The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-09-30


The government pension of Allen S.
Elliott. of Colora, has been increased from
Sc to 7l2 per MONTH
: There will be preaching by Rev. j. $.
GinIlan at Jackson Hall tomorrow at p M
All are cordially invited to attend.
A freight wreck occurred on the Della
ware railroad last Friday evening at Bear
Station, delaying travel some time
The schooner Hattie Stark Of Balt-
more, has been purchased hy John Futty, Jr.,
from the Proctor Lumber Company. of Bal
tmore.
One Of Mr. John Armstrong; friends
from Middletown, Del. presented him, few
days ago, with a watermelon Weighing 81
pounds
Thieves broke into the postoflre at
Level, Hartford county, early Wednesday
morning and stole about $50 worth Of post
age stamps, etc.
The Seventh Day Advcnti-ts, who have
| been holding services in a tent near Chcsa
pcako City, have rented Franklin hall in
that town and are holding meetings nightly
-Wistar Ewing, of Academy, Montgomery
county, Pa, has made Il challenge to race
any bicycle rider in E!kton. any distance
from five to twenty miles for prize or for
the championship.
The w. c. T. L. state Convention will
meet in the Opera House ut Havre de Grace
next Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. A
line program has been arranged. Music by
llayro de Grace orchestra.
The lecture which was to have been
given by Rev. }. d. G. Hanna Monday even
ing in Eb"Ie2cr N. L, Church has, owing
to the inc!emency Of the weather, been post
poned until Saturday evening, October II.
Russell Grant of Cherry Hill, who has
been il! with typhoid fever for the last month.
was out for the first time on Tuesday. H
expects to he able to return to Elkton shortly
and resume his position in Il. b. FraHar's
drug store.
Hcrman Lambcr. coored. of Newark.
one lay this week stabbed Andrew Hackptt,
also colored, in the back with pockctknile.
iniiicting Il severe wound. Jealousy over
woman is said to have provoked the attack.
The assailant Immediately left tow and has
not yet Leen arrested.
w. George Anderson. a farmer, had his
two-horse wagon wrecked Monday morning
as he was driving across the railroad crossing
Of the Central Division ut Oxford The
engine struck the back part Of the wagon,
and Mr. Anderson was thrown out but
escaped with Il few bruises.
S. j. Woodrow, of Conowngo, was in
Oxford Saturday and speaking OF the attack
made 10y John Kcsser on Glenn Harris, said
that Harris does not drink and that Kessler
was not drunk at the time of the row. Mr..
Woodrow says, Kesser, who is in hospital
in Baltimore, is il Il fair way to recover
oxford Press.
Chester King and James Reason, both
colored, who were arrested for murdcrously
| assauIting William A. Ahern, the telegraph
operator at CHM block signal station, near
Middletown, last spring. were given trial
on Tuesday and convicted They were SEN
fenced to one year in New Castle Jail and to
pay fine OF $500 each
A motion for new trial in the case of
the State VS.. Joseph Young and Joseph Bush,
who were convicted of murder in the first
and second degrees, respectively, in the Cir
cult Court for Hartford County last Saturday
was overrued by Judge Waters on Wednes-
day. Young was sentenced to be hung and
Bush to five years in the maryland Peniten-
tary. An appeal was taken to the Court OF
Appeals
Deputy Register Of Wills II. d. Bowond
made Il trip to Tiillin, Ohio this week in the
interest of the National Orphans Home OF
the Junior Order United American Mechanics
of which Mr.. Rowland was recently appoint
ed as one of its trustees. He reports the
home to be caring for large number of or
phans of deceased brothers. When every
| thing is completed as planned there will be
| sixty-cight buildings Oh the grounds.
An exciting game Of baseball was played
| at Cecilton on Wednesday between Shippers
| Colts, of Elkton, and the Cecilton team, both
colored. Ham" who did the twirling for
Elkton, proved a puHzlcr for the homo team,
while Price was equally effective. The score
stood tie up to the tenth inning, when the
visitors by superior playing made the winning
run. Score, 3-2 Battery Hammond
and Shippers; Cecilton, Price and Francis.
return game will be played on the Ekton
grounds mex; Friday,
announcement was made on Wednesday
that the Rev l. l.. Wood d. D.. the popular
pastor Of the NJ. L. Church at Mddletown,
had been transferred to the New England
Conference and stationed at Trinity NJ +.
Church, at Norwich, Conn. The Rev. G.. W.
Tazewell, d. D., of Norwich, has been trans
ferred to this conference in exchange for DR..
Wood. and will be stationed at Mddletown.
DR.. Wood, who has been transferred, is one
of the bestkuown ministers in the Whining
ton NJ. L. Conference, and il u former pastor
OF the Ekton NJ. Church
ON the farm of Tyson Reynolds, of Rock
Springs, this county, a discovery has been
| made that the property, containing 200 acres,
is richly mneralzed with iron or steel ore,
the vein of magnetic ore running north and
south. The specimens consist of magnetic
iron, bog iron ore, asbestos and plumbago.
Mr.. Reynolds is Of the opinion that the mag
netic ore is of superior quality, and if
properly handled could easily be converted
TOD i- i,, F,,y.