The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-06-19
A steer was killed by lightning
near ElktOn last week.

neSQay fOf the summer vacation.
Next week wheat harvest will be
at it's height in the southern part
of the county.
Sheriff Mackey took Fred Baxter
to the House of Correction on Tues
day to serve a sentence of IS
months.
Most of the teachers of the Tome
Institute have said goodby, some
for time, others forever. Ten are
going to leave for good.
The 80 days. meeting of the
Barksdale Racing Association came
to a close Monday night. The fifth
race being run at s O'Clock.
VIM. A. Price of Frenchtown,
has purchased through John M.
Terrell, agent, the Jethro McCauley
property, near Cherry Hill, for
$3.50.
A little son of Harry Marshbank
of Elkton was shot in the eye with
a shooting cracker, and the organ
painfully and perhaps dangerously
injured.
A corps of United States typo
graphical engineers, began work
at Ellton last week preparing a
| typographical map from surveys on
the Eastern Shore.
Joseph P. Cutler, one of the
Justices of the Peace, moved from
the Preston farm to ,Rowlandville
last week to the dwelling owned by
Miss Helen Rowland.
A. L. Duyckinck & Co., have
the contract for furnishing the
lumber for the new house at West
Nottingham to be occupied by Prof.
Conner, principal of the Academy.
The June Term of the Circuit
Court convened Monday for one
day only. No business of import
ance was transacted, and the Court
adjourned to meet on Monday,
September 81.
Comptroller Graham ON Monday
made the fourth quarterly distribu-
ton of the public school tax for the
quarter ending June Is. Cecil
county received for white schools,
50, 6S4.13; colored, $924.06.
Guy, year old sol. of DIR. Jno.
G. Dennis, Perryville, while play
ing around a wagon one day last
week climbed up on one of the
wheels when the horse started
throwing him under the wagon
which passed over the little fellow
dislocating his collar bone.
The peninsula canning factories
are reported busy working on peas.
The work will be continued as the
different vegetables, berries and
fruits come in through the season.
Our Cecil canneries have about all
gone into retirement; don't appear
to be a good section for the canning
business.
A man was found lying near the
tracks of the p. w. & B. railroad,
about two miles south of ElktOn
one day last week. He gave his
name as Henry Bennett aged 43
of Westminster, and said he had
boarded the train at North East
and fell from the platform. His
head was cut and his hip badly
bruised. He was taken to the City
Hospital in Baltimore.
In addition to the Cecil graduates
whose names were mentioned last
week, were; from Dickinson College,
John F. Porter, son of r. G. Porter,
of Cherry Hill; Hanson q. Wilson,
ofSylmar, degree of Civil Engineer;
Princeton, Warren jackson Haines,
son L. M. Haines, Esq, of the
Elkton Bar, degree of Bachelor of
Arts. Mr.. Haines will read law
with his father in Elkton.
There will be special services at
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church Sunday,
June Dist. Baptism of children in
the morning. A double choir, the
regular choir being assisted by the
Jr. Epworth League choir who will
have their organ and music on
opposite side of the pulpit from the
regular choir, preaching in the
morning and evening by Rev. Geo.
Alcorn of Phila. Conference who
has delighted his audience at this
church on several previous occasions.
Pusey Mcconnell denizen OF
the "ridge" who was arrested
charged with stealing William
STEMS chickens had a trial before
Justice Groves of Elkton, and the
proof leaving the prisoner the
benefit of the "doubt," he was dis
charged. He then threatened to
shoot Stein. The latter "swore his
life against himn and the sheriff
arrested Mcconnell again, who was
brought before the magistrate a
second fine and held under 5000