The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-03

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vania Railroad Company proposes
to extend it's line from Worton
station to Colchester Beach, Kent
county.
Mrs. Jessie Tyson, of Oxford, re-
ceived serious injuries on Saturday
evening in that town, by being
knocked down and trampled upon
by a runaway horse.
Patrolman Elan Green, of
Wilmington, who was shot and
Slightly injured while on duty dur
ing the negro disturbances in that
city last week is a native of Oxford.
1t required a team of sixteen
horses to move the lotion boiler
formerly used in the Susquehanna
paper mill, opposite Conowingo,
from the mill to Havre de Grace
last week.
Mrs. Ina Walker, of Oxford, on
Tuesday was bound over for ap-
pearance in Court under 81 800
bail, on the charge of blackmail
preferred by Mrs. Margaret G.
Strickland of that town.
One of Oxford's business men is
said to have been so excited over
base ball on Friday last, when Ok
ford defeated Chester, that he lock-
ed a customer in his store and went
home to supper without his hat.
An attempt was made by a Polish
woman living near the match fac
tory in Newark, one day last week,
to end her life by swallowing a
quantity of Paris green. A ply
stefan was summoned who succeed
in saving the woman's life.
A single block of marble weigh
ing seven tons, was shipped last
week from the Pennsylvania Mar
bic Quarries, near Avondale, to
West Chester, where it will be
used in the new residence of Larry
Eyre, now in course of erection.
A number of cows belonging to
the Ferris Industrial School, Della
ware, near which George White
was burned at the stake last week,
have since died and it is thought
the deaths were due to poisoning
by negroes out of revenge for the
burning.
John j. Ryan, owner of the FAX
ton Stock Farm, in Cecil county, is
still in the tolls at st. Louis where
an effort is being made to have him
indicted on the charge of grand
larceny for his connection with the
get-rich-quick turf investment
company.
The contract of w. II. Carl &
Co., who were awarded grading and
masonry on the new railroad line
between Atglen and Christiana, has
been revoked on account of slow
progress made. Their contract
called for 100000 cubic yards of
excavation.
Two Oxford coin collectors have
received from the United States
mint at Philada., complete sets of
the new coins issued by this gov
ernment for use in the Philippines.
The coins are silver and copper,
their denominations being peso,
90, 20, 10, 5, 1; centavos.
While at work in saw mill
near Laurel, Del, Ernest Massey
was accidentally killed last week.
He was caught in a heavy belt and
after being whirled clear of the
floor, thrown against rapidly re-
Yolving circular saw and almost cut
in twain. Death ensued in few
minutes and relieved his suffering.
The City Council and the Water
Co. of Havre de Grace, have finally
succeeded in adjusting their diff
ference. By the terms of agree
ment Havre de Grace will get vir-
tually new plant, equipped with
complete liberation system, with
the privilege of acquiring the same
by purchase at the end of twenty
years.
Professor James w. Cain, who
for several years past has been
vice president of st. Johns Col
lege Annapolis, has accepted the
presidency of Washington College,
Chestertown, Md, Prof. Cain has
been a member Of the faculty of
st. Johns College for 16 years, oc-
cupying the chair of political and
social science.
The swindler who last week pre-
sented a forged check in payment
for some goods purchased of an Elk
ton merchant and later attempted
the same game in Havre de Grace,
has been lodged in Bel Air jail to
await trial for forgery. He gave
the name of James M. Titus, but is
supposed to be jerome Markle,
alias W. W. Miller, alias Dutch
Weber, a native of Missouri.
Professor Ralph L. johnson has
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