The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-07-22
News In Brief

Reese Roberts, colored, of Chester,
Pa, indicted for the murder of Robert
Casey and wife at Claymont, Del, on
August 10, last, who was tried and con-
victed at Wilmington on the charge of
killing Mrs. Casey, was hanged at the
New Castle county workhouse, at 1922
q. m. on last Friday. He was cool and
collected and protested his innocence on
the gallows. He left two letters, one TO
his counsel, J. F. Ball, and the other to
his wife, in which he denied his guilt
The steam ferry-boat Delaware, built
In 1875, at the Harlan & Hollingsworth
yards in Wilmington, and in use ever
since between Camden and Philadel-
phia, has been sold to parties in Kansas
City, Mo. The craft is 1876 feet in length,
20 feet beam and feet, s Inches draft,
with net capacity of 255 tons. She will
be taken by William Foulks, a marine
engineer, down the coast to the Gulf and
mouth of the Mississippi and up that
river and the Missouri to Kansas CitJ,
the Largest cruise for craft of her kind,
on record.
queen Anne's countys new assess
ment shows an increase in the taxable
basis of 100000 The tax rate has been
put at 95 cents, said to be the lowest on
the Eastern Shore.
-"R. T. c." the noted trotting geldng
formerly owned by w. B. Biggs, of Mid
dletown, and bought by Western parties
on Tuesday of last week in the Grand
Circuit races at Indianapolis, won the
2.15 trot from field of contestants in
2121-2 Mr.. Biggs bought the horse for
$3.50 and sold him for, it was reported,
$4,000
Seven of w. j. Beck's horses stanI-
Ing under cherry tree on the Samuel
Vannort farm near Harrisville, Kent
county, were struck by lightning dur
ing the storm of last Friday morning
and six of them were killed. They were
all insured.
The late Judge George M. Sharp, of
Baltimore, whose mother was, before neI
marriage Miss Annie II. Matthews, Of
Hartford county, in his will left $4,000
each to Mrs. Ruth A. Matthews, of OAR
lington, and her daughter. The mother
is to get the income of a $4,000 trust
fund during her life, and after her death
the daughter is to get the income. he
"Doans Ointment cured me of eczema
that had annoyed me long time. The
cure was permanent" Hon. S. w. Mat
thews, Commissioner Labor Statistics,
Augusta Me- *advt
A savage hog attacked the II months
old son of J. p. Chenoweth, of Upper
Cross Roads, Hartford county, one day
last week and bit off much of the child's
foot, which was later amputated at St.
Joseph's Hospital Baltimore. The id
fants condition was reported critical
from shock and loss of blood.
Regulates the bowels, promotes easy,
natural movements, cures constipation
Doan's Regulets. Ask your druggist for
them. Csc a box. "advt
-'Abram Rhoades of Dry Wells, hitch
ed his team in the street in Quarryville,
on the night of July s, and later found
II missing The thief was caught after
an automobile chase and put in the lock-
up in Quarryville, but broke out MONDAY
and disappeared.
Baby won't suffer five minutes with
Group if you apply Dr. Thomas Eclectic
Oil at once. 1t acts like magic. ..*advt
Last Thursday Joseph Wleman, Jr.,
of Havre de Grace, found a bottle on the
river shore, near the b. 4 o. X. r.
bridge, in which was a 80 calibre bullet,
wrapped with a 81 bill, and note stat
Ing that the Bottle was thrown into the
river at Columbia on May II last ny
George Clark, and that the dollar was