The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-08-05
COU MY NEWS
Friday, Aug. 5. 1898.
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i'll front of the postoffice at Port
Deposit last week, by G. G. Oldham.
Fifty eight tickets were sold at
Rising Sun station yesterday for
the Colchester excursion, Is at
Colora and 102 at Nottingham.
Woodlawn Camp opened Tues
day with about sixty-fve tents.
Thomas Kirk and w. T. B. r..
Robertson are among the tenters.
The Keys & Miller Lumber Co.,
of Elkton, has been awarded the
contract for one hundred tons of
coal for the Aims House and
Asylum.
The large general store of F. II.
Harper & Son, Still Pond, and the
postoffice were destroyed by fire
Thursday, July IS. The firm car
ried about $4,000 stock.
The house of E. e. Pierson, near
Elkton, was struck by lightning
Tuesday night and one corner dam
aged. Two small children were
stunned by the shock.
Rev. d. E. Shaw, of West Not
tingham, preached powerful ser
mon last Sunday, his subject being
on the question of prohibition or
licensing saloons in Cecil county.
A local notice of the arrest of
Geo. p. Hardgraves at North East,
for the murder of Joseph Miller,
says he "has lived here all his life
except while serving two terms in
the penitentiary for theft"
The Elkton Fair Managers are
striving to give an exceptionally
good exhibition this year. There
will be no racing on the first day,
it being devoted to the farmers and
an attractive program will be
arranged.
The temperance, or local option
campaign committee met in Elkton,
on Wednesday, to make arrange
ments for commencing active work
in the campaign. The camp meet
ings should assist in the work and
probably will.
The Cecil county boys are among
the troops ordered to Porto Rico.
They are in luck, as the climate of
Porto Rico is far preferable to Cuba,
and there is every prospect the
campaign of the island will be but
a triumphal march.
Sheriff Ccnoly left Elkton
Wednesday for Virginia with war,
rants for Delaware Smith and Chas.
James, the colored men wanted for
the murder of William Fields, who
recently died in Elkton Jail from
injuries at their hands.
The warehouse of A. L. Duyck-
inck q Co. was broken into again
one night last week, but nothing
was taken. The firm leaves the
safes unlocked and nothing in the
Office but books and papers, making
a poor place for thieves to break
into.
The little son of George Bedwell,
Elk Neck, set fire to some straw
stacks, Tuesday evening, which
were destroyed. 1t was only by
hard work of the family and neigh
bors that the barn was saved, it
being in close proximity to the
stacks.
A. L. Crothers, w. S. Evans and
w. T. Warburton, of the Elkton
Bar, were elected members of the
Maryland State Bar Association at
the meeting held at Blue Mountain
House, Deer Park, last week. Hon.
James Alfred Pearce was elected a
vice president.
During a heavy rain storm last
week the temporary dam at Marley
Mill was washed away, necessitat-
ing the shutting down of the mill
for several weeks. The large dam
at the place was washed away by
the flood in April, and the tempo
rary one was constructed until the
old one was replaced.
John S. Writ, ESQ.,, of Elkton,
was one of the speakers at the ban
quet of the State Bar Association,
which met at the Blue Mountain
House last week. Mr.. Writ
responded to the toost 'The Neces-
sity of a Higher Standard of AID
mission to the Bar" He thought
the minimum standard should be
raised.
During an electrical storm last
weekithe meat house and dwelling
of |. G. Griffith, Jr., Second dist,
were struck and portions of the
roofs and Notwithstanding torn off.
A colored boy had one of his shoes
torn from his foot. Miss Bertha
Bouchelle, of Chesapeake City, was
stunned by lightning at her home,
A very bad freight wreck occur
red at the Elkton station on the p
w. & B. railroad on Thursday OF
last week, in which eight loaded