Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-08-14
NO. 20.
MARYLAND STATE NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Gathered From
All Sources.

Is. McEldOn, Baltimore, 20; lalNl1 Up
hold, dead, Friedsvillc, $.4; VIM. Ede.
lin, Linden, So; Thomas Mitchell, Bal.
timore. $I2; Nancy b, Uphold, Friends.
vile, So; John II. Denimes, Baltimore
So; Catherine Bell, Hagcrstown, 81;
Catherine Myers, Baltimore, SIS; Ami"
r. Kirby Baltimore, So; Henry ling e.
Berlin So Charles J. Williams, Park.
ton, So; Henry Anderson, CordoEa -;
Samuel Tasco, Lorelcy, 50; William J.
Tydings, Baltimore, $I2; Wihclnnlna
Schminger, Baltimore, So; John H.
Griglcy, Baltimore, 50: John Blanchard,
Baltimore, $6 Susan J. Murry, Halti-
more, $S; Mary T. Holden, llagcrs-
town, 8. Increase, Reissue, etc.--Madt-
son Rix. Davidsonvillc, So; Stephen
Purncl, Baltimore, SO.
Mr.. Thomas Markell died in Fred
erick, aged 81 years.
The striking bricklaycrs and masons
on Naval Academy work in Annapolis
carried their point and returned tn
work.
Mr.. Frank G. Adams has been pro-
NOTED to be circuit manager OF all the
telegraph lines along the entire Ba!tl-
more and Ohio system, with headquar-
tcrs in Baltimore.
1t is pretty generally considered now
that Kent county will have no Demo
cratic candidate for the Congressional
nomination and that in the convention
Kent will cast her vote for Philemon
B. Hopper, OF Queen Anncs county;
Congressional primaries Will be he'd
in Kent August %, and the county con
vention August 70,
Norman Brown, OF Cecil county,
freight brakeman on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
was killed near Gray's Ferry by his
own train lie was standing OH the
rack in the rear OF his train, which i'll
lacking knocked him down. lie was
90 years of age and a son OF street,
Brown. station agent of the Ph1adcl'
rha and Baltimore Central Railroad at
Liberty Grove. Cecil county,
An official OF the Western Maryland
Railroad who is believed to be in po-
siton to know, makes the statement
that not over IS per cent. OF the trclEh.
that now passes over the Western
Maryland Railroad via Cherry Run will
be diverted to the Cumberland Valley
bv way of Martnsburg, and that con
sisting principally OF coal traffic; 1t IS
claimed that the Blue Ridge Dispatch,
Southern Dispatch, Central States Dis
patch and all other business specially
routed over the Western Maryland can
not be diverted to the Cumberland Val
ley.
Miss Attic Duvall aged IS years,
daughter of William 5. Duvall, OF Bur
louisville. Montgomery county, commit
ted suicide by hanging. After d'nnccr
that day it was supposed by the family
that she went to her room to take
nap. as she had been slightly indlSpoSei
for about week, but it was aIccrtatncd
by member OF the household an hour
alter she had lett the dining room that
she was not in her room, and her iathcr
found her hanging in the attic OF the
residence. She had made a rope. by
twisting a sheet tightly, and, alter laast-
ening one end to an exposed ratteF
overhead kicked over the chair upon
which she stood, and in a few minutes
was Iiiclcss. There is no known cause
for the young lady's rash act, as she had
in no way shown a suicidal tendency
and her ndspositon, 1t is thought. was
not OF nature to produce such mania.
The more probable cause was a love al
lair.
The Catoctin furnace property, Whlch
has been the source of many legal com
plications in the past few years, Is again
offered at mortgage sale on September
TO- The final decree in these comrilG'-
tions was rendered by Chief Judge Nc
Sherry. The controversy was between
Ernest Sharp. of Baltimore, and " m
r Raincy, of New York assignee OF the
mortgage. The court dissolves the III
junction granted some time ago stop
ping the sale OF the property, and Of
derS Sharp to accept the deed OF release
for the Frederick City property. ne
cour further directs Raney to credit the
$1,000 paid some time ago on the mort.
gage indebtedness and pay the costs OF
the proceedings in equity.
J. Harris Rogers and Phillips Clark
sold to the Washington. Baltimore ana
Annapolis Electric Railway two acres
OF land in East Hyattsville for the pow
crhouse OF the trolley line. The bulld.
ing alone will cost in the neighborhood
Of $3so,ooo and the plant, when com
pleted. will compare favoraby with any
in the country OF similar nature. ne
site was selected because it was about
midway between the Washington, Bal
timore and Annapolis Railway. now
constructing. and the City and Suburban
Railway. both OF which lines Will h'
suoDlied with current from the HyattS'
vile plant.
Warner Pumphrey, aged years, son
of Mr.. VIM. X. Pumphrey, OF KocNI,
vile, who fell from the third iioor OF
his fathers house in course OF conStfuc'
ton, is in critical condition, and 1t Is
feared he cannot recover. NO bones
were broken, but he was injured inter
nally
General and Mrs. L. V. Baughman
arc visiting at Monterey, near Fen Mar.
A convention of the Cecil County
Womans Christian Temperance Union
was held at Woodlawn camp grounds
DR.. BENJAMIN r. Davidson, OF Da-
vidsonyille, Anne Arundel county, was
badly bitten on the hand by a Chesa-
peake bay dog.
Miss Mary L. Clendenin, of Wood
lawn, has been appointed assistant prin-
cipal at West Nottingham Academy at
Colora, Cecil county.
Miss Frances T. Mudd, of Hyatts-
Vile daughter of Mrs. George T..
Mudd, of Baltimore, and cousin OF Con-
gresham Sydney Z. Mudd, will be mar
ried to Mr.. James J. Kennedy, OF New
York, August 20, in ST Andrews Cath
olic Church, Baltimore.
The Deer Park Village Improvement
Society, which was organized some
years ago for the purpose OF raising
funds with which to improve the streets
and walks OF the town, held its annual
fair. There was competition Tor prizes
and awards were made Tor the best
pastry, dairy products, needIcwork ana
works of art, farm products, etc
The telephone cable connecting, keht
! Island. on the Eastern Shore. and san
l. pn;nt ON the Westcrn Shore, has