Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-23
HAGERSTOWN.

With his skull badly fractured at the
base, and otherwise seriously injured, Mr.
Jacob E. Shirk, a drover Of Stevens, Pa,
lies unconscious in a boarding house in
this city, one Of the results of an accident
yesterday near Ashton on the Potomac
Valley branch Of the Western Maryland
railroad, caused by the breaking of an axle,
which derailed a freight train.
The populist party held mass meet
ings in the Hose Opera House here
yesterday afternoon and evening, at
which Senator VIM. A. PETER Of Kansas
was the principal speaker, although Gen
eraP Randall of industrial army fame
edited the audience, also, at the evening
meeting. Senator PETERS address was
lengthy. and when he referred to the Sen
ate ss having been run by the sugar trust
for the past five months, he was accorded
considerable applause.
The deadlock in Hagerstown's city coun-
Gil over Mayor M. L. Keedy's appointments.
which has existed since March, continues.
At a meeting held Tuesday evening the
mayor nominated Clifford p. Martin for
city clerk and Alex. H. Hagner for city at
torney, both of which appointments were
rejected. The mayor Is republican, while
the board OF councilmen is solidiy demo-
cratic. BY thus rejecting the mayors Sc
lections the present democratic incumbents
hold on to their positions
Samuel Chrissinger, for many years a
well-known coach and carriage builder of
Hagerstown, was buried Tuesday. He was
seventy three years old. He leaves one
son. Deputy United States Marshal VIM.
Chrissinger Of this city.
The family of Jacob Horst Of Hagers-
town is sorely afflicted with typhoid fever.
Seven Of its members are down with the
malady. The eldest daughter, Miss Annie.
who had been summoned home from the
country to help nurse the sick, has also
been stricken with the same disease.
Three dollars in money, revolver and a
number of tickets are all that was obtained
in burglarizing the Office Of the Western
Maryland Railroad Company at East Ha-
gerstown station at an early hour Tuesday
morning.
The school commissioners have designated
Monday, September TO- for the opening of
the public schools Of Washington county,
and have ordered the erection Of new
school houses at Mt. Aetna. Germantown
and at Burnside.
Jacob Beaver Is the only one Of the six
prisoners who escaped from the Chambers
burg Jail that has been captured yet.
The others are supposed to have gone
west.
Col. E. B. Beaumont Of Washington is
visiting in Hagerstown.
Mr.. John T. Meaney of Washington has
Joined his wife at Laurel HILL near Clear
spring, where he will spend his vacation.
James Hunter, q resident of Hagers-
town and a native of the Falkland Islands,
was yesterday naturalized as a citizen Of
the United States.
Frank s. Appleman and wife Of Washing
ton, who have been visiting Mrs. Anna
Appleman, this city, have returned home.
Invitations are out for the approaching
nuptials Of Joseph N. Nave and Miss Laura
v. Shank, residing near Wiliamsport.
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue c..
B. South is taking a census of the unsold
playing cards in the hands Of local dealers.
Thus far he has found 1,421 racks, which
number will be largely increased. This is
in accordance with instructions from the
dpnArtmPnt. a O
for the enforcement of the new tariff, when
on each pack of cards there will have to
be placed a 2-cent stamp before it can be
sold.