Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-02-06

Will meet some Otners IN race tnat month
The two others on the committee are G. g..
McNulty, of Monterey, Va, and R. W. Nc.
Crum, Of Lexington.
The second annual fair and oyster supper
of Forest Oak Lodge, No. 1873, K. of P. will
be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb
ruary 18th and 18th, at Masonic Hall, Gath.
ersburg. Good old.time dinner and supper
each day, beginning at 1890 o'clock. Off,
cial drill scene Thursday evening at 8
o'clock. 1t will be we'll worth your while
attending to see the prettily adorned booths.
Mr.. Cyrus Keiser, Jr., of Bethesda, this
county, is now at the Slbley Hospital, Wash.
ington, where he was taken on Monday
afternoon last to undergo an operation for
appendicitis. The operation took place at
the hospital Monday evening, lasting about
two hours. 1t proved successful, and from last
reports the young man is resting easily. His
friends are anxiously awaiting the outcome.
He is the youngest son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus
Keiser, whose home is at Alta Vista, near
Bethesda.
The remains of Sergt. VIM. B. Warthen,
of Damascus, who was killed accidentally
at Fort Clark, Texas, on January Slst, were
buried at Damascus with military honors.
The remains came TO Mt. Airy from Fort
Clark and were conveyed over the road 10
Damascus, eight miles distant, where they
were inferred in the Methodist cemetery.
He was a member of Troop g, Twelfth
United States Cavalry, and while riding
was thrown from his horse and so badly
injured that he died shortly afterward.
The remains of Joseph L. Walters, pub.
lie school teacher at Cropley, who died last
week of typhoid fever, were buried In the
Presbyterian cemetery at Jamestown on
Saturday morning last. Mr.. Walters for
merly lived near Darnestown. He married
Miss Ruby Holland, of this county, less than
five weeks ago. The services were conduct.
cd by Rev. W. H. Stone, resident pastor.
The funeral was very largely attended. The
pallbearers were William Richter, Bruce
Hoskinson, Brooke Jones, B. Vinson, Viii.
fred Offutt, Clyde Griffith and Gwynne
Harriss.
The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra
from New York, with j ]. Duss, conductor,
Nine. Nordica and Edouard DeReske solo
lists, is being rapidly booked by Its manager,
R. E. Johnston, for tour during the month
OF May 10 the principal cities oil the coun-
try as far West as Omaha. Engagements
have already been contracted for at Buffalo,
Cleveland, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, De.
troit, Troy, Reading, Hartford, Kansas City,
Topeka, St. Paul and Baltimore. The COM
bination will appear at Music Hall, Balti-
more, in a grand musical festival the even
ing of May LIST. 1t will be the musical
event of the season.
The Merchants and Manufacturer Asso-
citation, recently organized here, held meet
ing last Friday evening. Plans looking TO
the establishment here OF one or more fac.
tories were discussed and the opinion was
general that the prospects for building up
the business of the town are bright. 1t was
decided to inquire upon what terms certain
manufacturers would be willing to remove
their plants here, and reports will be heard
at the next meeting. II nothing can be &C.
complished in this way, 1t is understood, the
association will endeavor TO start a stock
company and establish an overall factory.
The jury of inquest which assembled at
Sandy Spring on the night of January 9th
to investigate the death of Robert Snowden,
colored, who was shot in the abdomen on
the night of January nth by John Curry,
also colored, and who died In Garfield Hos
pital, Washington, January Gath, after view
ing the remains, adjourned until Monday,
when they were reassembled by Justice
Reading, of Rockville. After hearing the
evidence of DR.. Linthicum, OF this place,
who assisted in the autopsy, and two color
ed men who were with the party when the
shooting occurred, the jury rendered yer
dict shat Snowden died from a pistol shot
fired by Curry" but all the evidence pointed
TO the fact that Curry and Snowden were
friends and that the shooting was, in all
probability, accidental.
DR.. ID. 4 Salmon, chief OF the Bureau Of
Animal industry, who has returned to Wash
ington from Boston, where he superintendent
the fight against the ioot-and- mouth cpl
demlc, says that about 8, 900 animals already
have been slaughtered in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hamp
shire, and that the indemnity the govern
ment has paid the owners aggregates over
100000 There were 2671 head OF stock
killed IN Massachusetts, the indemnity in
that State amounting to $S2,S42. He says
that unless new cases should develop it Is
probable that most Of the quarantine re
strictions now existing will be removed in
about sixty or ninety days. Not single
case Of the disease has been reported from
any point outside ofNew England, although
a general spread was feared at the inception
OF the epidemic.
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