Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-08-04
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

Passenger train NO. 10, OIL the D.
:imore and Ohio railroad, from Pitts
burg for Washington and Baltimore,
drawn by engine 1903, in charge OF
Engineer William Hand, of Baltimore.
ran into a draft of box cars that had
oecn pushed on the main track at the
End Of Brunswick yards. The passcn-
ger train had come around a short
:urve at the rate of about 80 miles an
| hour and struck the forward boz car,
cutting it in two. The passenger en-
CINE was overturned and the tram
dcrailed. Engineer Hand and his
| fireman jumped and escaped. None OF
| the passengers was hurt. Conductor
Henrik, of Baltimore, i'll charge of the
train, Immediately investigated and
found that all escaped The track was
torn up for some distance. Wreckcrs
from Baltimore, Mount Airy and
| Brunswick soon cleared one track so
that trains could be sent east and west
without delay.
The grabbing season at Annapolis is
now at its height. One firm has ship
ped 300 gallons of picked crab meat
to Washington and other nearby mar
kets. The shipments of the dealers
average about 1000 gallons per week.
| The soft crab catch has been below
the average. and the prices have re-
NAMED high
John p. Wagner, president of the
| State Board of BARRIERS Examiners.
was in HaSerStown to see local
| barber who had refused to take out
a BARRIERS license. The barber fatty
told President Wagner that he did
not propose to take out a license, as
he regards the law unconstitutional.
L. O. Donald, of Washington, d,
c., was arrested by Constable Rcyn'
Odds near Sharpsburg for running
around the country nude. Justice
Morrow sent Donald to Jail i'll de
fault of payment of 81 and costs tor
disorderly conduct.
Alfred Snowman one of the best.
known farmers of Washington coun'
ty, died rather suddenly at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. William ii
| Armstrong, at Cedar Lawn, near
Hagerstown, aged II years. lie had
been in failing health for many years
The management of factory III
large Northern town have written
to Mayor Jones of Annapolis, ask,
| ing what inducements that city could
offer for the establishment OF
branch of their factory. The factory
it is said, will employ 100 hands. The
| Mayor has turned the letter over tc
the Business Mems Association.
BENJAMIN Carter, who resided al
| Avery, three miles from Rockville
died Wednesday night, aged 81 years
! His widow and five children survive
him.
The project to build trolley road
along the Wayncsb"ro pike iron
| lIagcrstown to Wayncsboro, "a,
| through Lcitcrsburg, distance OF II
miles. has been revived. 1t is under
! stood the projectors are getting OPP
tons on the stock OF the turnpike
company, with the view of purchSme
a controlling interest. John w. Field.
man, of IIagcrStown. is conducting
the negotiations.
Scrgt. Charles T. Ball, of Company
| +, Maryland National Guard, located
at Easton, was elected second lieu
| tenant OF the company.
Cornelius c. Reese, native OF Wash
ington county, died in Altoona, Pa
aged q years. $50,
! Antonio Marco stabbed at Elk
Lick mine last Saturday, will die. J
| Rodda, his assalant, Is IN jail. ne
! fight was the outcome OF one OF the
numerous feudS originating III the oId
country.
A man supposed to be J. T. BoS'
well, Of Accokcck, Prince George s
county. was killed on the Chesapeake
Beach railroad. near Marr's Station
The man was asleep on the road. The
body was thrown into a ditch. There
was a large scalp wound on the lett
side of the head. The man was seen
early in the morning at Chesapeake
Junction and boarded a train at &C
going TO the beach At Richie Sta,
ton, having no ticket. he was put on
the train The Jury of inquest rem.
dcred verdict that it was an uri'
avoidablc accident
Miss Edith y. Ultz has been, ap,
pointed principal of the public school
at GAINESVILLE, Montgomery county,
vice Miss Hardcastlc. resigned, and
Miss Fannie NJ. Snouffer has been
appointed principal of the school at
Darncstown, vice Miss Montgomery
resigned.
Samuel A. Merritt died suddenly
near Locust Grove. Kent county lie
was ~ wears of age and leaves a
widow and three children.
Mrs. Mamie Melvin, by John G.
Rogers her attorney. has filed a bill
for divorce from James +. Melvin
at Elicott City. The allegation Is
cruelty.
C. c. Wheetlock, who was, award
ed the contract to erect the new
Evansville Public School for $40
M. failed to file bond and the build,
ing committee rejected all bids aho
will readvcrtse.
Albert Hctrick, farmer near blt'
finger, Garrett county, acc'ncnta'IS
shot himself through the lett hanc
while cleaning a revolver.
John Bail, of Brunswick, who dice
Friday, was buried on Sunday by the
Red Men, of which organization ne
was one of the Oldest members.
A dog bit a number of persons al
Clark sburg, Montgomery county Il
was killed and its head sent to the
Pasteur Institute i'll Baltimore
Among those bitten were Hartley
Saunders, of Baltimore, and two
children of Mrs. Minnie 5. West, o.
Baltimore.
The large barn and stables on th'
MISSIONER estate, in Somerset county
owned by Mr. Frederick Boldt, were
destroyed about II o'clock +. Nj. by
fire. Twenty-thrce horses and mule.
and 40 tons of hay were burned
Some valuable racing horses and