Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-04
OVER IN maryland.

pointed city counsel OF Easton.
Eugene s. Burroughs has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Clinton.
The new City Council Of Havre de
Grace has elected w. c. Culley president.
Harry Pyle. a prominent business man
Of Calvert, is seriously Ill with paralysis
al his home
The large barn and contents on Mrs.
sara Rote's farm, near Aberdeen, were
destroyed by fire yesterday.
A weasel stole into a coop, containing
80 chickens, on-the farm OF George K.
Ash, near Elkton, and killed 26 OF the
1 young fowls
Grand Army men. escorted by Guards
men, members of fraternal organiza-
tions and school childfen fttingly OBJ
/ served Memorial Day at Easton.
By the dismissal OF the caveat against
the viii of the late Dr. John X. Johns, OF
Talbot county, the bulk OF his estate will
60 10 his brothei-in-law, Robert Ryne-
hart.
Philadelphia parties are looking at
Chestertown for q site for a broom fac
tory, it sufficient inducements are offered
by the town and the farmers of the VI
cinity.
II is estimated that over 200 acres of
tomatoes were planted in Cecil county
growers taking advantage Of the fine
condition due to the ram Sunday and
Monday.
William L. Shorter was instantly killed
Thursday afternoon at his farm, near
Cambridge, by the bursting of a fly
wheel on a tread mill which he was using
TO run a wood saw.
While working at the top Of a ladder,
James Taylor OF Rock Hall, was severely
injured by falling a distance of about 25
feet, dislocating his shoulder blade and
breaking his left ankle
Charles w Crow Of East Neck Island,
was severely injured by being thrown
from a carriage by two runaway horses
that had become frightened at a roll Of
wire setting along the road.
Elkton City Council is considering
plans for opening a new street through
the marsh on the south side of the town,
50 the business section Of the town may
have better fire protection.
By the bursting of a hy-wheel in the
sawmill of Zell c. Boyce, near Centreville
Engineer Elwood Boyce was dangerously
injured by flying fragments. He was
unconscious for several hours.
While plowing in field on the War
rington farm. near Cherry HILL Fri
day, Joseph Rollington was attacked by
a mad dog, which tore of part of his
clothing. The animal was later shot by
John Abel
William Zahr and Joseph Kolbut, who
we're arrested in Wilmington, Del,
charged with kidnapping 9-years-old
Austin Bennett, of Havre de Grace have
been held for action of the Hartford
county grand jury
The West Nottingham Academy will
hold its 167th commencement on june
l4th As the academy is the oldest in
stitution OF preparatory education In
America, great interest is evinced in It's
annual commencements.
Elkton City Council has accepted the
check of the Cherry Hill, Elkton & Chesa'
peake City Railway Co. for $1,000, tc
be held as a forfeit If the trolley line be
tween Elkton and Newark, Del. is not
completed by June lst, 1907.
F. +. Schneider & Co. of Baltimore
who built the Havre de Grace sewers last
summer, have entered suit against that
city for 81 ,276.25, which they claim fol
extras. The sewerage commission claimi
that everything has been settled for.
Z The citizens of Perryville have or.
ganized a local fire department ano
! elected the following officers: President
| Harvey Rutter; Chief, William Bines
5 Assistant, Noah Keesey; Secretary, S. B
2 Cunningham; Treasurer, H. S. Pounds.
The will Of the late Warren R. Grosf
was filed for probate in the Cecil county
= Orphans Court, Tuesday All hi
estate, both real and personal, was de
vised to his widow for life and al he
death is to be divided among his chill
dren.
Charles c. Smith of Stafford has beer
awarded the contract for the erection o
I the new Masonic temple in Havre d.
Y Grace, and operations will be com
2 menced at once. The temple when com
i pleted will be one Of the finest in thi
State.
, Capt Joseph Gilkey of Chesapeake
! | City, while in charge OF a pleasure yach
post, Norfolk, Va. Deceased was A
years Of age and leaves a widow. Hi
body was sent TO his late home in Chesa
: peake City.
r An electric light company has mad
| hDhnldllNM 10 Nllt hlniIk sun lOMl
Z Council for a street franchise A com
, pany, backed by local capital, propose
to harness the waters at Mckinley Nil
and establish a plant similar to tn,
one at Gilpin's Falls.
Four colored men we're drowned il
Chesapeake Bay Thursday night by tn
capsizing Of their batteau, which wa
caught in the storm Those browne,
wer Allen Handy, Harvey Gabbs. Alfre,
Hackett and the name Of the fourth maj
was not learned Their bodies have no
yet been recovered.
Contractor A. c. Bull Of Belair. DESPITE
a crippled leg saved his wife and infon
l child from serious injury when a lighte,
lamp exploded from Mrs Bulls hands
The oil took FIRE which caught her cloth
ing, and by hard work on her husband
part be managed to extinguish thu
flames. Mrs. Bull was painfully burnet
about the body
Governor Edwin Warheld paid hi
first official visit 10 Cecil county Wednes
day, when be delivered the addresses a
the annual commencement exercises a
the North East and Elkton High School
The governor was rendered a banquet il
the evening by State Auditor George r
Ash, At his country home, Holly Hall
near that town.
The commencement exercises Of IN,
Chesapeake City High School were hel,
last Wednesday night The graduating
class, the largest in the schools history
was composed Of Anna P. George Mami
Thornton, Mary +. Allen, Sarah r. Fill
game Louise S. Tatman, Margaret K
johnson, Mary =. Baker. William W
Crbaofor and T.rok p Dk-.I..