The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-09
MINOR LOCALS

w. w. McGuigan's family, of
the eighth district, came near being
suffocated one night recently by gas
from the coal stoves.
The "Cantata of Ruth is being
rehearsed by the musicals of Port
Deposit preparatory to bringing
out the "opera" during the holidays.
The Heptosahs order of Elkton
paid to the widow of j. Polk Scott
$4,000 the policy on his life in the
order few days after her husbands
death.
Section men on the B. & o. Rail
road have had their wages cut down
to 81 90 day of nine hours. The
pay heretofore has been $1.15 and
ten hours.
The ladies of Bay View M. P.
Church will hold an oyster supper
in basement of the church ON Friday
and Saturday evenings, November
9th and 10th.
A fair and festival, under the
auspices of the Ladies Aid Society,
will be held in basement of the NJ.
P. Church, Rowlandville, Thanks
giving evening.
Wesley Dougherty, colored boy
while out on hallow eve night with
other boys in Port Deposit fell dead
on the stree from heart disease, it
was supposed.
G. Frank Kirk has secured an
appointment in the Naval Depart
ment at Washington at a salary of
1920 per annum and left Rising
Sun Tuesday last to fill the position.
The MIDLAND office is indebted to
Mrs. L. r. Atkinson of Pennington
for a large box of chrysanthemums.
They are of endless varieties and
present a very handsome appear
ance.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Richard Reese and Miss Eliza Ellis
Tull, of Elkton, on Wednesday,
November the Dist. The ceremony
will take place at Trinity Church
at II O'Clock, noon.
A fellow they call "Jacl1 the
Hugger" has made his appearance
on the streets of Elkton and has in
suited several women and children
in that way. He is probably an
Asylum refuge or a saloon product.
James McClintock, Jr., foreman
of the round house at Perryville
lost three of his fingers of the left
hand by being caught under the
trucks of the water tank. The
fingers were ground to fragments.
Albert Constable, Esq, of Elkton,
counsel for Mrs. Cannon in her
$4,000 damage suit against Jere-
miah Peacock, of Galena, has
docketed a new suit in Kent county
court. The plaintiff had been
awarded $500.
Afternoon readings are fashion
able entertainment in society circles.
They are an improvement on the
pink tea the "grab bag' etc. There
is sufficient intellect and literary
taste in and about Rising Sun to
organize one of these elite societies.
The democrats blamed the repub-
licans of the seventh district for
making deals with the prohibition
element. You vote for Baker and
We'll vote anti-license. A pretty
good "Scheme" as the Yankees say,
but we can't see how it could be
worked.
A negro was arrested near Como
wingo bridge and lodged in Bel Air
Jail two weeks since who was trying
to sell fine horse. The horse
belonged to Mr.. Stump, a Balti-
more gentleman, and was pasturing
in field near Bel Air from which
the negro had taken him.
A two year old child of Mrs.
Charles Roby of the eighth district,
swallowed some carbolic acid from
bottle its mother had placed
momentarily within the child's
reach. Antidotes were given inn
mediately and the doctor called in.
The child escaped serious injury.
The sleeping apartment of Hiram
Shallcross, of North East, was enter
ed on Wednesday night last week
and a new suit of clothes and very
valuable gold watch were stolen.
The thief entered through window.
Mr.. Shallcross had a seach
warrant issued and house was
searched but the goods were not
found.
The Elktol papers have made a
pretty good thing advertising the
sophistry prepared by the bureau
of the whiskey ring. The appeal
was steadily directed at the pockets
and sordid passion of tax payers.
All else was studiously avoided.
The entire exhibition was disgrace
full to all concerned. And to be
bribed to aid the whiskey ring as