Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-07
CUMBERLAND THE CAPITAL
Maryland State Business Temporarily Trans
ferred From Annapolis.
No Truth I'm Rumored Conference
About Admiral Schley Heavy
Increase in Coal Shipments.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July 7.-Governor
Lowndes is now here with his family for
the summer. Secretary of State George E.
Loweree is also here. and the affairs Of
state are transacted in the governors Office
in the Second National Bank of which he
is president. A petition has been presented
the governor asking that Samuel New
conner who is serving twelve-year term
in the house of correction be pardoned it
being claimed that the prisoner is in the
last stages of consumption. Newcomer is
one of the famous "Whoolie Ghoolies'' that
desecrated Riverview cemetery, Williams
port. Governor Lowndes expects to make
frequent visits to Baltimore, Washington
and Annapolis during the summer
1t is denied by persons in position to know
that conference has been arranged with
the President in which Governor Lowndes
and Senators Wellington and McComas will
take part, looking to the stopping of alleged
persecution of Admiral Schley in the Navy
Department
Governor Lowndes has appointed John r
Ohr and Jacob BurneS special policemen to
protect the property of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Cumberland.
All prospects of a strike among the
miners of the Cumberland coal fields have
all who desire work have no trouble find
ing it.
Heavy Increase In Shipments.
The increase of the coal shipments are
10000 tons, compared with the record for
the first half of 1898. The shipments by
Chesapeake and Ohio canal are so far a.
1I2 tons behind the record of last year.
The coal shipments from the mines of the
Davis-Elkins interests are lbs 135 tons
ahead of the record for the same period
last year The Davis Coal and Coke Com
Thomas, w. Va New mines are being
opened in the Cumberland region The
Homecoming Coal Company, recently incor-
porated in Baltimore, has leased Is 10
acres OF big vein coal at Homecoming, and
will commence developing at once The
Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company,
which operates in this region, has just pur-
chased 1000 acres on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad near Farmington w Va
paying $4,000 cash.
Peculiar Fatal Accident.
lister E Teets, aged nineteen years, son
of Thurman ]. Teets, was killed at Rode
mer, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
fifteen miles west of Oakland, Md, under
peculiar circumstances. He was employed
on the ballast train, which was running
backward down the grade and was playing
with several companions in the caboose
Francis Burrs playfully struck young
Teets and ran out the back end of the car
grasping the handhold, but Teets. who ran
after him, could not stop himself and fell
on the track. He was crushed to death
under the wheels.
Assignment and an Assault.
Charles j. Dahl and Frank A. Frey con-
Quoting the Globe, large furnishing store,
assigned today.
Jack Baldock, charged with murderous
assault, made thrilling leap of twenty
feet, from the second-story window of JUS
tice McFarlane's office, Homecoming this
morning and escaped.
A wreck which held back several pas
senger trains some hours occurred near
Cherry Run, on the Baltimore and Ohio
this morning, five cars having been de-
rallied in cut by air hose breaking. No one
hurt.