The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-07
STATE HAPPENINGS.
Maryland News Matters TerSeiS
Told for the Benefit of Busy
Readers.
Saturday and Sunday.

SATURDAY dhU
Tn one of the cases against b. raj
mer Heating, of Queen Annets County,
charged with Incorporating money,
he was found guilty by the court az
Cambridge and sentenced TO pay SouV
and imprisonment for one year Ill OeH
treville Jail, ~ ohrroh
Of ST.. Anthony of Padua, was LAID near
Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmltsou[g.
The recent rains caused CONSIDERABLE
rise in the upper Potomac river.
Rev. Bernard Arant died ID Anhap-
oils, aged sixty-five years
Josiah Lee. colored, has been arrest
ed in Howard County charged WIFI
arson. .o
There are signs Of many improve
ments along the b. and y. kalIroau
between Baltimore and Cumberland.
Ri Rev. Alfred A. Curtis, retlrlng
Bishop of Wilmington, Del, preached
his farewell sermon at st. Peters FRO
Cathedral, in that city.
Monday.
James Rankin, FrOstburg saloon
keeper, is on trial at Cumberland,
charged with the murder OF colored
man.
Mr. James A. Bond died in Calvert
County, in the eighty-fifth year OF his
age.
Can't. Bartholomew Clark died in
Anne Arundel County, aged ninety
years.
A great rise is reported in the waters
of the Potomac, with extensive dam
age to dam No. on the Z. and y.
canal.
Nelson Gilbert was elected mayor OF
Westminster.
A ticket in favor of keeping hogs IN
town was elected in New Windsor.
Other town elections IN Carroll Coun-
ty were held at Hampstead and fancy
town.
In Washington County elections
We're held at Smithsburg, Keedysville
and Funkstown.
The Democrats elected town COM
missioner in Easton, Talbot County.
The citizens ticket was elected in Hy-
attsville, Prince Georges County.
Snow Hill, Worcester County, re-
elected its old board of councilmen.
A ticket favoring town improve
ment was elected in Kensington, Mont
gomery County.
The State Senate at Dover appointed
committee to cooperate with the
House in investigating charges of brib-
cry in connection with the granting OF
divorces.
Tuesday.
The funeral of Assistant United
States Treasurer Ormond Hammond
took place in Talbot County. 1,.sa.
The voters of 3elair settled some eX-
citing local questions at the town cleo
ton Monday.
Professor Bauer, of the magnetic sur
vey, is establishing the Hartford meri-
dian line at Belair for the use of sur
veyors.
A contract has been signed for light
ing Elkridge, Howard County, by cleo
tricity.
Mr.. James H. Gather made a pro-
posal for Ellicott City water works,
which was declined.
Cambridge, Dorchester County, is en-
joying building boom.
The peoples reform ticket was elect
ed in Homecoming.
The anti-patent oyster-tonging law
has been decided to be ineffective in
Queen Anne's County.
The Court of Appeals will hold ses-
siOns on Saturday and Monday next.
1t is expected the trial of the Frost
burg saloon-keeper, Rankin, on the
charge of murder will be concluded to-
day in Cumberland.
The damage by the rise in the Poto-
mac river to dam No. 6 is being rap
idly repaired by railroad and canal
forces.
Judge VIM. A. Fisher, of Baltimore.
sold at mortgagee's sale the Green Hill
property, in Somerset County, where
Mr.. Mulder's Dutch colonists will 10.
cate.
Lawyer James H. Hoffecker, Jr.,
testified before the investigating COM
mittee of the Delaware Legislature that
Senator Pyle and Representative Nc
Cullogh told him it would cost be-
tween $1,000 and $500 to secure the
passage of the Cause divorce bill.
Mr.. Pyle said Mr.. Hoffecker's &C.
count was in the main true. Mr.. Nc
Cullogh stated that he had not de-
manded any money in the case.
A prize fight between Harry Stout
and Ernest King took place in the hall
OF the Delaware House of Representa-
tives.
Wednesday.
The School Board of Caroline Coun.
ty has appointed twelve ladies as
school trustees.
Hartford County has borrowed money
to pay their school teachers.
Edward Hoffman, charged with en-
bezzling the funds of the PEOPLES
National Bank, of Hagerstown, was
arrested at his home and will be
brought to Baltimore to-day.
Mr.. Owen Norris is a Democratic
candidate for the State Senate in Tai
bot County.
The Maryland Chassis of the German
Reformed Church, is in session at
Frederick City.
FREDERICK CITY MARKETS