The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-04-17
LOCAL NEWS.
dome Little lettings About Peo,
pie and Things.

2O9 00Z uuIluS thC ihohCu vi MdTCIl
last.
The State of Ohio, after July 1st,
will inflict capital punishment by cleo
tricity.
} John A. Kennedy, of the Frederick
n Bicvcle Club, has been appointed local
4 consul of the l.. A. w.
Mr.. J. L. Burch, of near Boyd's Station.
Md. was badly injured in runaway acct
. dent on Last Wednesday afternoon.
Federal and Confederate veterans
4 held reunion at Travilah last night.
i Hon. Spencer G. Jones made a speech
States attorney, George A. Pearre,
of Cumberland, Md, says he is can
didate for the Republican nomination
n for Congress-
Sister Mary Simeon celebrated the
golden jubilee Of her membership at
Ifhe Convent of the Visitation in this
city, on Tuesday last.
Mrs. Philip Cotter, of Pitcairn, Pa,
and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
|Gilbert, of Liberty, was recently re-
lieved of a pocket book containing
about $50.
Helen Willis, daughter of editor
Harry w. Lewis, of Liberty, fell from
n box on which she was seated, strik-
/ ing the stove, cutting her lip and burn
ling her hand.
The eight-year-old son of Daniel
ISwope, near Smithsburg, was run over
by a wagon and perhaps fatally injur-
ned. The wheels passed over the upper
part of the boys body.
The Emmitsburg Railroad Company
held a meeting Of the board of direc-
tors at which Dr. James A. Elder was
elected president Of the company, vice
mir. w. H. Biggs, resigned.
Mr.. John Keller has moved his fam
iy from the farm he was on between
|Niddletowa and Myersville, to the
dwelling in Middletown owned by the
heirs of the late Mrs. Eli Hyatt.
The Mayor and Council of Williams
polt have granted a franchise to the
Hagerstown Street Railway Company
for right of way over the different
Streets Of the town.
The wife of David Finklestein, of
n New York City, has sued for a divorce
h from her husband on the ground that
fafter they were married she discovered
THAT he wore a rubber nose.
Mr. Sigmund H. Weihenmayer,
Through his solicitor, Rev. w. G. Grit
fifth, has filed petition asking the
court to appoint receiver for the
Windsor Knitting Mills, of Hagers-
town.
Services will be held in the Reform
led Church, at Sabillasville, this county,
next Sunday morning, April 18th, at
|10.15 o'clock. Services will be held at
|Highfield, Sunday afternoon, at 3
O'clock.
A goose which was owned by Mrs.
Ezra Beachley, of HagerstOwn, died
hast Tuesday at the advanced age of q
years The goose was a native of this
valley, where Mrs. Beachley formerly
Resided
Anti-cigarette leagues are now being
organized in the public schools of
Washington. d. c., by the pupils.
Badges are worn, and it is believed
that the league will exercise a bene-
ficial influence.
Miss Emma Smith, daughter of An
thony Smith, of neay Liberty. this
county, shot black snake measuring
four feet eight inches in length, on
Easter Sunday. The snake was in the
Top of large tree.
The record of the last five years
shows that there have been 43, 902 hon.
icides in the United States, an average
pf Z, 3l7 each year. In the same time
there has been 723 legal executions
And l,11S lynchings.
No small objection which young
folks had to the Old-time spriDg-medi-
cines was their nauseousness. In our
day this objection is removed and Ay-
|er's Sarsaparilla, the most powerful and
popular of blood purifiers, is as pleas
ant to the palate as cordial.
The store and dwelling of Mr.. Geo.
n. Kohlenberg, at AdamstOwn, this
EQUITY, was, a few days ago, supposed
to have been set on fire by passing
locomotive. The blaze was eXtinguish-
ed before any damage was done.
In the one thousand dollar damage
sut of Robert Johnson, against the b.
y o. Railroad Company, for allegt d
Enquiries sustained while alighting from
"a train, he was awarded five hum
pred dollars by the Rockville Court.
Willard F. Taylor, the young Bal
|timole lawyer, who defended Marshall
p. Price, the slayer of Sallie +. Dean,
has been debarred by an order of the
Circuit Court, at Denton, Md. Among
the charges against him is that he
made Price swear falsely.
Mr.. J. Roger McSherry, of this city,
mas several fine settlers and pointers at
the Baltimore Dog Show, which have
been greatly admired. DR.. Johnson
also has fine lot of dogs at the show.
FIhe beagles of Mr.. Pottinger Dorsey,
Of New Market, have attracted consid-
erable attention.
McCzure's Magazine for May will
have an article by the eminent sur
geon, DIR. w. w. Keen, indicating the
nses already possible, as well as those
likely to become soon, of the Rontgen
rays in the study and. cure of human
deformities, injuries and diseases. The
article will be fully illustrated from
photographs taken by the new process.
The residence of the late Henry b.
yaring, Norway" Warning Station,
Montgomery County, Md, was entire
y destroyed by fire on Monday night,
the 9th inst. 1t was here the Jesuits
% the time of staging from George
Town College, stopped on ther way to
Frederick and celebrated Mass. Much
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