Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-01-25
MARYLAND NEWS
In SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Over the State.
BAD ACCIDENT ON N. Y.P.N. RAILROAD
Happy Reunion After Twenty.Six Years Alb.
scncs-E Eastern Shore Trust Company
Hanging OF Henry Boyd. Coiored-Legisla.
ture Will Be Asked to Exempt From Taxa
ton New Railroad Line-Penslous Granted.

ton New Railroad Line-Pensions Granted.
Pensions granted Marylandcrs: Sam
,cl II. Pyle. Denton. So: Henry II.
Jones. Chance. 50: John Michael. Oak
land. So; Samuel o. Love- Baltimore.
sI2; Samuel G. Butler. Baltimore. $40:
George Witt. Mount Savage So; Rita
Amy Smith. MISSIONER. So: Mary |.
Smith, Dulaney's Valley SIe; John Oar
ling. North East. $40; Catherine Hebron,
Annapolis. So minor OF Silas Holly,
Baltimore. $40.
Harry g. Travcr OF townsville.
Washington county. sentenced TO Is
months in the House OF Correction for
assaulting DR. w 5. Richardson Tor al
legged familiarity when shaking hands
with Fravcr'S wife. was pardoned by
! Governor Smith.
IIarilc Bros. liagerstown. fed IS
voting hogs - days. in which time they
gained $40 pounds When sold they
weighed $500 pounds.
Levin Bounds. baggage master on the
New York. Philadelphia and Norfolk
Railroad. had both legs crushed below
| the l:necs while uncoupling 4 car ut
| Princess Anne attached 10 the Norfolk
/
same train TO the Peninsula Hospital. at
! Salisbury. where il was found necessary
! 10 amputa;c both legs He is 4 son OF
| George I. Bounds oil Princess Anne. and
Is 30 years old. He had been i'll the en-
| ploy Of the road for more than , years.
On Sunday two strangers called at the
| howc OF Joseph ID. kretsingcr. al Edge
| mont. asking for something to eat. Mrs.
! l. t,Ii- tho ,,,a, ,,,.n the string
| room and went to the kitchen to prepare
meal for them. After they were i'll the
| house some time they revealed them
selves 10 her as her brothcrS-Michael
and William NJ Weller. OF Titfin, Ohio.
| Mrs. Krc:Singer had not seen them Tor
! - years. The reunion was happy one.
The Eastern Shore Trust Company. OF
Cambridge has organized branch at
| Hurlocl; and opened an Office there. with
{. G,,y LcComptc in charge. The direc-
tors are McsSrs. Fora IL. Bimsfeld.
Vaughan 5. NickcrS. Jesse Dennis. OF
Preston Walter NJ Wright. of Chop
tank: benjamin Carroll and Thomas |.
Wright. OF Hurlocl Mr. Bimsicld is
| president OF the Hurlock branch.
Henry Boyd. the negro murderer, who
! killed Martha Olcn i'll Prince Georges
county Angus, last. paid the penalty
OF his crime by hanging i'll the jail yard
at Upper Marlboro. The drop fell ex-
actly at O'Clock. and the negro was
! dead i'll less than 10 minutes. His neck
was dislocated. The execution was one
OF the most orderly and successful that
ever took place in Upper Marlboro.
The Maryland Legislature will be
asked to exempt from taxation for 4
period OF years the proposed railroad line
i'll the counties of Caroline. Dorchester.
! Wicomco and Worcester The land
owners along the line OF the proposed
railroad are reported TO be willing to
give the railroad sufficien, land for the
location OF its track and dcpots.
The stockholders OF the recently or
ganizcd First National Bank OF Grants
vile. elected c. II. Jennings president
L. NJ. Staunton. vicc-preSident; ]. 5.
| Hcrsberger. DIR. G.. c. Keller. w. a.
Hitchins. Eli Stanton and Frank Watts.
directors. John o. Getty was appoint
! cd cashier.
Owing to the critical illness OF Mrs.
! South. wife OF Election Supervisor Chas.
| g. South. Funksiown. Washington coun-
| ". the wedding OF their daughter Miss
! Esther South. 10 Rev ID. Howard Mar
lin. OF Baltimore. has beef postponed
A special election will be held in Ken
Sington. Montgomery county. January
p. 10 decide the question OF bonding the
town Tor 5000 to complete the sidewalk
system. kenSington Is 4 thriving and
. progressive town. practically suburb OF
I Washington city.
After ncarly two years OF arduouS
labor the heading OF the grea; tunnel on
The Baltimore and Ohio cut off al Pinto
is nearly driven through; only 500 OF the
400 feet are yet TO be driven.
\ Baltimore and Ohio brakeman
named Nicholson. was knocked By a
helper engine from the switch to the
main track while shifting cars near Gar
rcit and run over by passenger train
and killed.
Theodore Schwinkcy. shoemaker OF
Centrevillc, who had been missing since
| Christmas, is back again in his old quar-
tiers. He says he went 10 Philadelphia
and was not lost.
The open winter and the absence OF
snow for any length OF time has been
very hard on the growing whea, in
! Washington county. and farmers are pre-
dieting short crop.
Benjamin Watkins. aged - years. was
badly hurt by the caving in OF an en-
bankmcnt upon him while at work on the
Naval Academy grounds at Annapolis
Rev ]. NJ. Tombaugt. pastor OF the
First United Brethren Church in Ha-
/ gerstown. resigned 10 accept call 10
Pttsburg
ID. ]. Swartzentruber has removed
from Centralia. Mo, TO Gortncr. and will
start a drain tilling factory
\ branch OF the Washington County
Free Library has been established at
Sharpsburg.
y largely attended farmers institute
was held at Woodsboro
The Court OF Appeals handed down
! decisions affecting the Che apcakc and
Ohio Canal. the statute OF Limitations.
street car accidents and the garbage cart
contract.
1t is proposed to impose 4 dog tax in
Kent county.
\ bullet that buried itself in the arm
OF George NJ Biddlc. OF Elkton. three
! years ago. has been found by the Use OF
the Nray.
The Westminster Fire Department
which did not have fire call all last
year. held its annual election and ban
quet