The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-07-20
JULY.
THE NEWS III BRIEF.

The eil"nr" oF Mr.. W. II. Elder o
Main Str' ct is hring r"pailt"I
Tho Wrstamwril Sunuuy School pick
nickrd at Locust Point on Friday
Annie. daughter % T ,o'nas Nilsson Lew
was overcome IN" heat or Wednesday.
The onro utIdirg "a \, nth street occu
pied 10y Mr.. " e. Cow has m"'n reprinted.
\ 'prrr uf ~ rinn'r un Lee Il iii Bouldr
were gagged Ms week. nc.auug the street
OF the t'wn.
The plant OF Armstrong Stove :.
Manufacturing Company at Prrryville r,
sumo operations On MonIay.
Andrew ]. Bradley sold his promisin
black r"liiua John W. on Monday TO Wn
Parker. Of Philadelphia, for 5000
A Lnc Ellis. OF MisIora has been alertc,
principal Of the Newark lmbi" schoo.
Their" were Il number of applicants for tb,
place
G"org' BiddIe, Il telegraph operator @
Elkton, has secured position with tn"
Western Union Telegraph Company at Proyi
dence. Il. |.
Peter NIurphoy wassu struck on WeIn,~
day while at work On Cathedral street. H
was taken to his hon and soon recovered
Dr. NJ Ellis attended him.
The corner stone of the Count House. Il
Denton. Caroline county, was laid on Wed
nesiay Joseph p. Brown, Of Colora. thi
county is tn, contractor for the building.
Frank johnson. Son of John johnson :.
ar; enter, Of Elkton, was injured by an AK
falling on his head while he was at work o.
Tuesday, deep and serious wound wa.
inflicted.
An original pension has been granite"
William Nj. Let's, Of Bay View. Pension
have been re-issued to William Cooper, :"
Blythedae: Robert q. Heath, OF North East
Charles G. Sayres, of Rising sun; Jesse W
Hamilton. of Calvert.
Special train taking the Jr. o. L. A. VI.
excursion to Cape May, Wednesday July "a,
leaves Elktou 745 II. m. fare, 2l.75: Iron
Hill 80 a. m. fare. 5l.59: Newark 1.55 Il. NJ.
fare. ?l.5O Tickets for sale at the DeFo
morning Of the excursion
Rachel, the eleven year old daughter Of
Mr. ANA Mrs. John r. Moore of Perryvill',
was the victim Of an attempted assault 10y It
negro, near Swan Creek, Hartford county, last
Sunday afternoon. The man who made the
attempt is now lodged in the Bel Air jail.
John Brown, car inspector, was killed Ill
r the central division yard at oxford. OF.
Saturday morning. He was working between
two cars, when they came together an@
crushed him to death. The engineer of the
freight did not know Brown was about the
cars.
A valuable COW owned by Mr. William E..
FARRELL of Kent county, died under very
peculiar circumstances several days ago. The
COW was evidently scratching her head with
her foot when her hoof caught in the horn,
which was very crooked and in that position
She was found dead.
Edward Werthly, who has been held in
the Elkton jail a- a witness in the Knapp
murder case, awaiting the capture OF
ARIZONA Bob was released on Friday OF
last week, as no further evidence was oh
tanned in the case and Arizona Bob had not
been apprehcnded. Werthley vert to his
home in Easton. Pa.
Mrs. Mary Steelman Disston, widow OF
Henry Disston, the founder OF the Keystone
Saw Works, Philadelphia, died at Atlantic
City on Monday afternoon. She was the
mother Of Hamilton, Horace c., William and
jacob 5. Disston, well known in this county,
Mr. Horace c. Disston having a country
home at Seneca Point on the North East
river.
The York County Court Pa, on Tuesday
refused to appoint receiver for the Susque-
hanna and Tidewater Canal Company, run
ming from Columbia to Havre de Grace, the
application having been made by Attorney
General Poe, of Maryland. 1t was ordered
however, that the canal and all property
owned by it be sold on September 5, at the
courthouse. in York. Fifteen miles of the
canal in Maryland are owned by the Tide
water Canal Company and the thirty miles III
Pennsylvania by the Susquehanna Canal
Company
Sometime ago several sets of harness
We're stolen from the stable of c. II. Foard III
Elkton The other day Mr.. Foard recog'
nized parts of the. harness on team which
came to his grain warehouse at the Elkton
station. He consulted with states Attorney
Crothers. and a warrant was issued for the
owner of the team-n order to trace the case
back to the culprit. The owner proved thai
he had gotten the harness from another party
innocently, and the case was finally laid upol
Fred Holland, colored of Elkton. who claimed
that the harness had been given to him tc
sell by certain party now residing in New
JERSEY. Holland was held for further hear
ings