The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-15
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, June 10. 1900.
MINORLOCALS

The ConowlngoeS are petltiOnlns
the railroad company for better raj
accommodations for their village.
Erastus Rutter was overcome by
heat while at work in Perryville OF
Friday last, and taken to his HON,
in a critical condition.
Supervisors are finishing W
the roads, and as usual plenty O.
dust in dry weather and mud il
wet weather are insured.
The Emanuel Lamm farm, con
tanning fifty acres, near West Not
tingham, was sold last week tt
John Cavanaugh for $1,000.
Five doctors and three lawyers
helped to made up the guests who
enjoyed Rev. Mr.. Eckles' alumni
supper at the Maryland House.
At the sale of H. II. Reynolds &
Co. last Monday, COWS brought from
$26 to $40, shoats from So to So. &c
and brood sows from $40 to $I3. so
The strange bird which was cap.
tured near town and shipped to the
Philadelphia Zoo by A. B. Keen
last week proved to be a young sea
gull.
At the festival held by the Aid
S,ciety of the Rowlandville M. E.
church on Friday and Saturday
evenings of last week about $50
was realized.
Lightning struck the office of the
Eureka Fertilizer Co., near Perry.
vile, on Monday night but with
the exception of running the office
clock little damage was done.
Mrs. Hannah j. r. Creswell, OF
Elkton, widow of ex-Postmaster
General John A. j. Creswell, has
presented handsome flag to the
John A. j. Creswell Post of that
town.
During last fridays storm light
ming struck atenant house on e. M
Hunts farm, the barn ON John
Terrv's place and two trees at
Sam1. Haines'. No serious damage
was done.
A barn which was being repaired
on the Laird farm, near Rising Sun,
belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Brin-
ton, was blown down during the
heavy storm which passed over this
section last Friday.
The Elkton Town Council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting
the keeping of pigs within the town
limits, excepting on bona fide farm
property. The ordinance goes into
effect on January ], 1901.
VIM. P. Reynolds, station agent
at Townsend, Del, had his right
foot so badly crushed last week as
to necessitate amputation. He was
standing on one track watching IA
train approach when a train from
the opposite direction struck him.
DIR. Henry Arthur Mitchell, son
of Mrs. Mary Lewis Mitchell and
the late Arthur Mitchell, of Elkton,
who graduated from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania last week, has
been appointed resident physician
at the Children's Hospital, Philada.
Miss Margaret McCauley, sister
of Mrs. F. T. Whitney, of Elkton,
missed her footing and fell while
boarding a trolley car in New York
city recently. She was dragged
some distance before the car could
be stopped and was badly cut and
bruised.
Rock Presbyterian Church, in
the Fourth district, is to be re-
modelled this summer. The ceiling
is to be spaced with brackets, the
panels being faced with sheet steel;
side walls plastered over wire lath;
recess placed back of pulpit and
building fitted for heating with hot
air.
Horace NJ. Dayckinck of this
town was a graduate of the Chel-
tenham Military Academy at
Ogontz, Pa, this week. He deliv-
cred the class prophecy and grad
uated with rank of captain. Mr..
Duyckinck was also awarded the
gold medal in the oratorical contest
which preceded the graduation
exercises.
During the electrical storm Fri
day afternoon large barn on the
farm of Capt. VIM. J. Wilson, in
Elk Neck, was struck by lightning
and set on fire, but was saved from
destruction by a few buckets oil
water. A colored farm hand who
was in the barn at the time was
knocked down and stunned but
not seriously hurt.
An alteration occurred between
Ed. Jackson and James Johnston al
the -go-round last Saturday
night and the parties were brought
before Squire Taylor, who held a
midnight session of court. The
Squire imposed a fine of 81. 90 and
costs, amounting to 1926 each,
which both parties succeeded in