The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Nov. ~. 1897.
Mi>!ORLOCALS

having blacksmith aud wood work
shop built.
VIM. T. Reed, of Chesapeake
City, has been granted an original
pension by the government.
A euchre club has been organized
by some of the society folks of Port
Deposit for winter evening enter
tainment.
James Emory, of Frederick, Del,
is feet, 81 inches tall and is the
highest man in the State when he
stands erect.
Gideon Boldly, respected colored
man, died at his residence, Mt.
Zoar, on Sunday night of last week
aged 50 years.
Seventy three licenses for duck
shooting in the waters of Cecil
county had been issued up to the
end of last week.
The Charlestown public school
was closed last week on account of
an epidemic of influenza breaking
out among the children.
Mrs. Martha E. Porter has taken
out letters on the estate of her late
husband, Richard G. Porter. The
estate is valued at about $25, 600.
Samuel A. Taylor has removed
his stock Of clothing and ladies'
underwear from his residence to
the store room adjoining the post
office.
Miss Sarah Speakman while
handling some dynamite cartridges
at Mr.. Vests, Sylmar, on last
Friday, was severely wounded in
the hand by one of the cartridges
exploding.
The shade of a hanging lamp in
the residence of J. NJ. G. Charhat,
Zion, caught fire on Sunday morn
ing. fell and set the table cloth and
carpet on fire, and for a time the
house was in danger.
A movement is on foot to build
an electric railway between Bel Air
and Havre de Grace. The County
Commissioners have been petitioned
for the use of certain roads between
the two points for that purpose.
A great Northern Snow owl was
shot by George Magaw of Lombard
last week. The bird measured from
tip to tip 4 feet 6 inches, and 2 feet
in length. To kill this rare bird
wantonly was little less than a
crime.
Jasper Hall, the three year-old
son of George Hall, of near Zion,
was terribly burned about the
mouth and throat from dose of
carbolic acid, which was admin
istered the child for Group medicine
in mistake.
The Tome Institute and West
Nottingham Academy foot ball
teams will meet on the gridiron at
Wesk Nottingham tomorrow after
noon. The teams played last Sat
urday at Port, Tome winning by a
score of 4 to O.
A strolling harpist appeared in
town last Wednesday afternoon and
an impromptu dance was gotten up
that evening and held in the par
lors of DR.. l.. r. Kirk. Eight
couples enjoyed the pleasures of
the dance, to the music of harp and
piano, from s until II.
The will of the late Senator Chas.
G. CrotherS has been admitted to
probate in the Office of the Orphans
Court for Cecil county. The will is
dated August 10, 1897. The late
Senator's brothers, Senator elect A.
L. Crothers and DR.. A. C. Croth
ers, are appointed administrators.
William II. Currier, a painter,
while working on George Sutton's
house near Perryville, was seriously
injured by the scaffolding giving
way. He fell about Is feet and
was picked up unconscious. The
cartilage of several ribs that con-
meet with the breast bone was
broken. He was taken home on a
mattress and is in a precarious
condition.
The boy who was found muir
dered in box car at Williamsport,
Pa, has been identified as Fred
erick Gilbert, of Philadelphia
Gilbert was in Reading several
weeks in the summer employed on
the race tracks in that vicinity
No clue has been found to the
murderer. There is but little doubt
that the murder was committed
while the car was at Elkton.
Mr.. Ed. Williams who assists E
NJ. Clark of North East in the
butchering business, whilst at
tempting to drive large boar hog
into an enclosure was attacked by
the animal, and before it could bt
driven off was badly bitten and
torn by its long tushes about the