The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-04-17

last Saturday evening. Cloudy weather
prevented it's observance in this vicinity.
Mrs. Gertrude S. Mowbray, wife of
DR.. A. S. Mowbray, pastor of Tome
Memorial Episcopal Church, died at her
home at Port Deposit on Wednesday
night. She is survived by one daughter
and two sons.
AS Mr.. Samuel Lawder. of Havre de
Grace, and Miss Grace Fisher, of Perry
vile, were walking over the SuSquehanna
river bridge of the Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington Railroad, or
Thursday afternoon of last week, a fast
train bore down upon them without
notice. Mr.. Lawdcr, with great presence
of mind, caught the side of the bridge
with one hand while with the other he
held the lady until the train passed. MIR.
Lawder is confident that the cars were
so close that they brushed Miss Fishers
skirts.
On Monday J. Finney Wells, County
Treasurer, sold at public sale the proper
ty assessed to Catherine Tilden, colored,
for $40. The property assessed to the
McAtee heirs, was purchased by Sylvania
Livezey for $40. ]. S. Richardson was
the auctioneer This is remarkable
record for the Treasurer's office and
speaks well for the systematic manner in
which its business affairs have been con-
Quoted. These two sales were only made
for perfecting title, and when it is
considered that the Treasurer collects in
the neighborhood of $125, 900 the show
ing is Il remarkable one which can hardly |
be equaled by any other Treasurer S office
in the State.
The municipal election will be held
in Havre de Grace, on Monday, May 3rd.
This will be the first election to be held
under the new city charter. which chang
ed the date from the first Monday in
January to the first Monday in May,
and the mode of voting from the old
style to the Australian system. The
nomination papers were filed on Monday.
Only two tickets were placed in the field.
The new law requires a person in order
to be candidate for mayor to be assess
ed upon the books for 1000 in real es-
tate, and councilmen $500. The two
following tickets were placed in nomina-
ton: For Mayor, Clarence c. Pusey;
City Councilmen, Joseph l.. McVey, 0.
R. Currier, Samuel T. Barnes, DR.. Daniel
w. Hopkins, George X. Carver and B. n.
Coburn. The opposition ticket is-tor
Mayor, ]. William Bauer; Councilmen,
Walter H. Weber; Franz, S. Maslin, Jacob
Osmond, Jr., Hollis Courtney, Jr., W. S.
McCombs and Louis A. Vosbury.
DR. Howard A. Kelly, who has a
summer residence in Bel Air, recently
brought suit against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, for So, 900 damages
because the alleged negligence ofthe COM
pany prevented him from attending to
an important surgical operation i'll Cam
bridge on October 18th, 1902. 1t is
alleged that Dr. Kelly left Boston on the
Federal express on October 18th, and
on the train which runs through
to Baltimore without change The teie-
gram was sent from Baltimore at s
o'clock P. NJ. that day addressed to DR..
Kelly, at New Haven, Connecticut. 1t
told him to come to Cambridge the next
day to perform surgical operation of
an urgent necessity. Another telegram
was sent from Baltimore at 11.57 that
night addressed to DR.. Kelly at Trenton,
New Jersey, asking him if possible to
take the S13 train for Cambridge from
Delaware, in order to per-
form the operation. 1t is alleged that
neither telegram was delivered and DR..
Kelly came on directly to Baltimore and
that the urgent operation was not per-
formed.