The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-07-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

will hold matinee races at their track
Wednesday, July 81.
The receipts of the Belair postofice for
the past fiscal year aggregated $I3, 23I.6o.
an increase of $I2oo. 81 over the previous
year.
Falling from load of hay and catch
ing his foot in the rigging H. L. Stubbs
Of East Nottingham, suffered a broken
ankle.
Lightning struck tree on the farm of
Lawrence Shoemaker, near Little Britain,
during Sunday evenings storm and killed
three cows standing under it.
A threshing machine belonging to John
Singer, Of Kent county. was strnck by
lightning. causing FIRE that destroyed
the machine and two ricks Of straw.
Notwithstanding the large crop of
chestnuts last year. there is every indica-
rion that there will be big crop this year
also, as the trees were loaded with blooms.
The new public school building at OK
ford is 10 be provided with wooden
stairway built on the outside. to provide
means Of egress from the second floor in
case Of fire.
John Denniger, 65 years DID, deaf
mute residing near Wilmer. was struck
and killed Sunday by fast train at the
Pennsylvania Railroed crossing in Wit
mer, Lancaster county.
As James Lysle Of New London, was
moving his threshing machine along the
public road, the bridge over the creek
near Kinks creamery broke down, thow-
ing the entire outfit into the steam.
State Chemist Charles Penny was.
seriously burned on Saturday about the
hands and arms when an overturned
bottle of ether was ignited by a spirit
lamp in his laboratory at Delaware
College. Newark.
The Mccalls Ferry Power Company has
bought all the properties in Safe Harbor
along the creek front but H. NJ Stauffer'sl
Local and lumber yards and Daniel
Winners mill. Some have ralized good
prices for their homes.
The trotting mare Esther W., bred and
trained at Clare Point Stock Farm,
Ephrata, Lancaster county, and sold last
year for $500. on Wednesday of last
week won the $4,000 Paper Mill stake
at Kalamazoo. Mich, and made record
Of 2:o7K.
The automobile belonging to U. S.
Senator John Walter Smith. of Maryland,
ran into the safety gates at the railroad
crossing near Newark one evening this
week and was wrecked. The driver who
was the only occupantof the machine, was
badly injured.
Crossing the railroad tracks. in an
automobile between Christiana, Del, and
Newark, Philip T. Trimble. a salesman
of Christiana, was struck by train and
seriously injured. The automobile was
wrecked and Mr.. Trimble's escape from
death was remarkable.
| The prize for the automobile run of the
Chester County Association from Coates
vile to Oxford was awarded Frank Howe,
the slowest car in the race; even he was
So minutes ahead of the secret time which
had been set as the proper time in which
the run should be made.
William Zimmers. of Fairfield. driver
of the Lancaster and Peach Bottom stage,
shot an eagle near Peach Bottom Wednes-
day. which measured seven feet three
inches from tip to tip. 1t was jet black
all over the. body and wings. Mr..
Zimmers will have the bird mounted.
The work of installing the new electric
automatic signals between Darlington and
Wilmington, and between Baltimore and
Washington on the Maryland Division of
the Pennsylvania railroad is nearly COM
pleted and within the next few days the
railroad expects to have the signals in
service.
Sir Thomas Upton, the trotter sold last
winter by Herman R. Tyson. of Newark,
to Cincinnati syndicate for $500 will
be campaigned by Mr.. Tyson this season
The horse has been entered 10 stake races
laggregating $1,000 The trotter's official
record is 2:I5A. but be has made mile
in 2:Io4. unofficial.
A white man tramp named Jimmie
Starr was killed one morning last week
at Bel Air. Starr was walking along the
railroad track above Bel Air. and after
lliberately threw himself in front Of the en-
gine. Before the train could be stopped
he was run over, his head completely sew
! cred from the body. his legs broken and