The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-19
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

The Hagerstown Academy OF Music,
owned by the heirs of the late Gov.
William T. Hamilton, will be remod-
eled.
Several new rural free-delivery mail
routes have been established in Queen
Anne's county within the past few
months, among them an additional route
from Centreville.
The Colonial Hotel at Ocean City has
been sold to A. P. Warrington, brother
of the former owner, for $4,000.
Rev. Ida Judy, pastor of the United
Brethren Church at Westernport. Allie
gany county, delivered a sermon in the
Piedmont Opera House to the Piedmont,
Westernport and Bloomington Councils
of the Junior Order OF United American
Mechanics. The Opera House was
crowded to hear her preach.
AT Hillsboro, Isaac Mitchell died of
paralysis, aged 90 years. He was
leading member of the Holiness Assoc
citation and was apparently in the best
of health a few moments before the fatal
attack.
Mrs. Caroline R. Buzzard, wife Of
Mr.. G. Louis Buzzard, of Olney, Mont
gonery county, died suddenly of heart
diSSdSS, dSCu IS yCdiS. iouS iSdNSS Oiis
child, a weeks old.
At the annual meeting of the Mary
land State Council, Daughters OF Lib
erty, in Hagerstown, the following Off
GERS were elected: State councillor, Mrs.
| NJ. w. West, Baltimore; associate State
councillor, Mrs. Mary Miller, Mount
Washington; State vice-councilor, John
H. Owens, Havre de Grace; State assoc
ciate vice-councilor secretary, Mrs. Leila
F. Gwinn, Baltimore; associate State
council secretary, Mrs. Celeste Reed,
Dickeyville; State council treasurer, Miss
| Augusta Dorner, Baltimore; State as
sociate treasurer, Mrs. Florence Bos-
well, Della; State guide, Miss Daisy
Mcdonald, Frederick; State inside
| guard, Mrs. Jennie Smith, Hagerstown;
State outside guard, c. c. Chandler,
Cumberland; national representative, w.
| Harry Abrams, Northeast. National
Councillor J. Bailey Harvey and Nation
| al Secretary w. v. Edkins, of Phila-
| delphia, installed the new officers. G.
H. Stein, ex-national councillor, Balti-
! more, responded to addresses of nation
al officers. The delegates, numbering
| 100, were welcomed to Hagerstown by
| Mayor A. C. Strife. fIavre de Grace
! was selected as the place for the next
meeting. The report of the appeal COM
| mittee was taken UP, and the case OF
| Integrity Council, No. Ia, Baltimore, on
| benefits was decided in favor of the
| defendant.
Russell Ridenour, aged 6 years, son
of William Ridenour, of Hagerstown,
| fell into cistern containing seven feet
Of aud IIa IN,
| the water IS minutes before his body
was recovered. He was playing with
| Robert Snyder and lay down upon
tilted and the child was precipitated into
the cistern, which was on the premises
| of John B. Sayles. Mrs. Clarence Hur-
ley, who lives next door, noticed the
two children playing. When she missed
! the Ridenour boy she inquired where
he was. The Snyder boy pointed to the
cistern. Mrs. Hurley looked in and
saw the body floating in the water, face
| upward. The body was drawn out with
a rope, but could not be resuscitated.
President Fait and the faculty of ST.
| Johns College are making an investiga-
| ton into the cases of several of the I'M
| derclassmen who participated in lively
| scrap in Pinkney Hall the other night.
Besides fight, the students are alleged
| TO have figured in other episodes, such
| as the breaking of furniture One stu
| dent is said to have spoiled a new
| suit of clothes of one of the professors
| by pouring iodine upon it.
The stockholders of the Union Turn
! pike Company, at Olney, Montgomery
| county, elected the following officers:
] Charles F. Kirk, president; John A. Ba-
/ ker, George Bonifant, John c. Bentley.
DR.. George w. Bready, Donald Bowie,
n. G. Cashel Josiah W. Jones and
| Thomas w. Waters, directors; WASH
ington Bowie, secretary and treasurer.
The usual dividend of 8 per cent. was
| declared.
| Mrs. Sarah E. Fowler, executrix, OBJ
tanned judgment in the Circuit Court
| of Calvert County for $4I6 against the
| trustees of the Chesapeake International
Holiness Union Church of Calvert
| county.
| The Calvert county tax rate has been
fixed at 81 cents on the 500.
The Sheriff of Calvert county will
| sell more than 300 acres of the real es-
tate of the Chesapeake Beach Railway
| Company to satisfy judgments obtained
in the Circuit Court of Calvert County
| by David H. Moffatt and the First Ma
| tional Bank of Denver, Col, against the
railway company, amounting IN the ag-
| gregate to S88.I46.5 50.
The superintendent of the dock de-
partment of the Maryland Steel Com
| pany has located at Solomons Island,
| Calvert county, Md, the anchorage for
| the great steel drydock the company is
building for the United States Govern
ment, to be conveyed TO Cavite, Philip
pine Islands, after testing at the mouth
| of the Patauxent River.
Six large poplar logs, which are feet
square at The ends, and 26 walHlt logs.
which are IS inches square at the ends.
have just been sent by rail from Easton
to Baltimore for shipment TO Germany,
The sons of Ex-Governor and Mrs. F.
| f. Jackson-Hugh and Everett Jack
cam with tba,r families will orrt,nv