The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-02-24
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Robbers have been causing the store
keepers and merchants OF Aberdeen, con
siderable anxiety lately. Several business
places have been broken into and all efforts
to capture the thieves have so far been
fruitless
Joseph Thompson, prisoner in New
Castle Jail, escaped the other night by cut
ting hole in the ceiling Of his cell and
gaining the roof. With rope made of
blankets he lowered himself down to the
Jail yard, dragging the rope after him, aud
with it scaled the Jail wall.
The degree staff and other members of
National Lodge, No. 81, Independent Order
helm Lodge, Odd Fellows, at Aberdeen,
on Wednesday evening next, February 2S.
The degree staff will confer two of the
degrees upon several of the candidates.
The young women of Dover and other
down peninsula towns, who have been selling
six petticoats with coupons, have been
greatly ohagrined at the disappearance Of
the agent OF the company from Trenton,
n. j. Several peIGons we're 70 tunate in
securing handsome skirt for the 81 and
ten sales required, but others are mourn
ing the loss of their money.
Grand Master Gibney of the Grand
Lodge, Independent Order Odd Fellows,
OF Maryland, made an official visit to Ma
tonal Lodge, No. 81, l. o. o. F., of Elk
ton, Friday evening, last week. He con-
graduated the lodge here upon their sue
cess and the fine headquarter they had
prepared for themselves, stating that no
lodge in Maryland had better headquarters
not excepting those in the Odd Fellows
Temple in Baltimore.
Mr.. Vandever, who resides near
Newark, has received word from his son,
Earl Nandever, who ran away from home
several weeks ago in company with a boy
named Davis. The two boys after reach
ing Childs station, on the line of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, this county,
parted. Davis returned home, but Van
dever kept going. The father during the
past week got letter from his son, who
was in Florida. From the contents it can
plainly be seen he is willing to come home
and stay. This is another proof that there
is no place like home, and the sooner such
boys learn this fact the better for them
Thomas c. Bond and Harry A. Ncsbitt,
appraisers on the estate of the late Jacob
Tome, of Port Deposit, made their second
inventory OF the real and personal property
to the Orphans Court for Cecil county,
Friday last week, as follows: Real estate,
undivided five-sixths interest in 90 lots in
the town of Berwyn Heights, Prince
Georges county, Md, $1,000; II lots in
town Of Chesapeake City, $500; making
total of $1,000. Additional personal prop
mortgages, judgments, notes, bills of
sale, 800, 470.76. The appraisement to
date is in full as follows: Real estate,
$113, 100; personal property, 81, 556, 1856 As,
making a total of 81 ,669, 56645. Mr..
Tome in his lifetime endowed the Jacob
Tome Institute in Port Deposit, with
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The people of Milton, Del, are in
terested in a story Of the murder OF Jennie
Jones, near Rosser, Alabama, whose partly
burned body was found few days ago.
They think it is the Jennie Jones who
caused excitement and comment there
few years ago. She attempted to kill her.
self in Philadelphia hotel, bat was pre-
vented by policeman. Her story excited
the sympathy Of William Jones, wsalshy
farmer near Milton. He wrote, proposing
marriage, was accepted, and then went to
Philadelphia and married Jennie. He
brought the young woman TO Milton, but
she eventually left Jones and went to Mil
ford, where she joined minstrel show and
disappeared. Jones applied to the Legis-
lature for divorce and got it. Various
stories came to Delaware Of the woman's
wandering and she was last heard from in
the South
The funeral of William S. Walker, one
Of the most prominent citizens Of Chester
town, Kent county, who died last week in
St. Louis while on a visit to his children,
took place in Emmanuel Protestant Epis-
onnal Church. in that town on SUNDAY