The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-07
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

dScu ~ years.
B. Allen WEIGH, clerk to the Anne
Arundel County Treasurer, has been
appointed a director in the Annapo-
lis Savings Institution in place of Ed
ward Powers, deceased
John L. Fulmer died at Feagasville,
Frederick county, aged II years.
A gas company was incorporated
in Chestertown by John D. Uric,
Charles S. Smith, W. F. Russell, w.
w. Chapman and George D. Lofand
The capital sock is $25,ooo.
The annual meeting of the Garrett
Park Civic improvement Association
of Montgomery county elected offl-
GERS as follows: George c. Ross,
president; ]. L. Defandorf, vice-presi-
dent; c. B. Sornborger, secretary; Mrs.
A. Mcmillan, corresponding secretary;
William L. Soleau. treasurer Four
additional members were elected to
The executive board, as follows: c.
F. Chisolm, F. w. Hodge, Mrs. Hart
Momsen and c. S. Montague.
In Hagerstown the Io-year-old
daughter of William Mason was run
over on the street by. heavily loaded
express wagon and badly injured.
The Retail Druggists Association,
of Talbot county, elected officers as
follows: President, Walter Hughes,
Easton; vice-president, Charles E.
Simpson, of Trappe; delegate to the
national convention, October 10, Mer-
Ger Brown.
Frank T. Taylor, colored, who was
found guilty of manslaughter for
shooting and killing Edward Bowie at
cakewalk at Ridgeville, Frederick
county, was sentenced to five years
IN the pealitentiary by Judge Nc
Sherry.
Albert Ambuster, of Baltimore, shot
and seriously wounded Mrs. Dora
Hoffman, his mother-in-law, tried to
kill his young wife, and then put
bullet through his own brain. He will
die, but his mother-in-law may re-
cover, though seriously wounded. His
wife escaped. The attempted murder
suit for divorce brought by. Mrs. Am
buster, who is only twenty-one years
! old. They were married three years
ago. She charged him with unfaith-
fulness. The court granted her ali
mony pending decision in the case
When Ambuster broke into the house
at night his wife was disrobed in her
room bending over their year-old babe
in the crib. When the infuriated man
burst into the room he fired at his
wife. She ran screaming into her
mothers apartment adjoining. This
room was dark Mrs. Hoffman was
lying on a couch AS Ambuster en-
tered she arose. and probably mis-
taking her for his wife. he fired two
shots at her, both inf1icting serious
wounds. He then fired again at his
wife, and, rushing back into the room
where the baby lay, he fired his last
bullet into his own head and fell I'M
conscious beside the child's crib.
The prizes for the best tomatoes at
the Hartford Fair were awarded as fol-
lows: First, J. Reed Jordan; second
Adam Bechtold; third, Daniel ]
Lynch. In awarding the prizes Mr.
Timms, the expert judge, said: II de-
sire to say that the average quality
Of all the tomatoes submitted was very
superior, and that there is no county
in any State in the United States,
except Hartford county, Maryland, cap
able of producing, in my judgment, SO
large a representation of high-class
canned tomatoes. There were 4e
different packs submitted, and at least
90 of these were strictly high-class
extra-quality tomatoes. | trust that
this competition will lead TO an inn
provement in the general average Of
canned tomatoes packed in your State
and I believe that if this is the case
packers will be materially benefited
financially | congratulate the winners
of the prizes, and can only say for the
benefit of those who did not win pre-
mums that it was with material diff
Guilty, and after the most thorough ex-
animation, that selected those which,
in my judgment, were entitled to
prizes on account of the high average
quality of the entire lot"
Judge John c. Motter, at Rock
vile, handed down his opinion in the
case of John D. Thornton and others
against Charles p Powers and others,
everything exceptions to the sale OF
certain property at Takoma Park, ant
ratifying and confirming the sale. II
was an action brought to have set
aside the sale of about four acres OF
land at Takoma by Messrs. Andrew
A. Lipscomb and John P. Earnest.
trustees, to Jessie L. Severance for
SI.74O an acre. 1t was urged that the
property should be held until it ad
vanced in value, but Judge Motter took
the view that the sale was very good
one for all concerned, and handed
down his opinion, as stated.
William Foster, a white man, shot
and killed Blaine Whiting, a young
negro, at A. c. Bushey's- livery sta
BILE in Grcencastle. Foster fed, and is
still at large. The shooting was the
result of a quarrel between the men,
who were both employees of the stable.
First-class Woman G, c. Fowler,
attached to the old ship Santee, at the
the Naval Academy, will be tried by
court-martial, charged with desertion.
Gertrude Forrest and Lewis F.
Beard were married by Rev. w. c.
Griffith in Hagerstown Jail, where
Beard was confined for failing to marry