The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-08-18
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Aug. Is. 1899.
MI&ORLOCALS

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The Coast Survey steamer Match
less, is engaged in surveying in the
Elk river.
The Hartford county teachers in
stitute will be held in the week
beginning Monday, September 4.
The County Convention of Cecil
w. G. Il. U. will be held on Wood
lawn Camp ground September 5.
Miss Mona E. Dean, of Elkton,
has received the appointment of
teacher of Hickory Grove school,
Sixth district.
Sam'l. Smith, ST., near Farming
ton, lost fine mule few days ago.
The cause of its death was appar-
emily paralysis.
S. T. Hindman, of Colora, will
shortly commence the erection of a
fine residence for Harvey Tome,
near Port Deposit.
During the severe thunder storm
last Thursday night the house of
Slater Tosh at Colora was struck
by lightning and slightly damaged.
Harvey & Blake have sold the
Rock Valley flour mill, at Provi-
dence, to VIM. p. Kite, who has
conducted the mill for a number of
years.
Miss Dell Brown and Clifford
Dunlap of Colora, while returning
from Woodlawn last Thursday
night, were thrown from their
buggy and slightly injured.
A son of John Moore, of Chesa-
peake City, was bitten by q dog
that afterwards showed symptoms
of hydrophobia. The boy was
placed under Pasteur treatment.
A heavily loaded barge bound
from Baltimore to Philadelphia,
through the canal at Chesapeake
City, was sunk in the storm on
Sunday afternoon off Poole's Island.
County Treasurer W. 7. Fryer
will sit at the Maryland House
Aug. % and % to receive taxes.
A five per cent discount will be
given all who pay up during this
month.
The Mormons, who have place
near Baldwin where they hold
meetings, have recently had IL con
vert, and on Sunday two weeks ago
dipped him and took him into the
church of the latter day Saints.
The annual meeting of the Amer
lean Bar Association will be held at
Buffalo on August %, % and 80.
Hon. John S. Writ, of Elkton, is
one of the delegates to the conven-
ton from the Maryland Bar Asso-
citation.
William Tyson, Of Singerly, this
county, who claims to be one of the
heirs of the late James Tyson, the
Australian millionaire who died
leaving a fortune of $l5,OO0,O00,
has filed his claim to a share of
the estate.
Hartford county's oldest inhab-
liant, Mrs. Mile Harris, colored,
died at Darlington last week. She
claimed to be 12l years old, and
leaves 10 children, 81 grandchild-
rem, 221 REORGANIZATION and
IS great great grandchildren.
While on a visit to relatives in
Elkton last week Charles Phillips,
of Reading, Pa, was bitten on the
leg by a mosquito, the effects of
which may prove serious, as blood
poisoning has set in. The young
man is son of Chalkley Phillips,
formerly of Elkton.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Octoraro M. Z. church will hold
festival in the grove by the church
on Saturday evening, Doth inst. If
stormy on that date, the festival
will be held on the following Mon
day evening. The Oakryn band
will be in attendance.
Leonidas Darlington, teller of the
Citizens National Bank of Middle
town, DEL, committed suicide
Saturday moring, by shooting him
self through the head, while at the
bank. An examination of his ac-
counts showed them to be straight.
1t is thought overwork and i'll.
health prompted him tocommit the
deed.
The peach crop in the vicinity of
Bridgeville, Del, was completely
destroyed by the severe weather
last year. 1t is reported that not a
single basket of the fruit has been
shipped from that station this year,
while ordinarily the shipments
amount to thirty car loads. One
orchard of 5000 trees has yielded
but four peaches.
A gang of railroad car thieves
struggled themselves into IA freight
car at the yard in Philadelphia and
whan tho oar raoohad Darn1,N lilo