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CECIL iliWHIGVOL. LXII.—NO. 20. WHOLE NO. 3,175! ELKTON, MD., SATURDAY. JANUARY 10, 1903.

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TEN PAGES.

RIVAL COMPANIES.CASH OFFERED FOR TROLLEY FRAN- '

CHISE IN ELKTON.

Newark, Elkton and Eastern Shore Com- ]pany and Kent and Cecil Company iRepresented by Counsel at the Meeting \

of Town Council Wednesday Night.

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Thv Newark, Kykton ami Eastern jShore Electric Railway Company has lx•- ,come a dangerous rival to the (Veil,

Kent Light. Power amt Kail way Coin- ipany for a franchise for the use of the ,streets of Elkton. Several mouths agothe latter company was grafted the de- tsired franchise upon eomlition that a ,bond of guarantee for $2,000 ).¦ posted (with the Elkton Town Council that theroad would he built hy a certain time tOctober Ist, 1999. The company was jalso given to tin* middle of last mouth ,to place the bond of guarantee, which tit has failed to do. ,

At the meeting of tin* Elkton TownCouncil on Wednesday evening, repre- *sentatives Joshua Clayton and Albert rConstable, Jr., of the Newark. Elkton (and Eastern Shore Kailway Company 'came before the Board, and asked for a ]franchise for the use of the streets ofElkton. They offered to pay the town {SSOO for said franchise, and furtheragretHi to give bond for slJNjn that theroad would be completed within the pro-sent year. Henry M. McCullough, Esq..repn*senting the Cecil. Kent Light andPower Company, was also present andoffered to give a bond of $2,000 .-is aguarantee that tin* road would be built,

and announced that they had received a vfranchise* to build a trolley mad from theDelaware State line, near Iron Ifill, viaElkton. ti Frederiektown. via ('hesa- 1peake Uily.

The Council decided to lay the matteron the table until their next meetingnight-two weeks lienee.

Teachers May Whip Pupils.A case of importance to every public .

school teacher in (Veil county, came upbefore Judge Holland at Salisbury, on jWednesday morning. It was a ease in- ivoicing the authority of a teacher topunish a disobedient pupil. It was up- •pealed from the decision of Justice jFoskey, of Dclmar.

Some weeks ago. \V. I*. Gorily, prin-cipal of the Delmar School, had occasionto tlog Harry (’oilier. 14 years old. Col-lier had on one or two occasions left the .school room without permission, and for Ithis he received punishment. The pa- irents of the boy had tin* principal arrest- 'ed and haled before Justice Foskey, who (lined tin* principal one cent and costs. JMr. (Jordy took an appeal.

Judge Holland, sifter hearing tin* evid-ence. reversed the decision of the Justice.In his opinion. Judge Ilolhnnl assertedthat tin* teacher hsnl sole authority over ‘pupils in the school room, and could ex- •’ereise that authority so long sis the pun- ¦ishnient was not unmerciful or inhuman. IThe Judge made it clear that the teacher 1stood in the position of the parent inthe matter of correcting a disobedientpupil. Judge Holland said that parents jshould uphold the teaeliers in their ef- ,forts to maintain order in the school.

Railroad Improvements In Elkton.Tin* Philadelphia. Baltimore and

Washington Railroad Company brokeground on Tuesday, for enlargement of jthe railroad signal lover on Bridgestreet. Llklon. The new tower will con- ,tain thirty-two levers. Interlocking -switches and automatic signals will lieinstalled. Ground has also been broken ,tor a five lever tower at a point one-half \mile cast ef the iron bridge over tin* Big

Elk Creek.

Dwelling Destroyed by Fire.A dwelling house near Lombard, occu-

pied by Mr. Duncan and family, was to-(ally destroyed by lire at an early hour ,last Sunday morning. The flames were (discovered by Levi White and FnseyKeni. while returning from work atProvidence mill. The family were in bodat the time*. A number of the householdgoods were saved. The flames, it is ithought, originated from a defectivechimney.

Received White Cap Notice.Due day the past week, Joseph Hoff,

who conducts a restaurant in the old ,Farmer’s Hotel building, at tin* cornerof North and High streets, Elkton, re-ports that he received a “white cap no-tice.” warning him to leave town withinten days. He says he will he ready forany and all white caps when they under-take to force him to leave Elkton.

Dredging Machines at Work.The American Construction Company

which has the Government contract fordredging the rivers on the Eastern Shoreof Maryland, now has two dredging ma-chines at work, one in Elk river and theother in Chester river, near Millington.The mud taken from Elk creek is beingthrown on either side of the stream.

Inspecting Cecil's Klondike.J. D. West, accompanied hy a New

York capitalist, visited the gold mines ofthe Eighth district, Inst Friday, And bag-ged and shipped away about 1000 poundsof dirt to be assayed in New York. Hesays if it shows $4 per ton in gold itwill pay to he Vrqrked.

LOCAL DETECTIVES.

Officers Elected for the Ensuing Year

by Rising: Sun and Eighth District

Association.

The annual meeting of the Rising SunDetective Association, was held last Sat-urday morning, at Rising Sun. Fifteennew members joined the Association,making a total membership of S5. TheAssociation was the means of recoveringa valuable horse stolen from ,lmn*s T.Rutter during the past year. The reportof the Treasurer showed a balance of$70.05. The following oUlcers wereelected for the ensuing year : -President.M. E. Kirk; Vice- President, AlfredKirk: Secretary. (Veil E. Ewing; Treas-urer, I. Wayne Reynolds. Tin* Ladies’Mite Society of the Rising Sun Metho-dist Episcopal Church, served dinner tothe members in the basement of thechurch.

Tin* annual meeting of the Eighth Dis-trict Association whs held on Saturdaylast. Sixteen new members were addedto the roll of the Association, making a

total membership of (Jo. The followingollleers wen* elected : President. M. S.MeNann-e: Vice-President. John W.Taylor; Secretary. Charles A. Grubb;Treasurer. Jacob 11. Kirk. DirectorsCharles H. lbbo\. John W. Kagan. Jos.W. Reynolds, 11. M. Woodrow. EdwinK. Hill. W. A. Montgomery.

A turkey dinner followed the businesslin eliiiL.

DEATHS.JOSEPH MILLER THOMAS.

•losiph Miller Tlnma>. son of T.Snowden Thomas, of Providence. K. L,formerly of North East, and well knownin Elkton. died at his home, in that city,on Monday afternoon, at 1 o’clock, aged4V years. Mr. Thomas wa< born inIVtlsville; Pa., on February 4th. 1555.His parents moved to North East, thiscounty. later, where they remained foreight years. He was proprietor and pub-

lisher of the “Peninsula Methodist” fortwelve years, his father being its editor,ai: i largely engaged in the book tradeand printing business. Mr. Tlmma*lea\ es a widow and four children. Thefuneral services were held in Areh StreetSiethodi>t Episcopal Church. Philadel-

phia. on Thursday. Interment in IvyHill Cemetery, Philadelphia.

MRS. MARGARET A. DAVIS.

Mrs. Margaret A. Davis, widow ofAbel J. Davis, died at her home, onHigh street. North East, on Thursdaymorning, of heart disease, aged 7."> years.Mrs. Davis was a daughter of the lateGeorge A. Mahan, of Harford county.

She is survived by four children.

JAMES DEMPSEY.James Dempsey, a highly ropetied

citizen of this county, died at hN home,at Pilot, on Saturday last. Ile was 99years of age. His death resulted fromthe effects of an operation performednearly four years ago for appendicitis.

An infant son of Rev. and Mrs. FrankE. Williams, until recently of Baltimore,

died at the home of Dr. and Mrs. JosephV. Wallace, in Chesapeake City, on Sun-day lasi.

INTERMENTS.The funeral of Harry A. Hall was held

from his late home, on East Main street,

Elkton. lasi Saturday morning. The ser-vices wen* conducted by Rev. K. K.Stephenson, pastor of the M. E. Church.Interment was made in Elkton Ceme-tery. The following gentlemen acted asbearers : J. Will Perkins. John E.Alexander. John W. Anthony. George K.Ash. Thomas .1. Murray, and A. W.Mitchell.

Demented Man Found By Bailiff Biddle.An unknown man acting In a peculiar

manner was arrested in Elkton, on Fri-day, last week, by Bailiff Biddle. Whena ski d to give bis name, lie said it wa>“Jack Alone.” It was evident that thestranger was demented, and lie wasplaced in Elkton Jail. On Tuesday, a

letter was received by the authoritieshere from Joseph E. George, of Smllers-ville, saying that “Jack” was probablyhis son. M. Edwin George; that he hudat mie time been adjudged of unsoundmind, but that tin* Court had reversedthat decision and turned over to him anestate of $4,000 inherited from his grand-father. since which time the young manhad been of little account. The fatherstated that his home was always open tothe wanderer, hut that he conlu not sendhim money and clothing to continue histramping. The authorities here areundecided what to do with him, as theydo not think him fit to be at large.

To Harness the Susquehanna.

A report from Baltimore says Presi-dent Warfield of the Continental TrustCompany, is prepared to make the pay-ment of $1,000,000 for the purchase ofthe stock of the United Electric Lightand Power Company, of Baltimore, Onor before January 15th. the date fixedfor the same. This payment, when made,will secure tin* acquisition of the totalissue of stock, $2,000,000, of the UnitedElectric Light and Power Company.The purchase is made in connection withthe development of the water power ofthe Susquehanna at Conowingo for elec-tric power purposes, and a contract tosupply the United Railways of Balti-more with power is included in the deal.

FINANCES OF

THE PENINSULA.

Comparative Statement of Business Con-

ditions of 1901 and 1902.

Comparative statements of financialconditions of 1901 and 1902 show sixmore failures on the Peninsula during1002 than in 1901. I Respite this fact,liabilities were $5.949 less in 1902 andassets an increase of $18,794. This re-fers to fourteen comities ; New Castle,Kent and Sussex of Delaware: Cecil,Kent. IJueeiv Anne’s, Talbot. Caroline,Dorchester, Wicomico. Somerset, andWorcester, Maryland, and Northamptonand Aecomae, Virginia.

About 8,999 individuals, firms and eva-porations are in business in this terri-tory. In the eonrse of the year. 1,077new business houses were started, ascompared with about 9.999 for the pre-vious year.

Then- were more failures in the secondquarter of this year than in any otherequal period, twenty having been re-corded with liabilities of $97,799. andassets nnnnintir g to $99.559.

The totals for 1992 are:No. Liabilities. Assets.

I n4aware . . .25. .. .$181,589. .. .$75,075Maryland ...25 IS.ono. ..

. 21.500Virginia ~. , 1 10.550. . . 12.290

Total 54 24i.100 112.975in 1991 tin* total number of failures in

Wilmington was 19. the liabilities $197,nnii, and the assets $49,999. so that theshowing for, the year is not as good as

for 1901. being larger both in failuresand in losses. Wilmington’s failures playa large part in the Delaware total, show-ing liabilities of $151,999 mu of the totalof 5151.559. But then* is <*ne compara-tive improvement over 1991 in that tin*local failures then were within $7,999of the total for the state; whereas in1902 the state’s total was about $99,999

more.Tin* great falling off in Maryland fail-

ure- makes the totals of liabilities andassets better than for 1991.

Delaware had nine more failures in1902 than in 1991. and the liabilities

were $151,559, as compared with $45,-990. Maryland had four less failures,with liabilities of $459.90n ns comparedwith $199,295, and assets of SI2LH99.as compared with $42,911. Virginia hadone more failure, with liabilities of $19.-550. as compared with $5.759, and as-

sets of $12.200 as compared withSon. The lie! losses in the whole dis-i riei were $194,994 in 1992 and $191,747

in 1991.

??????????????????? Church News. ?

Revival services were begun in the Ris-ing Sun Methodist Episcopal Chun*h.on Sunday night, by Rev. 11. A. G. Wes-terlieid.

Rev. F. T. Little. D. D.. President ofthe Maryland M. P. Conference, preach-ed at I. M. P. Church on Wednesday

afieniiNMi. January Till, at 2.90 o’clock.

Rev. W. M. Compton, of Zion M. E.Church and Rev. Edward P. Perry, ofLeeds M. P. Church, will exchange pul-pits on Sunday morning. January Iltli.Rev. W. M. Compton will preach at

Leeds AI. I*. Church at 19.99 o'clock andRev. Edward P. Perry at Lnion M. E.(’hiireh at 19.99 o'clock.

The joint, hymn hook commission ofthe Mvthodist Episcopal t’hnivh and theMethodist Episcopal Church South is to

assemble in Nashville, Teim.. Januaryl9ih. to arrange a hymn hook for thejoint use of both ehnivhe**. Some churchmen believe the meeting will mark tin*beginning of an Important change inMet hodism.

Public Sales.K wry fanner having a public; sale of

slock should look carefully after adver-tising it sec that the public ut largeknows he is going to dispose of suchstock, machinery, etc. Look aroundami you will tlud that the “Cecil Whig”is read at every hand in Cecil countyand nuturully the farmers consult itscolumns for these sales. Send your ad-vertisements to the “Cecil Whig” andget the benefit ict its wide circulation —

The rates are low. And in the way ofprinting your hand hills -see it we can-not save y'cit money.

An ollieial visit was paid 1.0 Susqueh-anna Tribe. Imp. O, K. M.. at Colora,hy Creed .Itinior Sagamore William T.Vinsinger. Miller !•'. Magraw and FredWilson. <>f Elkton. on Monday night.They report n very pleasant trip. TheTribe has elected the following officersfor tin' ensuing term : Prophet, B. O.Nesbitt; Sachem. C. 11. MeVey; SeniorSagamore. C. S. Tosh; .Itinior Sagamore,W. A. Jackson; Keeper of Wampum, J.C. Kranss; Chief of Records, StrcettHrown; Cnard of Wigwam, .T. A. Mc-Nutt; Cuard of Forest, John T. Haines.

- The members of Elkton Council, No.22, Jr. O. F. A. M„have decided to cele-brate tbe twelfth anniversary of the in-stitution of the Council with a publicentertainment at their now Hall, on theevening of February 18th. Admissionwill be by curd. The committee in chargeis composed n follows ; H. WinfieldLewis, Chairman; Harry W. Pippin,

1 Secretary; John F. Spnrklin, Treasurer;• William U. Sprinkle, Walter M. Black-

-1 son, William P. I>eau. Charles S. Boul-¦ den, Ricketts Nelson. Carroll Edgar andPhilip M. Crorea.

Elkton Town Council.The* Elkton Town Council met on Wed-

nesday evening, at 8 o’clock. Present—Messrs. MeQuilkin, Davis, Dunbar, Wit-worth and Maekall. the Treasurer andthe Bailiff.

The minutes of the last meeting wereread and approved.

The Treasurer reported:—Receipts jjhi,140.24IHsbursements 4.002.47

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Balance *1,244.87Warrants were authorized for the pay-

ment of the following bills:Klkton Electric Light and Power

Company for December $124.42Heorge <Biddle, salary for De-

(•ember 41.0011. Winti(*ld Lewis, salary for De-

cember 20.84Cisdl (*>u my News, advertising.. 10.ouCecil Democrat, advertising

MeCbuiahan Hranite Company.car of crushed stone 24.07

Roger Witworth. hardware is.ToSamuel 11. King, hard wan* 4.1 bP.. B. A W. K. R. Co., freight on

car of crushed stone 10.0 S ¦Scott Fertilizer Company, coal

for Council Hail pj.on

Harry M. Larzalen*. paving.... 20.00 ¦A. .1. .Jones. 1 day mason work.. 4.00

' R. Frisby A Co.. hauling 4.2."1 William I*. Dean, hauling 0.2."1 William Hall. l :l, days work.... 2.1 S

William Willin. I"*| days work.. 2,18

Messrs. Joshua Clayton and AlbertConstable. Jr., representing the Newark.Elkton and Eastern Shore Electrie Rail-way Company, and Mr. Ilenrv M. Mc-Cullough, representing the Kent andCecil Light. Power and Railway Com- 1pany. appeared before the Board askingthe right of way through the town.

After a discussion of the matter, actionwas deferred.

ELKTONOPERAHOUSEErwood Dramatic and Vaudeville Com-

pany Next Week.

The Erwood Dramatic and VaudevilleCoined' Company will appear at theElkton Opera House, on Thursday, Fri-day and Saturday nights, next week, iJanuary loth. 10th, and 17tIt. presenting ja different play each performance with (high clas> specialties. The company itravels in it< own special car. Special ,scenery. The piny for the opening night iwill be “A Mortgaged Slave.” The com-pany has just closed sneo*ssfnl engage- ;meats in Frederick and AnnapoLs. andgo**?* from Elkton to Baltimore.

Popular prices IT*. 2." and 4" cents.

Bo\ Seals 40 cents.

Lectures In the Catholic Church.A brilliant series of lectures have been

delivered nightly during the present wvkat the Elkton Catholic Church, by theeloquent and learned Passionist Father.Rev. F. S. Valentin*. Large numbersof i .n-<'atlndies have been pivseip *achevening, and with rapt attention heardexpounded the true teacldng of the Cath-olie ('huiv)i. Tin lectures have Ik** nmainly addressed to mui-Catlndi's. imithe purpose in vie" i- to dissipat- theerroneous views ln*M by so many in r-

-1 gard to the doctrin*— and ordii *"**fthe Catholic Church.

Rich and learned in thought, garneredfrom a deep fund *•' knowledge. e.*uched

. in language at tins* -- poetical ami again, in words and t"in*s that stir *.n*-n\s

souls, the have been deeply im-pressive. and uinl"ubti*dl> ben*di*dM

i suits will ensue therefrom.A question box ha- been local-* ; in tie*

i Vestjbtlle of the ehltfeh. ill which de-posited \\ ril ten i nest|h n(ait ng to

the dot trines am: the ordinance-. tin*elmreh. Each ••veiling lhes inquirieshave been answer*-*! by Faflmr Valentinoand a luid e .mpieheiisive ami *<atis-faetory explanation given t> each indivi-dual inquiry.

As the niissi -i will ck>se t*.-; .*rrow

evening, the ran • pportunity now • 4T* n*d? should not he permitted to pass by with*

1 out hearing tin* gifted missionary before[ lie departs from. nr midst :‘*r other

liehls of Hod’s \ Ineyard.To-night, Saturday. Rev. Mr. Valentine

4 will lecture upoi ”!>•* You lsv* Christ V‘ Yes V T’heii Respect His Mother.”

To-morrow, Sunday morning, at 10.40' o’clock, his topic ‘Free Love. Human

r Love. Christian L**ve; or Marriage andDivorce.”

Tomorrow, Sunday evening, he willspeak upon "Did tin* Priests Invent Con-

. lession, or did Christ Lust it nt •* It V" anddeliver his farewell address up**i "Cnionthe Battle Cry of Freedom.”

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. Will Of Dr. Crothcrs Probated.

s The last will and testament **f Dr. R.R. Profilers, lat* of ihe Sixth district,of Cecil county, was probated before

* Register of Wills Reuben E. .Lunar, on' last Saturday afternoon. Tin* estate

which is said t* he worth in the neigh-borhood of sir>,ono. is devised in trustfor his two soikr—U. R. Crothers and

. John Christie Crothers. 11 i< widow,- Mrs. Fannie I. Crothers. i- named as- Executrix, without bond. Tin- will bears

c date of August 28th. 1002. and is wit-

b nessed by Mabel Preston and Loomi Crothers.i>

i, The last will ami testament of Mrs.; Cynthia Williams. Into of Port Deposit.- was filed for probate in the Orphans*- Court at Elkton, on Saturday Inst. She4 bequeaths her entire *state to her hus-

band, Thomas F. Williams.

CECIL BRANCH.

Anti-Saloon League For Cecil County

Reorganized In Elkton, On Tuesday.

Resolutions Adopted.

Tie* niemlnTs of the C'ceil CountyBranch of the Anti-Saloon League ofC*eil county, and a number of other per-sons who an* desirous seeing the LocalOption Law enforctnl when it goes intoeffect. on May Ist, 100.4, held a meetingin the Elkton Methodist EpiscopalChurch, on Tuesday. John W. McCul-lough. of North East, presided. Rev. It.K. Stephenson, pastor of the Elkton M.K. Church, opened the morning sessionwith prayer. Rev. S. E. Nicholson, ofBaltimore, State Superintendent of theAnti-Saloon League, made a short ad-dress in which lie explained the work-ings of the Anti-Saloon League and toldhow it had been the means for muchgmml; also that it had help*d t* enforce

ilie Option Law in Harford andother counties in Maryland. Add re SSCS Iwere also made by Rev. Henry Branch,of Ellieott City, ami Rev. John M**Elmoyle. of Elkton.

At the afternoon session tile followingollicers were elected for the ensuing year:

President Rev. A. S. M**whray. PoriI deposit'.

Vie* President Alfred it. McVey.Pleasant Hill.

Secretary and Treasurer Walter But-lingtoii. Rising Sun.

I list riet Vice-PresidentsFirst District Rev. J. MeLain Brown.

Warwick.S* ml District Rev. S. i*. Perry.

Cliesapeake City.Third District Rev. John McElmovle.

ElktiUi.Fourth District Joseph Scarborough.

Pleasant Hill.Fifth District John W. McCullough.

North East.Sixth District Rev. D. E. Shaw, of

( olora.Seventh District J. M. Campbell, Port

1 leposit.Eighth I list l ict Taylor Rawlings. Or

torn fo.

Ninth District A. R. Brown, Sylinar.The f*dlowiug resolutions were report -

•• I and adopted :

W.*. ilm ehi/eiis of Cecil county, ivpre-si uting the local option and temperancesentiment of the county as organized inthe Anti-Sal**oii League of Cecil countyin annual meeting assemided. do herebyeongratnlate all our fellow citizens ofthe county upon the triumph of the localoption cause at the polls at the late elec-tion.

1. RESOLVED. That we. a- the or-ganized representatives of the temper-ance |t**ople of Cecil county, reminding

them that loyal to tin* principles of theAnti-Saloon League. do hereby serve no-lle* upon the several party organizationsthat we cannot In* depended upon to sup-port. but will do all we can to defeat,

any candidates for either executive orlegislative position- whose character andreputation are not above question upontlie matter of making or enforcing tem-perance laws, and that we call uponthese who appoint Constables and otherollicers to -.•• that such men are in sym-pathy with the enforcement **f temper-ance laws.

2. RESOLVED. That we endorse theAnti-Saloon League as a National StateOrganization: that we believe tin* bestivii\ to secure the enactment and en-forcement of anti-license legislation isthrough the plans of this organization,and to the end of the thorough enforce-ment of the law now in force in theeoyi ty. which we believe to be entirelypracticable. We call upon the peopleevery when* to effect local organizationsunder tin* direction of the Anti-SaloonLeague. We desire to express our con-fidence in the ability, wisdom and devo-tion of tin* State Superintendent of theLeague. Rev. S. E. Nicholson, whom wecommend to all good people in thecounty.

4. RESOLVED. That we have a rightto expect party conventions to pledgethemselves and their candidates’ loyaltyto the auti-licenso law enacted by therecent vote of the people.

I. Remind ourselves and the peopleof tin* county that in* law is self-execu-tive. and of tin* special difficulties thatembarrass tin- enforcement of a localoption law; and. therefore, call upon allfin* friends of law and order in tin*county to co-operate earnestly with thelegally constituted officials of the countyand with the Anti-Saloon League to se-

cure the complete enforcement of ourlocal option law when it shall go intoc fleet.

r. For the purpose of organizing and.strengthening and directing public sen-timent in relation to the necessity forand determination to execute the law,tin* law enforcement committee of thisLeague to lie appointed shall be charged-** t* organize tin* work of local optionlaw enforcement sentiment in all the dis-tricts of the county, that every law andorder-loving citizen of the county shallIn* an active and vigilant committee ofours, using his best endeavors to pre-vent the -violations of law. and securetin* conviction and punishment of viola-tions when they occur. This committeeshall have full authority as to moansand methods in the management of thiscampaign, and to deal with any otherexigency that may arise.

Respectfully submitted for the committ ee,

REV. JOHN McELMOYLE,Chairman.

Sport at Chesapeake City.

William T. Harriott, proprietor ofBohemia Avenue Hotel, Chesapeake Citywill give a hap fox hunt on Mondaymorning next. The start will be madeat 10 o’clock. Mr. Harriott will give aprize to the person capturing the hush.

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.ENGINEER KNOCKED FROM lIIS EN-

GINE BY STRIKING BIG ELK CREEK

RAILROAD BRIDGE.

Body Fell Into the Creek and Carrie*

Away By Heavy Current-Was Throw-

ing Water On “Hot-Box” And

About the Bridge.—Survived by Wife

and Five Children.

A Imrrihk* ami fatal avcidvrit occurredMiortly before aim* o’clock, last. Saturdaymorning, at tin* railroml bridge over theRig Elk Pn**k. one mile north of theElkton Passenger Depot. (Jeorge Henja-min Askew, of 17-1 MilHin Street, Pbilu-deiphia. was the victim. For the pasttwelve years he had been an engineer onthe Maryland Division of the Philadel-phia. Italtiniore ami Washington Rail-road. and at the time of the accident wasmiming extra freight No. 1(51, north-bound.

The unfortunate was throwing wateron a ••hot box’* of his engine, and hisbody was projecting out between theeab and tender, when his head struckone of the girders of the iron bridge*and he was thrown violently into thocreek.

IID bod\ sank almost immediatelyand was whirled along in the raging tor-rent which had been caused by theheav.x rains of Friday night and Satur-day morning.

Fireman Hibson on the locomotive sawhis engineer whirled out of the cab, amiat once crossing to the engi inker’s side*he closed the throttle and brought thetrain to a stop. lie then signalled to thetrain crew and a search was made forthe missing man. but without, avail.

The engine was then backed to Elktonstation and notice sent to SuperintendentItanuard and the foreman of road en-gines of the division. Mr. Carmichael.The latter ordered Engineer WilliamKates to go to Elkton and take the trainto Philadelphia.

The Rig Elk (.'reek, where the accidenthappened, is a stream usually aboutthree feet in depth, but the heavy rainshave swollen \\ to a depth of about 10feet and it is running at a great pace.

The unfortunate was IIS years of age,and is survived by a widow and fivechildren—four girls and one son. Atnoon on Saturday. Mrs, Askew, wife oftin* eanie to Elkton, also JohnAskew, father, and William Askew, abrother, came here from Rallimore, forthe purpose of having the body shippedto Baltimore. They did not know untilthey arrived here that the body had not.been found.

WAS S( ‘IIEDFLED FDR PROMO-TION.

Mr. Askew was considered one of thobest engineers in the service of the com-pany. Strangely enough, as a rewardfor etlieieiit service covering a period ofIS years, he was to have been made apassenger engineer on January 14th, andthis meant shorter hours and more pay.He was considered one of the safest menon tin division and knew every mark andpost along the road.

Askew was the son of one of the oldestengineers of the company, the fatherhaving been in service? for more than 50years. He was Secretary of the Brother-hood of Locomotive* Engineers, and wasa member of the Masons. Junior Orderof American Mechanics, Royal Arcanum,Centennial Lodge, Pennsylvania Rail-road Relief Fund and was also a mem-ber of several lodges in Baltimore*.

After the* body is recovered, it will betaken to Baltimore, and the funeral willtake place from his mother's residence,I.’JO North Broadway.

REWARD OFFERED.On Tuesday. (Jeorge Wentz, agent for

the Philadelphia, Baltimore* and Wash-ington Railroad Company, offered a re-ward of SSO for the ree*overy of EngineerAskew’s body.

Weddings.

pbkxtick -MornißixE.Miss Bertha Itouehelle. daughter of

, Mr. and Mrs. Slnyter Bouchelle, of Ches-apeake City, and Mr. John Prentice, ofHaiti mom. won* quietly married in Wil-mington. Ind.. on Monday.

Daughters of Liberty Officers.Tlh> following olHeers him* been elect-

ill fur the ensuing term hy Kiverview( 'iinni'i!. Nu. L’ti. Daughters of Liberty,

1 it I’erryville : -t’onneilor. Ida Ward:Associate. Alva Cole; Vico Councilor, W.It. Ward: Associate. liessie Otil lion;.Innior Kx-Coiincilor, Mary ('. White;Associate, Addie Wilson; Guide, A, J.Gallimi; Ueeording Secretary, Alex.

• Craig; Financial Secretary, Mary Mac-Donald: Treasurer, Susie Gillespie; In-side Guard, Jennie Craig; Outside Guard.

• Charles Wilson.

Fire at Middletown.A tire in the Academy at Middletown,

Del., between 4 and 5 o'clock on Thurs-day morning, bid fair to cause the de-struction of the building, but was extin-guished with a loss of about S3OO, whichis covered by insurance. The blase Wasextinguished by the Volunteer HoseCompany. John It, Brown, the janitor,

¦ discovered the fire, which caught from ai coal stove. Prof. Pickett’s parlor was

the worst damaged.