The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-11-03
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Nov. 3. 1899.
MlNIORLOCALS

Horace GILLESPIE mas Deen elected
captain of the Johns Hopkins fresh
man class foot ball team.
The Parthenian Literary Society
of Rising Sun public school will
meet this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Twelve tickets were sold at Ris-
ing Sun station for the Republican
meeting at Elkton last Monday
night.
George Starting, colored, of Elk
ton, was on Wednesday sentenced
to thirty days in Jail for assaulting
John Cannon.
On Monday vicious dog attack
ed and severely bit on the arm and
face Hazel Rose, the six year old
child of j. G. Rose of Marley Mills.
The Young Friends association
will meet in. the Normal school
building on Sabbath afternoon, 9Th
inst, at 2:30 o'clock. All are
invited.
c. T. Snyder purchased at pub
lie sale last Monday the Joseph
Krauss property at Harrisville.
The tract contains 81 acres, IS
pcrches, and was bought for $1110.
Miss Anna Coadon will hold her
annual chrysanthemum exhibition
at Aiken, beginning Wednesday,
Nov. 8, to continue until the 18th,
from 100 to 500 o'clock p. M.
daily, except Sunday.
There promises to be a dog law
suit of large proportions before
Squire Taylor on Saturday at 10 a.
III. The penalty for stealing dog
is return of the dog or pay for him
and confinement in Jail for three
months.
Mrs. Mary r. Haslap, president
of the w. C. T. U. of Maryland,
will give an address in the M. E.
church on Monday evening, Nov.
6, at o'clock. A service of song
at 7:30. Everybody cordially
invited.
Edward Plots, the piano and
organ manufacturer, committed
suicide at the Deer Park hotel in
Newark last Wednesday. He was
we'll known in this section and has
sold quite number of instruments
in the neighborhood.
The erection of an ice plant for
the manufacture of artificial ice in
EIkton is being agitated. 1t
wouldn't be bad idea to convert
the Rising Sun shoe factory into an
ice plant. The shoe factory was a
cold day for the stockholders.
On last Wednesday, November 1,
the law prohibiting the shooting of
cartridges and rabbits expired and
the shooting Of that game is now
lawful. The ducking season also
began on that day, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays being the
shooting days.
Magistrate Samuel B. Grant, of
Elkton, sent an eight year old col
ored girl, Victoria Scott, to the In
dustrial Home for colored girls, in
Baltimore county, on complaint of
her mother, the girl being incor-
rigible. She will remain in the
institution until she is eighteen
years of age.
The 10th annual convention of
the Cecil County Union of Chris
tian Endeavor will be held in Bay
View M. p. church Thursday after
noon and evening, Nov. 8. Dele
gates and others intending to 60 by
train will be met by carriage at
North East. Notify Jas. r. Simp-
son, Leslie, Md.
Another man was killed by the
cars at Iron Hill ON Wednesday
morning. He had gotten under a
box car which was standing on the
siding, during the night, and it is
presumed fell asleep with his head
resting on the rail. In shifting the
cars the wheels passed over his
head severing it from the body.
The p, w. & B. railroad COM
pany are moving to break up the
practice of stealing rides on freight
trains, many persons being killed
in this dangerous business. Most
of those free ride stealers are not
tramps, hut people able to pay their
fares, who jump on the cars for the
purpose of saving their fares, risk.
ing life and limb.
While waiting for the special
tain at North East Monday evening
a number of persons gathered on
the track to lis ell to the band, and
but for the timely and heroic action
of assistant station agent Edward j.
Campbell several would doubtless
have lost their lives. A fast
through train came around the
curve and was seen by Mr.. Camp
bell just in time to give warning.
He jumped on the track in front OF
the train and ran the whole length
of the platform, pushing the people
ont of danUer and StanninU off inst