Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-10-02
MARYLAND STATE NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Gathered FroT
All Sources.

larged for lighting and heating pur
poses.
Several Canadian Indian women are
singers in the Salvation Army squad a.
EaSton.
Mrs. George A. Ash. who has beer
quite i'll at her home, Holly Hall, Elk
ton, with appendicitis, is greatly I'M
proved.
Congressman Jackson has given a
fine building for hospital at Sails.
bury. and the cornerstone will be laid
on his birthday, October I3.
Miss Letitia McMullen, the young
daughter OF the late John F. McMul-
len, is believed to be recovering, after
desperate illness, from typhoid fever.
William F. Spangler, who disappear
ed from Williamsport, has returned
home after three months absence, un
able to tell anything about his wander
ingS.
Thornton Cooper. colored, employ
ed by Mr.. Charles Heitmuller, truck
or near Chillum, Prince George S
county, shot and instantly killed Harry
Warner, also colored, at picnic one
mile cast of Muirkirk
This has been a prosperous year III
Talbot county for all crops except hay,
which was a failure, as it most ire
quently is. except on the small areas
adapted to grass. The yield OF wheat
was surprisingly good--say 20 to IS
bushels to the acre planted The corn
crop is large and weather conditions
we're favorable to cure the fodder. La
Dor conditions are very unsatisfactory.
The negro farm hands refuse to work
Tor $I.5o a day. They herd in the
towns and many OF them say they 40
not have to work. and they don't
Some get pensions, some make then
women work, and all contrive to live
IN some way or other without work
A number of farmers brought Bohc
mians from Baltimore and put then
IN the fields cutting corn. They make
good workmcn, but the negro is the
natural un.killed laborer OF this coun
.ry. Politics and public schools, how
ever, have caused distastc for the
fields The fruit crop OF Talbot thu
year is good and the tomato crop wa
larger, with higher prices for thu
grower, than ever before.
The Calvert County School Boart
has ordered air-tight stoves in which
to burn wood for heating all thu
school buildings in the county. and dis
penscd with the use of coal entirely
The public offices in Prince Fredericl
will also follow the example of tn
School Board and use wood for heating
purposes. Stoves for burning woo'
are being put up generally, and as !
waiter OF fact no coal Of any conSe
quencc will be used in the county th'
coming winter The increased de
mand for enlarged wood piles will Civ
laborers constant employment; so th
strike in the coal regions is not worry
ing the people Of Southern MARYLAND
to any great extent and they are no
going to suffer either in consequence
ct it.
Although the entire amount OF SIS,
600 capital stock of the Baltimore ant
Chestcrtown Trolley Line Compan,
has been subscribed. it now looks a.
though the incorporators must abandon
the enterprise, thereby losing their Tor
felt OF $2,5oo to the county. Only fou
persons along the proposed route be
tween ChcStcrtown and Rock Hall vi;
Tolchester are willing to offer right
OF way while number who had made
such offers have withdrawn their ten
der of land. To condemn and pay fo'
the right OF way would cost $4,000, ar
amount which the hackers OF the Ell
terprise refuse to pay
Dill No,.t E,et Cor,
county, aged IS years, committed sill
eide by drowning himself in the NORTH
East river He had been drinking
heavily OF late and told several friends
he was tired OF living and was going
down to the river and end his life
He took off all his clothing, jumpc
into the water swan out some distance
and was seen to turn around. as II he
intended to come back to the shore.
when he sank out OF sight. His bo.
was recovered He was woodchop.
per. a veteran OF the Civil War and q
pensioner.
Joseph II. Savin, residing five miles
from Centrevile, purchased a bull at
a recent sale and lett it in field, when
he sent young man by the name OF
Cronshaw after him. After securing
the bull and while driving it home the
animal turned and poked Mr. Cronshaw
several times with its horns, whcreupon
the Young man picked up stone and
struck the bull in the head with IT, kill
ing the animal instantly. The bull was
4 thoroughbred
Professor Hammel superintendent OF
the Manual Training Schools OF the
State OF Maryland, was in Crisfield in
spectng the Manual Training School
| there. The new building is frame
two-story shinglc roof building and is
ioined to the High School Manual
Training, has only been extended from
the senior second to the fifth grade thus
lar. Prof. Spencer c. Still has charge
of this department.
A new bank barn of ]. c. Burk, at
Path Valley, Washington county was
hurued. together with the contents, in
,luding live stock. Loss $4,000, partly
insured.
Sunday, October 5. is set for the ded,
cation OF the monument to Gen. fh''':.
Reed, the hero of Caulk's field, in Kent
county. Hon. William M. Marine, OF
Baltimore. will deliver the address.
The body of a youth, aged Y years.
lound along the tracks of the Phlladei'
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
i road, near Perryville. Cecil county was
identified as that of Joseph Miller sor
OF George w. Miller, of Wilmington
Del.
The dwelling of Harry S. Ditto. near
Drv Run. Washington county. was de.
troycd by fire, together with nearly all
The furniture. The family escaped in
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