The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-01
LOCAL NEWS.
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The population of London increases
at the rate of 10000 each year.
A York man cut his dogs hair short
and inscribed his name and business
on it in red ink.
The nay roll of the Crawford Manu-
featuring Company in Hagerstown
numbers about $50 men.
Joseph H. Taylor, of Westminster,
member of the Carroll County bar,
has been adjudged insane.
While blowing at Middletown son
Tuesday last, Mr.. Edward Ramsburg
lost a pocket book containing 500.
Samuel J. Grabill, only son of Rev.
J. NJ. Grabill, died at his home in
Clear Spring, Washington County.
w. C. Ickes, brakeman on the P.
&C. Railroad, was killed by falling be-
tween the cars. He resided in Cum
berland.
The Mentzell paper mill and stock,
near Della, ON the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, was burned. Loss about
$37, 900.
A marriage license was issued in
Hagerstown to Walter E. Miller, Blue
Ridge Summit, and Gertie V. Staub,
SabillasVille.
Mr.. Howard Kussmaul, janitor at
the Court House, treated the grass in
Court Square to sprinkling of lime
few days ago.
Misses Louise and Hattie Motter, of
Emmitsburg, have sold their farm, on
the suburbs of that place, to Patterson
Bros, for $4,000.
The May term of the Circuit Court
for Frederick County will convene on
the second Monday in May, and will
be non-grand jury term.
Charles Gilbert walked for a wager
frem Frederick to HagerstoWn, a dis
lance of twenty-siX miles, between the
hours of 10 a. m. and p. III.
Baltimore and Ohio freight officials
report that the coal mines all along the
road are starting up and there is an in
creased demand for empty cars.
Fda Varney and Emma Cunningham,
aged fifteen and sixteen, respectively,
committed suicide by drowning in a
mill pond, at townsville, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Charles j. Riehl, while de-
scending a short flight of steps at her
home on South Market street, slipped
and severely sprained her left ankle.
The corporation of Funkstown,
Washington County, is out of debt.
The last debt, $5l, was paid q few days
ago and nearly wrecked the corpora
ton.
George A. Warner, of Smithsburg,
was married in Jail at HagerstOwn, to
Miss Ida Jane Tracey, of Frederick
County, by the Rev. Edwin Heyl
Delk.
An attempt was made to murder the
wife of Oliver G. Bonnville. at her
home in POcomOke City, Md, by fir
ing a shot from revolver through a
window at which she was sitting.
Frances Donnelly, born in New
York, is the tiniest baby in the world.
She is six inches long, weighs less than
one pound, and the palm of her faith
er's hand makes full sized cradle for
her.
The March statement of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Relief Department
shows total of $65, 1893 paid in bene-
fits, and a total of $4,000, 1S9. sc paid
since the organization of the depart
ment.
Fire in Cumberland on the 23rd
ult., badly damaged the Sprigg Build
ing, S. Hamburger, clothier, and
Fred. Perry, boots and shoes, were
heavy losers. The entire loss is nearly
$4,000.
The body of Miss Sanders, eighteen
years of age, was found by the road
side, near Clermont Mills, Hartford
County, where she is supposed to have
died suddenly from the effects of heart
disease.
Gottfried Wathrich, of New York,
is stronger than SandOw. He is 81
years old, holds eleven men on his chest,
aggregating 1925 pounds and could
have held an elephant if the beast
would have held still.
William Blackford, of Lisbon, Me-,
is but seventeen years old and is still
growing. There is nothing eXtraordi-
nary in this, but the fact that he is al
ready standing six feet eight and one
half inches in his stockings.
The four-yaar-old child of Mr.. Chas.
Abbott, who lives between Sandy
Hook and Rileyville, was drowned in
AHe 1OlOuldC fClV0Ei Willie pIdJAA
with others it fell into the water, and
was drowned before it could be rescued.
Eight hundred and twelve thousand
white perch have been placed in Toms
Creek, at the Sisters dam, near EN-
mitsburg, by the United States Fish
Commissioners. The fish were only
two days old and were in the charge
of Mr.. George }. Zimmerman, of
Washington, d. q.
Mrs. d. s. Hanshew, of Frederick,
niece of Barbara Frietchie, denies
that the sideboard on exhibition in
New York as the one owned by Mrs.
Frietchie, is genuine. She says that
the only sidebOard owned by her aunt
is now in the possession of Allen Han
shGw, of Martinsburg, West Va.
There are over 900 men in Brook
Ign and New York that are worth
100000 or more. Only John d.
Rockefeller aud w. w. Astor are sup
posed to be worth more than OO,OOO,-
600 apiece. The total number of mill
iOnaires in these two cities is greater
than in all the rest of the country.
An investigation is being made by
the Hartford County authorities into
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