The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-02-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Diphthe ria is prevalent among colored
residents OF War wick.
George Templeman is very i'll at the
home of his parents. at Pivot Bridge, suffer-
ing from appendicitis.
Rev. W. A. Coale has organized Sun
day school for children and adults which
meets IN the Chapel at CeciIton.
james Henderson, aged 50, recently
committed suicide at the Hartford County
Aim. house by eating paris green.
Walter Faux Il Co., of the Eighth dis.
trct, have contracted to cut 1000 cords of
wood for Mr. Heidelbaugh with their port
able saw mill
Stephen c. Ragan. of the Eighth district,
has rs laying hens that average four dozen
eggs dai y. At prevailing prices they realize
tidy sum daily.
Rev DR.. Fl. W. Bolton, of Chicago. will
lecture again In North East next Friday
evening on "Our Boys" Admission, 25
cents children. Is cents.
The farm of Joseph T. Richards, Of
Philadelphia, containing 1S1 acres, located
on the o toraro, In the Eighth District. mas
been sold to Joseph T. Bunting for $4,000.
The County Commissioners of Baltimore
county last week granted permit to Rev.
james Warden, aged OF, IA MINISTER of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, to a home at
the County Almshouse.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McVey. of Cast Not
tipgham township, Chester county, cele
brated their sxtieth wedding anniversary
one day recently. The bride and groom of
sixty years are hale and active at the ages of
80 and 81 respectively.
F ishing with an AK i. the latest at Dun
cannon, Pa. The Ice thrown upon the
banks of the swollen Susquehanna near there
Is so full Of the iinny tribe that one man with
AK and phosphate sack was able to chop out
100 pounds of fish In a few hours.
While Mrs. Charles Kennedy, of Thorn
dale. Chester county, Was brushing the CELL
ing with broom she struck lamp, knock
ing 1t on the cook stove. The oil was thrown
over the stove and Mrs. Kennedy, catching
fire Immediately. Mrs. Kennedy was burned
80 badly that she died.
-Slaymaker's mill, about mile north
west OF Gap, Lancaster county, was de-
stroyed by fire one night last week. The
mill was the property OF DIR. J. M. Stay
maker, and with the contents was valued at
about $4,000. 1t was built by John Anderson
between the years 1891 and 1900, nd was
operated later by Franklin Houston
One night recently the hotel owned by
II. C Demuth and run by William Sweigart
at Fites Eddy, on the Susquehanna, took
fire, probably because of defective nue
For several years Mr.. Swegart has con-
Quoted the place, which has long been
known as Sweigart's, having been opened by
Mr. Sweigarts grandfather. There was an
Insurance of 50 600, but this will not cover
the loss, which was total. The place was a
famous resort for anglers.
The ice in the Susquehanna at Havre de
Grace remains intact and is packed to the
bottom OF the river. The engineers who
have been working in the river with their
drills tested its thickness and found it to he
forty two feet, and the assertion that the
river is frozen to the bottom seems to be
literally true. 1t can readily he seen that to
dislodge this mass of gorged ice. which
extends from the river across the ''nats" II
will take ycritabe food Of waters.