The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-05-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A new Catholic church is to be built
at Cardiff. ON the York Hartford border.
William 5. Evans, Jr.. has succeeded
III. Winfield Lewis us treasurer of Elkton
The public schools of Cecil county
CLOSED for the summer vacation yester-
day.
The pay of the recent grand jury for
Hartford county for It's slX-day session
amounted to S3GI.35.
There is Il splendid prospect for her
res Grpd other small fruit on the PENN
sula this season.
The City Council of Havre de Grace
has donated 500 toward the purchase
of II site for Lauder Brothers new cam
factory.
Memorial windows, including one TO
the late believed lr'Nt0r Rev. ). Il. Howe
are to be placed in the Presbyterian
Church at st. Georges, Del.
June 14th will be Flag Day. One
hundred and twenty seven years ago the
Stars and Stripes We're adopted as the
emblem of the United States.
1t is said THAT the Pennsylvania rail
road will turn over all slow freight To the
b. n o. in the near future, and handle
through traffic only.
The members Of st. FranclS Aavler
r. c. Church are holding II strawberry
and ice cream festival i'll Prices Grove,
near Warwick.
There was, hail in several points in
fine county hast week. and ut New ChrS-
tie, Del, it showed for II brief interval
on Thursday.
-Mis.. Annie Beatty and Mrs. Mar
garet Breed and Mr.. james Mauldin. of
North East. are attending the st. Louis
Exposition.
The gross receipts of the festival
held at Love Run Public Sohcol in the
Sixth district on Friday evening last,
We're $40.
The Hayre de Grace Water Com
pany have pipes laid on Union avenue
and viii extend the mains from Girard
to Revolution street.
John Haunctt, Of Singerly, night
baggage master on the b. N y. X. H., at
Wilmington, has recovered from typhoid
fever.
The upper section of Cecil county
was visited Thursday night, EhSt week
by a heavy hail storm, stones the size of
gooseberries covering the ground at bay
View.
For going through his farm Clarence
Hope was awarded damages mt West
Chester on Friday to the amount of
SS,35O against the Philadelphia X West
ern Railroad Company.
An iron fence has been erected in
front of the NJ. Il. Church at Cecilton by
its members, and they are ALSO liking the
graveyard around wnlcn a new fence Will
be placed.
Bernard Barker, of Principle, one of
the Tome Institute boys, while playing
ball last week was accidentally struck on
the head with bat. 1t was ut first re-
ported he waes fatally injured but he has
since nearly recovered
WIN. NJ. Pogue, of Rising Sum- lost
a fine driving horse one night recently
The animal was one of ii handsome pair
of bays. 1t hard been driven the day pre-
vious, being takcn sick on the road, and
WAS with difficulty gotten back to the
stable The veterinary diagnosed the
case as aZOtuTia.
Attorney General Bryan has deliver.
ed an opinion to State Tax Commissions
er Schley, in which he says THAT the fran
chise tax on the gross receipts Of railroad
companies is to be paid on all moneys re-
ceived by the companies, from whatever
source including that for carrying mail
A fine Jersey COW belonging to Mr.
r. x. Nannenan got ON the embankment
approach of the F., b. 4 w. railroad OF
Friday morning 70 last week, and was
struck by the engine of the nothbound
Pcrryville freight and INSTANTLY killed al
Havre de Grace. She was carried about
twenty feet by the engine and thrown
down on the wharf below.
Mrs. Matilda +. Hurlock, wife Of MI
John ID. Hurlock, departed this life al
her residence in Middletown, Del, OIL
Sunday, May 10, aged "A years Funeral
services were held at her late home OIL
Wednesday morning, May Is, at 1876
O'Clock: interment being made in Forest
Cemetery Her husband died on Friday
of grief, aged 80 years, and was Inferred
by her side.
-One night last week James Stewart
for some time past employed at garden
work in Havre de Grace, got on this
tracks of the p, b. x w. railroad anC
while on the abutmem spans which cross
Union avenue, was struck by the steam
cylinder Of n passing train AND hurled t.
the ground below. He clawled to the
stoop of one of the citizens where his
grooming attracted their attention, and il
was found that he was severely injured
His head was badly faceratcd, and he
was hurt internally. He Was sent to tn,
Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, for treat
ment.