The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-07-01

/ The funeral Of John Mote, a we'll known
farmer of the McCleliandville, Del, section,
( was held on Saturday with interment In
Newark NJ. E. Cemetery. He died on the
2lst inst, aged 7G years.
A fair and festival, with games anil other
amusements, is billed by Shawnah Tribe OF
Red Men, of North East, on the Armstrong
mill lot for July and 4.
Romeo Abrahams, aged Is, noted
young swimmer of Port Deposit, last Thurs
day swan across the river to Lapidum and
back, without leaving the water, covering
the distance, two miles, in two hours.
The outlook for canned tomatoes is i'm
! proving. Spots and futures are in demand.
Gamers, it is said, will soon see 70 cent
market.
& The COLCHESTER excursion Of the Textile
Cornet Band. OF Havre Ge Grace, will be
given on July II.
To Snsend Jones, colorej, of Kenpett
Square, reused the anger of a crowd, one
night last week, but escaped after lasbing
his 10 year old son till the blood ran on the
street
A five year CID boy, soa Ct niece of Mr..
Watkins of Baltimore, who is conducting
Sharp3 Mansion at Rock Hall, Kent county,
was drowned there last Thursday while she
was bathing with the child. They got in
deep water, and Mrs Watkins threw the boy
towards shore but he sank. She was rescu, d
hn lv lntn
recovered.
The Children's Day collecioas at Tome
NJ. E. Church, Port Dep osi:, reached SO.
~, A shepherd dog, supposed to he suffering
from incpient rabies, which Its owner, A. A.
Russell, of lower Oxford, had penned up, es-
capped last week and at last accounts was at
large.
The hot fogsy weather Of last week is
reported to have tused wheat of late sowing
to rlst in Har ford county.
Rev. DR.. A. s. Mowbray and bride were re-
called from their honeymoon to his residence
SOB West Fifth street, Wilmington, by the
tidings that his sister, Miss Maud Movbray
who had been nursing his sou, Edwin, IL
an attack Of typhoid fever, had developed
symptoms of the disease.
Mrs. Ell Tucker and son, OF Forest Hill,
Hartford county, were thrown from a buggy
one evening last week, when their horse was
frightened by an automobile and ran away.
Mrs. Tucker was cut about the head, was
otherwise bruised and suffered much from
the shock
"A five horse team cr1w!c the horse al d
buggy of Miss Sophrouil Stokes on IA harrow
road near the Rocks OF Deer Creek Har.ord
county one day .ast week and forced the
light vehicle down the bank. Miss Stokes
and her colored driver, luckily escaped but
her horse was badly cut up.
The iron workers employed by the Penn
sylvania Steel Company, Of Seelton, Pa,
about 5000 in number, are on strike orler
by their Union because of difficulty with the
company which, it is claimed, supplies steel
ben's for bridges made by unskilled labor at
IL so per day. Workers on the new Perry
vllle-Havre de Grace bridge, the Bedloe's
Island, y Y. bridga, on the Wos. Maryland
Railroad and elsewhere on contracts held by
the company were all idle last week. 1t was
thought the trouble would soon be adjusted.
The sl7,5OO awarded by the jury of col
domination for the twenty acre strip Of tie
Lewis farm in HAVE de Grace wanted by the
P. B. & W. r. Il was rendered last week by
T. II Robinson, counsel for the company, 10
Henry w. Archer, Of counsel for the owners
of the property and refused Under an
order Of Court the money was deposited in
the Second National Bank of Belair.
The ladies of St. Patrick's Church,
Havre dc Grace, are holding n fair and
festival this week. They will give grand
ball ir the Casino on the night of Juiy4
T ne horse stolen, one night recently,
| from DR.. T. Nj. Rohrer's stable in Quarry
| vile, was found in s. E. McMchae's stable
at Chambersburg, Pa. He formerly lived In
Drumore, Lancaster county, and was held
for a hearing on the charge OF stealing the
horse.