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THK DAILY REPUBLICAN. The Republican Printing ' and Publishing Co, ri'DLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY S. E. COR. lliatD AND KINO STREETS Entered at the Post Office at Wllmingtoa DeL. as second-class mail matter. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 b, ipo». Preferment in politics goes like other things in this world, with some few exceptions. Some men lucky. Take the election of Frank Speakman who was elected Prothonotary at the last electiou; when he ran for the nomination Jis had no idea of being elected, but he was willing to make the trial. Few H«publicau leaders thought the Recorder's plum would fall to a Republican, wheu the nomination sWas made. Mr. Speakman took the cliauoes With a divided Repub are and won. Jean party his defeat would have been certain and for a time it look ed as if sue]) a contingency would He is the youngest office holder in New Castle county, and we believe, in the State, thus tar filled the office as ably as any of his predecessors. This is one instance of where luck won. There are numerous in stances of where other men have been knocked out every time, eveu after securing the nomination. Take the case of Puruell J. Lynch who was nominated no less than twice tor Sheriff of New Castle county by the Democrats and each time was defeated, a Republican sheriff being elected both times. He spent nearly all his money in trying 4or the goal ol his ambitiou only to give it up in the end and get out of politics. Few of our politicians have m^de any big money in pollti uone of them have made enough to retire. It is an enticing game and hun dreds of men have been dazzled by its alluring possibilities. Have you ever stopped to think what has become of the men litical affairs less tha ago? C names arise. He lia! at least •ho ran our po 15 years you recall many of their who to-day constitute the ho control our conventions/ Men, like the weather, change, that is, a younger element is enter ing political life and controlli affairs, from the Federal olli the Municipal offices in Wilmington. Look around vou and note the young meu front M ayor George M. Fisher to Clerk oi Co In the county offices its the same, the younger clement has forged ahead, from Sheriff McDaniel to Becorder of Deeds' Ciark. Colen Ferguson, Clerk of the Or ' Court and Calvin 1. Crossan , are the two old men its to tell. pha Register of Wills sstofficials in the The probabilities are that their time is up. they \\'" ceeiled j}by younger men. •heir terms will expire next year. ourt House rov. he •ill be 9uo liotb of removed Court Death yesterday removed Court Crier Thomas B. Smith from our midst. He died -uddeuly, being For bed with life extinct. ' found nearly thirty years his v nounced the opeuiog ot the session ol the Superior aodUeneral Se=sioo Courts o.' New Castle county, lie was a well-known tig n'oout the Court Ilau ce an I re in and and made Mr. Smith removed j. Irom New Castle to this city when J t | rt was removed from that j ancient city and seldom lost a day W! from court unless on account of »ickncss. lie was courteous and d made many friends. the i si wavs obli £ a :t< public scr 1 of tbe Civil War a ml w n Grand Army cire know ell for tlie i it nol De Wot: i. ii purchu th Water Depart old Federal building at the east corner ol itreets.' From observat etty officials have nol the proper tjuarters to conduct the increas ing business ot the''several depart ments. The new headquarters of the Water Department improvement on the old q cupied by the Street and Sewer Commissioners. it t< Itll Sixth and King ! | I is quite a .liters which c no Tin headquarters for our police force are a disgrace to a city ul Tlu* force tbe si/.e of Wilm myton in hers from hall a bus grown in nu lozen patrolmed had to bring the drunks to the ha l in a push curl or d Itae aired the best hen the officers along ne in they could. Dur polic lorce now ^0 odd officers with a chief unbers some with The I d U. iigea line a dog hardly tit to c ells a being. d, let alone a huraa k City Aupitor Hocmiman for the lecond time this month has seen fit and proper to refuse to counter sign bills -cut him from the Water Department. According to the City Auditor h bis signature on the back of the leveral bills was that they were too high. Water Department by passing |he City Auditor ns tliev did a lew lays o^o with a similar bill, fuaal for putting It ia probable that tbe nil pay them them over the head ol Wf. would be obliged if our sub scribers receiving their papers from this office would re ind settle for their subscription. All persona paying in advance will be sent a copy of an Agricultural for oue year. Don't forget who contemplate having ^ public sales this winter and spring ;% can procure hand bills here. Then he KRPrin.il an is the only paper o the city that reaches the farming classes, it call paper (hat y yo 4 'J: It is believed that Philemma Chandler will succeed John Lynn aa President of the Levy Court. Mr. Chandler is fullv capable of fillia? the posi'.i bimsalt and his constituents. John Lynn's term as President of that bodjr would have expired lay n«xt. Certainty printing at tlie KitrcuucAN office. tf v \ >th credit to 1 e do all kinds of =SE fatality abouTmorocco lactonaa aa oearly arery oae of aucb factoriea with few exception* have beao *!»• ited by a fire io tbeir hiatorr. For tunately for their owners they have alwaya beea fully covered by in surance. Persons cannot be too careful in handling oil in filling tbeir lamps ard stoves for heating purposes. Very often an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. -Is made hero that the now constitution of file Methodist Episcopal church, METHODISTS HAVE APPROVED. New Constitution Of the C hnreb Hss Received Keeossnry Votes. CHICAGO. Dec. 27-Announcement .which was adopted at the hist general conference of that denomination held at the Auditorium in May, 1900, and referred to the various conferences throughout the country, has finally been approved by the three-quarters vote required. The vote is as follows: Yeas. §,196: nays, 2,513. The element which opposed the new organic law of the church because it provided for the admission of women as delegates to the general conference made war on the new constitution all along the line, but met with defeat. One hundred and twenty-one annual the question, a conferenet's voted total of 10,709 ballots being cast by delegates. The principal changes provided for by the new constitution are: It gives the right to sit us delegates in enee. women tlie general eon^erei It gives laymeVs electoral meetings authority to vote on constitutional questions. It changes the vote •e to amend tlie con stitution from three-fourths to two thirds. ssary in the general eonfere RUSHED BY DE WET. to Have licit In li Yeomanry Thought Lost leavily. The following Lord LONDON, Dec. 2 dispatch has be Kitchener, dated John '•General Bundle reports that on the night of Dee. 24 Colonel Firman's at Zeei'ontein. consisting of •oinpanies of yeomanry ami two 'sburg: to | rump hr r-cessfully rushed by st ,g> undo under De Wet, It in strong tom feared the casualties were heavy. T nts of light horse are pursuing •egi the Boers." Boer reals a nee has always bee ry strong in that part of the Orange ltiver ,-hieh was the scene of General De Wet's Christmas coup. A great is being built there, the four points of which are Vereetiiging. Volksrust. Harriwmitb and Kroonstadt. At the s nor of this quadrangle is a long, open space inun Bethlehem to Bindley •here the square of blockhouses is si ill •e De Wet made his quad tangle of blockhouses henst cor prohably incomplete, and 1 ck. at fnree . am! the disaster, mnted to 4<H >dnlly the loss of the guns, the pos hicli may enable De Wet attack the blockhouses, of ITl'SSfullj- IO » distil irtiiug iinpt'Ptttdoi). create j * A Double Il.ilwuy Aeelclenl. IM 'I NN ATI. Dee. 27.— Citable to see tho llttgmau's signal on ueeount of fvjt. tlio engineer of the southbound Cbitugo exprot tin* Cincinnati, able )nd was ilton and Day I In Hartwell until it » stop the tr«i freight crossing the track had struck flished three freight; cart nd de j.- 0 t | 1( W! , •s and two trainmen on r pi hired. They will all the ■king trail i't with an accident, The veil Hart • and fatally In trick Mere is T and 1. Nipt 1 inring Wlllii : «* . The •ongress has opened here under e broke of the c The chat vliilo the lii Snltci iml. Dec. Ziont ;r 7 BASl'.L be presidency of Dr. Theodore Ilerzl lor of tIif Zionist u. fo of Viei . The congress is at lo Palestii of 1 nded by over a thousand delegates, t country representing ( ill! the (») •mid. he •P of Australia. In the course of his opening address ('resident Herzl referred to his audience held with the sultan last May, in which the sultu had expressed his l>e de itD the Zionist Hit, ymp ed the Jews said he consid declared himself their friend. Cl I nfill Qnnrrel ,i BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Dee. ■bite i. Ii n q ■ an : .,crc killed ami a white 1 gro wound.# Will, great ' bet general tig) negroes at Childershurg j vhite and his s« eral Outbreak I difficulty a Ill ted. egroes It is said the trouble j Talladega. le. the rew out of vlmiing!: ! 7 . Th TRENTON, N. J.. Dec Re . . . I IKllt I t lul.) and decided up- | eased Inst 1 at tlie Republic ou Senator Asa A. 1 is of Mon fident of the •nnte by u iiouth for pre of 14 to Of 3 vot( Mi'Cart of Mkscx for Republican lead vus decided up< <T. A Former Mlar e Hu rural to Death. GUTHRIE. Osin . 1 cighty-m e. has been this •ons, aged t a crisp i his slim city tatioi Andrew Jackson's pla > nd wt •rippled for life at Vicksburg wht city was besieged by G Grunt. New D . I., and W. Official. Dec. 21 INTHANABOLW*. Ind.. has lie# gc W. Ilnyl appointed nger agent of r assistant gc he Delaware. Laol nd West New York cin. with headquarters i clt.v. He has boon chief clerk of the ■r depnr •lit for tw yci passci I'nciflr* Deport. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. The board of directors of tbe Union P held n short tentJoi ■ific railway ting yesterday. It was give out the ann the part of the ary to postpone tbe I■ port, but k delay oi de It neve printer this until todttj. MAT CONFESS CRIME Light on the Hudson Tragedy , Expected. v FOUR NEPHEWS ARE UNDER ARREST Murder 'Which lfiha Stirred Up Co* lambla County la Thought to Have Been the Result of a Family Fued. HUDSON, N. Y., Dec. 27.-Harvey Bruce, one of the four nephews of Farmer Peter Hallenbeck, who are un der arrest here charged with the old man's assassination on Christmas eve, is counted on to make a confession tbAt will explain the motives which prompt ed the youthful quartet to their cold blooded crime. Hallenbeck was called to his kitchen door Christmas eve while all the in mates of his house except his invalid wife and her aged mother were at a Christmas tree festival at the Reform ed church, a few rods down the road. Ho opened the door, and four men thrust revolvers into his face. They said nothing, but fired. He was shot In the face and arms. He turned to grab his shotgun from behind the kitchen door, and a volley of buJJets was sent into his back. lie fell to the floor dead, while his wife looked on. Then the murderers pumped lead into his body until their revolvers were empty. Christmas morning Bert, Fred and Willis Van Warmer and Harvey Bruce, nephews of the murdered man, were arrested and jailed here. They do not look like farmer boys. They have clean, Intellectual faces and wear city clothes. Ail of them have preserved absolute silence, even to denying the suspicion against them. Columbia county is wrought up to an unwonted pitch by the assassination of Peter Hallenbeck. In the hamlet of Greenport, four miles south of here, Hallenbeck was looked up to as the leading man of the community. He 1 was aged and wealthy. One of his second wife's sisters; the r, had three sons, Widow Vs Bert, Fred and Willis. They were mis chievous and seldom industrious. Another sister, the wife of Jonas Bruce, bad a boy scarcely sixteen years following in s of his cousins, the Van <. The eldest of the Van t boys is only twenty-three, t the Hallenbeeks and Van there has been a feud of cx Wori •cl bent old. who see the wi Won Wor Bet vv • Wor J feeding bitternes ; ding to one story, Hallenbeck, | tiring of showering kindnesses on Mrs. 1 Van Wormer and her boys, foreclosed a mortgage and the f 1 j ' Ac her property recently, nmily moved to Kinderhook, iles away. 1 twenty oluinbla f NEW YORK. Dec. 27. The Brooklyn good au J thoriiy that Andrew Carnegie has of i fered a fund to Columbia university. *y offered to anner in which Eagle says: "It is slated The exact amount of j the university and the it will he used are not known. It is j certain, however, that the fund is in j seven figures or more. Nicholas Mur j ray Butler, who, it is believed, will * soon be elected to the presidency of Co lumbia university, is generally accred ited with having brought about the of fer from Mr. Carnegie. The gift to Co lumbia when it becomes the first which Mr. Carnegie has made to any American university." •ill he to any American university." 4but nileri-il. 27.—The advised by cable •wider of the Samson at Muta in llnx Si San WASHINGTON, Dec. department has bee from Manila of the s surgent chieftai . with all his officers and ii(l forty-live ri twenty-eight ca ties. Mutasaron does not any of the maps in the possession of : the department, hut it is assumed that «* the surrender took place in the island of Bohol of late has he lowers, having ppear there that Sams •siting with his fol the •cik* of bis dcpmlati is, tbe island of Cebu. npletcil. LIBERAL, Kan.. Dee. 27. -The Rock 1 Island extension from this place to Santa Rosa, N. M., lias been cornplot bicb is White Oaks to tl tie finished before K\tei tit Hock Islmii t The F.l Paso and Eastern. ed. Jan. 15, when through e< be made and the Calif eet i( business ■tubliert. ST. LOLLS. Dec. 27. It inis bee Mill Sat. rionrh en ble' learned that four the ■ safe in the office of the (touring mill of : II. A. Frunze & Son at New Douglas, 1 111.. Christmas night and escaped with ' The two watehme ore boat mi by the robbers and ■ere left tied t posts. j Wild Door In n City. Mass.. Dec. 27.—A WORCESTER, vild deer s captured in the heart ! of this oily and. after being placed in as O'Flynn's sta Th tho wild run and shock I ble, died fr I of cm | •e. It apparently e 1 the southern part of the county. e from Hoys For Wei GUTHRIE, Ok In., Dee. 1 ml I ii i er rieasnnt Porter of the ( k Nation ssful in his efforts to have Congressman De Gruffenried of Texas prepare a bill providing for the admission of Indian boys to the West Point Military academy. has bee inert Internal Revenue. Derr WASHINGTON, The monthly statement of the collections of Internal collect ions for November, 1H01, were $28,178,951. a decrease ns compared with November, 19WA of $2,195,330. Dec. 21 emit* show that the total THh. PA MURKS of Mill lock p. A nnual mk&tlvu o M utual Pi ( reck Huiidrei in., in th<- Odd HurtmcR (Jump Ho&kesnio, day, JaiUCHvy Hth, 1902. Spencer Chand ; Frauds L>. lialdwi't, Secretary d'Deodd 3 1 -weekly Hall D Preside MEETING OF THE SOUTH A nnum, **r» Union Horse Ccmtmny. will Motive at 1 o'clock p. iu. on Saturday, !)*»«•. 38, 1001, thaUvcoum House iu New Uurtiou T Pa. ehil*, c ;1S D. BALDWIN. Sscy. U 43t* O'IK K-THK ANNUAL MEETING OF vo amiGcia o District, No. N the Diamond State Protect! School) ha held llOH * 35. Monday, Dec. 80th, 1WU', at 1 o'clock p. iu. ,, Irwin L. Mall, Her. d 18-rod Jas. Brown, 1 i CROSBY & HILL 605,607 and 609 Market Street Useful New Year's presents about half price, best time to look them up now. We will Bell 011 Saturday 800 yards Fancy Flannelette at 6ic. yard. 200 yards fancy wool Plaids 374c plaids for 121c. yard. 10 yards Hill bleached Muslin for $1.00. f>00 yards unbleached Can ton Flannel, 10c Canton flan nel for 8c yard. 500 embroidered mid lace Handkerchiefs, just handled on the counter, 25c. Hand kerchiefs for 12 Je. 240 Indies' fust black regu lar made Hose, 25c stockings for 19c. Furs, Ladies' Coats, Child ren's Coats. _ The gives you you desire, and the patterns are perfect fitting. Designer nil the information Standard Special Oil Saturday we will sell a black Crepon, 38 in. wide, a regular 59 cents crcpon for 37 hv. yard. & HILL Engineer Kills Himself With Carbolic Acid Cumberland, Mil., Dee. Charles Camphor, a Baltimore ami Ohio engineer on the Pitts , who lived on Arch South Cumberland, eom suicide at the Baltimore • 20 . burn tlivisit street, lllitteil House, C'omiellsville, last night by drinking two ounces of carbolic He was laid off for it month 4but liM'efttsed to he so suspended drew nis pay and quit. Despond acid. ency followed. He was found on tlie floor, his face and mouth Being burned in a terrible manner. He belonged to the Brotherhood of Locomotive leaves a widow ami two cliild Mrs. Elmer Chandler,post misstress ami wife of the miller at Wickcrlon mills near La mien berg- met wilh a horrible death yesterday. She enter- i close to the He Engii nil. Itching homorrhoitD, of my life. Ointment curort ly, after (loot i well, Vulloy Street, the plague ulmost wild. Doan's quickly and norma had failed. C. F. Saugertie.e W Ci N. Y. Met Death in Co^s. ill ami got t •d the Dell that drives the grinding macliin ght and carried into l v, and was She st rug sen herself hut in a wheels. gled madly to 1 tver. Her head *nt ered the cogs first and this si ifled •ills all her cries. She was horribly crushed and death resulted instantly. Mrs. Rachael Alexander was burn ed to death on Christmas night. She was at tending to her household duties when a lamp on the table exploded. The burning oil was thrown all over her and in a few minutes she mass of liames. Friends smothered the lire but the poor victim died. Go to MUlor'a No. 1 stall in tho Second market house tor a good roast or steak. l\ew Superintendent and Matron. William Wilcox, of Massachusetts, was formally installed as superinten dent, of tlie Ferris Industrial School At the same time his as Installed as matron. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox are from the School at Westtown, Mass ■esterdav. Lvtn; arid formerly had charge of one of the cottages connected with that in stitution, They c mended, and enee, and arc expected to ble officers. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox spent six years In tlie services of tlie school at Westtown. t well recom •ith excellent experi akc caoa ordinary household accident* hnvo no horor when there's a bottle of Dr. Tho mas Kclcctric Oil, in the medicine cheat, beats burns, cuts, bruises, Bpruius. In staut relief. Qlrl Shot Her Father. Somerville, Mass., Dec. defending her elster from an assault hy her (lrmik-craze(l father, Florence Ilobson, 22 years of age, shot her father last night and Is now under arrest. The man had a serious wound, but it is thought he will recover. James Dobson, the victim of the •hooting, is said to have been abus ing his family at Intervals during tlie whole day. At lad he .attacked his oldest daughter, when Florence procured a revolver and shot hint 20. — I n iu. F00TH0LDIN TDRKEY Consul at Earput Gives Re sults of First Year. $PLEND1D OUTLOOK FOR OUR TRADB The Consslsts Was Eatabllahed Lail JgBssry After Mach Haggling With the Porte—American Ma chinery In Good Demand. WASHINGTON, Dee. 27,-The stat« department made public extracts froqj the first annual report of United Stutes Consul Norton at Harput, Turkey. Mr. Norton had difficulty In securing his exequatur from Turkey, that govern ment declining at first to grant the nec essary authorisation on the ground that there tvas no commerce at Harput to warrant It. He say* that the two vila yets of Mamouret-ul-Aziz and Dlarbeklr compose the consular district, and dur ing 1900 the trade aggregated some thing over $4,000,000. evenly dHrldod between exports and imports. There Is muyli to favor the growth of commer cial ties between Asiatic Turkey and • the United States, says Mr. Norton. The American educational effort at Harput has had widespread Influence* Contact for nearly half a century with American teachers, American methods and American family life has led to a high udmiration for all that hears the stamp of American make and to a deep seated confidence in American integri ty and business principles. The region thus is in a particularly receptive mood for American commercial enterprise. The establishment of the consulate in January last, It is stated, was fol lowed by prompt efforts to open direct trade relations with the United States. Turkish farmer^ he says, await with eagerness to see the workings of reap er? which have been ordered from America, each of which is expected to perform in a day wlmt eighty men now accomplish with exlstlug facilities. Within fifteen months no less than 332 American sewing machines* have beea disposed of in Mr. Norton's district and have driven from the markets com* pletely the English and German ma chines hitherto in vogue. In even less time seventy Amoricau life insurance policies have been issued, with pros pects of many more. As to bicycles, the consul says that the one used' by him personally was the pioneer in the Har put district and that "as a result of the appearance of this wheel in and about the cities of Mczreh ami I-Iarput a de mand has sprung up for bicycles." Summing up, Mr. Norton says the conditions which are favorable 10 the gruduul buildiug up of a reliable mar ket for American goods in the Harput district are the increasing dissatisfac tion with the cheap products of Ger many, Austria and even Eugland, the great confidence in Ameriouu integrity and in the quality of American wares. Tfiak Preacher Shot. PARIS, Tex., Dee. 27.—The people of this city and surrounding country are greatly exercised nation of Rev. ,1. M. McCliuton, a preacher and farmer near Deport, who called to his door and shot by a crowd of men. It is suid that Rev. McCUuton's dying statement Implicat ed two persons, one of whom, Howard McGill, a farmer, has been arrested. A horse owned and supposed to have been ridden by the other man implicat ed in the preacher's dying statement was found badly wounded near the scene of the tragedy, two or three buckshot hating penetrated Its shoul der. The Owner of the horse has not been found. ;r the assassi Kiprmmfn'i Strike Settled. LYNN, Mass., Dec. 27.—The strike of the employees of the American Ex press company line was settled lust night, and afterward the company was cheered, and in return the men receiv ed a Christmas present of $5 in gold each. In the meeting of the Team stars' union the express company's agreement to give the men $52 a mouth* for u ten hour day, the agreement guar anteed by the board of trade ns arbi trators, The expressmen presented Local Agent E. II. Evans with a gold signet ring in appreciation of his position during the trouble, i unanimously accepted. Mlleti Takes Hi* Medicine Like n Man WASHINGTON, Dee. 27.-Lleuteu unt General Miles has resumed his du ties in command of the army at his office in the war department. It is said that he has decided to accept, the situ ation with the best possible grace and will say or do nothing to continue the controversy. So far as known the in cident will cause his prearranged plans, official and so cial, for the future. decided change iu Old !Hau Weil* Young Girl. JOSIIEN, N. Y„ Dee. 27.-William man older than most L. Sloat. live to be, and Mary Elizabeth Vander young woman, have bad the hoff, record of their marriage tiled in Goshen with the registrar of vital statistics. The bridegr old, with halting step and white hair. The bride is just twenty-three and is fls fair and pretty native town. is seventy-seven years any girl in her ItooncvHt to Sliaw. I)ES MOINES, la., Dee. 27.-Oovem hr Shaw has received the following President Roosevelt, the first lie has received direct from the president regarding his appointment: "I am delighted that you have ( ed to accept the portfolio of secretary of the treasury. Have written." *nt Noted I'nin LONDON, Dec. 27.- Sir Joseph Noel Futon, the painter, was found dead in bis bed st Edinburgh. He was born iu 1821. •r Dead. Despite all of the laws to the con 'd cheese is yet sold for ," anil oleomargarine foi yeal butter. Where is the remedy? The road to knowledge ia a au» •esflion of twitches. trary, ski "full S ZB&SS&StL I CURESANYRffSffiBPoROUT BffVealera. The Me. sire bjr mail Mr! PredoauJE** Too Much Holiday Fun and Folly \ Too much of a good thing! That's what we an* all liable to take during a holiday season. Healthy, jolly people will do it and make themselves sick. "In time of peace prepare for war," and have about the house a pleasant, perfect, palatable, positive medicine for sour stomach, sick headache, colic, wipds, belching, biliousness, furred tongue, lazy liver,Constipation, bad breath, bad taste, all liable to result from holiday over-indulgence. Cascarets Candy Cathartic is what you want; a tablet after a big meal will prevent sickness, or a tablet at night before going to bed, after a good time, will fix you all right for morning, and let you get up clear as a bell, ready for business or pleasure. Best for the Bowels. All druggists, ioc, 95 c, 50 c. Never sold in bulk* ^ * 4 -. Genuine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed t« ^ ctl(e or your money back. Sample and booklet 6 terlmg Remedy Co., Chicago or New r . £ *1 T P York* THE POLICE INVESTIGATION. < Chief Massey on next^Wetlnestlay evening will be given a chance to put in Ills defence to the charges prefer red against hint by the J'olice Com missioners. The second session of t he Coramise sion In connection wit,it the charge tvas held last evening and. testimony v as heard from several including Cap fain Kune, Captain Black, Sergeant Bayley and Patrolmen Bierce, David son, Ward, Brown, Fox, liaison and McGillin. From the line of questioning fol lowed by the commissi me IT last night, their intention is very evident. Each witness was sworn, and asked if he had made reports of the exist ence of alleged gambling houses to the proper police official, Tlte object of the commissioners was to learn if file patrolmen had made such com plaints to their sergeants, if the ser geants oti receiving complaints had entered them with the captains, and if the captains, on receipt of any complaints, had submitted them to Chief Massey. By following this method t lie com. niissionefs came to the point where il is possible for them to determine whether or not Chief Massey was offi cially apprised of the existence of gambling houses, and whether lie took the proper action to suppress such places. It is known that sev eral complaints were submitted to the chief, the captains giving testi mony to tills jjlfeet. The Commissioners refused to di vulge any of the proceedings until a report is given. A peculiar incident in connection with I his investigation is that one of the witnesses who had been summoned to appear before the commission last Money was needed out of tlie way. A colored man was secured and a' warrant sworn out for Ills arrest but the detective was or dered not to make the arrest, allegations were that some time last July this witness was interested in lottery policy. The idea was to brand the witness as a policy player and to break the strength of his evi dence before the commission. But tlie authorities refused to allow the warrant to he served. Where were these witnesses since July that they could nut have that ease brought up until tlie day of the investigation. The people are of Hie opinion that the Police Commission can he trusted and that Chief Massey will get a fair trial. But he is no belter than any other officer if he disobeyed tlie rules. Noltce. On and after January 1. 1002 the, the price of coaches to funeral in city limits will lie advanced $1. Tlie Thank You. We thank you for the liberal support given the new store (luring its first Christmas and wish you all the compliments of store fairly stood the test dur ing tlie rush and while the business done was far more than we had any reason to expect, it shows more clearly that such a store was needed.^WeTf continuc in our efforts to please the patron's who made it possible for us to do such a phenominal business. Not one com plaint has as yet been re ceived from our deliveries and we hope there will be no cause for any, but should there be, we want to know of it and will right tiny wrongs. The the season. E. L. Peacock Co. Ninth and King Sts. OLD DR.CATOM'S TANSY PILLS they have been for many years, the very best FEMALE REGU* 3 coining and going all < are to-day, LATOR known to science. Substitutions and imitations the time, but OATOM'S TANSY PILLS remain pre-eminent am] alone Mtliti fnctory. They of druggist., or Bent direct, B.fely Bcaled. - CATON SPEC. CO., Boston, Mass. Our hook of advice FR£E. Kcmembcr the name "CATON'S." Take no other. easy to take, entirely safe, and always sure. I'rice, $1, For sale in Wilmington at Millers, 402 Market Street, N. B. Danforth, 2nd and Market Streets. : mith, Kline and French, Philadelphia. Pa. Gen-, eral Agents. A CYCLONE of BEAUTY in Color. f This Is a Weak Description ol the many Pictorial Beauties of the Holiday Number of... *; J7ROM the beautiful cover i colors, by George Granby, to the last section of colored full pages, the December, Holiday Number of Broadway Magazine is the most unique, beautiful and; altogether sati»fying publication on the news-stands. Tcni^lfcts, 13 photog-' raphers, 5 hedonists and 16 writers oV/eneral articles are' represented in tlie pages of one number# More square inches of beautiful half-tones than in any other publica tion in the world. Just a few of the features are: Tales Prom Heedquerters—" The Sparkle of a Ring." Scandals of Society—So. 8, The Broker, Ills Wife uud 1 Employer. Qlrl la the Theatrical Sensation. The Evolution of Warfield's Jew. (Illustrated.) The Woman of the World. Now Portraits of Maude Adams. Anna Ileld and Mrs. Fisks. Sixteen Pages of Pretty Women. r (In Color), Paris Models of Flesh Sod Blood, (WUhapcdal lUustrutloiis by the author, Goorge Granby.) New York's Rapid Transit Tunnel. (With photographs taken especially for Hhoat>way Magazine by 1'ierro Pnllis, olllcisl photographer for the Kudburr Con atruction Co.) An Aftermath—Mug some now farts abont the famous Stokce-Fisk feud. By Charles II. Boblnaon. Mr. Stokes' lawyer. (With tdreo illustrations.) Beautiful American Models. (l»y famous American photographers.) DON'T FAIL to get the Holiday Number of Broadway Msgazine. Ten cents a coc* _* J e * r - A1F ne 1 an , d *• Broadway Magazine Co., 2d Elm Bt„ New York. „ SPECIAL OFFEIt,—Bend 25 cents for Inal subscription for three months, and wo you a beautiful picture of an actress, FREE. For $1.00 we will send yon Broadway Magazine for a year, and will sendyou, FREE, a handsome present—a suitable gift for Xmas. FOR SALE BY EVERY LIVE NEWSDEALER IN THIS CITY.' seven ( 4 41(1.) The Pink Pajamas—"Sew York's Latest tit : y; 3* OAL Well Cleaned Goal 57 is not only a saving of cash but I a saving of labor. When you k buy Warner's Coal you don't buy ^ dust uud slack. Yon don't carry dirt into tlie house in your coal bucket v Warner's Coal helps the homo comforts in many ways. »• ;) 4 •1 CHAS. WARNER GO. ninth and Shipley. Foot of Market St. Phones, 104 and 150--both systems. Canners to Combine* S. Dover, Del., Dec. 26.—Henry P. Cannon of Bridgeville, who is vice president of the Packersj Association, haa been heading a committee of well-known canners in a tour of tbe lower part of Delaware and the Fast Shore counties of Maryland and Virginia with a view of forming an association for tlie mutual benefit of packers and growers, and to extend tbe protection of their united inter ests to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, thus eventually combining the five largest states in the country in the production of canned goods. The committee visited the canne ries of John If. IToffecker's Sons, on Main Street, Smyrna; and Counsel man's place at Smyrna Landing, and the plant of Assau, Baines & Com pany at Cheswold and from there to the Isaac Robinson properties at Marvdel. The trust that is being formed to eventually be merged into the Nation al Canning Company, it is said, al ready has options upon at least ^75 per cent of the canneries in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and 90 per cent, of those In New Jersey. The trust idea will be opposed by some farmers and many of the smal ler concerns, while some of the mer chants foresee in the trust movement a plan to overthrow some of the weaker concerns, leesen the pack of necessary vegetables and thus force up prices. The movement of farmers and pack ers to combine together may bring about a remarkable organization. ern Employees Remembered. The firm of J. &. J. J. N. Ilar remembered their employees man , a Christmas by presenting to each of the married men & flue turkey aud to the single ones gifts which were high ly appreciated hy the men. Fireman Killed J. W. Butts, a Baltimore ami Ohio brakeman, was Magnolia Mel., yesterday, his head being crushed between the dead blocks while he was fixing an air hose. His remains were brought here for burial and then sent to Harpers Ferry his home. killed at City Council. City Council was late getting into session last evening, as It was neces sary for some of the committees to meet before the session. Each of the three special assessors were allowed $125 salary. The gar» bage bills were also paid. The Interest list for January, amounting to $1,140, was ordered to be paid. City Treasurer Feastcrreported the balance in First National Bank aa $49,524.74; in each of the four depos itory banks, $8,000; received of Thos. S. Lewis, $1,001; Eugene M. Sayers, $800; John Boughman, $844.25, These pay rolls were I passed: mis cellaneous, $2,844.70; Council, $275. 26; and police of $5,655.10. Mr. Kane presented a resolution allowing each tax collector to appoint an additional clerk. The work of tbe office was declared to be too grsat for the present force, and the resolution was adopted. President Blaine, on behalf of City Council, presented Clerk Hamaon land Bailiff McNabb with line pocket books. There was a ten dollar note hidden in each pocketbook. Dubell the Hatter Go to Charloti E. Dubell for your bate aurt caps of all styled No. li East Third Sb , VEITER'S STEAM BAKERY, 111E East l anrill St Get yoiir Pound and Fruit Oaks for the Holidays. Mothers Home-Made Bread; the favorite for the breakfast table. Orders promptly attended to. Delmarvia phoue 303. a to XMAS. Comb and Brush Sets, $1.00 Fine Perfumes and Christmas Novelties H. R. KringhursL 317 Market;