The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-10-26
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. 20. 1900.
MI*OR LOCALS

There is an alarming outbreak O
typhoid fever in Elkton.
The new p, w. s. b. railroad
station at Perryville has beer
completed.
Friday, November 2, the duck.
ing season will open on the Susque
hanna Flats.
Next Wednesday night is Hal
low'een, fayorite night for ghosts
to travel around.
Enoch Harris, colored, of Elkton
has been granted a government
pension of $S per month.
There are 6,948 registered voters
in Cecil. The gain is small being
only 43 votes over last year.
Rev. w. Il. Greenfield will
preach at Mt. Pleasant next Sun.
day at 1890 a.. IN. and 1880 p. IN,
Mrs. Margaret M. Mcdowell has
sold her house and lot near Colora
to Rev. j. Earle Maloy, of Rowland
vile, for $3.50.
Rev. A. B. Wiley Of Mt. Pleas
ant NJ. E. church and w. Il. Green
field, of Elk Neck, viii exchange
pulpits on Sunday next.
Jos. T. Richards, Jr., has been
appointed assistant operator al
Swarthmorc station and entered
upon his new duties today.
Arthur Hatch, an engineer OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
severely scalded Wednesday after
noon by the bursting ola lubricator
on his engine.
The section men on the railroad
received their share of the ,McKin-
ley prosperity (?) last week when
their pay was reduced from $1.20
to $I.0S per day.
Owing to the demand for more
lights the Havre de Grace electric
light company has installed new
100-horse power engine and an
additional dynamo.
Five carloads of machinery have
been shipped from the old rolling
mills at Rowlandville to be replac-
ed with machinery for the manu-
facture of street sweepers.
J. S. Chapman, matchmaker and
jeweler, announces that he is still
doing business at the old stand,
next to the post office, reports to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
Taxadermist George Sellers is
mounting a large bald eagle which
was shot by Fri Hooker of Mt.
Jordan Pottery, Pa. The bird
measures z #. Z in. from tip to tip.
A Democratic meeting is sched-
uled for Port Deposit next Tuesday
night which will be addressed by
Hon. J. Fred @. Talbot, S. S. Field
and Col. James r. Brewer Of
Baltimore.
The West Nottingham academy
foot ball team played the Elkton
team at Elkton last Saturday and
was defeated by a score of 5 to O.
The same teams will play another
game at Elkton tomorrow.
Fl. FL. Reynolds & Co. will hold
their sixth public sale of cattle on
Monday, Oct. 20. This shipment
of cattle has been tested by a vet
Urinary and may be shipped into
Penna. without fear of violating
the law.
The body of an unknown white
man, apparently about 40 years o.
age, was found along the tracks O
the p, w. & B. railroad neal
Charlestown, Sunday morning. i
is supposed he was struck by {
passing train.
A palace car, under the direction
of Manton Stanley Webb, the wa
correspondent, will be at Elktor
Saturday from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m
1t will be filled with products o
the Philippine Islands, illustrating
the character and customs of tn,
Filipinos.
AT meeting of the directors o
the Kenmore Pulp and Paper Co.
held on Tuesday, James Masters
superintendent of the Elkton plant
was promoted to the position o
general superintendent of all tn
mills controlled by the Company
Frank McChesney was made super
intendent of the Elkton plant.
The Prohibition special train, Il
which John G.. Woolley and com
pany are making a tour of tn
country, stopped at Elkton for hal
an hour last Friday and the part,
was driven to the court hous
square where the candidate ad
dressed the company which ha'
gathered to hear the speeches.
A number of Cecil countians hav
passed the Civil Service tests 70
positions in the customhouse. Th
examinations were taken last sprin