The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-10-12
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

Belair this week.
The boiler at the electric light plant was
inspected on Monday.
An original pension has been granted
Lewis r. Kirk, of Rising Sun.
The Delaware College foot ball team will
play the Swarthmore College team Mt n .ydrk
on October Goth.
Rail bird gunners had good days shoot
ing on Monday on the Elk river marshes.
A. p Shockley was high boat his bag beng
3d.
DR.. John II. lamar returned on We Ines
day from his western trip during which he
attended the convention of the American
Public Health Association held at Denver.
Colorado. on October /, 3 3, and A.
Alexander n. Templeton. engineer at the
Havre de Grace City water works dropped
dead on the street in that city on Saturday
night. He was sixty years of age and le:lYes
a widow and two grown children.
DIR S. A. Buchanan has sold the Eur. ka
Pharmacy. Main street. to Starting and Il TX
of Smyrna, Del They took charge on Nom
day DR.. Startling who will conduct the
store is Il regular graduate in pharmacy.
John c. Hindman who was appointed
post master at Rising sun on October 1st bv
President Cleveland, gave bond on Saturday
with the following sureties DR.. l.. Il. Kirk,
H. j. Briscoe. DIR. G. L. Turner. John Terry.
William T. Scott. Z. r. Burlington, j. Grand
vile Richards.
Robert Wilson, of Elkton. and Henry b.
Cordes, of North East, who were both con
vcted at the September term Of court for the
violation ofthe prohibitorylaw. and sentenced
to one year in the House of Correction and
500 fine and costs, were taken to that in
stitution on Thursday.
The Board of Managers of the Oxford
Agricultural Society met on Saturday and
audited the accounts OF the fair held last
month. The fair was Il success, the receipts
beng S3209S2 and the expenses :2549. 81.
leaving a balance Of over 5000 in the Trras-
ury. This is stated to be the largest amount
cleared 10y a fall fair for twenty years.
Father John D. Carey. now stationed
near Wilmington, who recently bough; the
Belle Hill farm. near Elkton, is making nx-
tensive improvements to the property.
Father Carey has in view the erection of
large building on the place to serve rs Il pro-
tectory and summer home for orphans, with
Accommodations for about fifty children.
A report from Oxford, Pa, states, inat
Elwood Gray, of Rock Springs, Cecil county
ic bnlI in bn Ini bn
charge of stealing Il horse from Mrs. Rur,I,l
A Gould, of West Nottingham, Pa l. is
stated that Gray worked for Mrs. Gould and
recently disappeared with the horse. He
was arrested at North East on Friday night.
Gray stated at the hearing that three men
took the team from him in Maryland giving
him a pony and watch.
The Republican Club at Rising Sun is
steadily gaining in membership and row has
40 names enrolled, and it is thought the list
will reach 200 within week or two. At the
meeting on Saturday night there was large
attendance and much enthusiasm was mani
tested The balance of the ten vice presidents
were elected as follows: Alex NJ. Perry, d.
Webster McNey, G. S. Abrahams, H. T.
krauss, j. Miller. Extra meetings of the
club are held at Colora on Friday nights,
and the Republican enthusiasm is also high
there. \
Mr. Charles H. Smith, of this town, cx-(
Clerk to the County Commissioners. was a
Passenger on the railroad train on the Penn
syvana railroad which was wrecked near
Manor station, twenty-five miles east of
Pittsburg, on Wednesday evening. While
the train was running at a high rate of speed
the two rear cars were derailed, one passen-
ger having been killed, eight seriously injured
and twenty-five others slightly hurt. For
tunatey for Mr. Smith, he was among tho
latter, receiving u cut on the cheek and n
wound on his arm. His family have heard
from him and he expects to reach home thisi
evening. II
On Tuesday strange little craft landed
at the Elkton wharf-and soon the passengers
who were Russian-Fin, his wife and three
children became the centre OF much attract
lon on the part Of the boatmen and others
thereabout. The boat was a small bateau
which the man rowed, and as with it's,
unusual load of people and household goods
it approached the wharf, all wondered where
such a strange craft could be bound. When
1t reached the wharf the woman, who was
the only one of the party that could speak
English-made inquiry if they were on the
right way to New York as they were going to
that city from Baltimore. The man intended
rowing all that distance, and had gone to
Chesapeake City in order to go through the
canal. But there she stated, they had been
told it would cost "a to make the trip but as
they were unable to pay that amount, they
looked around for u free way Of getting there.
Several men, she stated, told them that they
could around by way of Elkton and they
thereupon rowed to this town. This was n
cruel joke and the poor Fin was much
downcast when he found that his trip here
was in vain. He rowed back sadly over his