and his colleagues, Cockrell of Missouri and Daniel of Virginia, who forfeited the respect of the party by their readiness to supinely yield at every point during the last session, when by vigorous resistance to the Spooner Philippine resolution they might even have forced an extra session of Congress. * * The hopeless passivity of the Demo crats in the Senate, which was brought out in the interview given your corres pondent by Senator Vest, of Missouri, published in these letters about a month ago, has proven à source of grave dissat isfaction to the Democrats who believe that, notwithstanding the smallness of their minority, something might be ac complished in the way of hampering Re publican action. They consider that even a vigorous resistance would prove to the county that there was a Democratic party in Congress but in their attempts to do the spectacular they are more likely to disgust the people than to com mand respect, a view of the situation which never appeals to the yonnger and more reckless element of the party. The news that the Panama Canal Com pany has determined to offer its entire plant, rights and privileges to the United States at the valuation of $40,000,000 placed on them by the Isthmian Canal Commission has been received in Wash ington with the greatest satisfaction by the friends of the Panama route and their number is growing daily. Senator Morgan, whom I saw as soon as the news was received, refused to express a further opinion, on the ground that, as chairman of the committee whicii had the matter in charge and author of the Nicaraguan bill, it would be improper for him to express his views elsewhere than on the floor of the Senate, and lie rn quested that no quotation of his remarks be made in print but there was a twinkle in his eye when I congratulated him on the success of his tactics in that they had reduced the price of the Panama property from $109,000,000 to $40,000,000. * * * Senator Mason, whom I saw yesterday, was more frank in his utterance, as he could afford to be, not being a member of the canal committee. He Baid that, while he had not examined into the merits of the two routes, he was in favor of "retaining two strings to our bow." "My idea," he continued, "is to appro priate sufficient funds and authorize the President to build the canal along the route which in his judgment iB the best. There is no doubt but that both Nicar agua and Costa Rica and Colombia de sire the «mal but of course all the countries involved will make tbe best terms possible with the United States. Therefore I am opposed to burning our bridges behind us ob either rente. Hav ing disposed of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and secured a reasonable price on the French company's plant, why not ask for proposals from the countries whose territory the routes traverse and then accept the most favorable? That seems to me the business-like way of conducting the negotiations." In reply to a question the Senator said: "You need have no fear that tbe Senate will be precipitate in its action. This matter will probably be discussed all winter and then I would not be surprised to see it referred to the President." * * • I found Senator Mason preparing a speech on the subject of reciprocity which he expects to deliver in the Senate to morrow, apropos of the recusitation of the reciprocal treaties which are now in the hands of the Committee on Foreign Relations. "Reciprocity, as conceived by Mr. Blaine and carried into effect by the McKinley tariff bill," he said "was never intended to sacrifice the interest of one small manufacturer for the benefit of the great manufacturing concerns. In fact it was more in the nature of a nega tive power. It was intended to apply particularly to our free list and author ized the President to impose retaliatory duties where foreign countries discrimi nated against onr exports, as in the case of Germany and American pork. It en ables the Presidenttoimpose»retaliatory duty on German sugar. The same fs true of Denmark and American corn. The President was empowered to impose a retaliatory duty on sugar from the Dan ish possessions. But I must not antici pate my speech" he broke off. "That will be comprehensive and will eleariy define my position." Im Del. & at of as to est It NEW YORK FASHIONS NOTES ON JEWELRY, FURS AT AI.L SEASONS, COMBINATIONS IN GARNITURES, ANSWERS. Fresh water pearls in irregular shapes, very fashionable and either combined with other jewels or when single, com posing handsome pins, two|together form ing choice sleeve link buttons. Fancy pins in general, have not declined in popular favor and continue to come in sets of six quite small ones, when com pared with individual ones in floral or other fancy workmanship, in enamel, or a single large gem and here the semi precious stones are in much demand. are BROOCHES are freely shown and they too range from the gold worked into many curious de vices or delightfujly colored enamelings, or a single gem set usually in pearls or diamonds and in this style the amethyst or turquoise oftenest appear. Imitation stones, however, have been brought to such perfection that they really tempt the fastidious, nor is there substantial reason why a woman may unblushingly wear false stones in her bonnet or belt and not on her corsage. There is a dis tinction, nevertheless, and in the eye of fashionable prejudice, a difference. Belt buckles are often extremely pretty and vie with hat pins, in a seemingly precious glow. Real gems, particularly diamonds, are, however, regarded as an investment, because always valuable. GOOD QUALITY FUR is also, like diamonds, an investment, and, if judiciously purchased, a real economy. As an example of the latter, may be quoted a Persian Iamb jacket which has outlasted three garments of material and is still in excellent condi tion. It was purchased from C. C. Shayne, being only one among many others, and discriminating buyers are now availing themselves of his January special offers, since in fur, as in precious stones, it is all important to deal with those whose word is a guarantee. Small furs are useful in summer on piazzas or drives, as during winter over jackets, and, with a view to present needs or next season, a fur cape or jacket at a reduction, is an excellent investment. FUR TRIMMINGS on gowns, have a prestige all their own, and this year, there is a great run on hats and bonnets in fur, which, however, can, . under no circumstances, become common. On evening dresses, the gar niture in question, may seem out of place, but is in keeping with the present idea of extreme contrasts in juxtaposition. Sable trimmings appear in combination with chiffon on a gown of panne silk made up in anticipation of the arrival and consequent entertainments in honor of Chauncey Depew's bride, and another dress destined for a like purpose, is of pale blue Louisine made princesse and trimmed with pearl passementerie and lace. Passementerie, in general, is ex. tremely fashionable, appearing again in millinery, from whence it had long been banished and this for the reason that spreading brims bave seemed a natural groundwork for such display. "Cora. it a of of fs The run on neck boas in light weight material, is phenomenal and for dressy evening wear, displays in white and pale colored boas, with muffs to match, are truly remarkable. The extreme width and height of these boas about the neck are in keeping with the very long streamers in front and some new muffs show long,.floating streamers. "Miss X." Medallions are very fash ionable and for those in gold, heart shapes seem particularly popular. Pretty ones are closely set in very small pearls or diamonds, and as the expense of those gems is proportional to size, such medallions are not very expensive. Both, however, are so skilfully imitated that semblance to the ordinary eye, quite equals the genuine. Lucy Carter. » 'DONT S" FOR YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS Don't put butter in your refrigerator with the wrappings on. Don't use butter for frying purposes. It decomposes and is unwholesome. Don't keep custards in the cellar in an open vessel. They are liable to become poisonous. Don't pour boiling water over china packed in a pan. It will crack by the sudden contraction and expansion. Don't moisten your food with the jdea of saving your teeth. It spoils the teeth and you will soon lose them. Don't use steel knives for catting fish, oysters, sweetbreadsor brains. The steel blackens and gives an unpleasant flavor. Don't scrub yeur refrigerator with warm water. When necessary sponge it out quickly with two ounces of formalde hyde in two quarts of cold-water. Don't put tablecloths and napkins that are fruit-stained into hot soapsuds; it sets or fixes the stains. Remove the stains first with dilute water. Lata Literary Notes Are England, Scotland and Ireland destined, ultimately, to become a part of "The United States of America and Great Britain?" is the startling inquiry which William T. Stead makes in the January Cosmopolitan. He has been one of the prophets of Great Britain, and has, at all times, been able to see in advance of his contemporaries—as events have proven. He has been studying tbe new conditions brought about by the industrial combinations and reaches the conclusion that England and the United States are destined to be more closely united and that as soon as the English people wake up to the absurdity and general uselessness, as has been shown in the Boer War, of a king and aristocracy, tbe trend will be immediate in the direc tion of a union with tbe people of the United States. However mach one may differ from Mr. Stead, his speculations will be found vastly interesting. He is the first British subject who has had tbe courage to BUggest such an outcome. A Certain Cure for Chilblains Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It cures Chilblains, Frostbites, Damp, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25 cents. PRACTICAL DAIRY POINTS In most sections of our country where the best grasses and clovers flourish dairy ing has become a profitable farm indus try, and farmers have accumulated more money by keeping cows and selling butter and cheese, and, in some instances, milk, than have farmers in those sections in which wheat and corn, but grass fails. The reason is obvious; in dairying the farmer converts the plant food drawn from the soil into more valuable products at a minimum cast to the farm, as much of the plant food is returned to the farm as manure. It is an axiom in profitable agriculture that that system of farming which relies for its cash receipts upon converting the raw products of the farm into meat, wool, dairy products, etc., and selling these, is the true one to pursue. Converting hay and grain into choice dairy products, uti lizing the by-products of the dairy to best advantage in growing calves and pigs, offers good returns if followed intelli gently with ordinary business foresight and administrative rbility. In a manufaciuring business the aim is' to produce a good article at the lowest possible cost. This applies to dairying from the fact that only a choice article of butter or cheese finds a remunerative market, while if the cost of production has been kept down to the lotveet figure the dairyman has the satisfaction of feel ing that be has practically secured both ends of the bargain. The educating force of example furn ished by the few first-class dairymen who are found scattered throughout most dairy sections affords a stimulus and pattern to the farmers of their neighbor hood, and by this meanB the business has received an uplift to a degree tnat better cows are kept in many instancas, and old, slack methods of caring for dairy stock, have given way to neater work in better stables. No study of dairy problems looking to highest attainments in production of dairy goods can be complete and of high, est benefit which omits the dairy ebar. acteristics of the cows. The starting point in successful dairying is the cow'. It requires good administrative ability to build up a paying dairy herd. It hold true with cows as with "other people" that good cows are born, not made. And yet, after the good herd is built up, as much ability is required to feed aright— proper foods properly combined—to bring the herd to the highest producing ca pacity, as it does to select and build up the herd. No two cows are just alike in their feed ing capacity. One may consume a quar ter more feed than another, yet be the more profitable producer of the two—the range of butter fat may test higher and the quantity be larger. Not every cow, also, which gives a high rate of butter fat in her milk at low cost for feed to pro duce is a profitable one to keep. I have known of two instances at least where high grade Jersey cows gave large messes of milk whose butter product averaged high for quantity, but for quality was less than second rate—soft, salvy and clear off in color, and these conditions prevailed under the most favorable circumstances of handling the milk and cream. It is this line of high troductive capa city for food consumed—turning the feed, to the butter fat account, rather than to storing it upon the body—and butter pro duct of the highest quality that should be the base of action in selecting cows or in breeding to build up a first-class dairy. One working along these lines will find ample scope for his skill and administra tive ability in breeding, both in the se. lection of the heifers and cows retained in his dairy and the choice of a sire he in troduces into hin herd. With the mass of farmers there has been little progress in breeding for the dairy. They too often go on the hap hazard plan of breeding to the handiest bull they can find, if his services are low in price, entirely ignoring quality of blood, characteristics and dairy inheri tance—a cheap service which costs more than it is worth, even if given. It was my fortune recently to be left with a little spare time on my hands in a community of farmers where dairying was carried on to quite an extent in the aggregate, most of the farmers keeping from six to ten cows, and selling their cream to a butter factory, which had a cream route through the neighborhood. A little inquiry elicited the information that there were only two bulls owned within a radius of four miles. Both were scrubs, a mixture of several breeds, the product of a "high grade" Jersey bull crossed upon dams of native and grade Hereford blood. Here were some good looking cows, well proportioned, but evi dently the most of them better adapted to stock purposes than for the dairy; lacking in uniformity of color, size, come liness of proportions or the dairy make up, the latter quality painfully so to the practised eye. Y,et these farmers were apparently con tented and satisfied with the results of the course they were following. Apathy and a lack of appreciation of the possibil ities in breeding to raise the productive capacity of their cows comes as an inher itance to many farmers; hence they con tinue on contented with the delusion that what was good enough for their fathers is good enough for them. is it of in in is tbe Good Ad vie* The most miserablebeings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than seventy -five per cent, of the people in the United States- are afflicted with these two dis eases and their effects : such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Cos tivenees, Palpitation of the Heart, Heart hurn, Water-brash, Gnawing and Burn ing Pains at the Pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and Dk.1 agreeable Taste in the Month, Coming 1 up of Food after Eating, Low Spirite ' etc. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two doees will relieve yon. Try it. For sale by J.S. A W.Lattomns, Townsend, Del. Get Green's Prize Almanac. ( STATE AND MARYLAND NEWS ' v . ...J v . TO WEAR THE BOTKIN CASE The Botkin poison case, which was the most remarkable, as well as mysterious in. the history of California, and attention, is about to be brought up again before the highest court in the United States. This case was fought in the California courts for several years, ending in Mrs. Botkin being sentenced to life imprison ment, charged with the death of Mrs. John P. Dunning and her sister, Mrs. Joshua D. Deane, of Dover, both daughters of Ex Congressman Pennington. Mrs. Botkin was charged with sending a box of candy filled with arsenic to Mrs. Dunning, who with her sister, died a few hours after receiving it on August 5th, 1898. It was charged at the trial that Mrs. Botkin's affection for the husband of Mrs. Dunning was the motive for her act. George E. Knight, senior counsel for Mrs. Botkin, is now in Washington, and intends to have a writ of error filed in the matter, as the crime originated in California and was consummated in Delaware. There is no Federal law upon such a question, and the ruling is waited for with much interest. The Supreme Court is to settle where the jurisdiction lies. In any case, Mrs. Botkin's lawyers declare, they have the right to go back to California and submit to a new trial in the lower court. Since Mrs. Botkin's sentence, people have declared they have seen her on street cars, and it was charged that two of her guards in the prison had a quarrel over her which ended in one receiving a fractured skull. A VICTIM OF TETANUS Mrs. Anna Dawson, of Kenton, Ken County, who had been visiting at 1106 Stiles street, Philadelphia, is seriously ill at St. Joseph's Hospital, with every symptom of lockjaw, resulting, it is be lieved from vaccination. Just whether the tetanus germs were contained in the serum with which Mrs. Dawson was in noculated or whether they were taken into the soreln another way is not known. No ill effects of the vaccination, which was done by a city physician, were felt until three weeks after the operation. A few days before a child whom Mrs. Daw son had on her lap accidentally struck the woman's arm, and soon after the limb became painful and swollen, and symptoms of tetanus developed. On New Year's Day Mrs. Dawson was removed to the hospital. There tetanus serum is being administered, and the attending physician says the sufferer will probably recover. PRISONER AND FET CAT DEAD Walter Patton, an ex-prisoner who went back to the Kent County Jail, Dover, asked to be allowed to die in his old cell, and succumbed to pneumonia there on Saturday night. Warden John M. Ward had a pet cat Topsy, which was 21 years and 10 months old, and was unquestionably the oldest cat on the peninsula. Mrs. Ward had brought this cat home while she and her husband lived in Philadelphia. Patton formed a great liking for Topsy, and when, after Patton's time was out and Sheriff Reedy employed him as hostler, the two were almost inseparable. When Patton went out to seek other employ ment he said to Mrs. Ward: "I never ex pect to see old Topsy again, for another New Year's day will find him a corpse." To this Mrs. Ward replied that Topsy might yet outlive Patton. Strangely enough, the old cat died an hour after Patton breathed his last in his old prison cell. HAS A BROKEN'NECK Lying at the Delaware Hospital, Wil mington, with his neck broken, is Ed ward Stevenson, a colored man. He has been living since Thursday last with a broken neck, and if he continues to-im prove in the future as he has since he was admitted to the institution, his chances of recovery will be very good. Stevenson is 59 years old, and has been employed as a miner of kaolin in the quarries near Hockessin. He received his serious in juries while working last Thursday after noon, and that lie was not killed outright is as miraculous as the way he has borne up since that time. He was standing directly beneath a heavy iron bucket used in hoisting kaolin from the pit, when the bucket slipped from the cable attached to it. The bucket weighed three hundred pounds, and struck Stevenson a glancing blow on the top of his head, tearing loose his scalp, and almost ripping it cleanly from his skull. "BEN HUB" The dramatic version of Gen. Lew Wallace's widely read novel, "Ben Hur," is the important announcement for the Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadel phia, for a limited engagement, begin ning Monday evening, January 13th. Kiew & Erlanger have made the produc tion the most beautiful and elaborate spectacle ever exhibited on the stage in any part of the world. It has been found necessary to reconstruct the stage of the Chestnut Street Opera House in order to accommodate the vast scenic outfit. The transference of "Ben Hur" to the stage has been made with all doe respect for the religious interest of the book. The old Wright farm, at tbe southern edge of Georgetown, is being converted into a hospital, to be known as "The Briar-croft Infirmary," and which will be managed by Drs. O. D. Robinson and R. G. Pay,.ter.Drs. Robinson and Payn. 1 ter are having the building fitted up. ' They will make a specialty of the treat ment of diseases of tbe throat, nose, ear and eye. The property is an ideal one lor such a purpose, and the institution will mean machte Georgetown. It will n ot be in operation for some weeka yet. INFIRHABY IN SUSSEX a WILMINGTON M. E. CONFERENCE The- ,iext session of this, the Wilming ton Methodist Episcopal Conference, at Crisfield, in March, will be asked to in vestigate the ministerial conduct of Rev. Francis Burgess Short, pastor of Epworth M. E. Church, Wilmington, who is well known in Cecil County, for marrying a girl 13 years of age. The young bride was Virginia Hollis, but she was wedded to Charles Collins, a young man 21 years old, while he was out on bail pending a hearing on a charge of having improper relations with her, as she was under the age' of consent. called in court, counsel for Collins cured a postponement for two Greeks, during which time Collins and the Hollis girl went to the home of Pastor Short, where they were married. Judge Church man was hotified of this when the case against Collins was called the next day and had to dismiss Collins, as under a Delaware law a wife could not be com pelled to testify against him. Judge Churchman endeavored to find a law under which he could bring all the per sons concerned before the court for con tempt, but was unsuccessful. City Soli citor Reinhardt is indignant at the mar riage of the Hollis girl, and has been conferring with prominent Methodists to arrange for presenting the matter to the conference at its next session. Mr. Short says the living parents of Collins and his children consented to the marriage and witnessed the ceremony, which was per formed at their request. When the case was se FLYING STONES HIT TEAINS The tendency of reckless boys to hurl stones at the fast trains running down the Delaware Railroad with the Old Point parlor cars seems to be almost unconquer able, notwithstanding the strenuous methods which the company has adopted to stop this jeopardizing of human life and property. Train No.89 was "stoned"or "chunked" a few days ago after leaving Harrington | and when nearing Bridgeville. One rock crashed through the Pullman car and almost created a panic among the pas sengers. Detective Hutchins made an investigation which led to the arrest of Robert Brown, Harry Scott, Avery Scott and Whittier Sulmer. As these boys were not apparently wicked and did not realize the gravity of their act, Magistrate Willey of Bridgeville, accepted their pleas of guilty of trespass and malicious mischief and fined them $4 each, which their fathers paid. At the same hearing William Adkins, a United States soldier, was fined $7.80 for attempting to "clean out" the agent of the Bridgeville station. A BURNED TO DEATH James Peterson, aged 65 years, was burned so badly about 11 o'clock Mon day night at his home, in Mill Town, Creek hundred, that he died shortly afterward. Mrs. Peterson his wife, was asleep at the time and Mr. Peterson was about to retire, when a lamp, which he carried, exploded, setting his cloth ing on fire. He ran to the road and rolled himself in the dust, but did not extinguish the flames. Neighbors ran te his assistance, but by the time they arrived he was frightfully burned and died a short time after being taken to the house, moned, but when he arrived the patient beyond the reach of medical skill. Dr. L. H. Ball was sum' was SHYRNA CANAL ROUTE Congressman Ball last Friday in com with A. E. Jardine, Harry B. pan y Grieves, George H. Dick and J. E. Car ter, a committee of the Smyrna Board of Trade, took a trip down Smyrna river. An appropriation of $25,000 is asked for from Congress to cut a series of canals which will shorten the time between Smyrna and Philadelphia by steamer at least two hours. The distance from Smy rna to the month of the river is eleven miles. By the proposed improvement I it will only be six miles. Congressman Ball will do all in his power to secure the a as in a appropriation. " THE TRIBUNE FARMEE." A strictly up-to-date farm jour nal of 20 pages, issued every Thursday—made absolutely for farmers and their families. Every department of agricultural in dustry is covered by special contributors who are leaders in their lines, and the paper is in every sense an enterprising and high class journal. Sample copies be had by calling at The Transcrut office. THE TRANSCRIPT and TRIBUNE FARMER $1.25 per year. can in to for Hail Delivery Routes Special Agent Plummer of the Post Office Department is in New Castle County laying out new rural free mail delivery routes. It is expected that two of the routes will start from Hockessin, from Newark, one from New Castle, and probably one in Brandywine hun dred, starting from Wilmington. It is expected that the list of carriers recently selected for Kent County will be ap proved this week and the delivery system started there in a month or two, as soon as some one Colburn Drowning Raoalle The sad ^ w " n K»^en»last sum raer when three m . „ Arthur Colburn art the« hves Ofling Island, was me.led£ »mdBrt,urfay when , e " er l of W :„ g si { g™ted by ear Philadelphia, upon , , and Ida E. Colburn, the j The letters «^rankle The es Bister, Mrs. MadelineSprenkla The es tales were valued at ? , details can be arranged. ! DIRECTORS RESIGN Ayres S. Webster and Patrick Fahey have resigned their positions as Directors of the Street and Sewér Department of the city of Wilmington. Their resigna tions were delivered to Mayor Fisher by Attorney William S. Hilles, about 10.15 o'clock Tuesday morning, and accepted immediately. The resignation read as follows: "Wilmington, Del., Jan. 7th, 1902.— To the Hon. George M. Fisher, Mayor— Sir: I hereby resign my office of Director of the Street and Sewer Department of the city of Wilmington, to take effect im mediately. Respectfully, Patrick Fahey. "Wilmington, Del., Jan. 7th, 1902.— To the Hon. George M. Fisher, Mayor of the City of Wilmington—Sir: I hereby resign my position as Director of the Street and Sewer Department of Wil mington, to take effect immediately. Respectfully, Ayres S. Webster." Immediately after receiving the resig- • nations the mayor accepted them and notified Messrs. Webster and Fahey, in writing, to that effect. Following is a copy of the letter sent to Mr. Fahey: "Wilmington, Del., Jan. 7th, 1902.— Patrick Fahey, Esq., Wilmington, Del.— Dear Sir; I have received your letter to day resigning your position as a Director of the Street and Sewer Department, which resignation is accepted. Yours very truly, George M. Fisher, Mayor. A story was in circulation several days ago to the effect that all three of the di rectors contemplated resigning, but when spoken to about the matter they gavejthe impression that they had no intention of relinquishing their positions. As a mat ter of fact, the matter hung fire until Tuesday morning, when two of the three decided to take the step. Had they re signed one at a time the two temaining would have filled the vacancies; that is one could have resigned and his colleagues could have chosen his successor, and that plan could have been followed until all three of the directors were out and their successors, chosen by themselves, were in office. | EXHIBIT AT BUFFALO Chairman S. Harrington Messick, of the State Board of Agriculture was look ing well pleased as he emerged from the State House at Dover on Tuesday and said in reply to an inquiry: "Do you know that, after all the ad verse criticism of the State Board's ex hibit at Buffalo, Delaware ranks about fourth of all the medal winners of the United States and Canada on fresh fruit. We stand far higher than this State did at the World's Fair, when we appropri. ated $20,000, and then this state was ap pealed to later to make up a shortage of $2,700. This exhibition was conducted on a state appropriation of $1,000, and you can say that we stand square with the world, having won our medals and paid up all bills." Governor Ilunn indicated his approval of the work of the State Board of Agricul ture by announcing that James T. Shall cross, member of the board from New Castle County, would be asked to accept a re-appointment for a full term of three years. 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