The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-01-17

struck on the leg by limb and
suffered a fractured ankle.
Charley Anderson, COL, who is
wanted in Elkton for larceny, was
arrested in Philadelphia, on Satur-
day night by Sheriff McAllister.
While cutting wood near Bacon
Hill, on Monday, Edward Shivery
had his hand badly mashed by a
tree which he was chopping falling
upon it.
The American Ice Company is
preparing to fill the large houses
at Perryville and Frenchtown, the
Susquehanna river being covered
with six inch ice
Miss Bertha White, daughter of
ex- Sheriff White of Elkton, sus-
tanned serious injury last week
by fall down flight of stairs, at
her home in that town.
The property of Mis-. Mary
Elizabeth Boulden, deceased, in
Glasgow, consisting of house and
lot, was sold at public sale on
Wednesday, Jan. Sth, to j. Sher-
man Dayett for $1,000.
The following officers have been
elected by the Little Britain Y. p.
S. G.. e. for the next six months:
President, Will Scott; vice presi-
dent, Will Cauffman; secretary,
Margaret Howett; treasurer, John
Scott.
The Elkton Pulp Mills have re-
sumed operations after having been
closed down for several weeks,
during which the plant was refit-
ted with new and improved
machinery for the manufacture of
pulp.
Frank Howard, one of the young
men who Was terribly scalded at
the Middletown, Del, creamery,
last Friday by the breaking of a
cog on a boiler on which he was
working, has since died from his
injuries.
The Riverside Gun Club of
Charlestown gave prize shoot on
Saturday, which was attended by
marksmen from Rising Sun, Oxford,
Principle, Perryville and various
other localities. George Burrie, of
Chase Station, won the fifteen bird
match.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G. Boyce,
of New York, with two children a
maid and a chauffeur, travelling
from New York to the Charleston
Exposition, in an automobile, stop
ped in Elkton Saturday. Thejtrip
from New York to Elkton was made
in about nine days.
Jos. Peterson, of Midtown, Del,
was so badly burned by the explo,
sion of lighted lamp he was carry
ing one evening last week, that he
died short time after the accident
occurred. The deceased was IS
years of age and is survived by a
widow.
The congregation of the West
Grove M. E. church on Sunday
evening, Jan. 5, burned the mort
gage which had been held against
their church for thirteen years.
By strenuous efforts the sum of
$1,000 had been raised and the in.
debtedness cancelled.
Harry Weldon, near Colora,
heard a racket in his hen house one
night this week. He took his gun
and went out to investigate and re,
turned to the house with a l4-lb.
'possum, which served as a New
Years feast for neighboring col
ored family.
The large canning factory located
at Harrington, Del, and operated
by Isaac Robinson, Of Baltimore,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday
morning. About 225 people are
thrown out Of work by the fire.
The loss is about $4,000. Tie fire
is supposed to have been of incen-
diary origin.
Captain Snow Post, G. A. r.,
of Pleasant Grove, has elected the
following officers: P. c., Tyson
Reynolds; S. ", Ii. T. Brown; j.
", o. R. Mulligan; Adj, J. j.
Carter; Q. NJ, j. I. Gregg; Sur
geon, j. D. Gully; Chaplain, j. H..
Kidd; o. D., Theodore Kisiner; O..
G., William Coleman; Q. M. S.,
Frank Leeke; Alternates, j. X.
Rinehart, j. j. Carter.
William A. Larned, of New
York City, has bought the old Paca
mansion, on Prince Georges street,
Annapolis, for $4,000, intending
to convert it into a hotel. The
house is that old Colonial residence
which Winston Churchill describes
in "Richare Carvel" as the home
of Dorothy Manners. The Paca
house was built by Governor Paca,
who was Governor of Maryland in
1872.
George M. Biddle of ElktOn, ae-