Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-23
OVER IN MARYLAND.

was at Antietam battlefield yesterday.
Elktons third hre in as many days
slightly damaged a small house near the
jail
Prospects are bright at Crisfeld for
profitable crab season, which has Just
opened
Greenshoro's new vaterworks have
! been completed and the street mains are
now being land
The Hartford County Fair Grounds, at
! puhhc sale, were purchased by lawson
Cooley ior 81 500
The citizens of Northeast are arranging
| 70 hold a large Fourth OF July celebration
/ I'm that town This year.
Elmer Campbell. A. H. Owens and FL
wood Lindsay have been elected town
commissioners Of Peuyville.
While operating sewing machine, Mrs
nal'e Vain Of Ccntrcville ran the needle
I through finger where it broke Off
Chesapeake City's commissioners will
! light the town with electricity If they can
have it done at a reasonable figure
Thrown from his carriage by his horse
/ running away, William J. b. Loiand of
[ Warwick was run over and painfully in
/ idred.
Tho movement for an electric railway
built between Havre de Grace and Belair
has been revived, with fair prospects of
successes.
The oldest horse in the State is owned
/ by Joseph Guest of Chestertown. The
animal passed its 37th birthday ami
versary last week
The body of Andrew Fisher, the Cecil
county fishermen who was drowned IN
I fNn AffrGftnHurar.. "a nafnf
has been recovered.
While ditching on his farm, near Elk
ton, W. Arthur Mitchell found an Indian
battle axe Of unusual size and In a good
state Of preservation.
Mount e. Kirk, John NJ Sterritt,
Charles 5. Pyle, Henry Efing and Louis
Ryan have been chosen town commits
sioners of Rising Sun
A district Sunday-school convention
will be held at Cecilton, Cecil county, on
Saturday and Sunday, under the direction
OF State Superintendent Mock.
William G. Hand, a former Philadel-
phian, died at his home near Iron Hill OF
typhoid fever, aged Al years. A widow
and two children survive him.
The residence Of the late William NJ
Singerly at Elkton has been purchased
for 50 $50, and il will be used for the
Union Hospital OF Cecil county.
While hoop-net fishing in the Susque-
hanna, near Wild Duck, Monday, Andrew
Fisher, an aged resident of Cecil county
fell overheard and was drowned.
A strange hound, thought to be mad
ran through Mestover a few days ago,
biting several other dogs and a COW and
a calf owned by William p. Todd.
DR. T.. r. Brown OF Philadelphia has
; given Garfield Post, G.. A. r., of Rising
Sun, handsome shield Of arms, composed
of weapons used in the Civil War.
Falling down stairs at the Rising Sun
railroad station, Mrs William Brown ol
the Sixth district sustained injuries which
il is feared will prove fatal on account Of
her advanced age
! At the swearing in Of the mayor ant
Z Council Of Easton Monday night, the
4 officials signed the book with the pen that
was used by Gov. Warfeld in signinl
Easton'a new charter.
The managers Of Leslie Campmeetinl
Association have selected Rev h. II. De
shields of Northeast NJ. f. Church tC
have charge Of the services at the coming
campmeeting in July.
The reassessment of property in Ken
= county has resulted in the discovery o
= | much property that has heretofore escaped
taxation. In one district $4,000 hal
k been added TO the books.
John T. Riley, a pioneer Cecil county
IT citizen, is dead at his home at Rock Spring
o at the age Of 90 years Mrs. Benjamin
!, Garvin, who died early last week, was
y daughter Of the deceased.
A hen which had made a nest in tn
y back Of George Leonard's carriage rod
undisturbed from Trappe to Easton, II
n miles. and roasted upon the seat all th
e evening while Leonard was in a store.
Il The Cecil County High School, at Elk
,r tom has been presented with a valuabl
i set Of books treating of the Philippines b.
~ Chief Clerk A. ID. Wilcox Of the Burea
T. Of lnsular Affairs Of the War Department
T. Judge Austin L.. Crothers took his sea
% upon the bench on Monday for the frs
" time at the opening Of the May term {
the Circuit Court for Talbot county. II
/. received many congratulations on hi
elevation TO the bench
p" Chief Judge James Alfred Pearce {
Chestertown has loaned the Mount Nerno
Ladies' Association a brass hunting hor
h. presented by Gen. Lafayette to Ger
" Washington, and given by him to ID
~ Dick. grandfather Of Judge Pearce.
y The Circuit Court for Talbot Count,
at Easton yesterday. held memoirs
lr services upon the death of Judge Edwi
i- II. Brown The courtroom was file
IS with members Of the Bar Associatio
ID and residents Of Easton and Table
ir county.
,s Murray Vandiver, chairman Of th
= Democratic State Central Committee, ha
- called meeting Of the State Central Con
mittee 10 be held tomorrow, when a dat
will be selected for the convention
n- name Democratic candidates in the 81
10 Congressional districts Of Maryland.
rf Mrs Cornelia H. Cloaver. wife {
Thomas j. Cleaver. superintendent Of III
y Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Co.. die
10 at her homo In Chesapeake City Ihursda,
ne Deceased was a daughter Of the LAT
of Daniel karsnor and sister Of DR.. Willial
of c. karsner Of Cecil county.
m The Deibort & Wilson Textile Mani
featuring Co. of Cecil county was inco
porated on Thursday At Elkton with
capital stock Of $4,000 divided into 50
as shares Of 500 each. The directors al
or W. s. Deibert. Jacob Wilson, Edwaf
he Doibert. Irwin II. Deibert and Elmoi
to Deihert
n The Hartford county authorities wi
,o visit Salisbury jail this week 10 look ov'
the four alleged "yeggmenD who We
rs arrested on suspicion Of blowing ope
e, the safe in the Baltimore, Chesapeake
Atlantic Railway Office on Ihursda
night Il is believed they are the san
gang who have blown open the safes
Hax.re de Grace Aberdeen Van pihh