The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-22
WING OFFICE TELEPHONE, No. 80.
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

= ne INV lpT SlootlLS lfth iIlbs
is out on September 5.
East Main street is being repaired with a
dressing of Port Deposit granite.
The b. & o. Railroad bridge over the
Susquehanna river is being repaired.
Thieves attempted to enter the house OF
G. P. Rose at Iror Hill ON Friday night but
were frightened off.
Robert Ruduph, Elmer Hinson and John
II. Galaher are cruising on the Chesapeake
abroad the yacht "Trilby".
An infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lothian died on Monday evening at
their home on Water street.
Justice Groves on Saturday fined Ben Hill
son. colored, OF Elkton II and costs for
disorderly conduct on Main street.
Hon. NJ. j. Tanning. of New York. a
prominent Prohibition speaker, delivered an
address on Friday evening" last week, from
the Court House steps
A horse from the livery stable of Jacob
Markee dropped dead from exhaustion on
Sunday near Crouch's chapel, while being
driven by Richard Smith,
The remains of Mrs. Alice Ann Taylor
who died at her home near Principle. were
inferred in Hopewel cemetery on Friday of
last week. Mrs. Taylor was in the eighty
fifth year of her age.
AT an informal meeting of the Elkton bar
Charles C. Crothers. L. NJ. Haines and John
S. Writ. Esqrs., were appointed delegates to
the convention to be held at the Blue Noun
tain House to organize a State Bar Associa-
ton.
Little Elk Tribe, Imp. Order of Red
Men. of Cherry Hill, will hold a Harvest
Home in Arbuckles' Grove, one mile north of
Cherry Hill on Saturday. August 3D. all day
and evening. program of interest has
been arranged by the committee. Music by
the North East Brass band. A match game
of base ball be played in the afternoon.
Charles W. Moody. of near Childs, was
arrested on Saturday charged with assaulting
Calvert Shippers, who was employed by him
as a farm hand. Shippers claimed that Moody
whipped him with Il hickory club. which
Moody admitted. Justice Groves, of Elkton,
heard the case filming Moody SIS and costs
which was paid. Moody then issued Il peace
warrant against Shippers who he alleged had
threatened to kill him (Moody). Shippers
was committed to Jail, being unable to give
bond.
The funeral of VIM. c. Alexander who
died in his ninety first year, took place on
Wednesday from the residence OF his
daughter, Mrs. j. A. Leeke, in Oxford, Pa.
Many years ago he was engaged in coopering
and farming. his estate in Elk township
extending below the State line into Cecil
county, Nd. He sold a portion of his prop
erty to the Tyson Mining Company OF Bati-
timore and was employed by the company as
superintendent of the sand chrome banks for
years.
Charles Oran Cooper, well known in
Elkton, Il graduate of Delaware College, class
OF '95, is secretary of the newly incorporated
Standard Telephone Company, of Baltimore,
which intends constructing telephone lines
connecting number of towns on the Pen
insula with connections in Baltimore. The
company has already purchased some local
lines and will consolidate them in the main
line, making in all about $50 miles of tele-
phone which will possibly include Ekton.
The company has a capital of $4,000. ].
Tiers Reardon is president.
Prof. Harter and his staff are busy arrang-
ing matters for the opening of the fall term
at Delaware College, on September ID The
preliminary examinations will be held on
September lst and it is expected that by that
time everything will be in readiness. The
largest attendance of pupils in the history
of the institution is expected in the next
school year. as the standard has been raised
and the educational facilities will be first
class. One great feature in this direction is
the addition of three new professorships
which will be II valuable acquisition.
The Susquebanna Water Power and Paper
Company, of Hartford county has gone into
the hands of receivers. This is by far the
largest business concern in Hartford county
The company employees about $50 men with
II monthly pay roll OF about $4,000. The
mills are situated near Conowingo, and aside
from the manufacturing plant there are very
valuable water rights owned and controlled
by the company. The property and fran
chises of the company are valued at $500, 600,
their total Indebtedness at 1900, 900, of which
s135,000 are unsecured 1t is stated by
parties interested that the company is entirely
solvent, and, rs alleged in the bill in equity
has assets aggregating 100000 in excess of
its liabilities, and that the action of placing
it in the hands of receivers is done in order
to provide for pressing current demands, the
real cause Of the embarrassment being the
absence of ready funds to detfray operating
expenses.