The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-03-10

sportsmen have secured fifty dozen
quail from Kansas for restocking
purposes.
The year 1905 began on Sunday
and will end on Sunday, having 53
Sundays. This will not occur
again in 110 years.
W. s. Oracle, of Lewisville, is
reported to have sold his trotting
mare "Minnie Albert" for 81 1000,
to New Jersey parties.
The stockholders of Havre de
Grace Water Company have decided
to increase the capital stock of the
Company from $4,000 to $4,000.
The $l4, 900 5 per cent 20. 40 year
Port Deposit water plant bonds
have been awarded to the Second
National Bank of Charleston, at
103.25.
r. J. Warner has purchased al
administrators sale, for $425, the
blacksmith and wheelwright shop
at 81. Augustine, together with an
acre and a half of ground.
The coal supply of Chesapeake
City is exhausted and parties are
compelled to haul it from Elkton,
as the canal is closed by ice, pre-
venting shipment to the town by
water.
Frank Singles, of Strickersville.
has in his stable awaiting an owner
a gray horse which wandered to his
place recently. The horse had the
appearance of having been driven
hard.
The State Board of Education
has recommended that the county
school boards furnish to every
school copies of the State and Ma
tional songs, printed on cardboard
and hung up in the school room.
The faculty and pupils of Havrt
de Grace High. School have sue
ceeded in raising S4l6.55 by various
means toward fund to be used ir
defrayipg the cost of an addition tt
the building.
| Reports from the various game
wardens throughout the State show
that this winter has been the mos
severe on the game of this State foI
thirty years or more, it being esti
mated that fully 80 per cent of the
birds have perished.
| Jas. d. Scott, aged % yeare, sor
of the late Simeon Scott, of Elkton
was killed at Coatesville, Pa, or
Wednesday of last week. He was
employed by the Reading Railroad
Company as freight brakeman
and in some manner fell from a cal
beneath the wheels, which passed
over his body, causing death
almost instantly.
Rev. L. E. Poole, of Pocomoke
City M. E. church, who was former,
ly stationed at Charlestown and
Chesapeake City in this county
was last week presented with q
purse containing 5000 and granted
a months vacation. In addition
to this the official board voted tC
increase the Rev. Mr.. Poole's salary
S1 OO for uayt wear
A Baltimore piano firm last week
purchased mahogany log which
came from the east coast of Africa
The log measured seven feet and
six inches across the butt and will
cut 40, 900 feet of one sixteenth OF
an inch thick veneering. 1t was
one of the largest pieces of mahog
any ever placed upon the market
and brought $11, 200.
Leonard F. Sitzler, formerly Of
Havre de Grace, but now of Bal
timore, has entered suit, through
his attorney, j. Kemp Bartlett,
against the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road Company, in the superior
Court of Baltimore, for $4,000
damages for alleged false arrest on
the charge of stealing one copper
hammer and a lot of brass.
An explosion occurred at the Cen.
trail Division round house at Oxford
Wednesday night of last week, thai
nearly cost John Davis his life.
The gasoline engine which operates
the pump at the round honse, fail,
ed to work and Davis was investi.
eating with lighted lantern at the
gasoline pit, when escaping gas
caused an explosion which blew
him from the pit and burned him
lseverely but not seriously.