The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-04-01
NEWS III AElEE.


FSIusaj y busy N'"h -
William Cox hts moved to IN" Johns NJ
farm near Eikton, 20 Capt. WASH Fosters
several Years.
DR. John II. lunar Of Ehtor, has been
appointed II mrnlp"r of thu State Board f
Medical Examiners. vice Jrmes BordIey. Of
Ceutrevile. resigned.
Mr.. |. Louis Oits son of R'v J. p. OILS.
formerly pastor Of E!Eton NJ. Church,
will receive the degree of A b. in June IRON
the University Of Nnw York.
MIS- Jane. Mrrrey has sold Der house
hold good aud removed to Pniia,!rlpha
where she will make her home in the future
with her daughter, Mrs. John Gawne.
Curtis Mccullough, Of Blake, caught a
hawk measuring ~ inches from tip to tip
in steel trap one day last week This is
the second one he has caught since the
blizzard.
-- Elktol Council Jr o L. A. NJ will con
tinue their supper in the Mitchell buiitin",
Main street, this, saturday. ev' L ing Ticket
for a good supper will he % cents. Donh
fail TO attend
An Ekton ice man has Determined upon
the following schedule OF prices for that
commodity this season-100 lbs. and up
ward, % cents per hundred Delivered daily.
80 TO 100 lbs, 30 cents PER hundred 20 lbs.
c hts II lbs, 5 GEMS.
The "Spelling Be" which was to have
been held in Fair Hill srhoo! on Saturday
evening last vas postponed owing to incen-
ent weather, and will now be held on the
evening of Easter Monday, April 81. Ii
stormy, then on Tuesday evening.
The fishermen along tho Elk, North East
and Susquehanna rivers are preparing heir
nets and getting their boats in order for
spring fishing, and the packers are putting
their striking tubs and sheds in 0r!e-, to be
prepared for the first run Of herring as they
are considered the best
Mrs. Pena Dyer widow of John II. Dyer,
died of pneumonia at her home in Chester
town Sunday evening, aged 81 years and six
months. She leaves three children Mrs
James Chilcutt, of Chestertown; Mrs Edsal,
of Mckee City, n. j., and John Dyer, of
Princess Anne, Md. The remains were in
tered at Laurel, Del.
The Wilmington, Del, Board of Trade
will do everything possible to induce the
shipbu.ding plant in which Henry G. Morse
is Interested to locate there. 1t was reported
that the new company had purchased tact
OF land near Edge Moor but this is denied
lie tI,,,tt h,. 10 NM,
several sites, among them being the one
referred to Mr.. Morse and the several OF the
capitalists who are in the scheme are known
to favor the local site.
Joseph Wright, colored, was hanged in
the jail yard at Chestertown at S.45 o'clock
last Friday morning. Wright shot William
Newcombe, an aged colored man, on the
night of November 5, 1897, killing him almost
instantly. He has since asserted that he was
drunk for the first and last time in his life
when he killed Newcombe against whom he
had no feeling Of any kind, and that he had
no conception of his actions. strong effort
to induce Governor Lowndes to commute his
sentence was unavaiing. The condemned
man met death calmly and without flnchng.
The Town Commissioners of Elkton give
notice that the town election will be held in
Council Hail. North street, on Monday April
10, between the hours of 2 o'clock and 6
O'Clock p M, for the purpose Of electng two
commissioners to serve for two years from
the date of their election. or until their sue
cessors are elected and quahfled. The pres
ent board is-Samuel j. Keys, PRESIDENT
George McQuilkin, William II. Mackall,
Samuel II. King and Herman LETTERS. The
two retiring members are George McQuilkin
and William H. Mackall. A meeting will be
held in Council Hall on Monday evening for
the purpose Of nominating candidates.
The activity in the matter of improving
the Newark & Delaware City branch ofthe I.
W. & b. railroad is taken as an indication
that additional and heavier trains are soon to
be run over it. New interlocking switches
new tracks and everything pertaining to what
may be needed in freight or railroad yard
are being placed at Pencader, near Newark.
1t is stated on good authority that express
trains for the Delaware railroad will shortly
pass over this branch and the changes in cars
which may contain freight for points along
the Delaware railroad north of Clayton will
be made at the yard at Pencader, which will
obviate the necessity Of running cars into the
west yard. where delays are frequent, and
will greatly facilitate the moving Of freights.