Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-12
EVANSVILLE AND VICINITY.
Col. Rives Suffers Paralytic Stroke
John Gregory Loses an Arm.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
EVANSVILLE. December IL. 1904.
Col Wright Rives of Rives Station. suf-
fered a slight paralytic stroke recently. He
is reported to be out of danger
Mr.. Richard Hardesty. one OF the best
known citizens of the county, died recently
at his home near Collington, aged forty
eight years.
Mr. John c. Sheriff of Landover has been
appointed judge of the orphans court for
Prince Georges county, vice his father,
Judge Dionysfus 7. Sheriff. deceased. Judge
r. Irving Bowie has been designated as
chief Judge OF the court vice Sheriff, de-
ceased.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Frances s. Hopkins Of Port Deposit to Mr..
Richard Burnett Darnall of West River
Anne Arundel county. son of Mr.. Frank
Hall Darnall, who occupies a part Of the
original Portland Manor granted to Col.
Henry Darnall, who came over with the
Calverts.
J. l.. Waring and Alice NJ Sansbury
have been appointed administrators of the
estate of the late A. b. Sansbury of West
phalia, this county, whose death was an
nounced In The Star several days since.
The will of the late Robert +. Ryon has
been admitted to probate at Upper MARI
boro'.
ordered that the register of wills request
delinquent executors and administrators to
appear before the court and pass their ac-
counts as required by law, or to show
cause why they should not do so. A failure
to comply with this request VIII be followed
by citation.
Mr.. John w. Gregory. aged sixty years.
of Seat Pleasant, met with horrible ac-
cident recently which resulted in the loss
of his left arm. While working about n
machine for cutting feed for stock his cloth
ing became entangled in the apparatus and
his arm was gradually drawn under the
blade. Pieces of the arm were clipped on
at each descent of the blade until the ell
bow was reached.
Governor Warfield. president ex-officio of
the board of trustees of the Maryland Agrf-
cultural College, presided at a largely at
tended meeting of the trustees held at the
college Friday afternoon. Other trus-
tees present were: State Treasurer Murray
yandiver, State Controller Atkinson. Speak
er Everhardt, Messrs. Stanley. Seibert,
Purnell Slagle Councilman Monroe Evans,
Hill, Goldsborough and Merryman. The
board received Thos. A. Smith, representa-
tive-elect from the first congressional dis
trict; Gen. Ferdinand c. Latrobe, ana other
members of the board of state aid and
charities. who came to see the new build
ings at the college, the appropriation for
which was strongly recommended by them
to the last legislature.
The board appointed Prof. VIM. H. HUT
of Canada to the position of state horti-
culturist.
The contractors reported the completion
of the new administration building, and q
meeting of the building committee will be
held in Baltimore Tuesday to accept
confer with the governor and to ask him
to use his influence to have the agricultural
museum located at the college. The Mary
land agricultural exhibit at the worlds fair
The board and members OF the faculty
and staff of the experiment station were
entertained at a collation.. over which Gov
ernor Warfield presided.