Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-08-18
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

man, of Philadelphia, are negotiating
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 5000. Exceptional s,peci-
mems of Angoras command much high
err 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 ceie'
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 a market tor
them and profit in raising them.
Mr.. Newton S. Cook OF Hagers-
town, is in a Baltimore hospital tor
treatment Several days ago ne was
taken suddenly i'll while searching IN
vault in the court hourse and tell
in faint. !,
Rev. D. Bruce Fitzgerald, wife and
child are visiting Brightwater, the
residence of Mrs. Kate E. L. Vlrdin,
mother of Mrs. Fitzgerald, at Lapi-
DUN, 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 $28,45I.
MIR. John Tydings, aged So years,
formerly a round sergeant OF police IN
Annapolis, committed suicide in his
bedroom, using a 44-calibre revolver
He fred one shot through the lower
part of his left breast. from the Ell
iects of which he died IS minutes
later. DR.. w. Clement Claude was
summoned Immediately. TydlngS 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 III
trouble" A few moments afterward
he was a corpse No reason can be
assigned by the family for the deed,
except meiancholla, 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 her 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 while.
Mr.. James Woodheld, aged so years
committed suicide at his home near
Drinks postotiicc, in Montgomery
county, by hanging himself with a
piece of cotton rope in his wagon she'd
few yards from his house. tie 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
stitutc has been awarded by the
Frederick county School Commission
crs to Miss Lois McKinsey, daugh-
ter OF Folgcr McKinsey, OF Baltimore.
Decorators, papcrhangcrs and paint
crs are at work on the Executive
Mansion in Annapolis, under the di-
rcction OF S. w Brooks & Co, of
Baltimore. The whole interior Of the
house will be frcshencd and put i'll
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 Say
age.
The tongers OF Dorchester county
were much surprised to find that chap
ter 522 OF the acts Of the last Lcgis-
laturc has changed the date OF the
opening OF the oyster season from
September to September IS. As
the acts have not yet been printcd
is it not known whether the date has
been changed for Talbot county or
not, but il there is no change for
Talbot the oyStcrman 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
sold the Wings Landing farm. in Car
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 a fine shore.
The ~ monuments to be dedicated
| by Pennsylvania on Antletam battle
field September u are to the following
PcnnN ylvania repimrntS FOrty-hfth.
Forty eighth. Fifticth. Fifty first, One
TIundrcdth. One hundred and Twenty
fourth One Hundred and Twenty
fifth. One Hundred and Twenty
eighth One Hundred and Thirtcth,
One Hundred and Thirty second, One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Infan-
try. Twelfth Cavalry and Darrell's
Battery Gov Edwin Warfcld, Of
MARYLAND. will not be able to 90 to
Antictam on September y because
that is the date Of Maryland Day at
the St Louis Exposition. Gov Sam
uel w Pcnnvpackcr, of Pennsylvania.
however, will be there, Among 9th
crs expected are Brig-Gcn. John |,
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, who was col
mel of the Forty fifth Pennsylvania
Regiment during the war.
Miss Matte Baxter, daughter of Mr.,
John I. Baxter, of Rich Neck, Queen
Anne's county, died suddenly Of ty-
phoid fever. She was 26 years OF
age and one of the most attractive
,oupu ladies in Queen Appe'S county