The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-24
NEWS.
Friday,fJan "a 1886.
MINORLOCALS

Steam shovels are at work near
Elk ton ON the p. w. & B. railroad
where the track is to be straight
ened between Iron Hill and Big Elk
creek.
Mr.. Jacob Tome, Mrs. Evalyn
Tome, T. G. Bond, John Il. Rine
hart and r. G. Hopkins were elected
directors of the Cecil National Bank
on Monday last.
A railrord wreck happened at
Perryville on last Friday involving
the destruction of four freight cars
and an engine. Perryville is
famous for freight car wrecks.
Squire Deford, of North East,
committed to the Eleton jail on
Friday last, Edward Sloftus and
Mack Allen to serve 80 days for
assault and disorderly conduct.
Harmony Castle, No. Is, X. G.
E., will hold "smoker" in the
castle room on the evening of Feb
ruary 10th. A special program
has been prepared for the occasion.
Mrs. Florence Hally died suddenly
at her home in Port Deposit on
Tuesday evening, January 14th.
Her funeral was held ON Friday
from her home; interment at Hope
well cemetery.
Henry Marcus, a lad of sixteen
years, was sentenced ON Saturday
by Judge Stump, to six months in
Jail. Marcus was convicted of
breaking into and robbing the cloth
ing store of M. Acker, of Port De-
post.
Petitions are being circulated in
North East by friends of Isaiah S.
Biddle and John F. Shippers, asking
Gov. Lowndes to appoint them
justices of the peace, to succeed
John B. Anderson and I. S. Deford
Of that place.
Some time during Wednesday
night of last week thieves broke
open the front door of I. S. Biddle's
North East gents furnishing store
and carried away goods amounting
to about $50. No clue is known to
the perpetrators.
Home Council, No. 4, o. U. A.
M, of near Theodore, will hold an
oyster supper at the residence of
William T. Mccullough, near Theo,
dore, on Thursday evening, Jan. 80.
An elaborate supper will be served
for twenty-five cents.
On Thursday of last week Cecil
Farmers Club held its January
meeting at Mr.. Jas. FL. Maxwell's,
near Rising Sun. The meeting was
quite animated and farming and
other matters were discussed,
especially the good dinner. That
was discussed with much gusto.
The fishermen of Hartford and
Cecil counties are moving in the
matter of pound and stake nets and
will apply to the legislature to re-
strict their use. These nets obstruct
the run of the fish preventing them
from reaching their spawning
grounds. There are miles of these
nets in the Chesapeake.
Edward A. Wilson of Elk Neck,
whilst riding upon wagon loaded
with pound poles one morning last
week was thrown from his seat by
the jolting Of the wagon and falling
to the road the front wheels ran
over his leg near the ankle, bruis-
ing the limb severely but for
tunately not breaking the bone.
Benjamin Kitchens of Elkton
was drowned in Elk river last week
by falling through the ice. His
gun and hat were discovered at the
edge of an air hole where he had
fallen in. A search was made by
breaking the ice about the air hole
and the body was recovered lying
on the bottom of the stream a few
feet distant.
County commissioner Dexter NJ.
Lee met with a runaway accident
last week on his way to Elkton.
His carriage collided with a team
and wagon of Charles Wright, near
New Leeds, which was running
away. Both wagons were upset
and the drivers caught under them.
Both men escaped with a few
bruises and without serious injury.
James Fl. Truss was given a
preliminary hearing Wednesday
morning ON the charge of having
murdered Capt. Thomas Camp, of
the schooner Manaway, which
occurred on Thursday night, Jan. 2.
He was held by the magistrate,
Peter III. Cleaver, to await the
action of the grand jury at the
March term of the Circuit Court
for Cecil county. The hearing took
place in the courthouse, Elkton,
and the State was represented by
VIM. S. Evans, States Attorney,
and Austin L. Crothers. The
prisoner was represented by Albert
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