The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-28
LOCAL NEWS.
Come Little Jottings About Peo.
pie and Things.

Banker Mansfield has given to the
needy poor of the city $3.50 bread tick
cts.
Mr.. James II. Graham, Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Cecil County, died
OH Monday last.
Three prisoners sawed their way out
of the Cambridge Jail. Only one of
them has been captured.
A Philadelphia syndicate of manu-
facturers have made application to lay
a street railway in Hagerstown.
Miss May Jones, of Elk Ridge, How
ard County, is still the guest of Miss
Blanche Gambrill, Second street.
Mrs. SaIlie r. Martin, wife of John
G. Martin, of HagerstOwn, died on
Monday, of consumption, aged So
years.
Communion services will be held at the
Methodist Protestant Church at Lewstown
on next Sunday at 10 o'clock, a. m. Preach
ing by Rev. VIM. M. Strayer.
Mr.. George Hood, prominent and
well-known citizen of Westminster,
died suddenly on last Saturday, while
on his way TO MI. Airy.
The several proposed amendments to
Williamsport's town charter were
voted down at public meeting on
Friday night last.
The Palmetto Fibre Brush Company,
of this city, which has been running
on short time for several months, has
now commenced on full time.
William Byrene, brakeman on
the Western Maryland Railroad,
while stepping from one car to another,
near Hagerstown, Md, on Saturday
last, fell between the cars and was in
SANITY killed.
John HI. White. of Annapolis, Nd,
objected to his daughters lover. He
ran him away from the house and
his visits He was arrested for the
Whipping and fined 500 and costs.
Washington County taxpayers are
advocating the idea of abolishing road
Supervisors and placing the manage
ment of road making in charge of the
districts. Tho system is in successful
Operation in several counties of Penn
sylvania.
The suit for damages of John H.
Grove, against John Sweadner, of Lib
erty, for selling hay which Grove
claims to have bought, was tried be-
fore Police Justice Eckstein. of this
city. Grove was awarded $50 damages.
County Commissioner William M.
Morrison, of Emmitsburg, this county,
and representative of MassasOit Tribe,
No. Al, Improved Order of Red Men,
was In attendance at the meeting of
the Great Council held in Baltimore
last week
The residents of Brunswick, this
county, are taking advantage of a
coffee war that has been raging there
Tor the past week, to lay in large sup
ply. The price of coffee which was 25
cents before the cut has been reduced
to 162 cents.
On Saturday last, while John s. Mel
Bon and Jackson Janifer, of Baltimore,
were descending hill near Westmin-
|ster, Carroll County, in buggy, the
harness broke, causing the horse to
run away. Mr.. Nelson escaped with
blight injuries; Mr.. Janifer was badly
hurt.
DIR. Bruce Thomas, formerly of this
place, but who has for several years
been in the drug business in Rock
willie, has rented house in Kensing-
ton, on the Metropolitan Branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and will
open up drug store in the town hall of
that place.
Charles Dixon, son of Mr.. BENJAMIN
p. Dixon, formerly of Frederick Coun-
brill Manufacturing Company's flour
mills at Ellicott City, was caught be-
ween the rope and cylinder of steam
az shifting apparatus and crushed. to
cath, on last Saturday.