The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-21

Mr.. VIM. Falls. The supposed rabid ANNA
was chased up Main street by boys ant
afterward killed on High street.
All the former members of Battery b.
LIST Md. Light Artillery, known as Snow
Battery are invited to attend a reunion u
1889. (Signed) Thomas Kirk, Theodore J
Vauneman, John \. Orr, Granville L
Shauck, James Fl. Kidd, committee.
The Harvest Home Festival will take
place next Thursday September 26th. Their,
will be morning prayer and sermon by the
Rev. j. II. Chesley at st. Marks chapel Al
IL o'clock. At the afternoon service addresses
by visiting clergy. The public are cordially
invited to be present. E. X. Miller, rector
| The Oxford accom- mediation due at Port
Depo it at GAS a. M, collided with freight
car four and a-half miles from that place
| Tuesday morning. The accident was caused
by misplaced switch at the p. s. B. siding
The train was considerably damaged and
the passengers badly shaken uD but no one
hurt.
| Miss Maggie T. Feehly, eldest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Feehly of this town
died on Tuesday night after an illness OF
five weeks. She was a very estimable
young lady and was % years old. Her
| funeral took place ON Friday morning at
| 10 o'clock services being held in the Elkton
| Catholic Church. The interment was in the
| cematary adioinino
Giles the enterprising caterer on North
| street calls attention to his fine oysters and
! fish in a new advertisement in this issue.
During Fair week he will serve every day
a first class breakfast or supper at 80 cents,
and good dinner at 40 cents. If you want
good oysters in any shape, Giles is the man
to serve them for you. Don't forget the
place on North street next to the Postoffice
The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Mcvey
wife of Mr.. James X. McVey was held on
Saturday last from the residence of her son
George S. McVey near Zion. The funeral
was largely attended by people from the
neighborhood and by relatives from Will
mington and Philadelphia. Rev. j. r.
Milligan conducted the services. The inter
ment was at Rosebank cemetery. Mrs.
McVey was in her 10th year.
The Port Penn correspondent of n Will
mington daily wrote Thursday AZ follows ::
The Rev. Isaac Jewell of the NJ E. Church
of Rising Sun preached an eloquent and
able sermon to large and appreciative con-
fiowery and an elaborate discourse to the
Young Peoples Endeavor Society, Sunday
evening upon the subject, the three great
motors: "Mind, Character and Spirituality"
jesse McFadden, residing near Lewis.
vile, Pa, not far from the Maryland line,
died at his home last Sunday morning 'ged
95 years. He leaves several children, in
Guiding Joseph McFadden, of Cherry Hill,
Alexander McFadden, of Philadelphia, and
Mrs. William Scotch. He had been mem
Der of the Rock Presbyterian Church for
many years. His funeral took place Thurs
day morning. The interment was made at
New London cemetery.
Thorn rs Beers, a farmer residing near
Cherry Hill died on Tuesday morning of
dysentery agsd 50 years. He was the son
of Mrs Beers who lives at Beers corner in
the Fourth district and who, though SO
years old occasionally walks TO Elkton a
distance of over four miles and returns in
the same manner. The funeral OF Mr.. Beers
was held on Thursday morning at the Elk
ton Catholic Church and the interment was
in the cemetery adjoining.
MIR. Henry Spittle, of West Main street
who has been employed recently on the
work of constructing the railroad bridge
near Red Mill met with severe injury on
Wednesday which narrowly escaped from
being very serious accident. One of his
feet was caught in a coil of rope which was
being used to raise stone. The engineer of
the Stationary engine which was drawing
the stone happily was informed in time to
prevent the rope from cutting off the foot
which would doubtless had been done. As
it was Mr.. Spittle's leg near the ankle was
badly cut and swollen.
Col. Edgerton Hogg, president of the
Oregon and Pacific Railroad, has purchased
two valuable farms in the upper part of
Cecil County. One bought of Hon. Jacob
Tome is situated about two miles and a-hGlf
from Port Deposit and occupied by j. w.
Reynolds. 1t was the homestead of Hon.
George Kidd, a leading and successful bust
ness man in Cecil County in his day. Mr..
Hogg is native of the Kidd family. The
other farm purchased was that of Charles
Keilholtz about five miles from Port De-
post, near the Hopewell Methodist Episco-
pal Church, which is intended as home for
the Kidd family.
"A Pennsylvania exchange contained the
following: "a large public bath will soon
be erected in Philadelphia, from money left
by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott.
Franklin left in his will, dated April %,
1890. $4,000 to be used by Philadelphia in
such way that after the lapse of century
the principal and interest should amount to
a sum large enough to make valuable pub
lie improvements. In 1916 John Scott added
$1,000 to this sum. The principal and inter-
est now amounts. altogether to about S110,-
900. Ten Thousand dollars of this will be-
laid aside for another century, after the
new bath is constructed
Mr. w. L. Coudon, of North East, par
ticipated in the second annual champion
ship meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union
held on the grounds of the New York Ath-
let!c Club on Saturday last. He was first
in throwing the 56-pound weight the score
being: W. l.. Coudon, n. Y. A. c., first,
q feet 81 inches; c. A. j. Queckberner, L..
L. A. c., second, 26 feet 81 inches; j. S.
Mitchell, Nj. A. c., third, 26 feet 3 inches.
Mr.. Coudon made the third score in throw
ing the sixteen-pound hammer, which re-
sul.ed as follows: j. S. Mitchell, n. ]. A
| c., first, 121 feet ~ inches: C. a. j. Queck
| berner, L. L. A. c., second, 100 feet inches;
w. l.. Coudon, n. Y. A. c., third, lis feet
| IL inches.
Judge Duffy of the Court of Common
| Pleas, Baltimore on Saturday heard ha.
beas corpus case in which Mary LOTHIAN,
| alias Rabbit, attempted to recover her three
| children who were committed to care of in.
| situations in Baltimore a few weeks since
Judge Duffy after hearing the evidence re
nauded the children to the institutions. The
The Baltimore american on Sunday last
contained the following: "In the course o.
the hearing witness was asked if be
thought Mary LOTHIAN was a chaste woman
He answered Yes, chased over all the coun
try He was asked if she was not swo
man of the town. He replied No, she lives