The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-08-19
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

for the purchase of the Continental
Theatre, in Annapolis
Mrs. Galloway Cheston, near Har-
wood Postoffice, West River, Anne
Arundel county, has cat farm. where
she raises the famous Angora cats,
which are valued at prices ranging
from SIS to $780, Exceptional speci-
mems of Angoras command much high
er prices than this in large cities. The
cats in order to be of standard color
should be blue, black, white or tor
toise-shell The blues are especially
treasured. Mrs. Cheston began the
raising of cats several years ago with
fewer than half a dozen. She was
ridiculed at first, but since then she
has become the owner of 80 Angoras.
One of her collection at first was Duke
a full brother of King Manx. a cele-
brated Boston prize winner, for the
sale of which its owner refused an
offer of $4,000. Mrs. Cheston finds
pleasure in caring for the cats, and
, she has already found market for
them and profit in raising them.
Mr.. Newton S. Cook, of Hagers-
town, is in a Baltimore hospital tor
treatment. Several days ago he was
taken suddenly i'll while searching in
vault in the court hourse and fell
in a faint.
Rev. D. Bruce Fitzgerald, wife and
child are visiting Brightwater, the
residence of Mrs Kate E. L. Virdin,
mother of Mrs. Fitzgerald, at Lapi-
dunn, Hartford county.
The new court house of Somerset
county, for which contract has been
awarded to w. P. Pusey & Son, OF
Snow Hill, will be built for $2S,45I.
Mr.. John Tydings, aged Sc years.
formerly round sergeant of police in
Annapolis, committed suicide in his
bedroom, using 44-calibre revolver.
He fired one shot through the lower
part of his left breast, from the eff
fects of which he died IS minutes
later. DR.. w. Clement Claude was
summoned Immediately. Tydings was
still conscious, but was beyond all
human aid. "I'm dying, Doctor" he
said. please inject something that
may pass away easily" Asked why
he shot himself, he said: "I'm in
Trouble" A few moments afterward
he was corpse. No reason can be
assigned by the family for the deed.
except melancholia, in which state
he. had been more or less since he lost
his position on the police force, about
four years ago. He had had no setady
employment since that time.
Mrs. Annie Day, wife of Mr.. Daniel
B. Day, of Rockville, met with pain
full accident at her home. She was
taken i'll in her bedroom on the second
floor of hef home and went to the
window to get fresh air While sit
ting on the window sill she tainted
and fell to the ground below The
noise of the fall brought assistance
and it was found that, while no bones
were broken, she sustained painful
bruises and was rendered unconscious
for a while
Mr.. James Woodheld, aged so years
committed suicide at his home near
Drinks postoffice, in Montgomery
county, by hanging himself with
piece OF cotton rope in his wagon shed
few yards from his house. He had
been in i'll health and melancholy for
some time. He was strangled to
death and his corpse, yet warm, was
discovered by his wife.
A scholarship in the Maryland In
stitute has been awarded by the
Frederick county School Commission
ers to Miss Lois McKinsey, daugh-
ter of Folger McKinsey, of Baltimore
Decorators, paperhangers and paint
ers are at work on the Executive
Mansion in Annapolis, under the d.
rection of S. w. Brooks & Co., OF
Baltimore. The whole interior of the
house will be freshened and put in
complete repair.
DR.. Marshall L. Price, assistant to
DR.. John S. Fulton, secretary to the
State Board of Hath, is investigating
the typhoid epidemic at Mount Saw
age.
The tongers of Dorchester county
were much surprised to find that chap
ter 522 of the acts of the last Legis-
lature has changed the date of the
opening of the oyster season from
September I to September IS. AS
the acts have not yet been printed
is it not known whether the date has
been changed for Talbot county or
not. but if there is no change for
Talbot the oysterman of that county
will have the whole of the Choptank
river to themselves for the first two
weeks of the oyster season.
J. Frank Turner, of Easton, has
SOiu tnc wings Landing IdInl, III LAR
oline county to Messrs. Berger &
Worm, of Long Island. These men
contemplate using the premises for
the extensive raising of ducks of all
kinds. The farm is situate upon river
and has fine shore.
The IS monuments to be dedicated
by Pennsylvania on Antietam battle
field September II are to the following
Pennsylvania regiments: Forty-hftf.
Forty-eighth. Fiftieth, Fifty-frst, One
Hundredth. One hundred and Twenty
fourth, One Hundred and Twenty
fifth, One Hundred and Twenty
eighth, One Hundred and Thirtieth,
One Hundred and Thirty-second. One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Infan-
try, Twelfth Cavalry and Darrelps
Battery. Gov Edwin Warfeld, of
Maryland, will not be able to go TO
Antietam on September ~ because
that is the date of Maryland Day at
the St. Louis Exposition. Gov. Sam
uel w. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania,
however, will be there. Among 9TH
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