Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-05-10

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Pen-Mar will open on Decoration Day,
May 3d.
The thunder storm of Tuesday was, the
forerunner Of much needed rain
An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
Rowe Bros clothing store in Emmitsburg
last Thursday night.
A strike of $500 employees Of the St. Louis
Transit Company, on Tuesday, resulted in
street rioung In which five persons were
injured.
DR.. H. G. Radclff, dentist, is snugly fixed
in his new Office in Frederick City and re-
ports business good. See his advertisement
in this paper.
FRosT.-On three mornings last week
frost was to be seen in this section. Thank
to the very dry condition Of the ground lit
tie harm was done.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in session In Chicago,
definitely excluded lay delegates from annual
conferences.
Nails have dropped 81 keg in price. 1t
looks as if the nail trust is getting tired of
keeping up the price when there are no pur-
chasers The probability is that building
material of all kinds will be lower.
SIMPLE. The Frederick Neps asks: "Why
is it that the fellow as ladies man usually
remains sngle?"
Because as soon as married he becomes a
lady's man. Ed. CLARION
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Dir, Harry M. Foreman OF Baltimore City,
died suddenly IN street car on Tuesday
He was taken to the northwestern police
station where he was identified by his brother
Mr.. Valentine Foreman, of 1918 Division st :.
He was As years old, and leaves widow.
A London War Office dispatch Of Tuesday
says
"On May 9Th, Capt Watson and 60men of
the Chinese battalion were attacked by 5000
Chinese. The latter were repulsed with no
casualties to the British force"
The large frame warehouse of John II :.
Grove, in Frederick, was destroyed by fire
on Tuesday night. Sjxtyfve Mccormick
binders, worth about $1,000, were destroyed
on which there was no insurance. An at.
tempt was made two weeks ago to fire the
building and this is supposed to be of incen.
diary origin.
Mount Vesuvius has been In eruption
again. Explosions within the crater have
thrown great masses of rock and lava to
great heights. Monday night the eruption
was specially violent and was accompanied
by menaclng rumblings. The people in the
neighborhood, some of whom live half way
up the mountain, have become panic stricken
and many pass the night out of doors.
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We are pleased to announce that the wine
and cider saloon which had been open in this
place for about five months past has been
closed, presumably by order of the Court.
Nearly or quite twenty years ago the saloon
was banshed from Middletown by the voters
of the district, and public sentiment against
it is stronger now than it was them Valley
Register.
NoMINATED.-Col Geo. A. Pearre was re.
nominated for Congress by reclamation at
Cumberland, by the republican convention
on Tuesday last.
MIR. Hammond Urner placed Mr.. Pearre
in nomination in speech that was conceded
to have been strong and eloquent
| Col D. G. Winebrener of Frederick and
Mr.. Thomas C. Noyes of Montgomery coun-
tv were chosen as district delegates TO the
Philadelphia National convention.
| No girl can afford, either for her own sur.
est happiness or for the comfort of mind OF
him whom she marries, to wed a young man
during the formative period of his lite, which
Is between twenty and twenty five And she
who wlthholds from young man her con-
sent TO marriage until he has reached the
first year of the beginning OF wisdom is @
mighty sensible little body, and acts in 9
manner which she will never haye cause tc
regret as long as God gives her and her hus
band life-Edward Box, in the May Ladies
Home Journal.
Otto ii, King of Bavaria, is reported very
i'll and not expected to live many hours. He
Is confirmed and incurable lunatic and has
been mad since many years befor his acces
sion TO the throne in 1886, His brother anC
predecessor was also mad.
Court etiquette was observed, and II
must have been very amusing, as well al
somewhat dangerous, for the courtiers, at
PENDANTS and physicians to bow low to {
mailman when entering and leaving bis pres
ence. 1t is not only the custom but, in THU
case, prudence, to retire backward, for of hi
many varying moods not the least infrequen
was a childish tondness to throw things a
people.
DEAD.-Dr. McSherry died on Tuesday
morning at $50 clock at bis resident on E
Second.st. He was i'll but one week. TIL,
doctor was one Of the most affable of gentle
men and one of our good friends, for whom
we have had high regard ana a warm plac,
In our heart. He was born In Frederick,
son Of the late James McSherry and broth
err of Judge James McSherry.
He served in the late Capt. Warner
Weshs company in the Confederate army
He was chief Of ordinance with the rank o
brigader general on Gov. Jackson's staff
His wife, who was Miss Elizabeth Kann ,ant
four daughters, survive him. He was In hi
fifty second year.
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