The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-02-18
NEWS In BRIEF.


ident of Newark, was badly bruised by
fall on an icy sidewalk one day last
week.
Congressman Mann estimates that a
sea level canal at Panama would cost
$3OO,OOO.OOO and require 20 years for
construction.
Weather Bureau statistics show that
it has showed % times this winter, with
q total fall of 39.1 inches in Baltimore
up to Monday
Miss Jane Bradford, daughter of the
late Governor Augustus w. Bradford,
of Maryland, died at Belair Hartford
county, on Sunday evening
Walter Lewis, q mason employed on
the McManus contract at Quarryville,
had an arm amputated at st. Joseph's
Hospital. Lancaster one day recently,
having been crushed by a falling stone.
Walter Hart, of Maric Forge, was
struck by one of the engines on the
Kerbaugh section of the p. r. RS new
freight line at that place, where he is
employed one day recently. His left leg
was broken in two places.
The supper given by the National
Food Company, in aid of Cooch'Ss Bridge
Chapters ID. a. r.. contribution to the
orders proposed Memorial Hall, in
Washington, held last week. in Newark
Opera House, Melted about $40.
While handling a revolver at Chest
nut Hill school, in East Drumore town.
ship. Lancaster county. Clyde Watson
was shot. The ball passed through the
tieshy part of one of his hands and lodged
in the leg between the thigh and knee.
AT his home in Paradise township,
Lancaster county. Il revolver in the hands
of Harry Lander aged II. was diScharg-
ed. The ball struck his younger brother
and WAS imbedded in his right lung
There is hope that the consequences will
not be serious.
At blue rock target match in Mid
dletown last week J. NJ. Hawkins, of
Baltimore, broke 80 out of 100. +. Pool
!3, DIR. Barnard So Webb so. Wright
u. Jones and Stevens 10 and Davis 81.
The next shoot of the. club will be held
on March 8.
The Robert f. Pattison fund has
reached upwards of $4,000. The fund
will be invested. the income to 90 to
Mrs. Anna b. PIitiSon for life and upon
her death the fund will be shared by
-hlSS iSuN lillH ~ ulll uttl-
soil, Jr.. the lamcnted Governors chill
drrn.
The returns of the potato crop of
last year show its wonderful extent, be-
ing 40.00O.0OO bushels in excess of the
banner crop of 1896. The three years
totals are-1902, 2S4.OO0.OOO bushels
1903, 247,0O0,0OO bushels; 1901. $780,
100000 bushels, twenty bushels for ev-
cry family in the country.
John w. Holman and William f.
Peterson. appointed by the Lancaster
court to applaiSe the property of the In
ternational Cream Separator Company,
have filed their inventory The amount
of the appmisement is $10,067.O1. which
consists of machinery and stock and
partly finished machinery
The Lancaster and Safe Harbor
Street Railway Company's charter has
been received mt the recorders office, at
Lancaster. The line will begin at En-
gle*side and will run over the New Dan
vile pike, via COnestoga Centre. to Safe
HarbOr, ending mt the Pennsylvania rail
road. The road will be nine miles long.
H. S. Williamson offers Il desirable
tract of five acres for the proposed Thad-
Heidelbaugh has introduced bill APP
propriating 100000 for the erection of
the home. The tract offered is located
on the south side of the Marietta pike,
about midway between Wheatland and
the Little Conestoga. near Lancaster.
AT the meeting of the Book Commit
tee of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
in New York, last week. special COM
mittees composed of Hanford Crawford,
st. Louis; Richard Dymond, Cincinnati;
j. \. Patten Chattanooga; Rev. DR.. c.
S. Wing, Brooklyn. and Rev. DR.. A S.
Mowbray. Wilmington. was appointed to
investigate the inclination of advertis-
ers to withdraw from the religious press.
A steamboat that was forced down
the SuSquehannan river from Harrisburg
by the ice last month is now at Red
Lion, York county loaded for shipment
by rail to Harrisburg. This boat. one
of the eleven that were torn from their
moorings. landed at Shenks ferry. IS
two and fOur-horSe sleds were used get
ting the boat to Red Lion. 1t is still in
good condition, and is said to have cost
$4,000.
A fire one night recently on the
farm OF fT1nk AlcpTdllll, OH lnt New
Holland turnpike Lancaster county,
and tenanted by Charles Hambright, de-
stroyed the large barn on the place, to-
gether with 10 steers. two horses. II bull,
So, cral hogs and valuable dog of the
Great Dane variety. All the farming
implements, together with 100 bushels
of corn. As tons of hay and Il lot of
straw and feed, were lost.
The building of the p. X. X. freight
line from Atglcn to Columbia is said to
be one of the biggest pieces of railroad
work ever undertaken. Much of it eX-
tends along the top of the river hills, Il
number of them from 300 to GOO feet
high. and at one point Il ravine fully 300
feet wide must be spanned by steel
trestle. The sides of some of these hills
will be entirely cut away. Near Wash
ington borough the road will be built
ont into the river. nearly 100 feet be
yond the road-bed of the Columbia and
Port Deposit division. and the filling in
work there will require thousands of
carloads of earth and rock. The ker-
baughs have about 5000 men at work,
and when spring opens will have about
5000.