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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
PENNINGTON.

Miss Eugenia M. Hawke was the guest
of Miss Anna Dunlap last Saturday and
Sunday.
Miss Mae johnson visited friends at
Zion and Elkton the past week.
A. w. Kirk and family, of Rising Sun,
were visitors at Alfred Kinks Sunday.
The fruit trees in this locality show
fine crop of blossoms.
Fine weather. for corn planting, and
the most of it is how in the ground.
Andy Jones was in Baltimore Tuesday.
Ernest Brickley is Baltimore visitor
this week.
Mrs. Mary Keitley is the guest of her
sister, Mrs. Annie Cameron.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Historic House Burned.

Fire on Tuesday morning de-
stroyed the historic mansion house
on the Homestead farm, about a
quarter of a mile from Bel Air,
Hartford county.
The house was built in 1774, the
year of the formation of the county,
by William Smithson, one of the
signers of the Bush declaration OF
March, 1875, and one of the first Of
the lords justices of the county.
Many historic gatherings have
been held in the old house, and il
was noted as the scene of lavish
hospitality. The older inhabitants,
in the light of the recent disaster,
have revived an old tradition, that
should the property ever pass from
the family of the original owner
dire consequences would follow,
and they point to the present occur
renee as confirmation of its truth
The property, consisting of 600
acres, was sold in 1902 to George
w. w. Bradford, prominent can
ner, and was occupied by him at
the time of the fire. Only a few
weeks ago the cottage, close to the
mansion, was destroyed in the same
way. 1t is presumed the fire &C.
Cured through a defective f1ue.
The insurance will fully cover the
loss. The policies, amounting to
$1,000, were divided among four
companies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
DIED..
Mrs. Mary J. Cooling.

Mrs. Mary J. Cooling, widow Of
ex-Sheriff Benoni Cooling, died
Tuesday night at her home in
Charlestown, Cecil county, after
several weeks illness from paraly-
sis, aged rs years. Deceased
leaves the following children
Harry Cooling, a passenger con
ductor on the p, B. & w. railroad;
Benoni Cooling, of Chicago; John
Cooling, of st. Paul, Mimi; Mrs.
Alexander Peoples and Mrs. r. X.
Barnes, of Charlestown.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Hartford County Tax Increased.

The tax rate for the levy of 1904,
for Hartford county, has been plac
ed at 81 on the 500, an increase of
five cents over that of 1908. The
principal causes of the increase are
the repeal of the mortgage tax, the
contemplated improvements on the
road from Churchville to Havre de
Grace and the loss in personal
property. The sum of $1,000 was
levied for the improvement of the
streets of Belair, $4,000 for public
schools and $3S, 800 for the county
roads.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Hurrying Up the Baby.

A correspondent sends us an extract
from a poem which recently appeared
in South African paper, thinking we
shall approve of its sentiments. We
do, we do. The inspired verse is enti-
tied Making Man" and begins:
Hurry the baby as fast as you can,
Hurry him. worry him. make him man;
on with his baby clothes. get him In
pants,
Feed him on brain foods and make him
advance;
Hustle him, soon as he's able to walk.
Into a grammar school, cram him with
talk;
Fill his poor head full of figures and
facts,
Keep on a-jamming them in till 1t cracks.
London Review.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on tho
second Tuesday ofevery month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accou1ts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test: THOS. B. MILLER, Register.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Nearby News Notes.


Game Wardens are empowered
TO make arrests without warrants
uRder the new law.
2 Fruit growers and truckers be-
lieve that the hard winter has kill
ed the potato bugs-but wait and
see.
The sum of S3343 has been col
lected for the fund with which to
erect a monument to the late Presi-
dent Mckinley in Wilmington.
Since the substitution of yellow
and black for red and green as the
colors of the semaphore signals the
railroad men designate the paddles
as smallpox flags"
Mrs. Michael Flaherty was shot
in the arm with small rifle ball,
and slightly wounded while stand
ing in the yard at her home, in
Kenneth, a few evenings ago.
Ten young Spaniards from South
America, are becoming acclimated
at the home of Joseph Phillips,
Jennerville, preparatory to attend
ing school in Chester county in the
fall.
The Commissioners of Lancaster
county have offered a reward Of
$500 Tor the arrest and conviction
of Christian Hartstein, who killed
William Wagner on Sunday,
May 1.
Havre de Grace is well supplied
with places where the ardent is dis
pensed to the thirsty, twelve liquor
licenses having been issued by
County Clerk Forwood for the town
last week.
The resignation of CASHIER Walter
Finney, of the Second National
Bank of Bel Air, is stated to have
been due to his having oyerdrawn
his account to the extent of up
wards of 81 200.
$4,000 worth of West Chester,
Kenneth and Wilmington Electric
Railway first 5 per cent bonds due
1882 were sold at public sale in
Philadelphia last week, for $50 per
bond of denomination of $100.
The Fremont, Chester county,
postoffice, which has been supplied
with mail by closed pouch since
| the establishment of the rural free
delivery service from Nottingham,
has finally been closed. Isaac s.
Kirk has been postmaster of the
Office for 45 years.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Bay
View M. E. church has reOrganized
and the name been changed to that
of PASTORS Guild. The new officers
are: President, Mrs. Lavina A.
Gamble; vice-president, Mrs. j.
W. Abrams; secretary, Mrs. j. F.
Bryan; treasurer, Mrs. R. W. Rose.
David r. Forbes, for number
of years associated with the Quarry
vile Sun as editor and publisher,
has disposed of his interest in the
paper and retired, the firm of
Forbes & Reynolds being dissolved
and the latter named-Howard Rey-
nolds, assuming entire charge of the
business.
Saturday evening two unknown
men were killed near the tower be-
tween Atglen and Christiana by
a passenger train. The younger
appeared to be about 25 years of
age and his left side was crushed
in. The other was apparently 40
years of eye, and his face was bad
ly cut. The men were seen in an
intoxicated condition, walking on
the track, shortly before the acct
dent happened.
nyEn
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
NOTICE

BIT THE ORPHANS Counr FOR CECIL CoUSrY.l
January !. 1904. !
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex.
ecutors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year. come forward and
do the same, or show cause to the contrary,
or they will be cited up.
Test: rHOS. B. MILLER, Register.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Whoopina Couch.

'In the spring of 1901 my children had
whooping cough" says Mrs. D. w.
Caps, of Capps, Ala. 81 used Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy with the most sat.
isfactory results. I think this is the best
remedy 1 have ever seen for whooping
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Mrs. Elizabeth Goodyear.

Mrs. Elizabeth Goodyear, widow
of Luke Goodyear, died sudden
ly Thursday night, 9Th inst, at
the home of her son-in law, VIM.
Walter, at Elkton, from an attack
of acute Indigestion. She was
about 65 years of age. One daugh
ter, Mrs. Walter, and one son,
Joseph Goodyear, survive.
The funeral was held Sunday,
with interment at Cherry Hill M.
E. Cemetery.
James 81. Bull, Dean of the
Chester County Bar, and its Oldest
member, died at his home in West
Chester, on the 9th inst, aged
eighty:six years. Mr.. Bull was
prominent in Republican politics,
and was at one time District At
torney of the county.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13

Trains leave Oxford for Philadelphia at 20
a. m. and Is p. m. Market train leaves
Rowlandville. Tuesdays and Fridays at $50,
Liberty Grove. S.35: Coora. s44; Rising SUM- 1855.
Sylmar, 906: Nottingham. 9.l8; Oxford. 600 a. m.
arriving at West Philadelphia. 2.30 p. m.
Sunday train leaves Oxford at 6.55 arriving I'm
Philadelphia at 9.l2 9. m; and 6.00 arriving In
Phiadelphiaat 7.b9 p. M; weekdays. $40 p. M:
". W. ATTERBURY, J.R. WOOD,
GsaT. Manager. Gen. Pass'r AeasSs
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
WILL MAKE BIG REDUCTIONS IN
Farm Machinery, Wagons, ETC.,
FOR THE NEXT 15 DAYS
w. ]. McDoUGAL.
Notice TO Creditors.

This is to give notice that the subscriber, of
Cecil County. has obtained from the Orphans
Court of said county. letters Testamentary on the
personal estate OF
DAVID C. BROWN,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against the said deceased are hereby warn
ed to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof
duly authenticated,
on or before the 18th day of October. 1904.
they may otherwise by law, be excluded from all
benefits of said estate. ALI indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment to the
subscriber. Given under my hand this 18th day
of March, 1904.
Executrix OF David C. Brown, decd.
Test: 7. B. MILLER, Register. l5a6t
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Lost

rERTIFICATE of Stock of Oxford Agricul-
u tural Society. Finder will confer favor by
returning same to STREET BROWN, Colora, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
Wanted.

WHITE GIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSE
w work in small family. Apply this office.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-13
LEAVE GOING NORTH.

Additional trains leave Broad st. for Oxford 1I.12
a. m. ESQ and 6.l9p p. M; Sunday only. 7.65a.m
701 p. M; and daily, except Monday, l1.43 p. m.
LEAVE GOING NORTH.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
NO CRIME TO STEAL.
Queer Defense Set Up by Chicago
Attorney.

Chicago, Dec. S.-William Begley'
81 years old, appropriated $2,7OO be-
longing to his employers, we'll
known detective agency
In doing so Begley committed no
crime These are the admissions and
defense outlined by the young man 8
attorney, Joseph David, in Judge NC
EwenS court.
The attorney argued that the Of
ficfals at the head of the agency had
shown by their actions that they con-
sidered the money as a loan, and that
they had accepted 500 and a dia-
mond ring as part payment. He also
said the jury could not convict the de-
PENDANT because Begley at the time of
the alleged Enforcement was in the
eyes of the law, an infant, because
he was only 20 years of age, and.
therefore, inca pable, under the law, of
making a contract.
The defendants father, Terrence
Begley was shot and killed by a de-
tective in the big stock yards strike of
1886. The victim was a live stock
dealer and an innocent spectator. His
given position as messenger boy with
the detective agency, which is now
seeking to send him to the peniten-
tiary. The youth was promoted, the
lawyer said, until he became the as
Sistant to the head of the agency in
Chicago, and in his position of trust,
collected thousands of dollars and was
never asked to keep any accounts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
MORE MACADAM ROAD.
County Commissioners Decide to Inn
prove BurIingame Highway.

The county commissioners have de-
cided to macadamize part of the Bur
lingame road, the work to begin soon.
This winter probably a mile or a
mile and a half of macadam will be
laid beginning at the city limits of
Topeka and extending into the coun-
try. The macadam will be laid to
connect as near as possible with the
Buchanan street paving, or some other
paved street The property owners
along the Burlingame road have sig
nified their willingness to contribute
toward the building of the road.
G. J. Devlin, E. w. PoindeXter and
other property owners on the Bur
lingame road petitioned for the
macadam and offered to contribute to-
ward tine expense. The property own
erS on the West Sixth street road con-
tributed toward the cost of the
macadam laid there which is sup
posed to be nearing completion.
The county commissioners have re-
Gently been notified of the discovery
of several extensive gravel beds. One
is in Jefferson county a short distance
across the county line and another is
in Soldier township. There are some
gravel beds of less extent south of To-
peka. The gravel is of an excellent
quality and will make excellent road
building material and the only ques-
ton is that of the cost of transporting
for long distance. Where the gravel
can be used it will be the material
specified for the macadam roads but
where the haul is too long crushed
limestone will be used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
NO PERMIT FOR WALKER
Druggist Didn't Have Enough Names
on His Petition.

In. the probate court this morning
Judge Hayden refused to renew the
druggist permit to sell liquor held by
Fred T. Walker.
The first hearing of the application
for a renewal of the permit was heard
Monday by Judge Hayden. At that
time Walker testified that he filled in
all applications for liquor and made
the applicants sign and swear to the
application. When the hearing of the
application was continued this morn
ing Attorney w. H. Cowles, appearing
for the State Temperance union, pro-
posed to introduce two witnesses who
would testify that Monday, after the
hearing in the probate court, they
went to Walkers drug store and
bought liquor and that Walker did not
fill out the application blank. Walkers
attorney announced to the court that
the evidence to be furnished by the
Temperance union would be admitted
and not contested. The two witnesses
were not examined.
The strongest fight made on Walk
er's application by the Temperance
union was that Walker had not Sc
cured enough signatures of freehoIders
to his petition. He could not show
that he had secured a sufficient num-
Der of names and it was on that point
that the application was refused.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
DIED A HERMIT.
In the Home Family Had Occupied
100 Years.

New York, Dec. S.-George Bower Pier
son, a direct descendant of Abraham Pier
son, the first president of Yale college,
and whose family has owned practically
all the district known as Ramapo for 160
years, is dead in the old homestead of
Ramapo, where he lived almost a hermits
life with his twin brother and their mai
den sister for half century. de was Y
years of age.
In the hundred year old house, sur
rounded by many thousands of acres of
family possessions, Pierson had cut him
self off from the rest of the world, prac-
tically, ever since his graduation from
Yale so years ago. The lands are wide and
there are few other jewellers in the neigh
borhood, and once he settled there he
never left.
His father also lived there until his
death nine years ago. 1t is said there
was no enmity to humanity in the choice
of a secluded life by the son, who has just
died. He drifted into it when aiding his
father in the mana cement of the immense
estate, and when he died he had not been
off the family lands, except on public
roads through it. for many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
Notes and Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs. E. K. Burnham, of
Newark, N. J., win be Christmas guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Merriam.
Miss Jane Adams of Hull House,
Chicago, who arrived in Topeka yester-
day to speak at the meeting of the state
society of Charities and Corrections at
the United Presbyterian church, was
the guest of DR.. and Mrs Norman PIass
while she was in town. She addressed
the Washburn students at chapel this
morning and left this noon for Law
renee where she speaks at the univer-
sity this evening, returning to Chicago
tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank P. MacLennan
are in Atchison today for the reception
being given by Mr.. Edgar Watson Howe
of the Atchison Globe in the new Globe
building. Today is the Globes twenty
seventh birthday anniversary.
Mrs. c. s. Sutton, of Chicago, is the
guest of Mrs. A. K. Wilson for a few
days.
Mrs. Gage arrived from st. Louis yes
terday to visit her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. p. Davis.
Mr.. Willard Hall is in Chicago.
Mr.. Fred Davis left yesterday for Re-
ferred by the Santa Fe railway to a
new position.
Mrs. George L. Miller of Kansas City
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Cole.
Mrs. Dorr Norton returned to Kansas
City Wednesday after a short visit to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Nc
C1intock.
Mrs. Harry Alshouse of Kansas City
is visiting Mrs. Luther Burns.
Mr.. William H. Mackey and his
daughter, Miss Evelyn Mackey, the
latter a Washburn student, Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Martin and Mr.. and
Mrs. N. B. Burge went to Junction City
Wednesday to attend the wedding of
Mr.. Mackey's sister, Miss Angle
Mackey, and Mr.. ]. E. Clemens, which
was celebrated Wednesday evening.
Mrs. John March and daughter Flor
ence of Fairhaven, Washington, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry March
on Buchanan street.
Mrs. Mark Beach of Clinton is the
guest of Mrs. F. r. Sanders.
Mrs. B. F. Akers will go to Usage
City tomorrow morning to spend the
day with Mrs. Frederick Bonebrake.
Mr.. Walter Herrick of Wellington
who has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. ]. Wood returns home tonight.
Mrs. George Perry Grimsley will go
to Brooklyn, Iowa, next week to visit
her parents before leaving for Morgan
town, West Virginia, to make a per-
manent residence.
DE. F. R. Souders is in Burlingame
today.
See Miss Wasson's dainty heads in
water colors and brown ink on sale
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at
Mills
Annual sale of china and water colors
Friday and Saturday. Katherine Lind
sey. 511 Madison street.
Engraved Cards and Wedding invi-
tations, finest productions, newest
styles Adams Bros, 7th and Jackson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
GAMBLING CASE IS UP.
Appears to Hinge on Legality of Slot
Machine Law.

In the district court this morning
the arguments in the Mike Thompson
ct al habeas corpus case were com
menced.
After Mike Thompson, Wood Fowl
err, 81 Hurst and lobe Tobias had
served two months of a four months
sentence for setting up and operating
slot machines contrary to law their at
torney, G.. C. Clemens, brought a
habeas corpus proceeding before
Judge Hazen for their release on the
ground that the slot machine law is
invalid. Judge Hazen granted the
Thompson. Fowler, Tobias and Hurst
were released from the county Jail.
The argument on the writ was set for
hearing during the September term OF
court and was assigned for today.
The contention made by Mr..
Clemens in his argument is that the
slot machine law is invalid as it
amends the Cubbison law without set
ting out in the new law the section of
the old law amended; that the Cub
bison law prohibited the setting up of
all gambling devices and that slot
machines were included in the part of
the Cubbison law specifying "all other
gambling devices after enumerating
certain gambling devices.
County Attorney Hungate's conten-
ton, UNFOLDING the law, is that the
legislation against slot machines
stands by itself and does not amend
but is a special act and that the slot
machine law repeats any part of the
Cubbison law, by implication, which
refers to slot machines.
The defendants in the case are now
operating gambling establishment at
Hot Springs, Ark, and the only one in
was not in the court room when the
argument began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
DIDN'T SEE MRS. BAILEY
Sister of Jessie Morrison Attempted to
Call on Governors Wife.

The friends of Jessie Morrison have
which she had served about two.
No formal application for her pardon
has yet been filed with the governor, but
a few days ago refined appearing wo-
man called at the executive residence to
see Mrs Bailey b Gov Bailey alley was vas Just Just
her at the door. He asked who she was
and she gave her name as Mrs. Hawley,
a sister of Jessie Morrison. She had
come to enlist the sympathies of Mrs.
Bailey to aid in getting pardon from the
governor for her sister. Governor Bailey
refused to let her see Mrs. Bailey, but
said he would listen to her story himself.
Mrs. Hawley made a strong plea for her
guilty of the crime of which she was
convicted, and insists that she did not
had a fair trial she would have been ac
quilted. Mrs. Hawley is very much in
She came to see Mrs. Bailey. She was
very much downcast when Governor Bal
ley would not give her any encourage
ment.
Governor Bailey does not like it when
an attempt is made to work on the sym
pathies of Mrs. Bailey and in that man
ner influence him in securing a pardon.
He says it has been attempted a number
of times, but he does not think it is right,
although those who are asking the pardon
The Jessie Morrison case is one of the
most famous in Kansas history. One
morning in June. 1890 the young bride of
DIN Castle, in Ell Dorado, was killed by
sic Morrison, who had been rival for
the affections of Olin Castle. was present
and sustained some slight cuts. She
claimed that Mrs. Castle had called her
into the house and had attacked her with
the razor, and her action had been in self
defense. Both parties stood high in FL
Dorado and interest in the case spread
far beyond the boundaries of the state.
Miss Morrison was arrested for murder
and on her first trial she was convicted
and sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary. Her attorneys got a reversal
and an order for a new trial from the
preme court, but the second trial was
more disastrous to her than the first and
she was given a sentence of % years. An
other appeal failed and she went to the
penitentiary.
Her friends maintain that she did not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
ROOM FOR THE GRAND JURY.
VIII Probably Work in the District
Clerks Office.

The county commissioners have
been wondering what room in the
court house can be provided for the
the large south room in the clerk of
the district clerks suite is the most
accessible.
The large room is directly between
the district court room and the main
Office of the clerk of the district court
and is directly across the hall from
the county attorneys office, is on the
second floor and at the head of the
stairs. The room is used as an Office
for the clerk of the district court but
could easily be given up for the short
time the grand jury is in session. The
room is large and well lighted and
particularly suited for the grand jury
sessions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
ED ARNOLD BUYS 1T.
Gets Tract of Land Near Washburn
to Plat Into Lots.

Ed c. Arnold of North Topeka has
bought the Az acre tract between
Fifteenth, Seventeenth streets and
Rural Homes addition and the Ed
wards tract.
The property was sold to Mr.. Arnold
by F. NJ. Hubble, the Des Moines mil
lionaire, for $4,000. Mr.. Arnold will
plat the property and place it on the
market as an addition. The tract will
make about 50 lots. The new addi-
ton is between Central park and the
Washburn college campus.
Neglected colds make fat graveyards."
DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup helps men
and women to a happy, vigorous old age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
FOUGHT IN FLAMES.
Man Fights a Burglar Until Clothes of
Both Arc on Fire.

Salt Lake City. Utah, Dec. Stocked in
a life and death struggle, Christopher
Trip and a masked bandit fought in a
burning building at the little town of
Murray, six miles south of here. Neither
man relaxed his grip until their clothing
was affre. Then both crawled through the
dense smoke to the outer air. The high
hold up Christopher and Samuel Tripp in
their brothers store. He fired at Christie
pher when the latter resisted him. In
the struggle that followed the stove was
overturned. The fire consumed the store,
a meat market and a vacant building, the
damage amounting to $4,000. The bandit
escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
Card of Thanks

We desire to thank the neighbors and
friends who by their kindness have
helped to mitigate the sorrow over the
death of our son and brother.
MR.. AND MRS. o. SWANSON AND
FAMILY