The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-11
ELKTON. AUGUST II, 1894.
GL0gAL DEPARTMENT.. u

buried in the Il ktou Cemstery on TUESDAY.
Grand Lecturer Dukehart, of Baltimore
delivered lecture before the Elkton Mason
on Tuesday night.
An infant Child of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Devore died on Sunday. The remains were
taken to Philadelphia for interment on
Tuesday
Samuel Biddle, colored, was arrested
on Monday in Ekton for iisorderly con-
duct and was released on Tuesday upon
payment of fines.
Thomas o. Too!e was set upon by sew
eral well known persons at the lumber yard
on Saturday night, who handled him any
thing but gently.
Congressman Talbot on Wednesday
introduced a bill to pay Barney Moore, of
the Fourth district, $4,000 for property taken
by the federal forces during the late war.
While VIM. Campbell, of Marley was
riding his bicycle - Elkton on Moudry, he
ran into tree owing to an accident to the
machine. and rec:..-e,i a fracture of the left
hand.
the contract for supplying Port Deposit
granite in the construction of the new State
Penitentiary at Baltimore, their bid being
500, coo.
Mr.. Ernest Z, Ewing, formerly of Elk
ton, has been promoted to the position OF
assistant steuographer to the chief clerk of
Pennsylvania Railroad at Broad Street Sta
ton, Philadelphia.
Callahan & Hogan, of Baltimore, have
commenced the construction Of a new fish.
ing float, TO be operated the next fishing
season IN the Susquehanna, jutt north of
the P. W. 81 B. L. Il. bridge. George n.
Mitchell, of Havre de Craze, is the con-
tractor.
A horse owded by Joseph Kitchens, OF
West AmweIl, was frightened on North
street on Saturday by blanket being
thrown ever him, and ran down the street,
the cart collidiug with 4 tree in front Of the
office OF c. c. Crothers, Esq, and being
demolished The horse was caught on Main
street.
Tile buard OF park commissioners of
lately sent from West Virginia to the mayor
of Havre dc Grace The ''z1o" of Philddei.
phia was amply supplied, - it was given
to a merchant, who Keeps it as show in
his window. Tue SNAKE is three feet long
and has six ratt!es.
William c. Burnite, son of VIM. Bur
mite, OF Cowantown, this county. died
of heart failure on Sunday night
the residence of Rankin Armstrong in New
ark. Mr.. Burnite cerked in the store of
Mr.. Armstrong, and was well known in
that town, also in Eikton. He was &c years
of age. His funeral took place from the
residence of his parents on Wednesday after
noon, the iuterment being al Cherry Hill.
Mrs Sarah NJ. Kirk, relict of Gorge
w. Kirk, and sister of Mrs John Ovens,
of PerryviIle, died on Sunday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Howard Bans in
Baltimore, in the eighty second year If her
age. Mrs. Kirk was e Miss Higgins, aud
her family resided at Perryvile. Sac had
resided in Baltimore since 1865, prior to
which time she lived in Havre de Grace,
and where her husband died in 1854. She
was a member of the Monument Street NJ.
L. Church in Baltimore. Oae other dSugh-
ter who resides in New York survives her.
"A string OF horses from DR.. j. G. Nc
Coy's stable 1t KirkwCod on their was to
the GraEd Circuit meetings, met with a
severe accident at Philadelphia. Iu the
string were Fascination , ~; Gipsey Girl,
without marks They were in a stable car
at the freight yard in Philadelphia. y
shifting engine Sent IA ear against the stable,
badly damaging the latter. Fascination's
nose was broken and she was badly bruised
Gypsy Girl was scratched and bruised badly,
while Miss eanor and Miss McCracken
were not injured severely All the horses
were taken to the hospitl III New York,
where they were placed under treatment.
Respecting the recent case of hog
cholera at Mech MICS Valley Mr.. Samuel
j. Ward, was reported to have brought
herd of So inc from Delaware in which it
was thought cholera existed. NJ. Ward
writes to the WING to say tdat his herd
was in a perfectly healthy condition when
he brought it from Delaware, and that no
disease was among them is further shown
by the fact that he left several animals
there and which are today as healthy as
ever. Continuing Mr.. Ward states that
the disease evidently existed in Maryland
before his coming and naturally desires to
have such an unpleasant report contra
dcted. In another column of the WING is
published . communication treating upon a
cure for the cholera which will be read with
interest by the farmers OF the county, and
which we have received through j. w
Mccullough. of North East.
Seventy five men, including the whole
force Of the GOOSE mill a the Mccullough
Iron Compauys rolling mill, at Seventh
street and Railroad avenue, quit work on
Tuesday night OF being refused an advance
OF 10 per cent in their wages. f, a. Harvey
OF the mccullough Company was spoken TO
about the trouble and said that he did not
consider it strike. He said The men
asked for more money and we did not
think hat the business would allow it and
the men refused to 90 10 work. that is all
there is to it, "rhe best men in the mill.
he says, were earning 81 so to 81 rs a day.
Some of the men had left town and vera
working at Newport tor The same wages as
the company paid i'll this city. The
trouble was that there was some spite work
at the bottom of the whole thing aud the
men who had been agitatipg the matter
were tie best paid men in the mill" The
officers of the company st lte Jba: the mills
viii be run and the places of the men
easily supplied. The mills are able t. fiji
all their contracts, and Will do So
The cannery OF McGaw & Smith, il is
expected, will commence work for the sea
son on Tuesday next. Manager McGaw has
been in Elktou this week arranging for the
opening Of the work, and getting matters
ship shape generally. The canning season
will; continue into October, and the firm cal
culates upon packing between four and five
hundred thousand cans of corn and totna
toes, of this amount the greater quantity
will be in tomatoes, v hich stock was sold
to dealers during March The firm experI
enced considerable difficulty last year in
obtaining sufficient help, and the season
will employ about thirty five Bohemans
principally women, who will come here
from Baltimore. They are expected to az
rive today on an afternoon train, and will
live in a temporary building near the can
merry erected for this purpose. In addition
TO this force, number Of hands will be en-
ployed from the town. During the summer
the firm has improved and enlarged the
plant by placing in cayping aud cap films
machines and all other m ac hi N nru no.......-