The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-03-18
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

f lOl live NOllliIiSSIOlCiS " SCINC III
one year will be held on March FL.
Rev. William F. Venable has been
called to St. Luke's Protestant Episco-
pal Church, Church Hill. and will
accept.
The City Council of Havre de Grace
has in preparation bill providing for
a sewer system and a bond issue OF
$4,000 for city improvements.
gold medal to the student in the Aber-
average for the present scholastic
year.
Alfred Kirk. a farmer. of Upper
Cecil county, was seized with an attack
of hiccoughs few days ago. which
lasted SO hours before it could be
checked.
The James Shaw farm, near Lewis.
town, I73 acres, has been sold to Mr..
w. James Hopkins, of Cordova, TO,
$4,000
Mr.. William w. Moore died at his
home near Colora, Cecil county, aged
81 years. He was member of the
Cecil County Farmers Club. His
surviving children are: Mrs. Mercy
A. Dale, of Rising Sun; Mrs. Georgia
Bonsall, of Philadelphia; William H
Moore; of Norristown; Mrs Laura ]
Maxwell, of Wilkesbarre, Pa; Misses
Ardianna and Emma Moore, and
Charles E. Moore, who reside al
home.
George Keith1ey, young farmer
of the Sixth district of Cecil county, Is
in serious condition at his home from
being struck in the breast with log
of green hickory wood. He was load
ing wagon in the woods of Mrs
Clara |. Turner, near Rising Sun, wher
one of the heavy logs slipped from
his grasp, striking him in the should
r, knocking him down and falling with
its full weight on his chest. causing
internal injuries.
The police boat Frolic, stranded of
Kent Island several weeks ago. has
been foated.
Farm laborers on the Eastern Shore
are demanding from SIG to $50 with
William Anderson, Spencer Walls
and John E. George will operate a
new cannery at Sudlerville the COM
ing season, and have contracted with
farmers to plant 400 acres of tomatoes
Almont Baggs has been named as
carrier for the new rural free-delivery
route in Caroline county, with Green's
boro as distributing Office, which goes
into effect on April I.
While watching beside the deathbed
of his little son, FIRE destroyed large
barn, carriage house and contents on
the farm owned by Charles Bishop, in
Wye Neck.
James Fl. E. Mitchell has resigned
his position as crier of the Circuit
Court of Prince Georges county after
many years OF service.
Miss Bette Straley, proprietress Of
the Valley Hotel, Hagerstown, at
tempted to commit suicide at the hotel
because, it is alleged, one of her
boarders, an engineer on the Nor
folk and Western railroad, with whom
she was said to be infatuated, refused
to speak to her. The engineer return
ed from his run Tuesday. Miss Stra-
ley sought an interview with him, but
it is said, he declined to talk with her.
She took laudanum, the quantity be-
ing too large and she could not re-
tain it.
The 2-year-old child of George
Brooks, of Funkstown, Washington
county, was seized with a coughing
spell at the breakfast table and choked
to death.
Senator Wilson's bill for retired
pay for Judges of the Circuit Courts
in the counties, Court of Appeals and
of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
was favorable reported to the Sen.
ate by the Judiciary Committee and
ordered engrossed for the third read
ing. The bill provides pay of $2,4oc
year for men who have served on
the bench and have reached the age
of 70 years. 1t has the approval Of
members of the bar throughout the
State and is generally regarded as a
meritorious provision for men who
have given their best years to the ser.
vice of the State.
A new voting machine, patented
by Mr.. w. J. Wilkinson, was exhibit
ed in the old Senate Chamber, Anna.
polls. The device has three advant
ages-it is simple, effective and mex
pensive. The face of the machine is
facsimile of the present form of the
ballot, and the voting is done by
dropping white marbles through in
geniously placed holes. Each candi
dates ballots are kept in separate
receptacle and so grouped as to be
easily and quickly counted. No marks
of any kind are made in voting and j,
is impossible to spoil ballot
Governor War6eld approved the
two Wabash bills and they are now
laws. The pen which the Governor
used will be sent to Mr. George Gould
and those used by the two presiding
officers, President Jones and Speaker
Everhart. will be sent to Messrs
Pierce and Landstreet.
The bill appropriating $4,000 yeai
for two years to establish library
for the Medical and Chirurgical
Society of Maryland, for which sever
al hundred physicians from all over
the State have been pleading before
the Ways and Means Cmmittee foi
weeks was killed in the House. The
dill was reported unfavorably by the