The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-01-18
The Leeds post Office has been
made money order Office.

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made money order office.
VIM. S. Harvey of North East,
has had his pension increased to
$l2 per month.
The Baltimore Electric Light
Company has purchased the Jesse
French farm in the Sth dist.
The house of Henry G. Biddle in
Chesapeake City was sold to Jacob
Tome for 1856 last week, l.. NJ.
Haines, attorney.
1t is now unlawful to trap or kill
rabbits or cartridges, or to be in
possession of either. The season
expired last Thurday.
The dam was again covered with
three inch ice this week, smooth as
glass and the young folks are enjoy
ing another skating carnival.
The colored school at Warwick is
closed owing to the fact that the
teacher William Patterson, has not
returned from his home in Wash
ington, and is reported to be in an
insane asylum there.
The thaw of last week filled the
lower Susquehanna river with pack
ice, which is piled up below and
opposite Port, with an Ominous look
of what is to be later when the
February thaw comes.
Before adjourning Court last week
the Judge adjudged Ellsmore
Brown, colored, insane and a
pauper, and committed to the
County Insane Asylum.
William Allen was sentenced to
six months in the House of Correc-
ton.
William Freeman in the employ
of the p. w. & B. r. r. met with
a painful accident last Friday.
While working at the stone quarry
ON the Port Deposit road, in trying
to break large rock with a
hammer, a piece flew up and struck
him in the eye and knocked him
down and seriously injured his eye.
George Sparks, the night track
walker on the P. w. & B. R. r.
while in performance of his duty on
Friday last found the body of an
unknown white man, lying across
/ the north bound track. The body
was taken to Elkton and Coroner
Perry Litzenberg, on Saturday
morning held an inquest. The
body was horribly mutilated, the
head and legs being severed from
the body. The body was bruised
and mangled and Identification was
impossible.
Alfred Filter, brother of ex-
mayor Edwin Filter, of Philadelphia,
wasarrested last Saturday at Elkton
as hestepped from the 2.33 train by
officer William Boulder Ona warrant
sworn out by Benjamen Davenport,
a stone mason of Chesapeake City,
this county charging him with
assault with intent to kill. He was
taken before Justice of the Peace
2. FL. Cleaver and waived a hear
ing for the March term of court.
He was held in $500 bail. Daven-
port charged Filter with assaulting
him in the Bayard House, Chesa-
peake City and with attempting to
shoot him. Filter acknowledged
that he drew a revolver on the
plaintiff but claims it was not
loaded at the time. Filters con-
duct in the magistrates office was
disgraceful. He swore nearly the
entire time he was in the place and
utterly disguised the few spectators
in attendance. For this he was
fined 81 and costs by Cleaver.
Filter owns a club house on the
Elk River near Town Point and
comes to Elkton every week for a
day or two. This is the second
time that he has been arrested In
Elkton, the other time for assault
ing woman by the name of Miss
. Clark, who he brought with him
from Philadelphia.
e A 12-horse- power engine and 15'
e horse power boiler for sale. One
h store and two dwellings for rent
n II. H. HAINEs.