Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-04-19
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MATTERS IN MARYLAND.

DdiIluiOTes ApIll 10 ne SLdle bodAN
Of public works yesterday directed At
torney General Rayner to attend the
circuit court at Hagerstown next Sat
urday and oppose the extension of the
present trusteeship of the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal and to take steps to- /
ward the sale of the canal.
Frederick, April 1.-Two hundred |
and twenty shares of the capital stock
of the Frederick City and Jefferson /
Turnpike company, of Frederick cOun- |
ty, was sold by the Frederick county /
commissioners at par value, $25 per
share, to the following parties: G. NJ.
Smith, 80 shares; William II. Harry,
20 shares; P L. Hargett, 80 shares,
and J. D. Keller, 80 shares.
Elkton, April 1O.-Capt. Ambrose
Higgins, of Philadelphia, one of the
chief promoters of the Elkton and
Chesapeake Electric Railway company
was in this town today. He states that
the line between Elkton and Chesa-
peake City will shortly be constructed
/ and will connect at the Delaware state
/ line near Iron Hill with the proposed
Wilmington, Newark and ElktOn road.
Frederick, April 15-While Mollie
Jackson, colored, attended church yes
terday she left her 6-year-old son
Roger and smaller child home to keep
house. On her return she found the
boy had discovered a half pint of whis-
ky and emptied the bottle of it's con-
tents. A physician was summoned,
but the child was unconscious from the
effects of the powerful stimulant and
died in a few hours.
ElktOn, Md, April 15.-Sallie Simp-
ers. the 12-year-old daughter of Calvin
Shippers, was arrested Saturday and
committed to the county Jail on a war
rant issued by Magistrate H, fl. Gilpin,
charging her with the murder of her
7-year-old brother, Howard Shippers
who died from a gunshot wound. Her
! brother Thomas, aged 8, duplicates the
sister, who he says told him to SHOOT
, Howard The sister denies the boy.
: story and states that Thomas commit.
ted the deed while angered at hi;
a brother, because the latter would no
: give him chew of tobacco.
/. Cumberland, Md, April 16.-Johr
+ Cooper, chief lineman of the Baltimore
It and Ohio Telegraph company between
# Cumberland and lockwood, saved {
O fast freight train near Ellerslie, thi
y county, by swim u, ng Wills creek
L which was a torrent from rain ant
. melting snow, and repairing the broker
n wires. Had he crossed on the neares
Il bridge he would have been Obliged t
) come to Cumberland, and in the mean
"a time an accident would in all prob
d ability have occurred. He risked hi
d life by swimming the wild mountai
> stream.
De Baltimore, April 15.-In the cours
at of his sermon this morning the Re-
in W. A. Crawford-Frost, a promineI
he Protestant Episcopal clergyman of tn
IN city, paid tribute to the work of tn
ut newspaper in advancing the cause {
to religion. He said: Many clergyme
elk sin in remaining asleep to the opportl
Id mites offered them for spreading IL
nd principles of righteousness through Il
H. public press. We are to publish IL
,e. glad tidings, and if we can only reaC
on hundreds by the voice we may reaC
er hundreds of thousands by the jou
Is. nails. We cannot go out to the higl
re- ways and hedges, but the newspape
IN can, and they will take our messag
OO for us if these are WorIhv'
at Baltimore, April 12.-Cardinal CT
&C. bons has been invited to attend t
CT first nuptial mass ever celebrated wit
TO in the walls of cloister, and has a
ne cepted. The wedding will be that
ng Miss May Matilda Organ, of Sillir
~ Quebec, to DR.. Gustave Arthur Tasc
nu ereau, Of St. Ferdinand, Canada. T
u place will be the Convent of the [
oS sulines, near New York city, and t
~ ceremony will take place at noon nj
Wednesday, in the chapel Miss DRY
has been staying in the convent as
visitor for some time as the guest
hos her sister, Mother St. Michael. and
hat is in order to give the nuns. amo
eed whom the young lady has ma
of Irlends, an opportunity to witness
tns ceremony that it has been arranged
oss take place in the institution.
low Baltimore, April 12.-Final st,
ase were taken yesterday in the pig te
a phone consolidation scheme engineer
tier by the syndicate headed by George
hat Webb. of this city. At the meeting
side the directors of the United Telegra
red and Telephone company yesterday
'om following properties were acquir
UNI Maryland Telephone and Telegri
ods company, Pittsburg and Allegbt
lme Telephone company, West Penn L,
arm Distance Telephone company, He
of Telephone and Electric company.
sub legheny County Telephone comm
in and Hartford County Telephone c,
the pany. The total capital stock of
It companies is $3,91O,OOO, and in all al
by 100000 phones, either in actual OBJ
on ton or under contract awaiting inst
--nn alton, will go into the combinat