The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-11

West Grove has a Roosevelt
Rough Rider troop numbering fifty
eight members.
The largest crop of peaches in
Kent county is claimed by Oliver
Miller, of near Colchester, who es'
Inmates it at 900 baskets.
Prof. A. G. Harley, secretary of
the State Board of Education, was
instantly killed at Laurel, Md. on
Thursday evening of last week by
a B. & o. passenger train.
Hiram Lloyd, of Kennett Square,
was relieved of his pocketbook con-
tanning 5000, by some light fingered
stranger who accompanied him to
the circus during its visit to that
town last week.
Minks killed fifteen fine young
chickens belonging to Mrs. Ii. j..
Robinson, of near Oxford, one night
recently. A trap was set the fol-
lowing night and the animal
caught and killed.
The tournament season has open
ed in Hartford county, and the first
one will be held August %, at
Forest Hill, on the farm of Albert
B. Twining. Money prizes will be
offered the knights,
Vice President Fairbanks, Sena
tors Knox and Penrose and other
men prominent in the affairs of the
nation, will be present at the Bi-
Centennial to be held at West
Chester September u.
William F. King, of Philada.,
died in the City Hospital, Balto.,
from a broken neck ON Tuesday.
Mr.. King met with the accident
which caused his death by divingin
shallow water at Betterton on Fri
day last.
Mrs. Ellen V. Vogts and Henry
A. Vogts, her husband, of the First
district, of Hartford county, have
executed q deed of trust, for the
benefit of their creditors, to Walter
w. Preston. Bond has been fixed
at $4,000.
Capt. James A. Russell, the vet
eran stage driver of Chestertown
and Colchester, has made the trip
twice daily between these two
points for the past twepty-seyen
years, and estimates he has travel
led fully 221, 1864 miles.
The residence of Clarence M.
Hosball, near White Hall, Har-
ford county, was struck by light.
ming last week, and considerably
damaged. The dwelling was struck
by a bolt of lightning last year
during storm and badly damaged.
The citizens of Oxford are regis
tering some strenuous kicks against
the gas company which is laying
mains in that town and then not
properly filling in the bitches,
leaving evidence of their unfinished
work upon every street they have
run line of pipe.
Jesse Warren Brown, a merchant
of Magnolia, Hartford county, has
filed a petition in the United
States District Court, asking for the
benefit of the bankruptcy laws.
His liabilities are given as $29,.
376.16, and his assets SIG, ,700.68,
of which sum the amount of $I2,-
5O0.68 is due on open accounts.
A large derrick being erected
last week for the purpose of hoist
ing the iron work of the approach
to the new bridge at Havre de
Grace in place, fell with crash
owing to being improperly guyed.
Several wOrkmen had narrow es-
capes, but fortunately no one was
injured. The derrick was COM
pletely wrecked.
The Press thinks from the num-
ber of dogs running the streets of
Oxford, the town would be first
class location for a bologna factory,
as the supply of this particular
kind of meat would be unfailing.
Should the industry be established
our own little borough could fur
nish it with CANNES enough, which
are running at large in our streets,
to keep it going for an indefinite
period.
The Chief of Police of West
Chester has been notified that VIM.
j. Armstrong, who eloped with the
wife of Postmaster Lear of West
Chester and was arrested at Niagara
Falls, has been released, as the
warrant upon which he was arrest