The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-14
STATE HAPPENINGS.
Maryland News Matters Tersely
Told for the Benefit of Busy
Readers.
Friday.


The negro William Andrews, alias
CUBA" who was arrested for ASSAULT
ing Mrs. Kelley in Somerset County,
had hearing at Princess Anne and
was remanded to Jail.
Col. Buchanan Schley, OF Hagers-
town, has addressed letter to the
President in response to the note re-
moving Mr. Schley from the office of
surveyor.
Eugene Howard, colored, of Ellicott
City, was drowned in the canal in
Washington County.
The Health officer of HagerstOwn
advises the removal of hog pens.
! The new assessment cost Frederick
County nearly $50, 900.
AT Centrevllle damage suit against
Kent County is on trial.
The President and Secretary of the
Lunacy Commission visited the Anne
Arundel Jail and alms-house.
The Anne Arundel Road Commits
sioners have decided against the en-
ployment of the House of Correction
convicts on the roads.
A hay packing plant at Union
Bridge was burned.
Citizens of Westminster are forming
militia company.
Three former tax collectors of Queen
Anne's County were presented.
The legislative Investigating Com
mittee at Dover resumed its eXamina-
ton of charges of corruption.
Saturday and Sunday.
The peach crop in the Blue noun
tam district is now reported uninjured.
A large number of cottages are build
ing at Blue Ridge summit.
In Queens Anne's County a negro
man was sentenced to the whipping
post for wife-beatng and member of
the bar was presented for obtaining
money by false pretenses.
A verdict for $1,000 against Kent
County was given.
A bank will be started at Upper
Marlboro
The centennial celebration of Char
lotte Hall School will take place June
Oath.
A prisoner escaped from the Garrett
County Jail.
There is said to be a decrease of 81
600, 900 in the tax basis of Cecil County.
Trinity Lutheran Church, fancy
town, which has recently been remod-
eled was rededicated Sunday.
No war vessels will be sent to An
napolis for graduation week.
Removal of workmen, made, it is
said, for political causes, are taking
place at the Naval Academy.
A requisition for arms for the naval
militia has been sent to the Secretary
of the Navy.
The Middle Conference of the Mary
land Lutheran Synod begins at Burk-
ittsvile to-day.
Miss Taylor, of Williamsport, who
had her throat cut by an assailant, is
in an improved condition.
In Washington County there was a
killing frost Saturday morning.
James Rankin, of Frostburg, was ac-
quilted of charge Of murder.
Rt. Rev. John j. Monaghan was con-
secrated at st. Peters Pro-Cathedral,
Wilmington, DEL. as head of the Cath
Ollie Diocese of Wilmington.
Monday.
Frank Foraker, who escaped from
the Cecil County jail, was recaptured.
The May term of the Hartford County
Court began.
A dwelling belonging to Fritz Her
zog, in Montgomery County, was
burned.
The Reformed Church in Frederick
will celebrate its one hundreth and
fiftieth anniversary May IA to 16.
Mrs. Mary Hadra, while trying to
stop the elopement of her daughter,
was struck by locomotive in Cumber-
land and badly injured.
The strawberry crop of Somerset
County is short.
The hearing of young Lemen, at
Williamsport, charged with cutting
Miss Taylor's throat, was postponed
until Thursday.
Examinations for admission into the
Naval Academy will begin on May II.
There was slight fire in the Wicom-
leo County jail.
M. c. Boone, patternmaker in the
Naval Academy, who is Democrat, is
in danger of removal.
The Peter-Gaither damage suit is ex-
pected to be tried in Hagerstown the
last of May.
Daniel West, a colored child, was
drowned at Annapolis.
Tuesday.
Colored men are applying for places
in the Naval Academy to succeed re-
moved Democrats.
The Snow Hill water-works are near
ly completed, and the system, 1t is be-
lieved, will be success.
A windstorm did considerable dam
age in Cecil County.
The counsel of the Western Mary
land Telephone Company, which gives
cheap lates in Carroll County, says the
company will not be affected by the
Supreme Court decision in the Berlin
ger patent case.
A steel drawbridge will be placed
over the Severn at Annapolis.
The annual encampment of Mary
land Division, Sons of Veterans, is be-
ing held at Annapolis.
The State Senate at Dover, DEL,
passed the Acklan divorce bill.
The entire Legislature and national
guard of Delaware will attend the I'M
yelling of the Washington monument
in Philadelphia, next Saturday.
Wednesday.
In Hagerstown meeting of Fire
Companies and Board of Trade officials
recommended certain improvements
in the fire department of the town.
At Cambridge Judge Lloyd ordered
the vacation of oyster lots by Captain
Dean and others.
In Anne Arundel County one hun
dred and twenty-five farms are adver-
tised for sale by tax collectors.
Rev. Father f. Francis left Cumber-
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