The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-11
COU MTY NEWS.
Midday, May IL. 1900.
Ml>ORLOCALS
own election next Monday.

ing at the coal pier at Perryville.
The body of an unknown white
man was found last week on the
Chesapeake Bay shore near Bet
terton.
The Liquor License Commits
sioners on Saturday granted q
license to Harvey Clark, of Calvert,
for Cross Keys Hotel.
North East Lodge, I. 0. o. F.,
will celebrate the S1st anniversary
of the founding of the Order on
Thursday evening, 18th inst.
Miss Lizzie Atkinson, of Port De
posit, has been elected associate
treasurer Of the State Council ofthe
Daughters of Liberty of Maryland.
Charles Fronk, an employee of
the Elkton Pulp Mill, was injured
about the head and shoulders by
the falling of a scaffold Monday
afternoon.
The barn and outbuildings on
the Tweed farm, near Newark,
were destroyed by fire last week.
The loss is estimated at $500; in.
surance, $500.
The Sub District Epworth League
Convention, embracing the Chap
tiers of Middletown, Galena, Odessa,
Townsend and Cecil, met in Cecil
ton on Wednesday.
John Whalen, has been appoint
ed postmaster at lakewood, vice
v. H. Watts, resigned and w. l..
Gross postmaster at Pilot, Cecil
county, vice w. P. Haines, Jr.
Chas. M. Baldwin, Justice of the
Peace, of Camden, N. j., has issued
papers granting VIM. M. Ceilings,
of Elkton, mutual separation
from his wife, Della M. Ceilings, of
Camden.
In taking a loaded revolver from
his desk Jas. t. Pritchard, of Alb
erdeen, let it fall to the floor which
discharged the weapon, the bullet
passing through the desk and lodg-
ing in book on top.
While driving his brother to work
on Saturday, Ariie Porter of Cherry
Hill, aged ten years, fell from the
buggy and was badly injured by the
wheel passing over him before the
horse could be stopped.
Geo. w. Ford, former .jeweler
Of this town, committed suicide
about two weeks ago by Jumping
from boat in the Delaware river
at Philadelphia and his body was
found last Wednesday. Drink was
the cause OF the act.
The West Nottingham Academy
nine defeated the Elkton High
School club Saturday afternoon, at
Elkton, by a score of rs to 5.
Jacob Tome Institute and West
Nottingham will play tomorrow
afternoon on the Academy grounds.
Direct telephone connection from
Rising Sun to Elkton was made last
Wednesday. Jos. S. Pogue grant
ed the company permission to cross
his property with the wires and
difficulty occasioned by the removal
of pole last week was overcome.
Esther Anderson, aged eight
years, daughter of Mrs. George An
derson, was accidently killed at
Port Deposit on Saturday. While
playing on the terrace back of her
home she made a misstep and
plunged head foremost to the back
yard, fracturing her skull.
The fish hatchery below Havre
de Grace, has gathered (estimated)
So, 100000 eggs, and the young fish
are being emptied into the Sus-
quehaDna and other streams. The
water has to be renewed in the cans
which contain the young fish every
six hours or the fish will die.
Il. N. Jenkins slipped from a
scaffold last Saturday while paper
ing the hall in the Evans house on
Cherry street, and painfully in
jured himself. In trying to catch
himself he thrust one arm through