The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-07-14
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
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| chair at his home, died suddenly OF heart
disease and dropsy, aged GO years. A
widow and FIVE children survive.
Mr.. David E. Dick, who is deputy
surveyor of customs at Baltimore, has
entered the contest in Allegany county
for the Republican State Senatorial
domination He was State Senator from
1896 to 1000.
Timothy Kady, aged IS, brakeman
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was
thrown from his train in Cumberland
and instantly killed.
| Strenuous efforts are being made to
induce the Western Maryland Railroad
Company to locate the proposed car
shops in Hagerstown.
| Prof. w. P. Wachter, of Booneboro,
! Washington county, was warded a schoi-
arship in Princeton University by the
faculty of Roanoke College, Salem, Va.
Col. Buchanan Schley, of Hagerstown,
sent $50 to the Catoctin families which
| lost relatives in the recent Western
Maryland railroad wreck, near Patap-
SEQ.
| Mr.. James Davis, well-known farmer
living near Ridgely, met with an acci-
dent which may cost him his life. Crows
| had been eating his cantaloupes and ne
| determined to break UP their nests and
kill the young ones around his farm. He
climbed to the top of a 5o-foot pine tree
and in an endeavor to reach out Tor
nest, his foot slipped and he fell to the
| ground. He is 70 years of age.
| A grange was organized among the
farmers of Clear Spring, Washington
county, with Daniel NJ Grove as master.
David Seibert, Daniel Grove, George M.
| Ankeney, Jacob Leatherman and wife
and Misses Irene and Edith Bloyer were
elected delegates to the county grange
The residence of the late Joseph Shar-
ar, in Hagerstown, was struck by light
hing and Mrs. Sharar was shocked.
The lot sale in the Rose Hill addition
N the northern suburb of Hancock drew
an immense crowd. 1t was conducted
BY the Union Realty Company OF Nor
gantown, W. Va, and 65 lots brought in
he neighborhood of $4,000. The pur-
:hasers were nearly all Hancock people.
The free lot was won by A. S. Mellott,
4 small boy.
Aubrey Green young farmer resid-
= ny ilCdl INOSANIlCy was OSotSi
and almost killed by gang of negroes
On the public road near his home. While
returning home from Rockville in his
buggy and when within stones throw
Of his farm he met several negroes. in
he middle of the road. 1t is stated that
ne requested the men to give him room
20 pass. 1t is alleged they responded
with a volley of stones. Green was
struck on the head and knocked from
his vehicle, and was then set upon and
beaten. 1t is believed that he was placed
IN his buggy by his assailants. When
he reached his home he was unconscious.
md has not yet recovered sufficiently to
Enable him to give an accurate account
If what occurred He sustained pain
Jul and dangerous scalp wound and was
BADLY bruised about the face. His con-
iition is regarded as serious.
The Washington County School Board
adopted a resolution requesting the
County Commissioners to appropriate
$4,000 of the money received from the
4 sale of the county's interest in the Wash
ington county branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for the erection OF
new high school building. The location
Of the present high school building is
highly unsatisfactory. Many of the pu-
pills are required to cross railroad tracks
to reach the building. The School Board
owns vacant lot on Washington Square
and believes that for $4,000 suitable
high school building can be erected The
other school buildings in Hagerstown
are overcrowded, and it is believed a new
building will relieve the congestion. An
l ~ l. all L. en-,4
high school building to the Western
Maryland Railroad for an Office building
The Board of School Commissioners
refused to increase the salary of the
principal of the Annapolis public school
and of certain teachers of the high school
department The School Commission
ers have awarded Miss Helen G. Hunter
scholarship at the Maryland Institute,
Baltimore
The Antietam Fire Company, of Ha-
gerstown, will attend the Virginia State
Firemen's meet at Harrisonburg in Aug
ust. The reel team will enter the races.
] Rev. Charles F. Steck, pastor of the
Lutheran Church, Carroll, has been pre-
sented with horse and buggy by men,
bers of his congregation.
wheat threSning III upper Montgom-
cry county so far has only shown an av-
erage of ~ bushels to the acre. The
wheat is of fine, large, plump grain.
Christian Bethel, farmer on Negro
Mountain, near Accident, dropped dead
while at work, aged 81 years. He leaves
a large family.
The Baltimore and Ohio Depot and the
store of Cuppett Leighton & Co. lust
opposite, at Mountain Lake Park, were
robbed, large quantity of goods be-
ing secured. A Baltimore and Ohio de-
tective arrested negro, who admitted
having robbed two slot machines in the
depot. He was lodged in Jail at Oak
land.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society will be held at
Mountain Lake Park July ~, 20 and "a
E. H. Benjamin, of New York, has