The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-01
Friday, May L, 1896.
MINORLOCALS


will meet tomorrow afternoon at
three O'clock.
The recently appointed Justices
of the Peace will enter upon their
duties Monday (the first Monday
in May.
Frank X. Suter has sold his
farm of thirty acres adjoining the
EIkton Stock Farm to Hon. VIM.
M. Singerly for $500.
Cecil Farmers Club held an in
teresting meeting on Wednesday at
Mr.. G.. w. Suttons and will meet
at Col. Noyes' on May Goth.
At the sale of COWS from the
"Cecil Manor" farm, held in Rising
Sun last Monday, ~ head were
sold, averaging $3.50 each.
A cave-in at the slate quarries,
Statewide, York county, Pa, on
Tuesday caught and killed two
workmen, named Jones and Evans.
A branch of the Calvert Building
and Loan Association of BALTIC. was
organized at Rising Sun this week.
Ninety shares were subscribed as a
starter.
The cool wet weather of last week
caused the fish to take to deep
water but they are coming again.
Herring on the shores are 81 90 a
thousand.
W. G. Riley, an employee of the
Hartford paper mill, got his hand
in touch with buz saw while going
at the usual speed of that machine
and was severely injured.
Reuben Alexander died at his
reidence near Pilot Town on Friday
last, aged about so years. His
funeral was held on Sunday, inter
ment at Sidwell's cemetery.
During the thunder storm last
week the chimney Of Charles
Schafer of Chesapeake City was
struck by lightning and the top
knocked off. No injury suffered by
the family.
Wednesday morning a jockey at
the race track, at Elkton, was
fatally injured by his horse fall
ling on him. He was sent to the
hospital but died on the train be-
fore reaching Philadelphia.
B. +. Riley, Pilot Town, was
kicked by his horse on Saturday
and badly injured. He was unable
to give an account of how it hap
pened, but his family think he had
a fit and fell under the animal.
Shad are being caught at Bald
Friar. The shad caught at that
place and higher up the river are
always larger and finer than are
taken lower down or near the
mouth of the river. Why is it -?
Prof. r. w. Tinsley, vice prin-
cipal of Friends Normal Institute,
has secured position as Professor
of Natural Sciences in the Univer
sity of New Mexico at Albuquerque
and will remove there next fall.
The case of Mr.. Thomas III. and
Miss Martha j. Patten VS.. Silver,
Spencer & Co., which was removed
from the circuit court of Hartford
county to the circuit court for
Howard county has been decided
in favor of the plaintiffs for 5000
and cost.
The property of the Mccullough
Iron Co. in Cecil county was offered
for sale at the Court House door,
Elkton, Saturday afternoon. The
iron works at Rowlandville were
withdrawn for lack of an adequate
bid, and only about athousand acres
of the other properties were sold, at
prices ranging from 81 to $15 per
acre.
The remains of Mrs. Harriet
Reynolds, who died in Philadelphia
last Thursday, were brought to
Colora on the morning train Mon
day last, and taken to Friends
burying ground for interment. She
was the youngest daughter of the
late Thomas Kennard of Vinegar
Hill, and leaves a husband and
family. of children. She was about
40 years of age.
Governor Lowndes has made the
following appointments for Cecil
county to fill vacancies caused by
declination etc: Samuel B. Grant
Justice of the peace Third district
Albert III. Redding, justice of the
peace First district; Stephen r
Lynch, justice of the peace Fifth
district; Charles w. Ward, justice
of the peace Seventh district; L
Britain Carhart, justice of the peace
Ninth district; James Dixon West
justice of the peace Seventh district
John M. Reed, notary public
Chesapeake City.
The recount of election ballots
was concluded last Friday, with nj
material CHANCE of results from