Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-05-19


of deceased, survive him. The funeral took
place Friday morning from the residence of
Mr.. Ayton, where the deceased had made
his home during recent years. The remains
were conveyed to Kings Valley, in Clarks-
burg district, and inferred in the family
burying ground.
Sligo Items.
Mr.. Crosby Noyes and family again &C.
cupy their beautiful county residence.
Mr.. VIM. E. Mannakee, who has been
urged to become candidate for the General
Assembly of Maryland, informed your cor
respondent that owing to urgent business,
&C., at this time he must decline the honor.
Mr.. g. o. B. Cissel narrowly escaped an
awful death yesterday. Having occasion to
inspect some cattle near the turnpike, he
alighted from his buggy to whip colt, and
attempting to enter again his foot missed the
step on the buggy and was thrown down, his
leg becoming entangled in the gear and was
dragged some distance before Thomas F
Thompson and Lewis Wallace caught the
runaway. Mr.. Cissel was considerably
bruised and shaken up.
Our electric road is in bad repute. The
new management is bad, road in horrible
condition, and the service irregular.
A young lady ran into one of the stores
this evening and said big colored man was
lying asleep in Mrs VIM. Thompson's woods
near this place. Messrs. Bowman, Maus
and Shoots, armed to their teeth, started out
to capture the supposed Humphrey Taylor
or Brown. Cautiously, as if trapping an
Indian, the trio surrounded the place, and
found small colored boy, who had wan
dered away and becoming exhausted had
fallen asleep. The prisoner was brought to
town and delivered to Deputy Sam'l Jones,
who sent him home.
Mr.. r. l.. Fars left to-day for Seattle,
Washington, where he will go to st. Michael,
Alaska. Mr.. Faris is employed on the
Geodetic Survey and will be gone five
months. Mr.. Faris is very favorably known
among the people here, where he has resided
for several years. His wife is daughter of
the late DR.. HELEN, formerly of Dickerson,
Md.
May 16, 1899 LEX SCRIPT.
Great Falls Water POwer.-.The
water power at Great Falls is to be de.
veloped. Engineers are now on the ground
for the purpose of determining the best plan
for utilizing the force of the Potomac river
at that place, and it is expected that in the
near future the work will have 30 far pro.
crossed as to make it possible to supply
electric current to Washington City from
the Great Falls.
The electricity now used in Washington
for electric lighting and street railroad pur-
poses, as well as by small power consumers,
is now generated by number of steam
plants. When the Great Falls water power
is developed it is claimed it will be possible
to obtain from this source electricity not
only to run elevators, but street railroads as
well, and to supply electric lights.
The Great Falls are located some four.
teen miles from Washington. At that point
a dam stretches across the river, built by the
United States Government for the purpose
of diVerting water into the aqueduct, which
begins there and extends to Washington
City, the line of the buried aqueduct being
marked by what is known as the Conduit
road. The utilization of the force in the
fall of the river at the Great Falls has been
a project that has received a good deal of
attention, and some years ago the Great
Falls Power Company was organized and
was chartered under the laws Of the States
of Maryland and Virginia The company
also acquired property on the river at that
point, and it is this property and rights
which are now TO be developed.
store and Dwelling Burned.-The
dwelling and store combined occupied by
Mr.. John Mccullough, at Boyd's, this coun.
ty, was destroyed by fire last Friday morn
ing at O'clock The occupants narrowly
escaped with their lives, as all were sound
asleep. They were awakened by the dense
smoke. They escaped very thnly clad,
some without shoes or stockings, and by
the time they reached the ground the whole
store was enveloped in flames. All the con.
tents of the building, the stock of goods,
furniture, etc, were destroyed. The loss is
estimated at 81 500 or more. There is no
insurance on the furniture or goods, but it
is thought there is small Insurance on the
house. 1t is thought the fire was of incen-
diary origin. No fire had been in the stoves
in the house for seven or eight hours. The
house was owned by John Watts, Of Wash.
ington.
Two Handsome Monuments There
has Just been placed in the cemetery at Da-
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