The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-08-27
News In Brief

MIR. Lewis Z. Pierce, of New Har-
mony, and Miss Elsie Mercer, OF New
ark, Del, were married in Whining
ton. on August "a, by Rev. George l..
Wolfe
Sixty shares of the Queen Anne's
National Bank, OF Centrev:le, were
bought at a recent public sale by var
ious parties, at from $I2S to Sal per
share.
Mrs. ]. c. Loud, Of Chestertown,
broke through the roof of rear
building at her home in which there
was skyiight, while collecting drying
clothes. one day last week, and one
of her legs was more or less cut.
A cow sold recently by Parks Ra-
sin, of Buck Neck, Kent county, to
Charles Mckee, OF Queen Anne's
county, swan several miles down the
Chester river in an effort to reach its
former home, and was found pretty
well tagged out on the Kent shore.
John Satterheld, a well-known and
respected resident OF Rock Hall, Kent
county, died at his home there, last
week aged 81 years.
ne lGlC NtI w. ~. L OtNS, o"iiNi
of amusements at Colchester, be-
queaths all his property to his wife,
and in case she dies intestate, his
grandchildren, Edmund Potts Burke
and Mary Ellen Burke, are TO receive
$1,000 each and his sister, Mrs Anna
X. Burke, is TO take the residue OF the
estate, which is valued at $4,000.
The State Board OF Health has
issued an order directing the burial OF
all dead animals. The practice here
toiore in most sections, to haul car
cases to woods or vacant fields and
leave them to be devoured by dogs
and vultures.
Wilmington and nearby residents
have been stirred during the week by
the discovery OF the murder of Rob-
ert Casey, aged 70 years, Civil War
veteran. and his wife, Ann Casey, 65
years OF age. who we're found killed
in their beds, at their home at Clay
mont, near Wilmington, on last Satur-
day morning They had conducted
grocery store at Claymont Tor nearly
forty years. They had been beaten to
death with club twisted from wild
cherry tree. The murderer or MUIR
derers had, after killing the aged pair,
forced a safe III the store and robbed it
Of the weeks receipts and any other
money ii may have contained. A
bakers driver. finding shutter bow
ed, but no one about, entered the
house and found the couple murdered
i'll Their bed He gave the alarm, and
search for the guilty parties began,
but no clue had been left that might
serve to locate them.
**Accidents will happen, but the
bcst-regulated families keep DR..
Thomas Electric Oil for such emer-
gencies. 1t subdues the pain and heals
the hurts.
Scott Hamaker, Superintendent
Of the pipe mill OF the SuSquehanna
Steel and Iron Company al Columbia,
one day last week, was drawn upon a
belt, the protruding key OF buckle
on which caught the tail Of his coat
lie was whirlcd around a shaft max
ing 1900 revolutions per minute. His
legs, at every turn, struck an iron
trough nearby, and both were ham
mered off piece by piece, up to his
hips. His feet were picked up thirty
feet away. Below was another shaft
which his arms and thighs struck with
each revolution. Every bone in his
body was broken He lived for twenty
minutes after reaching a hospital He
was as years old and leaves a widow
and TWO children.
ttHarsh physics react, weaken the
bowels, cause chronic constipation
'at.
the stomach, cure constipation. 25c.
Ask your druggist for them.
Burglars last Thursday morning
broke INTO the postoffice at Ayondale
and got away with some cash and
several hundred dollars worth OF
stamps The office had been previous
ly robbed ON three different occasions
Two seventy foot derricks fell
among twenty stone cutters employed
by Simms & Co. on the b. 4 O. r. II.
bridge over the Brandywine. last Fri
day morning, when a guy line parted
One OF the men had his right arm
bruised but the others escaped by a
seeming miracle
FF"Sufercd day AM night the tor
ment Of itching piles. Nothing helped
me until | used Doan's Ointment 1t
cured me permanently. Hon. John
r. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala,
Henry J. Gooding, who disappear
ed lour years ago, when 10 years of
age, whom his family had thought
dead, as no trace of him had been
found, walked into the dining room
at his parents home, 100 West Sec
ond street, Wilmington, one day last
week, and asked how all had been
since he left He said that he had
wished to see the world and had fin
ally located in Lancaster, Pa
"a healthy man is a king in his own
right; an unhealthy man is an I'M
happy slave. Burdock Blood Bitters
builds up sound health-kecps you
well.
a horse drawing a carriage in
which Mrs. Arthur Scully, of Ridgely,
Md, and another lady had driven to
Centreville, about a month ago. broke