Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-22
FREDERICK.

The movement which has been revived
from time to time to build an electric rail-
road from Frederick to Mfddetown. dis
tance of eight miles across the Cotoctin
mountain. has again come to the front in
more practical shape than heretofore, and it
is stated upon good authority that private
capitalists will at once take hold of the
matte. In the Maryland senate few days
ago Senator Newman of Frederick intro
duced a bill to incorporate the railway COM
pany. the incorporators named being Peter
w. Shafe-, d. Edward -Kefauver. Peter II.
Bussard, Charles H. Coblentz. Herman l..
Routzalm, Geo. VIM. Smith, DIR. Upton A.
Sharretts, Thomas n. Halter and Charles
V. s. Levy. The terms of the Incorporation
fix the capital stock at 100000. divided into
fifty shares A feature of the bill Is the
for ten years. and by it. also. authority is
given the directors of the company to issue
mortgage bonds TO complete the building
and equipping of the road.
The Grand Amy men of Frederick county
are still after President Cleveland for the
utterance in his recent message that every
community has its well-known fraudulent
pensioners" Arthur Post, No. Al, G. A.
r., Emmitsburg, has passed a series of
resolutions condemning the utterance as
untrue. and commencing the action of Rey
nolds Post, No. 2, of Frederick, in appoint
ing a non-partisan committee to investigate
as this community is concerned Arthur
Post invites the committee to make an in
vestigation in Emmitsburg and challenges 1t
to produce a single fraudulent pensioner
there. The purpose of the resolution seems
to be, under the surface, not to absolutely
deny that there are fraudulent pensioners
in the community, but to show the DISPOSE
ton of the G. A. r. to ferret out all such
and have them severely punished and their
pensions withheld.
Thieves have been actively at work across
the line IN Carroll county, especially at
Westminster. where a half dozen or more
places We're visited on Thursday and Friday
nights. AT several stores and residences an
entrance was effected and a quantity of
goods taken away, but in some instances
the burglars were frightened away The
robbe-ies are believed to have been perpe-
trated by an organized gang of thieves and
they have visited so far a half dozen or
more towns in the county.
The eighty seventh anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee was comment
Grated in Frederick on Friday evening by a
reunion of the members of Alexander Young
Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Frederick,
the first reunion of eX-confede -ate soldiers
ever held in this city. A banquet was in
dulged in at Haler's restaurant, and
speeches were made by DIR. S. F. Thomas
commander of the camp: F. Marion Fau-
BILE and the Rev. c. Randolph Page D.,
Lloyd T. Macgill. jr., recited THE Sword of
Lee and The Colonel of Virginia" and
the old soldiers gathered about the tables
Ieclteu HldHy tnrilnnS experiences OF life in
camp and field. The Rev. Mr. Page who was
attached to Gen. Pendeton of Lees staff
and came in daily contact with Lee whom
he studied closely. in the course of his ad-
dress Enthusiastically remarked that Lee
was never defeated by any army God
Almighty" he said, defeated the southern
army by sending upon it visitation of a
lack of rations."
\ most singular accident. that had nearly
fatal results, happened on Friday to Mr..
Ab-am Hargett, an aged gentleman of this
city He at work at the building in
course of erection for the Frederick fence
company. when the head of an AK that was
being welded by a workman above him
flew off. In falling the blade struck Mr..
Hargett on the back of the neck and cut a
deep and dangerous cash. He is very i'll
from the effects of the wound.
While german was in progress at the
Junior Hall on Friday night, under the d.
rection of Prof. F. w. Carlisle of Washing
/ ton. a gang of sneak thieves got into the
toilet -oom and made a wholesale raid on
gloves, handNerchiefs and other articles of
apparel.
The body of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Bromwell
who died at the home of her son, Dr. j. r.
Cromwell was brought to New Market, this
county, on Friday, and buried in the old
family graveyard on the homestead of her
father. the late Thomas c. Shipley, known
as New Market Planes" Rev. David Will
son of the NJ. =. Church, Washington,
OBLIGATED, and was assisted by Rev. G. F.
flaming of the NJ. p. Church, Frederick cir
cult; the Rev. DR.. Branch of the Presby-
terrain Church, Ellico.t City, and the Rev
D. May of Grace p. E. Church. New
Market.