Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-01-17
MARYLAND NEWS NOTES.

Hotel Wilmer at Betterton, which was
burned I'd the ground several weeks
ago, will be rebuilt in the spring.
The sun1en scow in the chesapeake
q Delaware Canal at Chesaneake City
has been hoated and traffic resumed.
The PAGER Netty Osmond, with
record of ZIG, has been purchased by
Edward W. Taylor of Elkton for $3.50.
a trolley line is being projected from
Chestertown to Colchester, the leading
Maryland pleasure resort along the
chesapeake Bay.
The Rev. Benjamin f. Price of Elk
ton, the oldest member of the Whining.
ton Methodist Episcopal Conference, is
confined to his home with the grip.
The County Commissioners for Cecil
county have appointed DarId h. Bar.
rett constable of the Seventh district,
with headquarters at Port Deposit. ),
4 Up to Saturday night Clerk OF the
Kent County Court James 4. Dixon
bad Issued GIG oyster longing licenses.
The total number issued last year was
75T.
Cambridge is fast becoming an oyster
shipping centre on the Chesapeake Bay.
1t Is estimated the number Of bushels
that will be shipped from there this
season will reach 700, 900.
James Il. Gale, the Kent county
farmer who won the gold medal at
Paris for Indian corn, Ia receiving
offers of 50 per bushel for all he has,
which is about so bushels.
ssJames r. Price has retained Albert
Constable Of Elkton, as attorney In q
$40, 900 suit instituted In Caroline
county against the Baltimore, Chesa-
peake & Atlantic Railway Co.
Thomas C. Ward, an aged citizen
who resides at Charlotte Hall, Md. i,
claims to have celebrated his 10Sth
birthday the past week. He claims to
have been born 10 January, 1888
1t ia now estimated that the creditors
of Isaac Robinson & Co. who owned
numerous canneries on theit Eastern
shore of Maryland and Delaware, will
receive about 60 cents on theFdollar
Cards have been issued for the we'd
ding of Miss Ella Whitworth OF Elkton
to Samuel O. Coursey, q prominent
young newspaper man Of Centreyille,
in Elkton, on Wednesday, January 23d.
Tie Western Union Telegraph 90.
will soon have rival on the Peninsula.
1t will be the New York, Philadelphia
& Norfolk Telegraph Go. On the lower
part OF the Peninsula poles have already
been erected,
1t is understood that the Farmers and
| Merchants Steamboat Co. of Kent
county, which recently decided to quit
business and sell their boats and other
property, viii be rsorganized and the
business again resumed in early spring.
The grip in Cecil county has claimed
as victims within three days two mem
bers of ono family mother and son.
| On Friday last Albert Holt died net.r
Providence, and before he was buried
bis mother, Mrs. Ann Holt, died.
Charles johnson, colored, will be
banged In Anne Arundel county to-
morrow for the murder OF Hester Lomax,
oolored. Since Johnson's confinement
in prison, and especially since his con.
yiction. he has fast become physica
wreck.
Nelson w. SCOTT OF Lancaster, Pa,
who has Eeen confined in the ElktoT
jail for over week, charged witt
arson, has been released under SO, OOC
bail, 10 await the action OF the grant
| Jury ofthe March term OF the Circuit
Court at ElKton. str
| The scholars Of Public School No. 10
in the Sixth district of Cecil county
and the scholars Of the Cecil Count,
High School, at Elkton, have raised
fund for school library, and th
school commissioners have ordered tn
treasurer OF the board TO donate lik
amount for that purpose.
/ This suit Of sister vs.. brother-M Mrs
Augusta Walter of Kenneth Squar
against Joserh r. Brown OF Ceci
county = which has been on trial in tn
i Circuit Court for Cecil county, for tn
possession Of o farm which they bot
claimed, was decided Saturday night
when the Jury in the Case brought In
verdict for MIRA Walter. "a