Catoctin clarion., 1903-06-25
NO.. 13.
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled
Down for Rapid Reading.


$r2; Ferdinand Bradley, $40; Lewis H
Loats, John Baughman. Emory Bord'
ley, Alerius A. Bowers, Elizabeth A.
Stewart. John Honson, $I2 each; John
Way, $40; Elijah x. Baker, Henry
Muller, each Sc; Samuel O'Connor
$27; Sarah T. Hose, So; Jacob Weagly,
John J. Mashetcr, each $12; Michael
Falon. $40; Isaiah Fassett, So; yona-
than w. Kerr, Ann Matilda Fogler
each, So; Frances NJ. Smith, $40; Chas
Steiner, William Rcdman, Samuel W.
Plummcr, Thomas Gross, Martha
Cook. each $S: George E, Taylor. So.
Just as an castbound freight train
passed out of the tunnel at Point OF
Rocks. one OF the standards on the
side of the car burst loose, and the iron
girders on the car rolled from it and
dcrailed three cars Of the train, tore
tracks tip for some distance, ,strewed
the iron all over tracks and threw the
cars across tracks, blocking travel foi
three hours. Local trains for WASH
ington, ard all freight for the East
we're delayed several hours until rig
gers from Brunswick cleared the
tracks. Had the accident occur
red in the tunnel serious congestion
OF cars would have resulted as there
were some 40 loaded cars behind those
dcrailed
The principal OF the Easton Prmar,
School. w. Nicholas Willis, has beer
requested to resign at the close OF thu
school year Mr.. Willis said Il re
fuse to resign, because, to the cxtcn
OF my knowledge, no charges hav'
been laid against me, and the presr
dent of the School Board gave no othe'
reason for demanding my removal thar
that the board wanted a woman a!
principal and the salary of the pos'tlof
reduced. I can find no other caus'
for the action OF the School Boare
against me. Civil service methods.
think. should prevail in the schools
and ! will not resign for the reason
stated"
The trustees OF the Rockville Higt
School have appointed Cooke y
Luckett. principal. to succeed Prof. X
Thomas West. resigned. Professor
Luckett was for many years prlnclpa
OF the Rockville Academy. He IS
graduate of the University OF Nr
ginia
Adiutant- General Saunders announc
ed that Col Allan McLane has resign
ed as adjutant- general Of the First Brl
gade, Maryland National Guard. Com
missions in the Fifth Regiment hav
been issued as follows: I. Rclan'
Thompson. first lieutenant Company +
i. S. Whitman. first lieutenant Com
pany I; Jas. {. Landstreet: secon'
lieutenant Company l. James =. flous
ton, second lieutenant Company +; J
Clinton White, second lieutenant Com
panv T.. Second Lieutenant George J
Turner, Company B, has resigned
John A. Iroup died suddenly at NJ
home, in llagcrstown, OF paralysis. II
was found b. his wife in dying cor
dition in the yard near the stable doc
and before help arrived he expired. Il
was y years OF age.
Mr.. Thomas Redmllc, OF Kennedy
willie, Kent county, is very i'll, havn'
been stricken with paralysis,
Warren c. Oldham. son Of Mr.. Levi
c. Oldham, Of Cecil county. gradu
ated with high honors from West Not
tingham Academy, which held its on
hunderd and sixty-third annual com
mcnccmcnt on the nth inst, tie wa
awarded the Magraw money pr1ze to
mathematics and was valedlctorlan TO-
his class.
Gen. l.. Victor Baughman, chairma'
OF the Maryland commissioners tor TN
st. Louis Exposition. had a conerenc'
with some OF the chiefs OF the Agricul
tural Department in Washington aoou
the Maryland exhibit. He was accom-
panied by several scientific expert
from thi; State. The Agricultural DE
partmcnt people informed h,m tina
more wheat was grown i'll Maryland
two wears ago than was raised IN th'
great wheat belt OF South Dakota ant
that there is in Maryland harvest o,
some important crop every month "
the year
Prof George A, Steele. AM. wh'
has been principal OF public Schoo,
of Elkton Tor 10 years, has resigned
He is a graduate oi St. Johns College
Annapolis. and his entire lie has bee
devoted to school work in Cecil coun
tv. His successor has not as yet bee
elected. 49,.
At the Rockville Institutc-Mis
Lucy Simpson. principal LOUIS
Rice, OF Travlah. the only graduate
received her diploma. Premiums Il
the academic department we're aware
ed as follows: Reading, Mary Welsh
arithmetic, Virginia Ribble and tannl
Peter; algebra Lucy Simpson and Luc
Mason: spelling and dictation, Robert
Higgins: composition, Beatty Grlfhu
and Lucy Mason; ancient history
Louise Rice; English literature 10
bcrta Higgins; geometry, Lucy Slnp
SON and Louise Rice; Latin, Mildrc'
Higgins and Roberta Higgins; inu
sic, Virginia Ribblc, Anna Belle Allnutt
Roberta Higgins, Helen Packard.
The Washington County Schoo
Board has decided to increase the sal
orics of the teachers and to extend tn
school term from seven and halt II
eight months. The schools will ope'
Scptcmbcr and close May I. Inc
teachers will also be allowed So yea!
to paw tho jantors. AT present th'
teachers pay the janitors, excepting II
Hapcrstown and Hancock, where tht
School, Board pays them. The increast
in salaries. the lengthening OF th(
school term and allowance for pay O
anitors will amount to $500 to tn
teachers. The increase in teachers sala
rics ranges from S. to SIS term, bu
only two teachers get an increase
SIS.
John R. Jones, aged Is years, died a
Evansville, Frederick cohn!y, OF hear
disease. p, o
Hammond Urncr and Ely Dorse!
have been appointed receivers OF TN
Liberty Copper Mining and Mlllihh
Company. OF Frederick county, witF
bond ior $4,000
Mr. Iames w. Harry. of Hartford, ha
heen ar pointed to the chair of economic
at lrrvcrford College, Philadelphia, am
NJ ElL.n w Harry to the pOsltlOn Q