The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31

fractured cOllarbCne.
Augustus Rebel, harvest hand
of Mt. JOY, Lancaster county, died
from heart prostration on Saturday,
Deceased was 5S years of age.
The festival held at Oak Hill
Saturday, for the benefit of the
base ball club, netted 500, which
will be devoted to the purchase OF
suits.
Octoraro M. E. church has been
presented with a silver communion
service by Rev. Cornelius Hudson
and the members of Phoenixville
church.
Edwin Kay, engineer at the
Havre de Grace textile work was
severely scalded about the breast
and arms last week by the bursting
of a steam pipe.
The regular annual meeting of
Pomona Grange, No. 3, of Chester
and Delaware counties will be held
Aug. LIST. instead of Aug. 10th, at
Lincoln University.
William George Tucker, who for
two months past has been in Elk
ton jail, charged with intent to kill
Curtis Cosden of the First district,
was released on bail last week.
Representatives of Philadelphia
textile mills have been in confer
ence with Elkton Board of Trade
concerning the selection of a site in
the town for the erection of a plant.
The amount of the subscriptions
received up to the present time
by the Executive Committee of the
Board of Managers of the proposed
Union Hospital of Cecil county, is
$413.
Two hundred bags of mail mat
ter were burned in the fire that fol-
lowed the railroad wreck at Della
ware junction last week. The
mail was for postoffices down the
Peninsula.
Wakefield store was entered
Saturday night by burglars who
cut the glass out of the door and
then unlocked it. Several pairs of
shoes, penknives, clothing and
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A mass meeting of the Good
Templar lodges in Chester and
Delaware counties will be held at
Pomeroy early in August. T. X,
Stubs, of Minnehaha lodge, is
chairman of the committee of ar
rangements.
The body of the man found
floating in the Chesapeake q Della
ware Canal on the 10th inst, has
been identified as that of Conrad
Dorm, of Baltimore, who probably
fell from an Ericsson line boat and
was drowned.
L. Baker Kimble, formerly of
Chrome, was one of the mail
agents on the Norfolk Express,
which was wrecked at Delaware
Junction, near Wilmington, on the
morning of July %. Five persons
We're injured, among them Mr..
Kimble.
While hauling railroad ties at
Safe Harbor, Lancaster county, on
Saturday, Eugene Peoples, colored,
was thrown from his wagon and
killed. In going down hill the
horses became unmanageable and
ran away. Peoples fell beneath
the heavily loaded wagon and was
crushed to death.
The apportionment by the State
Comptroller of the appropriation of
Sl50,000 for the purchase of text
books for the public schools
in the several counties and the
city of Baltimore, as required
by the Act of 1902, has been
made, Cecil county receiving
3,570.59. The sum is payable
August LIST.
William p. Constable, son of AL
bert Constable, of Elkton who was
recently appointed by the School
Commissioners to the position of
assistant at the Cecil County High
School, to succeed John Il. Porter,
resigned, has declined the appoint
ment. John Evans Mackall, son of
w. II. Mackall, has been appoint
ed to the position.
During the progress of a game of
crap between number of colored
men at Elkton on Sunday morning
a quarrel arose between Howard
Wilson and Allie Frances. Wilson
drew revolver and fired. The
ball struck Frances in the arm and,
glancing off, penetrated his side.
The injury may prove fatal. Will,
son made his escape.
John Minnich, of Unicorn: VIM.
Morrison, Paramount, and y. c..
Pyle, of Fulton House, have been
elected trustees of the new concern,
which will be known as the Como
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