The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-10-12
MINOR LOCALS

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A cable is to be laid across Ches-
apeake Bay connecting Easton with
Baltimore.
Albert Constable, Jr. will address
the Perryville Bryan Club on next
Friday evening, October 10.
Ralph Bingham, the star enter
tainer, will appear in Rising Sun
hall Thursday evening, Oct. Is.
Rowlandville NJ. L. church will
be open next Sunday, 14th inst.
Preaching by the pastor, A. c..
Wiley, at 3 p. M.
DIR. A. III. Smith left at the drug
store of DR.. L. r. Kirk some very
fine specimens of pears of the
Beurre de Anjoe variety.
Charles Lees, who was sentenced
to eight years in the penitentiary
in September, has been granted a
pardon by Governor Smith.
Albert Brown, COL, has been
committed to Elkton Jail to answer
the charge of attempt assault on
Mrs. Alice Gross, colored, of Ches.
apeake City.
The annual reunion of the old
veterans of Shows Battery, held in
Port Deposit last Saturday, was
addressed by Rev. A. s. Mowbray
and other speakers.
Miss Ella Haines' ladies' private
elocution class will give an elocu-
tionary and Delsart entertainment
in Rising Sun hall, Oct.27 and at
North East Nov. 3.
The County Commissioners have
awarded the contract for laying
concrete pavement in front of the
Court House, Elkton, to Harry
Larzalere of that town.
The canning business of the
county has closed. The tomato
crop was short one. The intense
heat and drought destroyed the
blossoms before the fruit set.
VIM. McVey, 16-year old son of
Robert McVey, near Lombard, fell
in threshing machine last Friday
and had both feet so badly LAGER
ated that one had to be amputated.
Brooks hotel, I'll East Fayette
street, Baltimore, was purchased by
the Trustees of Tome Institute last
week at public sale for $14, 100.
The property is subject to ground
rent of $3.50.
The Third Quarterly Conference
will be held at Mt. Pleasant church
Saturday, Oct. Is, at 3 p. m. DR..
Watt, Presiding Elder, will preach
Sunday, 1880 a. M. Love feast
before preaching.
A statement of the finances of
Cecil county for the year shows
the total receipts were $l57 ,255 "a,
and disbursements $142,71l.61.
The net balance in the county
treasury is $14,544.03.
Elmer Biddle, colored, sentenced
to five years in the Maryland Pen
itentiary for unlawfully entering
the house of Sarah Bullock of
Leeds, was committed to that in.
stitution ON Friday last.
In a disturbance among the en-
ployes of Spencer's canning house,
Lapidum, last week, Joseph Ford
was struck on the head by a fellow
workman and so seriously injured
that he was sent to the Delaware
Hospital, Wilmington.
H. R. Dinsmore, matchmaker
jeweler of Baltimore, has located
in Rising Sun and will conduct that
business in connection with Saml.
H. Friedman, who has just received
and placed in his home d large
burglar-proof safe for the protec-
ton of customers yaluables.
DIR. G. G. Sill, formerly of this
town, has been appointed one of
the head veterinarians in DIR. Thos.
W. Spranklin's Md. Veterinary
Hospital of Baltimore, said to be
the largest and best equipped in
situations of the kind in the United
States.
Edward Hoey, a carpenter from
New York who has been employed
on the new Tome Institute build
ings at Port Deposit, was drowned
on Thursday of last week while
swimming in the Susquehanna.
He swan to Roberts Island and
was returning when he became ex-
hausted and sank. His cries for
help attracted the attention of
parties on shore but he sank before
boat could reach him. His body
was recovered.
Population of Delaware.