The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-01

the road on Friday.
Fire burned over fully 500 acres
of woodland last week, extending
along the Rock Springs Pleasant
Grove road.
The Bayside Cornet Band of
/ Havre de Grace, will hold bazar
and festival from June 81 to July
4, inclusive.
A COW belonging to Matthew
Scarborough, of Blake. had its leg
broken by being kicked by horse,
and had to be killed.
Convicted in the Kent County
Court of violating the Local Option
law, Walter Dent was fined $500,
and Belle Dent $1OO and costs.
The purses for the races to be
held at Oxford during the Spring
Fair, on June 3, and 5, have been
announced, there being five events.
The two handredth anniversary
of the foundation of Old Drawers
Presbyterian church, near Odessa,
Del, will>be celebrated on June 7
Rev. Evaret P. Borden, Of REQ
Grande, n. j., graduate of
Temple College, has accepteda call
to the pastorate of Oxford Baptist
church.
A landslide occurred Sunday on
the low grade railroad, near
Quarryville, which blocked traffic
over the road and required the ser
vices of a steam shovel to clear up.
William Wilson, colored, was
killed by the accidental discharge
of gun in the hands of Walter
Ginn,, a white lad of II, on Sunday.
The accident happened near st.
Georges, Del.
The breaking of caster on a
sideboard in the home of Or. and
Mrs. Charles r. Biles, of Elkton,.
caused a number of pieces of valu-
able cut glass to be thrown to the
floor and broken.
Charged with shooting Lawrence
McGipnis. Baltimore s. Ohio
Railroad bridge workman, in the
left arm, on a street at HaYre de
Grace, William Wickes, colored,
has been placed in Bel Air Jail.
One of the walls enclosing the
boiler room at the Textile Works
IN Havre de Grace fell in, one morn
ing last week. necessitating the
shutting down of the plant for sew
eral days until the damage could
be repaired.
Sparks from the traction engine
of w. I. Anderson, near Lombard,
set fire to the roof of his wagon
house recently, threatening the de-
struction OF his farm buildings.
The flames were extinguished after
a hole had been burned in the loof.
Mount Olivet Sunday School,
near Lombard, reorganized Sunday
for the ensuing year, with the fol.
lowing officers E. j. Hayes,
superintendent; G.. +. Wright,
assistant; Miss Carrie Hayes. secre-
tary; Miss Maud Twyford, organist.
The old McHenry paper mill on
the property of Thomas Gilling
ham, in East Nottingham, Pa, is
being dismantled. Some of the
lumber is as sound as the day it
was put in place by the builders,
Notwithstanding the lapse of years.
John Moore, of Havre de Grace,
fell while at work painting house
in Wilmington, on Saturday, land
ing on an iron picket fence twenty
feet below. His hip was pierced
by a picket, and terribly lacerated,
and while the injury is serious it is
not thought to be fatal.
The chicken thief whom Edward
johnson, Of White Rock, caught
last week and refused to divulge
his name, has finally been lodged
in Jail, the Kirkwood Detective
Association insisting upon having
the culprit's name, who proved to
be Henry Hoffman of that section.
The engine of the Lancaster,
Oxford q Southern Railroad ran off
the track at the turn table in Peach
Bottom Friday morning and delay.
ed the trains arrival in Oxford too
late for the market train, the pro-
duce from Lancaster county being
taken into Philadelphia on the
naonIor raaaon0ar train