The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

ZONE Little Jottings About Peo
pie and Things


A trolley car is being talked of to
connect the various resorts of Pen-Mar
The Hagerstown Railway Company
will begin work on the street railway at
once.
The Governor has appointed H. o.
Ridenour, justice of the peace in Fred
erick County.
The PostOffice Department is con-
Tsiderlng scheme to stamp letters with
weather forecasts.
J. S. Biggs has been appointed post
master at Rocky Ridge, vice w. HI.
Biggs, resigned.
The only saloon-keeper of Rohers-
vile has been converted at revival
meeting at that place.
Mr. Charles Brengle has removed
hAom South street to his fathers house
Nopposite the Fair grounds.
Walkersyille, this county, has de-
cided to purchase a Holloway double
4 tank chemical fire engine.
On last Wednesday morning at sun
4 Rise. the thermometer was ten degrees
Mrs. Mary O'Keefe has sold her
house and lot at Adamstown, this
county, to Mr.. Luther Guyton, for
$780,
1t is estimated that about 100000
Goo of human beings have lost their
Lives in the wars of the world since the
christian era.
Mr.. f. b. Sappington has been elect
led Master Workman of the Grand
Hodge Of Maryl land, Ancient Order
sot United Workmen.
Augustus Blume has purchased the
harm of the late VIM. HI. Brightwell,
hear Uuionville, tins county, contain
'ing 40 acres, for ,525.
Mr.. S. NJ. Birely, of Thurmont, this
Bounty, sent eleven hundred dollars
worth of pulp wood to the Spring
Grove Mills, Pa, last month.
A train of uine cars loaded with
chickens passed through HagerstOwn
en route to northern markets. The
Total number was 10000 chickens.
- Messrs. Charles P. Levy, HI. B. Wit
her and c. f. Flock acted as pallbearers
at the funeral Of Mrs. Reno S. Harp,
at Annville, Pa, on Thursday, the 10Th
Einst.
Mrs. A. F. Baker has just pieced
Iounge robe that contains 2,099 pieces
The centre pattern is a Kaleidoscope
land has handsomely embroidered
border.
The Legislature has reported for the
MARYLAND School for the Deaf and
fDumu of this city, an additional APP
|propriation of $4,000, making in all
$50 600
Mayor A. r. Yeakle and several
members of the Board of Aldermen
visited Annapolis on Tuesday in the
Sinterest of the affairs of the city gov
.ernment.
4 A respite of twenty days, in which
to prepare bill of exceptions, has been
granted Theodore Durrant, the San
francisco, California, murderer OF
Blanche Lamont.
Three tramps set fire to the home of
MN Cooley, living near Paint Creek.
Nv. Va, and the family, consisting of
|DIr. Cooley, wife and child, were burn
lei to death.
A new trial, i'm the Supreme Court of
Appeals of West Va, has been granted
Ito DR.. VIM. T.. Perry, of jefferson
'Of criminal assault.
The house of Hester Yates, near
|Hindman, KY, was struck by mete-
|Oric stone and demolished. Mrs.
YATES and several small children were
Buried in the ruins.
The cars on the New York and
Brooklyn Bridge, have decided to
switch their cars by electricity, which
Twill relegate to obscurity the intoler-
liable little bridge dummies.
Enthusiastic bicyclists of New York
Estate are building cinder paths between
Etowns connected by dirt roads. 1t
costs from SIS to $l25 per mile for
three and a-half foot path.
The application of colored man, of
this city, for a marriage license at the
Clerks office the other day, was re-
fused because he could not tell whether
his intended bride was married or sim
gle.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
#Otfce of Smith, Rice & CO., in Cum
berland The explosion nearly demol-
lshed the office and startled the resi-
dents nearby from their sleep. The
Robbers got nothing.
n The people of Washington, ID. c..
enjoy one of the most complete ice
Skating Kinks in the United States,
with floor 205 feet long by lis wide,
and with seating capacity enough to
accommodate 1000 spectators.
The new public school building on
North Market street is practically COM
pleted, and is expected to be ready for
occupancy about April 1st. The total
cost of the building will be about
$4,000.
The registered number of paid ad-
missions to the Worlds Fair was 2l,-
41,2l8, daily average 119,9843. The
Total attendance was 27,529, 400, which
exceeds the attendance at the Paris
Exposition by about one million.
John Nicodemus, fireman in the
yard Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company, at Grafton, w. Va,
w1lle repairing the trucks of a car on a
slulng, had both legs crushed of at the
hhees, by train being backed against
'he car on which he was working.
Mrs. J. o. Knott, of GAO East Capitol
street' Washington, ID. c., is at present
Nlsltlng relatives and frinnda in this