The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-03-19
COU NTY NEWS
t'rida : March 10 1897
NIL ,)RLOCAIS

April 18th will be Arbor Day il
Maryland.
Constable Thomas Il. Lee, O
Cherry Hill. while in Elkton OF
Wednesday week lost a pocketbool
containing $55.
The Comptroller of Maryland OF
Monday made the distribution Of
the public school tax. Cecils share
for white schools is 50, 461 90
colored, $l57 SO.
Mrs. W. S. Wilson of North
East, recently completed a crazy
quilt that contains 1926 pieces
Having survived that ordeal she is
in no danger of insanity.
Judge Stake of Hagerstown has
decided that the dog ordinance OF
that town is illegal. The presump-
ton is that a similar ordinance for
Elkton would be he'd to be illegal
If tested.
An original Widows pension was
last week granted to Mrs. India G.
Boyer, of Elkton. Francis G.
Schweppemheiser, of Bay View,
was granted an increase of pension
by the pension bureau.
At a meeting of the managers of
the Maryland Tract Society held in
Baltimore last week, George A.
Blake, Esq, was elected vice presi-
dent of the society for Cecil county
i'll place of Judge james McCauley,
deceased.
At the annual meeting of the
Perryville Water Company the old
board of directors was re elected as
follows: Messrs. Jacob Tome, r.
X. Vanneman, c. G. Caldwell, II.
Arthur Stump, j. Miller Thomas,
G. L. Cole and Jos. Coudon.
Messrs. Clifton G. Keatley and
Walter Tombstone of Port Deoosit,
have received appointments in U.
S. mail service. Mr.. Keatley's run
is from New York to Washington,
over the B. & o., and Mr.. Touch
stones, from Baltimore to Parkers-
burg, w. Va.
Eli Mendinhall died at his home
in Wilmington, Sunday morning,
after short illness resulting from
an attack of the grip. Mr.. Men
diDhall was in the 66 year of his
age. When young man he was in
the mercantile business in Rising
Sun and North East.
Ebenezer A. Alexander, of the
Fourth district, has been appointed
by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue as gauger for the District
of Maryland. The appointment is
considered reinstatement, Mr..
Alexander having left the service
of the department in 1898.
David III. Clark of Philadelphia,
brakeman on freight train was
killed at Elkton on Thursday of
last week. He was struck by the
roof of a warehouse which projects
over the track and knocked be-
tween the cars which passed over
him, killing him Immediately.
Mr.. G. j. Campbell of Leeds dis
covered a light in the room i'm
mediately under where he slept,
one night last week. On investiga
ton he found the fire board had
been ignited by the stove pipe.
Fortunately the fire had not made
much Roadway and was readily ex-
tinguished.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey
have added the following surveys
to the charts of the Chesapeake Bay
and tributaries: North East river
The dredged channel is shown to
North East, with explanatory note.
Elk river-The dredged channel is
shown from Landing to Elkton,
with explanatory note.
The Methodist Conference was
held at Chestertown this week, and
the distribution of preachers will
take place next week. A minister
is permitted to remain five years
at the same place if the congrega-
ton don't object too strongly.
When the M. Il. church was first
organized the minister was moved
every six months.
Sheriff G. C. Samson, of Kossuth
county, Iowa, arrived at the New
Castle Jail last week and identified
Leslie Stevens. Stevens was in
dicted in that county on a grave
criminal charge. He decamped,
came to Elkton and was a heavy
plunger on the races. Last week
ne was decoyed to Newark, Del,
by a registered letter. There he
was arrested and held for the Iowa
officers.
.MesSrs. VIM. T. Warburton and
]. d. Davis have laid out in build.
ing lots their ten acre tract of land
north of the depot at Elkton
Streets have been graded and it is
reported that several dwelling
houses will be erected this spring