The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.


meetings on Saturday, Aug. 26.
The postoffice at Aldino, Hartford
county, has been discontinued and
mail for that point is now sent to
Aberdeen.
The Delaware Interurban Rail
way Company is seeking a franchise
for the laying of trolley tracks in
/ the streets of Newark.
Walter M. Smith, of Havre de
Grace, has been appointed an agent
of the society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals for Hartford Co.
E. II. Beck, of Washington, D..
c., a former Delawarean, is max
ing an effort to start a national
Bank at Clayton, capitalized at
$25, 900.
The Kent and Queen Anne
County Fair will be held at Tol,
chester next week, beginning on
Tuesday and continuing till Friday,
inclusive.
James Grace, who has charge of
the McClenahan Granite Co. sta
bles, at Port Deposit, was very
seriously injured by horse falling
on him Monday.
A shark nine feet in length was
caught in the pound net of VIM.
Rutter, at the mouth of Elk river,
one night recently. The big fish
had killed itself trying to get out
OF the net.
A catch of 1852 pounds of fine
rock fish was made one day this
week, in North East river, by Capt.
John R. Marr and family, of Will
mington, who are summering at
Charlestown.
The small frame building used as
an Office at the livery stable of
Fred Strickland, at Providence,
4 was destroyed by fire on Saturday
evening last, caused by the explo-
sion Of lamp.
A verdict of $50 has been award
ed w. G. McNatt, of Sassafras, in
his suit against Kent county, grow
ing out of the death of a horse,
which was hurt by falling through
a bridge at Colts.
Charles Bowling, pitcher of the
Bel Air base hall club, was knock
ed from the footboard of a trolley
car by passing wagon in Balti-
more last week and sustained
fracture of one of the bones of his
shoulder.
P. Fendall Young, of Philada.,
has sold the Sheffield farm contain
ing 454 acres, in the First district
of Cecil, to Capt. Andrew Woodall
of Georgetown for $4,000. This
makes 33 farms owned by Capt:
Woodall in Cecil and Kent counties.
The convention of the District
Sunday School Association of White
Clay Greek hundred will be held
Thursday, September 7th, afternoon
and evening, in the M. E. Church,
Christiana Village, Rev. j. M.
Ceilings, pastor.
H. G. Osmond, of Havre de
Grace, had his left hand badly hurt
last week by an engine of one of
his motor boats. Several small
bones in the back of his righthand
were fractured, and the member
otherwise badly cut.
The wagon of Jackson Timms, of
Kennett Square, was run into by a
train at the Toughkennamon cross
ing, on the Baltimore Central Rail.
road, Tuesday morning. Both
horses were killed, and while Mr..
Timms and his son had a mirac-
ulous escape, they suffered only a
few bruises.
The time limit for making the
appeal of John NJ. Shippers, under
sentence of death for the murder of
the late Albert Constable, will ex-
pire on September L. The question
of appeal is said to hinge on the
expense, no provision for this i'm
portant item to his counsel having
been made.
At the breaking up of the en-
campment of the Maryland Nation
al Guard, at Bel Air, about 5000
loaves of bread and 500 pounds of
beef were left which was divided
between the Salvation Army of
Baltimore and the branch of the
Fresh Air Society located at Bel
! Air.