The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-16

others interested are preparing to
erect fibre plant at Newark.
Stephen j. Seneca, of Havre de
Grace, has been granted trade
mark for canned vegetables and
fruits.
The receipts of the fair re-
Gently held in Newark for the
benefit of the Aetna Fire Company
were over $500.
Seven shares of the stock of the
National Bank of Newark were
sold at public sale last week for
$11O.25 per share.
7. F. Williams, of Port Deposit,
has been elected a director of
.Hopewell Cemetery Association,
vice Fl. A. Nesbitt, deceased.
Charles W. Cole, of Bel Air, has
executed a deed of trust for the
benefit of his creditors to Harry
S. Carver, who has bonded for 5000.
The old fashion Springfield rifles
used at present by the cadets
at Delaware College, are to be re-
| placed by the Government with the
regulation army rifle.
Eight cows, two horses and one
calf perished in a fire which des-
troyed the barn on the farm of
Samuel E. Hannum, near Tough.
kenamon, on Friday last.
The members of Porters Grove
M. p. church last Sunday elected
the following board of trustees: NJ.
S. McNamee, K. M. Riley, A. T.
Reynolds, Ezra Reynolds and w.
II. Atkinson.
AT it's first annual meeting, held
on the 9TH of March, the Forest
Hill Permanent Building Associa-
tion of Hartford County declared an
annual dividend of S per cent on its
installment stock.
Samuel Carter, leading merchant
of Christiana, Pa, has disposed of
his large stock of goods, estimated
to be worth $25, 1000, to Mr.. Steeley
of Doylestown, at private terms.
and will retire from business.
A defective flue caused a fire
which destroyed the dwelling,
together with contents, of Frank
Pennington, near Madonna, Har
ford county, early one morning last
week, entailing loss of 81 500.
The Supreme Court has rendered
a decision non suiting the case of
Miss Letitia Murdaugh VS.. the
Borough of Oxford for $4,000 dam
ages for injuries, the result of an
accident which befell her about two
years ago.
During the electric storm which
passed over this section, a few days
ago, lightning killed two cows and
a hog in the stable of @, B. Wright,
near Norrisville, Hartford county,
but strange to say, did no damage
to the building.
Andrew Douglas, of Oxford, was
struck and seriously injured
Saturday morning by a L., 0. &.
s. train. He did not hear the ap-
proach of the train and stepped
directly in its way, being struck
and hurled a distance of thirty
feet, miraculously escaping death.
Deazzie Prictelja, an Italian
laborer in the employ of the II. S.
Kerbaugh Company, contractors on
the Pennsylvania Railroad i'm.
provements, was killed near Safe
Harbor last week. He was work
ing about steam shovel and fell
beneath the wheels of dinky
engine, his skull being crushed.
In the Hartford county Court last
week VIM. Ruff, colored, of Bel
Air, charged with violating the local
option law, confessed guilt and was
paroled for one year. In the state
ment to the court he implicated
Charles Johnson, colored, who was
lodged in Jail to await trial on the
charge of selling liquor in viola
tion of the same law.
Michael Welch, of Oxford, was
arrested on Monday, charged with
the theft of sixty pounds of copper
wire from the American Telephone
& Telegraph Co., and committed to
Jail. The wire had been cut in
small pieces with a hatchet and
sold to John Mooney, junk dealer,
for a dollar. Mooney was also COM
mitted for buying junk Of a minor.