Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-02
NEWS FROM FREDERICK.
Woman Killed by . Train-Other Items Of
Interest.

Correspondents of The Evening Star.
FREDERICK, Nd, Dec. 2, 1892.
An Arabian jewelry peddler and his wife were
walking on the tracks Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad between Catoctin and Brunswick
this county, Wednesday, when the woman wss
struck by "a passing train and hurled lifeless
down the bank. One Of her arms and one OF
her legs were severed from the body and the
latter was horribly mangled and disfgured.
When the trainmen reached the spot where the
woman had been struck they found the hus-
band engaged in gathering up the remains, the
tears meanwhile streaming down his cheeks.
He could not speak a word Of English and
could only give'the bystanders to understand
that he was Catholic. The body Of his wife
was quickly put in box and buried without
obsequies in the Catholic graveyard at Point
Of Rocks, this county. A few minutes after
ward the man bought a ticket to Petersburg,
W. Va. and boarded the next train bound for
that point.
The Independent Hose Company Of Freder-
ick is making big preparations for the celebra-
ton of its seventy fifth anniversary in this city
in June next Mr.. ]. Roger McSheny is the
leading spirit in the carrying out of the plans,
and reports that already letters have been re-
ceived from fifty or more fremen's organiza-
tions accepting invitations to be present at the
celebration. They include companies in Wash
ington. D. c., Baltimore. Philadelphia, New
York. New Jersey. Virginia. West Virginia and
Pennsylvania There will be parade and a
meeting OF the Firemens Association Of Mary
land. an organization that has grown out Of the
arrangements for the Independents celebra-
ton of their anniversary.
The Mt st. Mary's foot ball team. Emmits-
burg, this county. is in bad favor at the present
time and is meeting with difficulties in having
Its challenges accepted. Some time ago it
played game with the Georgetown College
eleven and won. but the Georgetown players
say that the game anything but fair on tho
part OF the Mt. St. Mary's team. Last week
the Gettysburg, Pa. College team went up to
play the mountain boys, but before the game
had fairly started Marion Cline of Frederick.
the MANAGER Of the Gettysburg eleven. called
his men off the field. The boys say that Mt.
st. Mary's not only try to manipulate the game
through their umpire, but that they are ruffianly
IN their conduct, and make it decidedly unsafe
for visitors, no matter who they may be.
Frederick has the second local chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution ever or
gained in this state. The first is in Baltimore.
OF the Frederick chapter Mrs Richie, widow
OF the late Chief Judge John Richie. is regent,
and the membership is slowly increasing. So
far it is composed of members of the best FAM
Ines IN the county, people who can trace their
genealogy back to the heroes and heroines of
colonial times without much trouble.
The directors of the Frederick County Bible
Society have chosen the Rev. G. C. H. Harskarl,
the new pastor of st. James Lutheran Church,
to deliver the annual address before the society
in January.
The gathering together of SO many relics Of
John Brown to exhibit at the worlds fair in
Chicago next year calls attention to the fact
that in no other place in the country. perhaps,
Is there larger number OF such relics owned
than In Frederick Mr.. Hiram Keefer, an old
and respected resident of Frederick. has several
guns. pistols and spears that we're used by John
Brown and his party; Mr.. Luther Bready Of
Adamstown owns pistol, bullet mold and sew
eral bullets that were taken from a member of
the John Brown party after their capture, and
Mr.. Albertus Spencer, now living at Harper =
Ferry, has the stove which John Brown used to
cook on prior to his famous raid.
The county commissioners of Frederick
county now have before them case which for
prolonged and persistent controversy has had
few equals in this country. 1t is a simple case
OF petitioning for the opening Of a short piece
OF wood through the land of one named Seawirt
and Others in the vicinity of Waikersville, this
county. Tho case has now been before the
commissioners for eleven years and neither
side will yield. Messrs. Hoffman, Goldsbor-
ough and others are the petitioners for the wood.
and thousands OF dollars and years of litigation
have been consumed in an effort to carry q
point which neither side will compromise upon.
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