The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-27
MlNORLOCALS


Blacks horses at Charlestown Fri
day night.
A COW belonging to Mrs. Theo
Brickley, of Pennington, was killed
by lightning on Tuesday last.
The Dupont Powder Company,
of Wilmington, has large force Of
men employed cutting willows in
Kent county.
The w. G. T. U. will meet on
Wednesday, June LIST, at $3.50
O'Clock, after the meeting of the
Ladies' Aid Society.
A hail storm in Queen Anne's
county last week damaged the
wheat so badly that many fields
are being plowed under.
A tree close to the barn of Wilson
Kimble was struck and shattered
by lightning during one of the
thunder storms last week.
Didn't catch to please the clerks.
The new mail catchers on the P,
w. & B. have been taken down as
they failed to give satisfaction.
The Cecil county commissioners
awarded the contract for metallic
cases in the offices of the clerk of
the court and register of wills to
Sitter & Freeman, of Philadelphia,
for So, 400.
While Frank Cunningham of
Battle Swamp, was driving colt
last Wednesday the bride broke
and the animal became unmanage-
able, breaking the wagon and finally
running into a barb wire fence.
The principal of Tome Institute
and six female teachers have re-
signed, their designations to take
effect at the close Of the present
term, June Is. Two Of the lady
teachers are going to be married
which is considered sufficient cause
for their resignation.
Perryville showed her patriotism
on Thursday of last week. A hand
some flag 94x1S had been pur-
chased by the engine house and
other railroad employees and was
flung to the breeze on that day from
the top of a 100 foot pole amid
cheers and great enthusiasm.
Continuous rainy weather has
interrupted corn planting greatly.
Many farmers have not finished
blowing their corn ground and a
great many others have been I'M
able to finish planting. The wheat
is being injured, it is feared, to a
very considerable extent by the
rainy weather.
United States Senator George L.
Wellington will deliver the annual
address at the Delta Phi Literary
Society's anniversary exercises at
Delaware College, Newark, on the
evening of June Is. Henry Lyttle-
ton Constable will deliver the soci-
ETY. orator and Hugh Martin Morris
the farewell address.
The game of ball Saturday at
Port Deposit between Jacob Tome
Institute and West Nottingham
Academy, resulted in favor of the
Institute boys by score of IL to 6.
The batteries were Rueher and
Davis for the Institute, Kay and
Wiley for the Academy.
The West Nottingham boys will
play ''scrub" team on the Acad-
envy grounds Saturday.
Miss Carrie Steele, of Washing
ton, jumped from a window of the
Congressional Limited one evening
last week, while the train was run
ming sixty miles an hour, just after
it had passed Newark station. She
was picked up and sent to the hos
pital at Wilmington and died in "a
few hours. Miss Steele had been
at a sanitarium in Atlantic City,
and is supposed committed the rash
act while suffering from tempo
rary alteration of mind.
The large new unoccupied frame
store and dwelling house owned by
Mis-. Mary G. Mullen, at Rock
Springs, was destroyed by fire on
Friday night last. The loss was
about $4,000 with no insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The property had only been rebuilt
after being destroyed by fire about
a year ago. About a year before
that building on the same site was
burned, making three buildings
destroyed by fires on the same
property.
Mrs. Ellen E. Gibson, relict of
the late VIM. T. Gibson, died on
Thursday, May 10, at the residence
of her son, Robert B. Gibson, in
Charlestown, aged 70 years.
Mrs. Margaret Johnson, widow
of the late Nicholas f. johnson, of
Elkton, died on Sunday at the
home of her son-in-law, VIM. 7.
Lee, in Baltimore, aged seventy.
three years.
Edward r. Thomson. a former