The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-09-04

John y. Stockley, Smyrna
Del, berry raiser, has picked five
quarts of second-crop Strawberries
from him patch.
The month just closed was the
coolest August of which there is
any record. On only five days die
the mercury get above the so mark
A bald eagle was shot in Lancas
ter county last week by J. Edward
Mann, which measured Z feet {
inches from tip to tip of wings and
weighed Is pounds.
A haul of half a ton of rock fish
was made one night last week by
a couple of Havre de Grace fisher
men. The fish sell for from % tC
30 cents per pound. A good nights
work.
Representatives of the fruit I'M.
porting firm of Samuel Lawder
Son 81 Co., Of Baltic, have been
looking for suitablesite and wharf
front at Havre de Grace, with a
view to locating there.
Ambrose G. Giberson, of Ian.
caster, has brought suit against
DR.. J. W. Kinard, of that city, to
recover $4,000 damages for loss
of the use of a hand, due, he alleges,
to mistreatment by the defendant.
Paul Heine, secretary and treas
urer of the Springer Brewer Com
pany, has purchased Shof's River
side Hotel, at Pequea, Lancaster
county, for $4,000 and will ex-
pend $4,000 in improving the
property.
Ralph w. Emerson, who desert
ed from the U. S. Army in May,
was arrested at the home of his
father at Cochranville last week
and taken to Philadelphia, where
he was turned over to the U. S.
authorities.
The trolley cars for the new line
at Kenneth Square are of the lar
gest and most improved pattern,
and are equipped with baggage
and smoking compartment and
toilet room, besides the regular
passenger compartment.
A new automatic signal lamp
has been adopted by the P, B. &
w. Railroad, which does away with
the burning out of the lamp with
out a great consumption of oil.
The lamp burns for seven days and
nights with but one pint of oil.
A number of Delaware farmers
are shipping their young tur-
keys to New York, where they
command ready sale for hotels at
fancy prices. The farmers prefer
to sell the birds while young rather
than take chances on raising them.
Miss Lourilla L. Engle, of Har,
ford county, and Mr.. Clarkson w.
Rea, of Baltimore, were married at
Ellicott City, by Rev. Thomas
Woods, on May IL, and kept their
marriage secret until last week
when the announcement was made
and the couple went on a belated
wedding trip.
Active operations have begun at
Pine Grove, on the Lancaster side
of the Octoraro, for the new pipe
line. Surveyors are also at work
along the Octoraro near Kinks Mills
and Oak Hill. The L., o. & s..
railroad has contracted for trans
porting to different points along its
road over 100 car loads of material
for the pipe line.
One thousand homing pigeons
were released at Wilmington on
Saturday for flight to the lofts in
New York, Brooklyn, Elizabeth
and other places. The birds are
in training for the long distance
races of 500 and 1000 miles to be
flown this fall, and each week
will be released from points further
distant from home.
Jonathan R. Lukens, overseer of
the dairy at Frankfort Friends
asylum, Chester county, was fatal
ly gored by a bull, one evening last
week. On entering the stable
where the vicious animal was con-
fined, he was pinioned against the
side of a stall and killed almost
instantly. The deceased was SO
years of age.
Because he was refused drink
Irving Walls, shot Joe Venucchi
who conducts questionable resort
at Chatham. The shooting took
place last week, the weapon used
being a shot gun. Venucchi was
badly but not seriously injured
about the shoulders and head.
Walls was arrested and landed in
West Chester Jail.