The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-03-10
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, March 10, 1899.
MI DR. LOCALS

wood is being caught at Port
Deposit.
DIR. John B. Slicer, of Farming
ton, is making arrangements to
locate in North East.
The County Commissioners were
in session Tuesday, hearing com,
plants and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The graduating class of 100 OF
the Jacob Tome Institute have
beautiful pins of gold and blue
enamel.
Abraham Kirk, of College Green,
fed flock of cartridges and
brought them safely through the
blizzard.
After two or three days of spring
old winter made a raid on Monday
night, covering everything with a
blanket of snow.
Adam DeBaugh, an aged veteran
of the civil war residing near
Havre de Grace, was stricken with
paralysis one day last week.
A large barge was launched last
week at the boatyard of Il. Deibert
& Bro, at Elk Landing, Cecil
county, 40 long, for Charles Gring,
of Philadelphia.
An immense wrecking crane,
capable of lifting thirty tons, has
been added to the p. w. & B. rail
road company's wrecking para
phernalia at Wilmington.
Passmore & Gillespie, of Noting
ham, have taken possession of the
warehouse at Sylmar where Mr..
Harry Hambleton will have charge
of the business for the firm.
A thunder gust came up on
Saturday night with heavy rain,
which was followed on Monday
night by a fall of snow. There is
no place like Maryland for variety
of weather.
p. Il. Tome, nephew of the late
Jacob Tome of Port Deposit, and
one of the executors of his estate,
has been elected director of the
Maryland Title Insurance and Trust
Company of Baltimore.
Mrs. Harvey Ewing, wife of Rev.
III. w. Ewing, formerly pastor of
Tome Memorial Church of Port
Deposit, is i'll at a hospital in Gin
cinnati, near which city the Rev.
Mr.. Ewing has charge.
The Baltimore Central railroad
management is having a large ro-
tary pillow constructed with which
to remove SHOWS of the future
should they prove formidable
enough to blockade travel.
III. Fl. Bowden, formerly of this
town, but now resident of Havre
de Grace, has entered divorce pro-
ceedings against his wife, Mary
Bowden. Abandonment is alleged.
They were married Oct. IL, 1883.
The engine which ran into the
draw at the Brandywine bridge,
in Wilmington, last week has been
raised and sent to the shops for re-
pairs. 1t was lifted by a derrick
on scow and carried in that man,
ner to wharf and placed on the
track.
When the Susquehanna flats were
clear of ice last week large numbers
of ducks came to feast on the wild
celery and the market gunners
killed great many. The ducks
will soon start for Alaska and
regions farther north. The canvas
back breeds in Alaska.
Quite a large delegation appeared
bcfored the County Commissioners
Wednesday morning in reference
to the proposed road to the Sim
mers property in the Ninth dist.
Owing to the absence of some of the
interested parties the hearing was
postponed until April 20.
The old board of directors of
Cecil County Agricultural Society
met last week and elected the fol-
lowing officers: George S. Woolley,
president; u. Porter Lusby, vice
president, and Geo II. Ash, secre
tary and treasurer. The latter
offices were combined by a resolu-
ton passed at the stockholders
meeting.
John G. Constable of Elkton,
who left with Co. f, LIST Md. Reg
iment, and was afterwards made
second lieutenant of the company
from Cumberland, intends Joining
the regular army which will be
mustered into service under the
new army bill. 1t is reported he
has been promised the captaincy OF
a company and will probably go to
the Philippine Islands.
There is prospect of again start
ing work at the Mccullough Iron
Works, at North East. John w.
Mccullough, who resides in North
East, was notified by the company
to see how many of the old hands
could be got together. The iron