The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-01-29

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George Ernestburger, a boy em
ployed by Luther G.. Gross, of
Jarrettsville, Hartford county, frac
tured his right arm while handling
an unruly horse.
Iron fire escapes have been
| placed on the outside of the Oxford
Hall Building. This is the first
building in the town to be equipped
with the escapes.
Swambnry Mills, one of the land
marks of Southern Hartford county,
was destroyed by fire, together with
contents, on the night of Jan. Ia,
entailing a loss of $4,000.
Caught under some falling steel
rails, Vito Augusta, a Pennsyl
vania Railroad track hand, 'sus
tanned a broken leg, while the
other was badly crushed Tuesday,
at Pencader, near Elkton.
At preliminary meeting of the
stockholders of The Jas. F. Powers
Foundry Company, the proposition
to add steel casting plant to the
present works at Elkton was practi
cally agreed upon, and q meeting
to take final action called for Feb. B.
The frame building at Ayondale,
Pa, occupied by John Fahey as a
blacksmithshop, was burned early
Tuesday morning. with contents,
including all of Mr.. Fahey's tools,
which were completely ruined.
The loss on the building was about
$40O.
Hopewell NJ. E. Church, Wood
lawn, Rev. j. Howard Gray pas.
tor. Sabbath service, January 81 !:
Sunday School at 10; preaching at
IL a. M. and 8 p. m. Morning SUBJ
ject, "Little Foxes that Spoil the
vines;" evening subject, "Stephen
and,~> Saul" Epworth League at
7:5O. Preaching at Asbury at 8
p. m.
An effort will be made to have
the State OF Pennsylvania purchase
the house at Fulton House, in
Lancaster county, in which Robert
Fulton was born. It is at present
occupied by Joseph Swift and has
been in the possession of the Swift
family since 1772. It was built in
1867 with brick brought from
England.
Sheriff Hager sold last week the
P. A. M. Rovitti properties at the
Court House door in Elkton, to
Antonio Santagada, as follow -
So acre farm in Third district, 5000;
subject to claims and costs amount.
ing to $743.83; house and lot on
East High street, Elkton, 1900,
subject to claims and costs amount
ing to $817 10.
The Standard Lime s Stone Co.,
which has leased quarry rights on
the farm OF w. F. Cook, along the
Susquehanna river, about one mile
north of Havre de Grace, il pre-
pairing to build a long wharf or
driveway from the quarries across
the canal bank to deep water in the
river, where barges will be loaded
with crushed stone, as two large
crushers with capacity of 800 or
400 tons a day are to be erected.
1t developed that the men arrest
ed by the Baltimore police at Bay
View last week on the charge of
robbing Aberdeen rostoffice, were
two young men of Havre de Grace
of good character whowere on their
way to Sparrow's Point in search
of work, and being short of funds
boarded a freight train. They
were in no way implicated in the
robbery, and their arrest, without
the slightest bit of evidence, was
an outrage.
William Robinson, aged about
55 years, of S17 Callowhill street,
Philadelphia, was struck and in.
stantly killed by a north bound
express on the Philadelphia, Balti.
more and Washington railroad,
two miles south of Elkton, Wednes-
day afternoon. Robinson was
walking on the track at the time of
the accident.
An unknown white man, about
30 years of age, was killed by a
Pennsylvania Railroad train near
Iron Hill Saturday evening while
walking on the track.
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