The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

sued Al TIE elsrk's ofiice in Eiktou
On Wednesday.
gserree NJ. Milliken. of CeciIton,
has i,cen appointed game warden
Cor the firss diarict.
The annnal meeting u Noting
bam Detecaive Association will be
held Saturday, Dee. ;.
Miss Edith Anderson has been
appointed teacher Of school No. z,
f1Fst district, to succeed Miss g..
q. Anderson. resigned.
Foar stained glass windows in
the Elkton Catholic church were
broken one night recently 10y stones
thFown by some unknown mis-.
creant.
The pulp making capacity Of the
Singerly mill at Elkton has been
increased over $4,000 pounds per
day by the installing Of improved
machinery.
Prof. Carroll Edgar has been en-
gagged as superintendent of the
Cecil County Manual Training
School in Elkton, for two years, at
a salary Of si 800 per year.
A number Of ladies of Chesapeake
City have organized an auxiliary
committee for the purpose Of assist
ing In raising OF funds for the Union
Hospital, 10 be located at Elkton.
Wm. T. Warburtou, Esq, of
Elkton, has accepted an Invitation
to deliver the address at the dedi.
cation of the Jackson Memorial
Hospital, at Salisbury, Nd, which
will take place in the near future.
The case of Robert J. Allen VS.
the p, B. a w. railroad, which
was removed from Cecil county for
trial, was taken up in the Circuit
Court at Centreville last week, and
removed IRON CeEtreville to Talbot
county.
Mrs. Martindale had the misfor
tune to fall down a flight of stairs
at the home of her son Charles
Martindale, in Port Deposit, last
week, and sustained a fracture of
the right arm between the wrist
and elbow.
The operations of the contractors
for the new bridge work at Per-
ryville and Havre de Grace are
assuming large proportions, hun
dreds of men being at work. The
shore and shallow water piers, five
in number, have been completed.
The Press reports that Chas. M.
Greer of the legal branch of Penn
sylvania railroad, and detective
James Frank of the Central Divis-
ion, have been calling upon the
passengers of the i'll fated car that
went down the embankment at
Chadds Ford Junction on Monday
night, 14th inst.
Sheriff Biddle summoned a jury
of condemnation which met in
Perryville on Tuesday for the pur-
pose Of fixing the value on several
properties there, located on the
line Of the proposed new railroad
work, and for which the owners
and the company could not agree
as 10 prices.
An attempt was made late Satur.
day night or early Sunday morn.
ing TO burn the hardware store of
samuel II. King, in Elkton. The
weatherboarding Of the building
had been splashed with oil on the
outside and set fire but merely
burned itself out without catching
the woodwork. No clue as to the
perpetrator Of the deed has been
obtained.
Letters patent have been granted
10 the heirs Of the John Stump es-
tate Tor five small islands ON the
flats, just of Stump's Point, at the
mouth Of Mill creek, that have
been formed by the ice gorges and
foods during the past few years.
The islands contain between five
and six acres and are valuable as
shooting grounds for ducks.
Frank Mercer, James Seney and
Frank CAN'T, the three colored
men arrested at Chesapeake City
last week on the charge Of stealing
blankets from horses hitched along
the streets Of Middletown, Del,
have been committed to the Della.
ware workhouse and will get a
taste Of punishment at the whip
ping post before being released.