Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-06-12
ALL OVER THE
STATE OF MARYLAND
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Over the State.
SHORTAGE IN THE CRAB CROP,

Money This Ycar-LdtcSt LIS! OF PcnSoh
Granted-Death OF Pess.e Adams Who Was
Accidentally Shot-Nautcal Cadets Cruising
BOY Badly Burned by Gasoline Explosion
Maryland Pensions.-William A, Hill
stone, Warwick, $40; William Sanders
Bay View, $I2; Lloyd II. Dowden, FL
lersville, $I2; Ernest Schaar, Baltimore
So; John Fesler, Hagerstown, So; jacob
Fillins, dead, Berwyn, $12; Ellen Pace
bus, New Market, $S Julia chatham
Waterbury, So; Emily J, Young, Balti'
more, So; Margaret T.. Bergman, Cum
berland, $S Jonathan W. Crum, Jetfer-
son, $40; Ephraim circuit, Hagerstown
$40; Philip Lewis of p, Sang Run, $I2;
Lewis w. Suffecool, Clear Spring, s.;
George II. Kitchens, Pocomokc City, 50;
John Brown, HagerStown, $50. Eliza }
Davis, Baltimore, S. Mary A. thomas
Halfway, So; Henry Furrow, Church
Creek, SO; Samuel Kennedy, Naplcvillc
$40; John Dcvcns, Baltimore, $40; ThoS
Green, Baltimore, $40; Charles II. Boa,
man, Homecoming. So; Anna Reahl, Bal.
timorc, $751; James Atkinson, Homecoming
So; Josiah McGraw, Cambridge. ST.; g.
Todd, Wolford $40; Thomas Dodson
dead, Cambridge, S. Dallas Thompson
Westminster, $40; Peter Layton, Bar
ton, $12.
While crabs are unusually and en-
ccedingly scarce, the trot.llnc crabborS
are doing profitable business as . con
sequence of the high prices. Last week
single crabberS made as much as SIS
There is no money in it yet, however,
for the crab packers, as they can not
get enough to run profitable force, and
the prices for stock are so high there *
very little profit in the meat, There
will, however, be plenty of crabs after
awhie-probably from the last Of June
until the cold weather stops them Tie
early crop of soft crabs i, al absolute
failure. 1t will be remembered that
after a storm last winter millions oI
live hard crabs we're found on the ChCs
apcake shores, from the Eastern bay to
Cape Charles Many barrels Of them
were gathered, shipped away and sold
at good prices. These, it it thought
were the crabs that first shed in thc
spring and reduced the multltudes N
small delicious soft crabs, which he
come so plentiful that they become very
cheap. This crop is missed this year
for the first time i'll several years.
Jack Hickman, a II year old boy. 81
GaitherShurg, was seriously injured ~
an explosion of gasoline. He was n
ssting i'll heating wagon tires at tha
shop Of John A. BurrisS < Son, when
81 F,nl- fAr ~,
of coal oil and poured over the kind|lO&
wood to speed the fire. Hickman ap
piled match and in an instant thcr.
was terrific explosion. The wood wa,
hurled into the air, the jug in the bands
Of Mr.. BurriSs broken into a hundred
pieces and Hickman was ahamc from
head to foot BY Hickman running into
nearby house the fire was cN'm
Guished. DR.. f. c EtchiSon was sum.
moned and found the boy ScrioGslv
burned about the head and face
The foundations Tor the marine CT
gincering and naval construction build
ing at he Naval Academy have been
completed Contract for constructing;
the building has been awarded to the
Noel Construction Company. OF Balli
more, the lowest bidder. Their bid was
$'50oOo, but the specifications will be
changed so as to reduce the amount to
S2S5ooo and SO cover all expenses for
construction. The next contract to be
awarded will he for the officers quar-
tiers Noel & Thomas, OF Baltimore, are
building the cadet quarters.
Bernard Ollcr who accidentally shot
Bessie Adams. 10 years old, i'll Wayncs
boro, Pa. while shooting SparrowS, fled
to Hagerstown Policeman WicSncr ar
rested young Oler in bed at the Hotel
Hamilton at o'clock in the morning
and locked him up at Police Hcadquar-
tiers. Chief OF Police Lambcrton, OF
Wayncsboro, arrived with a warrant and
took Ollcr back to Wayncsboro. The
little girl, who was shot in the side, is
dead. Young Ollcr did not see the girl
who was about 200 feet away when he
shot.
The Maryland Nautical Academy ha:
ended its term. Last week commence
mcnt exercises were held and school
closed with a ball Fifty COW 'cs partic
patcd. \ large bugcyc was chartered
and the cadets are cruising for three
Charles to Baltimore. The students are
from all sections of the country, some
as far West as Montana. Several OF
them have received appointments to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis,
The sum of $2174.77 was raised by the
First Baptist Congregation of Hagcrs-
town toward paying off mortgage debt
Of $1,000 Among the contributors were
Robert c. Davidson. Baltimore, who
cave 500. and McsSrS. Joshua lowering
and Eugene LeverinG, of Baltimore. who
each gave $50. At Beaver Creek Wash.
incton county. new Christian church
cdi6cc will be built. to cost about $40
900 Rev. w. S. Hoyc is the pastor,
The Watson-Loy Coal Company,
owner of 1900 acres Of coal lands near
Barnum. w. Va lying on the Garrett
county side of the river, has sold Its
holdings to the Weston-Dodson Coal
Company, of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Thomas c. Galbrcath, who re-
signed as school examiner of Hartford
county, intends taking a post graduate
course at either Hopkins or Harvard
His successor will not be chosen until
the first Wednesday in July.
The American miners at the New
York Mine have decided to resume work
|, The Italians, about I25 in number, have
been discharged.
Contests in clocution for the Norment
prizes took place at the Western Mary
land College between the sophomores and
freshmen.
Mr.. George Smith Webster, of the
Third District Of Hartford county, died
Of general debility.
The annual class day exercises were
held at the Maryland Agricultural Col