The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-30
WIG OFFICE TELEPHONE, No 90.
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

the county IH~t week.
"A plank 'ulling badly mashed William c.
He sth's foot at tn pulp works.
--Whie cutl:ag wood on Monday Curtis
Jones badly rut his foot the axe slipping.
A valuable draught horse ownrd by Davis
Il N,netn@er. the ELTON nllrrs, died ON Sat
urdny rron pneumonia.
On Wednesday EVENING last week, the
enGin" of the race track train jumped In" rails
at lron Iita.a'a delayed travel lorspa.n tinc.
-rhr A.y"ar-oIl son of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Samuel $. Ramno, formerly of EU&;on. dind
at their home IN Ttllapoosa. Gror&a. on
Saturday last
-On Saturday night the members of the
Sing rIy Fir" Company We're entertained at
the engine nous by graphophoun concert
by Henry Vinsipcer.
Thompson Reed Of Bay View. captured
Il hawN on Sunday morning while engaged
in Il fi-,ht with chicken. 1t measured forty
two inches between the tips of its wings.
-A!Irn G. Oliver. of Newark. successful
poultry raiser tool, biz laurels at the Wash
ington Poultry Show, winning fortv-right
premiums. He did lots of ''fowl' deeds down
there.
GA account of the continued illness of
Mr.. James II. Maxwell. the January meeting
of tn" Crri, Farmers Club to have been held
at Mr. MlNwrll's on Wednesday last was
pos puned until urthrr notice
Mr. A. pi'EersOn. who occupied Mrs.
Bric&h,y's dwelling ON East High street. has
moved to the dwelling on Bow street recently
varated by jacob bean. Mrs. Brickl,y vii
occupy her dwelling vacated by Mr. Dick
erson.
AT a hearng before Judge Ball in Wim-
inAtan. George W liams. colored. was dis
charged, being G.al'd not guilty of the charge
of wayln, ing Marian Foy, near Iron Hill, on
january Is. Foy did not appear to prose-
cute the case.
The severe weather since Saturday last
has enabled our local ice men to complete
their lee harvest. Mr. Jacob A. Howard be-
gau filing his house on Tuesday, to which
an addition has recently been made. Mr..
VIM. II. Booth completed filling his house
on Thursday.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of CeciIton have collected and for
wardel to Brown Bros. 4 Co treasurers for
the National Armenian Relief Committee,
$40 10 for the relief Of the suffering Armen-
ians. Five dollars of this amount was con-
trinuted by the Loyal Temperance Legion
Mr.. j. c. GiIlen, who represents tic
Chapman Publishing Co. of Chicago. and
who for several days past has been canvassing
Eliton for biographical sketch of Cecil
county families. reports that he is meeting
with encouragement in his work. and those
he has interviewed, with hardly an exception
approve the work, and the plan on whicl it is
proposed to ISIS lc it,
West Elkton has again come to the front
in the fire enEin" question which has been
agitatcd and talked over there for some time.
West Elkton has gained quite n newspaper
reputation in the matter of fire companies,
but there has always been more smoke than
fire in the talk. Now, the point at issue is
the placing there of the old fire engine in
readiness for the demon. Let the fire engine
go there. Gallagher.
In one of those perio lie melees that occur
at Iron Hill. james Hawkins, colored, was
shot on Tuesday night by George Walters.
In the encounter which preceded the shoot
ing, Walters had been laid low by Hawkins,
and while down Walters drew his gun and
shot Hawkins in the groin. The latter was
taken to the Delaware Hospital where the
bullet was probed for and extracted. No
arrests are yet reported.
About two o'clock on Saturday morning
last the third section of the fast freight run
ming between New York and Chicago over
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. due to
leave Philadelphia at 1910 p. m, was de-
rallied at Aiken Station. The train in ques-
ton pulled in the side track at Aiken for the
midnight TIN ough express to pass. after
which il was to proceed on its rapad Western
journey. Through misunderstanding Of
signals the engineer on the fast freight started
his train before the proper switches had bean
thrown thereby precpitatng the engine and
tender down an embankment of several feet
into mud bank. The engine caught fire
and the woodwork was destroyed. Tho
train was taken south by an engine sent from
Wilmington, while a wrecking crew from that
city replaced the wrecked engine and tender
Director VIM. L. Amoss has selected
Wednesday February 18th, as the date for
holding Farmers Institute at Elkion. At
the meeting held ut the Howard House in this
town on October 10Th last called by Director
Amoss, the following committee of organiza-
ton and conference was selected: First
district. Messrs. Z. Porter Lusby, Jeremiah
G. Price and T.. c. Cruikshank; Second
district, DIessrs John r. Williams, Irwin G.
Griffith, ST., and VIM. d. Bradford Third