The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-02-06

been closed owing to the prevalence
of smallpox.
The National Bank of Newark,
Del, has declared a semi annual
dividend of 5 per cent.
Baker & Arthur, operators of the
Elkton cannery, will pack both
corn and tomatoes the coming
season.
The Chatham, Chester county,
Abbatoirs have turned out over
10000 lbs. of pork since the first OF
December.
The dates selected for the fall
fair Of the Hartford County Agricul-
tural Society are October 10, IA,
10 and Is.
The small dwelling of Jacob
Ellis, colored, in Havre de Grace,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
The loss was $500.
Horses in the neighborhood of
Cecilton are affected with an I'M
known disease which has proven
fatal to a large number.
An epidemic of diphtheria is pre-
vailing among the colored people
of Galena, Kent county, forty cases
of the disease being reported.
The small property of the late
Lindley King, containing Is acres
of land lying near Oakryn, has
been purchased by Andrew Charles
for $46S.
George A. McFetridge, of Ches-
ter county, has been granted a
divorce from his wife Helen
McFetridge, by the Circuit Court
of that county.
A new national bank to be known
as the Farmers National Bank is
to be established at The Rocks,
Hartford county, with a capital
stock of $4,000.
The large dwelling and store
house owned and occupied by Geo.
L. Crisfeld at Locust Grove, Kent
county, was destroyed by fire one
night last week; origin unknown.
William Schertz, a Kent county,
Del, farmer has recently lost from
hydrophobia a horse, two cows.
four sheep and a dog. The dog
was first attacked and bit the other
animals.
Elmer Watson, fireman on the
tug Roman, of Chesapeake City,
had his hand so badly injured on
Monday, by being caught in the
machinery, as to necessitate the
amputation of several fingers.
The trustees of the New Castle,
Del, work house have awarded the
contract for the proposed new
workshop and the rebuilding of the
wing recently damaged by fire, to
William J. Brown, at $12,739.
The will of Mrs. Eliza A. Brum-
field, late of Principle Furnace,
bequeaths her real and personal
property to Mr.. and Mrs. George
7. Hines, her friends. DIR. George
M. Stump is named as executor.
Harlie Shaffer, the young son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Shaffer, Of
Elkton, fell down a flight of stairs
at his home, in that town one
morning last week, and cut his
head so badly that it required five
switches to sew up the wound.
While in Baltimore few days
since Robert G. Gambrill, of Havre
de Grace, was relieved of a hand.
some gold watch by pickpocket.
The timepiece was a Christmas
gift to Mr.. Gambrill by the en-
ployees of the Textile Works in
Havre de Grace.
State Comptroller Joshua w.
Hering's annual report shows that
the amount received from all
sources during the fiscal year end
ing September 80, 1902, was
So, 631 ,25O,4S, which, with former
balances, bring the total up to
81, 1903, 1926. The total disburse-
ment were %, 416,376.71, leaving a
balance in the treasury of
81, 1877 ,265.6S.
Mrs. Ellen Pincon, a colored wo-
man of Havre de Grace, died at
her home in that place last week
at the remarkable age of LOG years.
She retained her faculties until
within a short time of her death.
Her first child was born in 1913,
she remembering we'll the date
because it was that year the British
burned Havre de Grace.
The horse OF Amos Bowers be
came frightened at an engine
at Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, one
day last week, and ran away. The
animal followed the road along the
river bank to point where it makes
an abrupt turn around a large rock,
when it plunged into the water,
wagon and all, and after swimming
!, some time was swept down by the