Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-09-04
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
The Latest Happenings Gathered From
All Sources.

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IF Mount Savage engine; Chester NJ.
Freeman, of Baltimore. fountain pilinG:
0ttmar Mergenthaler, deceased, of Bal !.
more, linotype machine: Edward Napier,
IF Westernport, wheel clamp; Waltr,
!. Scheele. of Catonsvlle, soup material
md making same William +. Talbert
Of Funkstown, corn planter.
Maryland pensons.-Thomas J. Sho"'
maker, Union Mills. $I2; Perry Green
Baltimore, Sc: II. Handy. Marion Sta
ton, So; Benjamin Smith, Baltimore
Sra Peter Carr Baltimore, $I7: Sara
f. Brooks. Towson, So; Sallic "
Hutcheson. Baltimore, $I2; William !
Miller Thurmont $Io EImira Tc'hon
Baltimore. So; Mary +. Garner. Bait
more. So; Geo. W. Carnsh. Church
Creek, $40; Hiram Eclls, Lcwistown
ST7.
Chapel Point. looking out upon the
Potomac, was the scene OF an interest
ing meeting OF the members OF three
farmers clubs of Charles county and
their families. This annual picnic i:
one of the features oi the farmers clubs
N Charles county. The early morning
rain from Baltimore brought Mr.. VIII
<lm l.. Amos Director OF Farmers In
.titutcs, and Prof. r. w. Silvestcr
President of Maryland Agricultural
~olcgc. After indulging in the mag
ltlccnt lunch prepared by the ladie;
md the perch and rock fish furnished
oy Landlord Wills. fresh from the P"-
omac and cooked on the beach. th'
assemblage was called to order. Mr.
John p. Hamilton. OF the Bel Alton
{ lph n1o RI,
and Judge Peter W. Roby secretary.
Director Amos and President Silvcstcr
both spoke encouragingly OF the or
Canization OF the farmers OF the State.
and urged upon those assembled thu
acccssity for greater and hrmer organ
Haton than already exists. Mr. Sam
ucl Cox. Jr., president OF the Bel Alton
Farmers Club. concluded the ccre-
monies of the day in an address urging
The organization of more clubs in the
county.
The ten young men who were arrest
I'd for causing a riot at the Gospel tent
of Evangelist NJ. l.. Yeakle in HagerS-
town we're acquitted before Justice
Hoffman There were 81 witnesses.
States Attorney Poffenberger abandon
ed the case, saying the testimony was
not strong enough to convict. lhH
men arrested were George Warner. Peg
Manious, Robert Warner. Lloyd Swain.
Til Donahugh, William Burger, John
Daymude. Frank Pagan. Jacob Lorsh'
baugh and John McCann.
The case of Andrew w. Brown
against Charles +. Coffin has been re-
moved from Prince Georges to Mont
gomery county for trial 1t is suit for
$4,000 damages for alleged libel, TIL"
case was once tried in Prince George
county and the plaintiff was awarded
S2,5oo damages An appeal was taken
and the decision OF the lower court wa'
set aside and the case remanded tor
new trial.
Mr.. Jonathan Duley died August 2
at his home near Olney, i'll Montgom-
cry county. of paralysis, aged IS years
He leaves the following children: Miss
l.evie Duley of Olney and Mrs. Mar
tina r. Arnold, OF BroodcviIc. He wa
brother OF Mr.. Thomas +. Duley. ol
Philadelphia; James S. Dulcy and Sew
ell r. Duley, OF Olncy.
Miss Mary +. Poftinbcrger, aged 4c
years. died at Nyersvllc. Frederick
county, from the effects OF an overdose
OF laudanum. taken, it is supposed. tor
cramps, from which she was suffering.
She was found in an unconscious con-
dition and DR.. Browning was qulckl'
summoned. All efforts, however. Ian
ed to save her life
Charles II. Fields, he coiorcd labor
cr who was in jurcd while working ON
the new annex TO the State House, died
at the Emergency, Hospital. in An
napolis. Death was due to paralysis
blood clot having formed on the BRAIN
He is the first patient to die in the hos
ptal since it was opened.
A new Methodist Episcopal church
to cost $1,000. is being erected at Ger
mantown, Montgomery county.
The new Methodist Protestant churci'
at Mount Lebanon. near Damascus
Montgomery county, was dedicated
Rcvs. !. A. Wright and f. NJ. Gilt OF
6ciating. The church is a very hand
some structure and cost $4,000.
John S. Carr, aged "a years, whose
back and collar bone and several ribs
we're broken by jumping from a Sum
berland and Pennsylvania freight tram
died at his home at Harpersville.
Rural mail delivery from Denton las
hecn established in Caroline county.
Miss Amelia Murdock. of Washington
died at the Woodlawn Hotel Rockville
aged u years -,
Judge David w. Sloan left no will
His widow and D. Lndley Sloan have
bccn granted letters of administration or
the estate.
Devona Shank, the young girl or
whom an assault was made at hiG
Spring, Washington county. by
strange man. could not identity either
William E. Bowers or Andrew Pugh
as her assailant, who were arrested on
suspicion. =,
The academic board of the Naval
Academy recommended a number ot
additional candidates as having passed
the mental examination for admission
as midshipmen.
There was large attendance at the
Kent County and Queen Annes County
Fair at Tolchester The Judges pass
I'd upon the various exhibits.
Iudpe Thomas, in the Circuit Court
,or Carroll. sustained an objection
AGAINST the issue OF license Tor the
sale of liquor at Ridgevllle
An attempt was made to assault
t,-vrar-old daughter OF John Shank
living near Clearspring Station.
Freight Conductor Albert Waller; OF
he New York, Philadelphia and Nor
ok Railroad, received two dangerous
,eyolyer-shot wounds from weapons IN
he hands of three colorcd men he or
Tered off his train.
The Republican and Democratic
Conventions OF Dorchester County met
II Cambridge, indorsing William IT..
Jackson and William F. Appleegarth'
.espectivey, for the congressional nom
nation