Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-05-03
MATTERS IN MARYLAND.

Hyattsville, April 25.-rThe Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone COM
pany, of Baltimore, has been granted |
a franchise to establish a telephone ex-
change and system of poles and wires
in Hyattsville.
Cumberland, Nd. May 1.-The Amer
lean Tin Plate company, which pur-
chased and later closed the large tin
plate mills here one year ago, have de-
cided to place it in operation again at
once. The mill employs 300 men, and
when it was closed by the trust in
dignation meetings were held.
Leonardtown. April 2S.-The county
commissioners of ST. Mary's county,
finding since tearing down the back
wall of the present court house that
the whole structure is defective. A
contract has been concluded for the
erection of a new building, to cost
Sl9, 800. The new court house is to be
larger and the offices of the clerk of
the court and register of wills fireproof
Frederick. April 26.-In the Balti-
more conference of the African Metho-
dist Episcopal church Presiding Elder
J. H. CoIlett created quite a stir by
speaking against camp meetings He
said: Camp meetings are a disgrace
to the race and will have to be discon-
tinued if the negro desires to progress
and command respect. While our peo-
pie are running camp meetings the
white people are industriously running
canning factories and engaged in other
labor to lay aside something for the
winter"
Port Deposit, April Pa protest
from several patrons of the Tome in
stitute in Port Deposit has been sent
/ to the president and trustees in oppo-
/ sitiOn to the proposed change of pol
icy. The protest objects to the re-
moval of DR.. Mackenzie and the staff
/ of teachers he has gathered about him
1t also objects to having the school re-
turn to the system of coeducatiOn OF
the sexes and declares that "the insti-
tute has now been lifted to the high
est plane of American schools and is
beginning to command respect in many
parts of the country"
Oakland, April 26.-The maple sugar
crop in Garrett county will this sea
son be about one-fourth less thar
usual. Maple sugar is not made from
the sap of the tree, as is generally sup
posed, but from the water which tn,
tree supplies before the sap rises. Thi
, sugar water is as clear as spring water
1t is understood that this water is caus
ed by the freezing winter weather. Al
extra tree in a good season may yiel
so gallons of sugar water. From 80 t
So gallons the yield will be about ST
pounds of sugar The trees are tap
ped by boring two small augur hole
! about four inches apart, two feet abov
the ground. A large tree is tapped o.
two sides and an extraordinarily larg
( tree on three sides.
Hagerstown, April 29.-Judge Ed
/. ward Stake at 4 O'Clock this afternoo
4 filed an opinion granting the petitio
e of the surviving trustees for the 1874
e bondholders of the Chesapeake an
:. Ohio canal for an extension of time
: to May l, 19O6-for the operation
d the canal Judge Stake extends tn
l. !. time to Jan. 1, 1906, instead of May
1906 He holds that so long as ii
e canal can be operated to any advan
r age to the bondholders of 1874 the
"a are entitled to get that advantage al
declares the insistence by the state
le a sale of the canal and its destructiC
" as a waterway is not consistent eth
+ with its provisions in the canal con
r panys charter or with its solemn col
tract with the bondholders. Attorn,
is General Rayner will appeal.
" Frederick, April 28-While attemp
ing to sink a shaft in the west end
al the Mt. Airy tunnel, at Ridgeville, f
O. the Baltimore and Ohio railroad il
y provements, about 1000 tons of ear
Of fell in at O'Clock Saturday afternoo
buTying a number Of workmen ali1
n, The following were taken out dea
Arthur Frazier, colored, laborer,
d. Washington, d. c., neck broken al
body badly crushed; Douglass Hicl
~ colored, laborer, of baltimore; Micha
COyne, of Fayette county, Pa, a fol
vs. man of the works. Michael Curral
another foreman, is known to be und
many tons of earth, and several hu
dred men are working night and d
M to recover his body It is believ
T. there are several more men under t
debris, as they have not been seen sir
IA the accident.
NO Frederick, April 29.-It is now ]
lieved that four men were all that /,
as their lives in the Mount Airy tunnel
cident Saturday last, as nearly all t
SIT other men employed reported for VIC
this morning. The mangled renal
a Of Section Boss Michael Currens W,
m, recovered this morning and sent
lily Clarksburg, w. Va, for burial It
an thought that at least two weeks &C
Oh tinuous work will be necessary to cl,
in out all of the mass of earth which +
no. into the tunnel.
Annapolis, April 26.-The grand il
of Anne Arundel county, after fnishi
its work, made a report to the COZ
on commenting on the heavy burthen
taxation which seems to be yearly
creasing to such an alarming ext
u that the farmers have been driven
~ - the very brink of insolvency" Z
III docket of the court, they say, is croy
eu er with cases which should never h;
Il come for trial and never would hi
'ne rome for trial except as a means
u filling the pockets of those deput
70 who are growing fat by preying vi
u the lower classes Of white and ignor
Dr. blacks, While the taxpayers are gro
Ut Ing under this most Ubiquitous b
ar then" All around these petty ca
ry. the deputy sheriffs flock as to a fe
en- The grand jurors recommend the
We missal from his position of Jail "
OF den Henry Burlingame on account
red his habits
ted