The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-04-05
MARYLAND MATTERS.
Town elections were held in Laurel an
Middletown.


| Middletown.
| \ ticket for town officers has been nomi-
mated in Elkton.
The April term of the Court of Appeals
began Tuesday.
Dr. NJ NJ Townsend died in FroStbur",
aged seventy years.
| \ prohbitioniSt was elected city c"un
Gilman in Pocomokc.
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The furniture factory of c. W. Hinze
was burned in Cumberland.
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Forest fires swept over 600 acres ct TIM
Der land in Anne Arundel county.
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Rev. Howard p Davis was severely in
iurcd in IA driving accident in Carroll
| county.
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John B. Sweeney has entered upon duty
as postmaster at HagerStown, succeeding
James p. Harter.
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Jacob Henson. Jr., colored, was SEN
fenced to be hanged for the murder OF
Mr.. Shea in Ellicott City.
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! The Frederick city reformers have not
vet completed their non-partisan business
ticket for city officers.
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Hartford is having an excitement over
| the authorized visitation of colored
teachers to white schools.
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James Alfred Pearce has announced
| himself a candidate for the State Senate
| from Kent county.
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The trial to determine the legitimacy
and inheritance Of Sallie NJ Jackson is
still in progress at Salisbury.
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The visiting of public school teachers
| in Hartford county has been restricted to
schools of their own color.
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1t is stated that some important arrests
| are expected to be made in the Dean
| murder case in Caroline county.
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The suit of Miss Sally Jackson to prove
her legitimacy and inherit her fathers
property is on trial in Salisbury.
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Hon Benjamin G. Harris is i'll OF pneu-
monia at his home, near Leonardtown,
He is in the ninetieth year of his age.
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| 1t is proposed to introduce the Craw-
| ford county system of making democratic
nominations in Anne Arundel county.
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York Butler, cOlored was convicted in
| Howard county of attempting to poison a
| family by putting Paris green in a spring.
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James F. Drury's store and dwelling,
stock of goods and furniture were destroy
ed by fire at Morganza, st. Mary's county,
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4 reward of $500 has been offered for
| the arrest of the murderer of the young,
school girl Miss Dean. in Caroline county.
So
| The bodies of VIM. T. Birch and Charles
Hudson, drowned in the storm of January
| 18th, in Sinepuxent bay. have been re-
covered
4 verdict of mot guilty" was entered
| in all the Frederick cases on Saturday.
and so the whole bribery scandal was dis
posed of.
Dr. Thomas H. Musgrove, dentist, a
Confederate veteran, member of Snowden
| Andrews Confederate battery. died in
| Philadelphia.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio canal is doing
| a fiourishing business from Cumberland to
Georgetown and the waterway is in eN-
cellent order.
The friends of Congressman Baker in
Hartford county are making a strong fight
for his nomination for Governor by the
republican party.
Joseph Bear, democrat, unpledged
citizens candidate was elected mayor at
Frostburg, Monday. The republicans
elected the remainder of the city ticket.
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Charles Dorsey was acquitted and Geo.
| W. Coates was convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing Isaac Scoggins
in Howard county, all the parties con-
cerned being colorcd men.
As an echo of the period when Eastern
capital found Western farm mortgages
the most desirable kind Of investment the
failure of the Nashua Savings Bank will
serve as a reminder that most of the
ventures were disastrous The Nashua
bank had deposits amounting to $2,70O,-
600, and the largest number of depOsitors
of any bank in New Hampshire. For
forty-one years it has been regarded solid
as a rock and a tire per cent. interest has
been paid on deposits. But the officers
loaded up heavily with Western farm
mortgages, over million dollars in them.
on which losses were sustained and moth
ing could be realized. When the Western
mortgage movement was popular thing
in Pennsylvania Il special business in that
sort of brokerage was done in Chester
Lancaster. Berks and Montgomery coun-
ties, the farmers investing very largely
Their experience came about five years
| before the Nashua failure and as an eN-
pericnce was just as bitter and costly as
that sustained to-day by the mill opera
tives who are the depositor> and the ones
affected in Nashua
While Secretary Herbert when he plan
ned the route over which A dmiral Meade 5
squadron will sail during the month of
April had no idea that Great Britain would
send that ultimatum to little Nicara qua.
neither he nor President Cleveland regret 5