Evening star., 1902-02-17
BOYD'S AND VICINITY.
Baltimore and Ohio improvements
General Notes Of Interest.
ciai Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BOYD'S. Md February 16. 1902.
The taxpayers of this section OF Mont
| gomery county are hoping that the delega-
| ton from the county to the present session
of the legislature will have a bill passed to
have appointed county treasurer to col
lect the taxes. to suppant the present sys-
tenn of collecting by persons appointed by
the county commissioners; also the people
want the county treaSurers elected by the
people 1t is understood Mr.. johnson OF
the Montgomery county delegation will in
| troduce such bill, and that when it reach
| es the senate it will receive the hearty sup
port of Senator Jones, from this county.
Mrs. Nora Shannon, daughter of Mr.. ).
W. Knott. farmer of this vicinity, yester-
day secured a verdict Of $4,000 in her suit
against the Ohio River railroad, in the
courts at Parkersburg, w. Va, for the
killing of her husband. George Q. Shan
non. as result of the explosion of naphtha
in the yards at Parkersburg. where he
worked as a telegraph operator for that
railroad. Young Shannon was blown to
pieces and a number of other railroad men
were killed Mrs. Shannon resides with her
| father. Her husband wis killed In July,
1900.
On the improvements along the main line
| Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at
| Mount Airy the heading of the tunnel was
yesterday broke through and the two
gangs met in or about the center Of the
| tunnel which is about three -fourths Of a
mile in length and from eighty to one hun
| dred feet down under the earth and rocks.
| 1t runs almost directly under the little
| town of Ridgeville Frederick county. The
| two gangs will now go back over their
| work and make the tunnel the required
| width and depth for double track. 1t will
| be finished for use about September /. All
| the local passenger trains and way freights
will run through the tunnel and use a
| short road to the old roadbed at Mount
| Airy in order to give them train service as
usual
| The changes in the roadbed which were
to have taken place at Monrovia Sunday
| last, as mentioned in The Star last week,
will have to be postponed until spring or
until thaw sets in. Douglass Bros, the
| contractors for the work at Monrovia, had
small strike on hand this week, on ac-
count of docking the men for six hours the
time consumed in waiting for a ballast
| train. SiXty-five men quit and stayed out
for day or so. but thirty went back to
work. Finally Mr.. Douglass took the others
| to Frederick Friday last paid them off and
discharged them from the service.
An emigrant on the second section of
/, train No. s. that left Washington at u:3O
| yesterday morning for the west, lost his
| ticket from the car window at Gaithersburg
| and Operator Mahan found it, The ticket
read from Philadelphia to Cleveland, Ohio
via Pittsburg and Akron The conductor Of
| the train was notified.
/ Mrs. James A. Boyd and Miss Sarah B.
Maughlin, who have been touring Florida
| and the bahama Islands the past four
| weeks. returned home last night. They
| were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs Conrad
| Miller of Nazareth Pa, who also returned
Fire caught this morning in the roof Of
/ the home of Mr.. Jacob Rube Of this place
and came near destroying it. Fortunately
| one of the children was in the back yard
and saw the roof In full blaze and by the
determined efforts Of the family the fire
| was extinguished. but not until nearly half
the roof was burned off. The fire was due
| to defective fiue.