The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-02
COU NTY NEWS
FRIDAY, April 2, 1897.
Ml<.OR LOCALS

Loyal Temperance Legion will
meet tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock.
The Dieberts launched two large
barges at their Elkton boat yard
last week.
The w. c. I. U. will meet in the
lecture room of the church on
Thursday, April Sth, at $50 p. m.
Mr.. j. S. Chapman's family,
consisting of his wife and three
children, arrived in Rising Sun
from Philada. yesterday and moved
into their residence on Pearl St.
Congressman VIM. B. Baker pre-
sented to President Mckinley the
name of Reuben Haines, ESQ.,, of
Elkton, as an applicant for appoint
ment as consul to Messina, Italy.
Mrs. Bertha Stebbings, wife of
William Seedlings, of Port Deposit,
died on Friday morning last at an
early hour, after short illness, of
pneumonia. She leaves one child
The long distance telephone
company is putting a new cross
piece on their poles and stringing
four new wires. On Monday the
linemen were working through
town.
Cards have been issued for the
wedding of Mr.. John III. Terrell of
Elkton, and Miss Mary Elizabeth
Taylor, of Philadelphia, on Wed
nesday evening, April 18th, at five
O'Clock.
The late proprietors of the FELTON,
House, Elkton, have sold the
furniture of the House at auction
and moved out. J. Eugene Clark
from Warwick is now proprietor of
the hostelry.
W. James Gregson, son of VIM.
Gregson, of Cherry Hill, died Satur-
day, Mar. 20, at his fathers resi-
dence, aged % years. His funeral
was held on Wednesday morning
following with service at Moore's
Chapel. Interment in adjoining
cemetery.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Stevenson Wrench Company
was held Monday at North East, at
which it was decided to make a call
for the unpaid installments of the
clpital stock. 1t is expected that
the factory, which was built during
1896, will be put in operation with
in a month.
Some months since a boy named
Roscoe escaped from a House of
Refuge in Delaware county, Pa,
and on Thursday of last week
Sheriff Mackey having learned that
the boy was working for Samuel
Harris a farmer living near Elkton,
he arrested him. He was taken
back to the institution whence he
escaped.
Vachel Price of Mechanics
Valley, died on Thursday last week
from the infermities of old age, he
being in his SD year. A widow
and three sons, John, Thomas and
Henry Price, survive him. The
funeral services were held in the
Methodist Episcopal Church at
North East on Sunday afternoon.
Interment in st. Mary's Cemetery.
A specimen of the brain of the
dog of DR.. John III. lamar, that
was recently shot because of alleged
rabies, was sent to the Pasteur In
stitute for examination, and the
report of DR.. Paul Gibier says that
there were no indications of the
rabies, but rather of illtemper and
decentralization from fright, and
that it was a needless destruction
of life.
The excitement among the post
Office applicants continues. One of
the petitioners was charged with a
design to attach the names on the
petition to the Presiding Elders of
the Wilmington Conference, for the
return of their last years pastor, to
his Mckinley petition for the post
office. He denied the soft impeach-
ment but said he would like to
have them.
An effort is being made to get
Lottie Coslett, of North East, out
of the Female House of Refuge,
where she was committed by Mag
istrate John Il. Shippers. The girl
is 16 years of age and was sent
there On March 22d at the instance
of her father, who claimed that she
was incorrigible. A subscription
has been started to defray the
necessary expenses, those pushing
the movement claiming that the
case was misrepresented.
The Centerville correspondent to
the Baltimore Sun of Thursday of
last week, gave the following item:
The telephone wire to connect
Centerville with Queenstown has
been strung. This telephone is of
the long distance type and is being