Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22
MATTERS IN MARYLAND.

HdReFSNDMus NldIGu 10 ne w GSL-
ern Maryland railroad yesterday han I
died 2,019 carloads of freight between
Cherry Run and Shippensburg. In "a
hours rs heavily loaded trains were
sent over the Altenwald cutoff The
freight congestion in the Cherry Run
yards was greatly relieved.
Cumberland, Md, Marcn19.-Thomas
Corners, the S-year-old son of Thomas
Corners, coal miner, at Thomas, w.
Va. had seen his older brothers set
of powder in the yard for fun. His
father kept big key in the house, and
Yesterday the boy went up stairs and
lighted it. The explosion wrecked the
/ house and instantly killed the boy, al
most tearing him to pieces.
! Cumberland. Nd, March 19.-Arthur |
Watson and George Gibson. lumber |
men, were drowned in the Greenbrier
river. below Elkins, Sunday They
were thrown from rudely constructed
raft which jammed into a bridge pier.
In the same locality two Italians,
named Ross and Raft, attempted to
cross the river in boat too small for
such a burden and were drowned.
Annapolis. March IS. - Governor
Smith today signed the death warrant
of Matthew Chairs, colored, who IS TO
be hanged May at Centreville, Queen
Anne's county. He was convicted OF
the murder of Solomon Roberts, the
trusted servant of Miss Sue Williams,
on her estate. The homocide is known
as the strawstack murder. Roberts
was lured to the strawstack by the wife
of Chairs and killed.
Hagerstown, March 1.-THE returns
made by the city registers of voters to
the supervisors yesterday of the total
| number of voters in Hagerstown
g Droyes. if the accepted ratio of five IN
5 habitants to each voter is applied, that
n the poDulation of the city is considera-
y blv greater than what the census made
, it-13. 591. The registers returned
total of 1892 voters in the city, which
, would make the population, il the
r above rule we're applied, 1850
Ie Cambridge, March 1.-THE Diamond
d State Telephone company, which
bought out the lines of the Dorcheste
Telephone company, has finished tn
is work of rebuilding the system in Cam
ly bridge and Dorchester, and have pu
at the entire system in good working or
TO- der. Metallic circuits have replace
no the old system of ground circuits an
- general improvements have been mau'
10 There are $50 subscribers IN Can
III bridge. 100 of which are long distanc
70 phones.
ii. Baltimore. March 18.-Mrs. Mary P'
ed sen, aged 60 was burned to death ye'
Of terday in her home, 1924 North Dunca
I'm allev. While alone in the house Mr.
10 Posen filled a coal oil lamp. 1t
thought that some OF the oil was Spite
on her dress, and that while standlr
in front of a stove in the kitchen h
a
bor attracted by the wOman's cream
entered the house Mrs. POsen was sin
ing to the floor in a mass OF flame
and died in few minutes afterwar
Nothing else in the room was damag
by the flames.
Boyds. March 18.-Dr. Franklin
Baltimore. a veterinary expert, visit
OW the farm of Arthur Williams, ne
Jacksonville, where IA horses are
Tx and three dead from what was thous
tba was spinal meningitis. DR.. FRANK
saws they are sick with with is call
inS spinal anemia, a blood poisoning
eX- the spine, caused by eating decay
for substances, such as rotten straw, mu
,,cb hay or corn, and that once attach
there is little chance of a cure. 1t
anu not contagious, and is caused by
1t animals eating bad food. It has
the lieved farmers in the neighborhood
all a good deal of anxiety.
the Denton, March 17.-Henry '. Gre
49, aged SO. died at the county almsho
tue Friday He was known all over
fur county as General" and was popu
this He lost much money by the indors
leen of notes for friends, it is said, and
n to his old age was compelled to put h
i, ~ self in the care of the superintend
80 of the county farm. He was con
'N'" BILE in Caroline county when the
stitution of 1850 was adopted, abol
ing Imprisonment for debt. He ha
claim for considerable amC
against a man about that time. Sh
" afterward he met the man on
highway and asked for the amo
but was refused The man said: .
can't lock me up now for the debt,
the same time fourishing a large
of money. General" Green at
grappled with the man. threw hlI
the ground. holding him there,
took the money which was due
He then wrote a receipt on the 7
trate man for the amount of his cl
and returned the balance to the
cts of the debtor.