The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-11
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

Eight persons Including both motor
men, were injured in a collision between
two cars of the Hartford Avenue line,
at the entrance to Clifton Park, Balti-
more. For some undiscoverable rea-
son northbound car jumped the track
and crashed into one southbound,
throwing it from the tracks and turning
it completely around. Both cars were
badly damaged
A freight train loaded with cement
was wrecked on the southbound track
of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad near Aberdeen.
An axle broke and deraled car, block
ing both tracks for several hours and
delaying all the morning trains. The
wrecking crews did good work and
cleared the tracks before noon.
Henry Filsinger, well-to-do farmer
at Fairview, Washington county, hang
I'd himself from an apple tree in the
orchard, about 100 yards from the dwell
ing. The deed was done at 10 A. NJ.
but was not found out until evening.
Albion McAllister, aged 10 years, was
killed at the public crossing at Rhodes
dale, Dorchester county, by the Ocean
City Flyer on the Baltimore, Chesa-
peake and Atlantic Railway. He was
crossing the track in a wagon, when
it was struck by the engine, demolishing
the wagon and throwing McAllister
about 90 feet He was struck on the
back of the head and never recovered
consciousness. He was prominently
connected in his neighborhood. He was,
warned by some bystanders not to at
tempt to cross the track, as the train.
was in sight and running at speed of
about 50 miles an hour, He, however,
drove on the track and met his fate. He
had been to Cambridge to take an ex-
animation for one of the college scholar
ships within the gift of the Dorchester
County School Board. He graduated
last year at the Vienna High School.
Mr.. Henry NJ Helmsen died at his
home, in sRiverdale, Prince Georges
county, of typhoid fever, aged FL years.
He was connected with the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad Company
A big surprise came at a meeting
of the Washington County Hospital AS
ISOLATION. when two large gifts were
Unexpectedly received. w. D. Byron
and Harriet N. Byron, his wife, of Will
Transport, turned over check for $1,000
to be used in the erection of a hospital
in Hagerstown. The directors accepted
the money and placed it in bank as a
nucleus of building fund. Imnledi-
ately after the check was presented Ed
ward w. Mealey, a member of the di-
rectorate, announced that he would place
at the disposal of the association six
building lots, valued at $4,000. on
Broadway, not to be used as site for
t,a h0eo;t,t k,,t ko no cold and the
proceeds applied to the building fund.
1t is understood that number OF other
large gifts will shortly be made to the
Mr.. Edward Moore fell from the
roof of house in course of construc-
ton at Cambridge and received severe
I'M uries-concussion of the brain and
paralysis of his lower extremities. His
condition is very critical.
During a recent electrical storm in
St. Mary's county two valuable horses
belonging to Robert c. Combs and Dun
can M. Turner were killed. The ami
mails were standing under small tree.
The lightning struck the trunk of the
tree about 10 feet from the ground,
glanced off and killed the two horses.
Miss Mamie Friend, of Hagerstown,
has been engaged to take charge OF the
art department of Kee Mar College.
Miss Mary Erwin, of Indiana, has been
appointed teacher of elocution and ply
steal culture.
The corn6eld of Charles R. Wooters,
in Chapel district, Talbot county, ten
anted by John p Dulin, was riddled by
a hailstorm. The hail cut the ears to
pieces and stripped the stalks of all the
blades
Scholarships to the State Normal
School in Baltimore have been award
ed in Anne Arundel county to Misses S.
Lee Benson, Grace Upton, Julia B. Tis-
dale, Mary Stockett, Sarah Conway and
Marie F. REEVE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed, of Pittsburg,
made trip to Annapolis in an automo-
bile. They are visiting the camp of
Col. James ,Barnette and other friends
on the Severn River.
Don Joaquin Walker Martinez, Chile
an Minister to the United States, his
family and secretaries are spending the
summer at Buena Vista Spring Hotel,
near Peri-Mar.
A frame barn on the farm of George
Ambrose, a mile south of Conoco-
-heague, Washington county, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with this years
crop of hay and other contents.
The Lutheran parsonage at Church
Hill, in the northern part of Middletown
Valley, was destroyed by fire at
o'clock the other night. The fire origi-
mated from sparks from burning brush
pile. All the contents of the house were
saved The parsonage was occupied by
Rev. c. w. Stroup and family. Rev.
Mr.. Stroup breaches at Church Hill and
Wolfsville. The building was a brick
structure. two stories high and base
ment.
Although w. ]. Syms, president of
the Building Trades Alliance of An
napolis, sent out notices to all the union
workmen on the building operations
about the State House to quit their
Jobs and go on strike, the call was ig-
nored and the work on the State House
continues uninterruptedly. Union work
ers on the State House said they had