The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15

members, has been organ
lied at West Grove.
The Delaware prohibitionists
will hold their State convention in
Wilmington on Tuesday, May II.
The Delaware Game Protective
has received two crates
of Chinese pheasants from Ashby,
Mass, which will be distributed in
the lower section of that State.
The double track system of the
Delaware Railroad between Will
mington and Harrington was put
in service Vast week. Sixty-five
miles of the division is now double
tracked.
A skull was found last week in
the Delaware river below Port Penn
by some fishermen. The skull is
supposed to be that of Noah Benson,
colored murdered at Delaware City
in 1901.
At the municipal election on
May 2 the citizens of Havre de Grace
will vote on the question of the
proposed 500, 900 bond issue for a
sewer system and other city inn
provements.
The schooner Mary Vickers,
which was sunk off Turkey Point
by the ice pack this winter,
has been purchased as she lies by
r. s. Cameron, of Philada. The
vessel is coal laden.
Dram Ressler, aged II years, son
of j. X. Ressler, was caught on a
shaft in his fathers mill at Mascot,
Upper Leacock, Lancaster county,
last week, and received injuries
from which he died in few hours.
The Havre de Grace Republican
says that on Saturday, the End day
of April, Lycurgus Keen hauled
tons of 24-inch solid crystal ice
from along the river shore. Some
thing, at such a date, not usually
seen in generation.
Former Gov. E. E. Jackson and
Mrs. Jackson, of Salisbury will pre-
sent a handsome church building
to the congregation of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
in that town. The edifice will be
built during the summer.
S. j. Seneca, of Havre de Grace,
has been elected a Lay Delegate
from the Baltimore Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
to attend the General Conference
of that Church, which meets at Los
Angeles, California, next month.
Passengers over the Columbia &
Port Deposit railroad are transfer
red by boat across the mouth Of
the Conestoga creek, the bridge at
that point having been washed
away during the recent ice-gorge
and food. A temporary structure
is being hurried to completion.
Joseph Reed, a former resident
of Elkton, was seriously injured
last week while at work in the
automobile works at Ardmore, Pa,
where he has been employed for
some time. In some manner he
was caught in the machinery and
had one foot cut off, an arm broken
and received other injuries.
A war Of determination on
CANNES is being carried on in
Media. Thirty dogs have been
killed in that town this week as a
precaution against hydrophobia.
A rabid dog made its appearance
in the town few days ago and bit
several dogs, hence the killing of
all suspected of.having been bitten.
F. B. Evans. of Elkton, and
Henry E. Kimble, of Appleton, are
the Cecil county boys who will rep.
resent the Athenen Society, of
Delaware College, In the public de-
bate Friday evening, upon the
question of whether the United
States was warranted in recogniz-
ing the independence of the Repub-
lie of Panama.
Nottingham has remarkable
citizen in the person of Mrs. Mary
Matthews, who despite her SS
years and an arm of which she has
but partial use on account of an
imperfectly knitted fracture, is
still able to do needle work. Mrs.
Matthews has knit two pairs of
mittens this winter. Her eyesight
is unimpaired as she does the work
without the aid of glasses.
Senator L. B. Ball, of Delaware,
is being criticised because John X