Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-27
NEWS FROM FREDERICK.
Tribute to the Efficiency of the Washing
ton Police-Notes.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Correspondence of The Evening Star.
FREDERICK, Nd, January &C. 1898.
Elmer G. Fahrney of Frederick. who visited
Washington on Saturday and Sunday, tells OF
an experience there which speaks with much
credit Of the efficiency of the police department
of that city. Fahrney had a bicycle in Wash
ington and was taking it to the train to bring to
Frederick when an alarm of fire was sounded.
He left the wheel in front of the store OF a
friend. whom he asked to look after it. and ran
to the fire. In the course of few minutes the
attention of the friend was attracted in another
direction, and in the meantime two fellows
that looked like tramps and had been noticed
handling the wheel made way with it. When
Fahrney returned he found the wheel missing.
On Sunday he gave the case into the hands OF
a policeman, and by 8 o'clock that afternoon
the wheel was returned to him safe and sound.
Mrs. William s. Shsnkle, living near Yellow
Springs. this county, got up at o'clock the
other morning, nursed her ten-months-old babe
and laid him down in the bed along side OF his
father, while she went down stairs to get break
fast. When the father of the child walked up
and turned over to look at it it was dead. 1t
was in perfect health when Its mother laid it
down.
The Frederick Bicycle Club. which was re-
Gently reorganized and established in band
some new quarters, has been incorporated. the
paper having been filed in the clerks Office here
yesterday. with VIM. p. Delaplaine. Victor NJ
Marden. John A. Kennedy, John j. Bielfeld and
George Birely as incorporators.
Rev. George W. Eiracafe and Rev. Cyrus
Frank Flock Of Myersville. this county, have
returned from Washington. d. c.. where they
went to attend the dedication of the new United
Brethren Mission Church Of that CITY,
The big banquet which was to have been held
in this city by the democratic county central
committee on the Goth instant in honor Of the
election OF Cleveland to the presidency has been
postponed until February g. Senator Kenna
whose death occurred last week, had accepted
an invitation to be guest of the committee on
the occasion.
The new industry recently established IN this
city for the manufacture of straw hats and
other goods out of straw has begun operations
with q number of hands employed. The man
ayers state that when in full working order en-
ployment will be given to large number of
men and women.
Interest in the breeding Of fine horses and
thoroughbred stock has been wonderfully de-
veloped in the past few years. Lately the
farmers in the rich and fertile Middletown val
ley have become interested in the question of
improved stock and have determined to have
none but the best to be had, in pursuance of
which they have incorporated the Percheron
Horse Company of jefferson. Frederick county
Md. Their purpose Is to breed fine stock gen.
eraly, but Percheron stock will be given special
attention.
A blast of powder at the tunnel in course of
construction for the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company at Harpers Ferry, W. Va, in
exploding the other day broke glass out of
windows in houses at Jefferson, this county, and
other places several miles away from the scene
Of the blast. The shock SO severe. owing
to the frozen condition of the ground, that
many thought it was due to an earthquake wave.
F. NICK.