The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED,

June s, 9 and 10.
AS result of a buoy near Poole's
island getting out of position last
week three vessels ran aground.
Fred Cooling, a Chesapeake City
lad, broke his right arm last week,
while in the act of throwing ball.
The streams in the neighborhood
of Oxford have been stocked with
brook trout from the State
Hatchery at Cory, Pa.
The Lombard postoffice was
closed on Tuesday, residents of that
vicinity now being supplied by
rural free delivery carriers.
Clarence Foreacker, of near Elk
ton, was seriously injured about
the face a few days since, by the
premature explosion of a gun.
The total hatch of shad fry this
season at the Battery fish Matching
station below Havre de Grace, was
between 10000, 900 and $4,000, 900.
The annual Convention of the
Diocese of Easton will meet in
Princess Anne, on Tuesday, June
u, the Rt. Rev. VIM. F. Adams,
presiding.
Davis & Vinsinger have had q
substantial concrete dam built at
their mill, near Elkton, to replace
the one washed away during the
spring freshet.
Delaware Willis, of Newark,
brother of Victor Willis of the
Boston National League team, has
been signed by the Nashville,
Tenn, base ball club.
Miss Libbie M. Hayes, of Cowan-
town, a veteran public school
teacher of Cecil County, has been
granted a teachers pension under
the recent act of the Legislature.
The sum Of $50 was realized by
the supper given for the Stricken
vile Detective Association on
Saturday afternoon and evening by
the ladies of Kembleville church.
Lehigh University has offered to
the best student in the graduating
class of the Jacob Tome Institute a
scholarship covering four years in
the classical or Latin scientific
course.
The annual excursion by the
Kings Daughters, from Baltimore
to the Silver Cross Home at Port
Deposit, was held on Saturday, the
steamer Emma Giles carrying the
excursionists.
Robert Gambrill last week pnr.
chased of the Havre de Grace I'M
provement Company, the ten two
story brick dwellings in Havre de
Grace, opposite the textile works
owned by him.
The State Board of Education
last week granted fifty-one addi-
tional pensions to superannuated
teachers. The board has granted a
total of 101 pensions, to meet
which $25, 700 is available.
The Oxford, Cochranville &
Parksburg Electric Railway Co.
has been chartered with the follow
ing incorporators: Thomas E.
O'Connell, G. V. Mills, Robert p.
Campbell, George Reichner, Asaph
Stackhouse.
Lydie Saggers, daughter of John
Saggers, of Chesapeake City, was
attacked and severely bitten on
Saturday by a dog, while in the
yard at her home. The vicious
animal is not thought to have been
suffering from rabies, but it was
promptly killed.
Randall W. Rose, of Bay View,
has a five-footed colt. On the an
imal's right foreleg are twoseparate
and distinct hoofs, which, however,
turn backward and are useless as
feet. When using this leg, the
colt rests on its knuckle joint
which is turned under.
In the Circuit Court of Hartford
county last week, the suit of .Har-
vey 81. Bowden against the Mayor
and City Council of Havre de Grace
was terminated by the jury bring
ing ina verdict of one cent damages
without costs for Bowden. The
suit was for alleged damages for
the loss of time, etc., claimed by
the plaintiff when the city had him
isolated for fear of contagion from
smallpox.