The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-08-09
STATE ITEMS.
Current Events of the Past
Few Days.


Mrs. John Claggett is critically
i'll at the home of her son.in law.
Mr.. George w. Carr, in Ellicott
City.
Albert Myers saw a large black
bear on North Mountain, within
a mile of Clear Spring, Washing.
ton County.
The store of Joseph Saks. at
Guilford, Howard County, was
destroyed by fire on the night of
August 9Th.
In Howard County John J.
Donaldson was appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Frances
Donaldson.
John A. Richard, founder of
the Williamsport TRANSCRIPT.
died in Williamsport August 9TH,
aged 10 years.
Herman Oppenheimer, d Bal.
timore junk dealer, committed
suicide by hanging himself in the
kitchen of his home.
Edward Glass, well known ball.
player, of Sharpsburg, died from
complications following an oper.
alton for appendicitis.
Anthony Kean, a prominent
resident of Cumberland and
former member Of the Legisla.
ture, is dead, aged 80 years.
Richard Dorsey died at Glen
wood, Howard County, August 3.
lie was retired farmer and at
one time lived in Baltimore.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made at Ellicott City to capture
Louis Jenkins, who has escaped
from Spring Grove Asylum.
About sixty names have been
enrolled as members of a military
company now on the eve of or
ganization in Havre de Grace.
Edward Miller, of Hagerstown,
received slight wound in the
back of the hand from a shot
fired from bushes by an unknown
person.
Tolbert Twigg, a Union yeter.
an, aged 6S years, was killed at
a crossing in Cumberland by
train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
An all night crap game at a
railroad camp near Hagerstown
ended In a shooting affray. Geo.
Burrell, colored, received inju-
ries from which he may die.
A babe about two hours old
was found in the bushes near Pen.
Mar, probably in time to save its
life. An Investigation will be
made and arrests may follow.
The engagement of Miss Mary
l.. Mason, eldest daughter of DR..
A. 5. Mason, of Hagerstown, to
marry General A. p. Alexander,
OF South Carolina, is announced.
John o. Williams, aged "a
years, a colored laborer, was
struck and killed by a Baltimore
and Ohio train near Dorsey Sta.
ton. A large family survives
him.
Howard L. Seifert, aged ten
years, and Archie Smith, aged II
years, of Baltimore, were drowned
together at the Willow Grove,
Colgate Creek, opposite River.
view Park.
Professor Sidney Sherwood, of
Johns Hopkins University, died
at Ballston, New York, of blood.
poisoning, resulting from a cut in
the hand, received while trim.
ming trees.
DIR. Cephas z. Wingerd has in.
stituted suit in HagerStown
against the Western Maryland
Railroad Company for $4,000
damages for injuries sustained
last February, when he was
thrown from his buggy by a
train.
Franz Borst, IS years old,
steward of the Turnverein Vor.
waerts Club, Baltimore, and for
merly proprietor of the rathskel.
Ter, in the basement of the
Academy of Music, committed
suicide by drowning at Ferry
Bar.
The intense heat of July caus'
ed the death list of Baltimore to
go beyond all previous records
The total deaths numbering
1890 for the month. There were
102 deaths from sunstroke and
heat prostration direct, and 600
deaths among children under five
years of age.
James Beall, aged so years
while crossing Willis Greek
Bridge, was struck by a passen,
ger train of the Cumberland ana
Pennsylvania Railroad and hurl'
ed 80 feet in the stream below,
causing his death instantly. HIS
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