The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-09-05

Nancy j. Bradley, of Liberty
Grove, has been granted govern
ment pension of S. per month.
Miss Helen Larzalere has tender
ed her resignation as principal of
st. Augustine public school to the
trustees.
A catch of eighty-two rock fish
is reported by two boats one day
last week in Susquehanna above
Port Deposit.
John G. Constable, of Elkton,
has attached himself to a Govern
ment survey crops and will be
assigned to duty in the West.
On Monday, October 9Th, the
slab to mark the grave of General
Philip Reed, the hero of Caulk's
Field, in Kent county, will be un-
yelled.
A colored man living with Will
liam III. DuShane, near Earleville,
borrowed a team from him on
Saturday last, and neither horse or
man have been seen or heard of
since.
The boiler at the B. F. Thomas
cannery, at North East, blew out
several tubes last week, necessitat-
ing the shut down of the cannery
for several days. No one was in
jured by the explosion.
Edw. Pierce, residing on the
Henry Haines farm, near town,
this week exhibited a Late Rose
potato which weighed 299 ozs.
He reports having raised 80 bushels
from small garden patch on which
he had used two bushels of seed.
Representatives of the mine op-
orators have been in Lancaster and
Chester counties gathering togeth-
er the mules used in the mines,
and shipping them from Christiana
and Coatesville. The animals have
been pasturing on numerous farms
during the strike.
1t was learned after James
Chambers, the colored boy sen
fenced by Squire Taylor last week,
had been sent to Jessups Cut, that
the offence for which he had been
committed required his indictment
by the Grand Jury. He will be
returned to Elkton to appear be.
fore Court this month.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad was merg-
ed with the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad, at a special meeting of the
stockholders held at Wilmington.
The new railroad company will be
known as the Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington Railroad,
with an authorized capital of
$25, $780, $50.
Mrs. Maggie Cousins, an aged
resident of Elkton, fell and fractur-
ed her hip and right arm on We'd
nesday at her home in that town.
The unfortunate woman had just
recovered from similar accident
received by fall from the second
story widow of her home last spring.
On account of her age, she being
about 20 years old, it is feared her
injuries may prove fatal.
George Lodge, ESQ.,, of Clay
mont, Del, while cunning on the
marshes near New Castle for reed
birds on Friday morning, last met
with painful accident. He was
sitting in the stern of a cunning
skiff, when the push pole in some
manner slipped, striking his fowl
ing piece on the trigger and caus-
ing the weapon to explode. The
shot entered Mr.. Lodges right
elbow, causing an ugly wound:
Suit has been filed at Whining
ton against the P, w & B. rail
road company, by the executors of
Joseph Blatz for his death, the
amount of damages asked being
100000. The amount is based
upon an estimate of the earning
capacity of Blatz, who was manager
of the plant of F. Blumenthal &
Co., morocco manufacturers, and
received salary of $4,000 a year,
and a percentage on the work
turned out.
The Havre de Grace City Council
is having troubles of its. own. The
company having the contract to
supply the town with water has
failed to give satisfaction, which
has led to complications with the
city fathers and the organization
of new company, and suit
has been entered in the Hartford
County Circuit Court by the Elec-
trio Light Company of the town
against the Mayor and City
Council, for arrearages due for
street lighting since the first of last
November.