The midland journal., 1905-05-26
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

cry county, one OF the roads selected un-
der the Shoemaker law, is about COM
pleted. The mile of road will cost
$4,000
The remains of George Baker, WHO
committed suicide at Hyattstown, were
inferred in Mountain View Cemetery,
at Comus.
Sheriff Keyser, of Kent, arrested Har-
ry Latham at the circus in Wilmington.
He had escaped from Chestertown Jail,
where he was confined for selling liquor.
A deed of trust has been made by the
Citizens Water and Power Company
of Westminster to the Safe Deposit and
Trust Comany of Baltimore to guarantee
an issue of A per cent. gold-bearing bonds
to the amount of $4,000.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Burrows
Robinson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George T. Robinson, of Easton, and Mr..
Thomas Albert Mowbray, of Philadel-
phia, is announced to take place June 7.
James Dayton, Jr., was sworn in as
a member of the new fourth class mid
shipmen of the Naval Academy. He re-
ceived his appointment from the First
Congressional district of New York.
Mrs. Mildred S. Bailey, aged 28, wife
of Henry Bailey, of Oxford Neck, Tai
bot county, died suddenly.
The barn of Thomas ]. Vickers, at
Little Horns Point near Cambridge, was
destroyed by fire Mr.. Vickers lost. IS
barrels of corn, a lot of phosphate and
many valuable farming implements.
Both barn and contents were insured.
This is the second time that Mr. Vickers
has lost his barn by fire.
There will be II graduates this year
of Kee-Mar College, Hagerstown. The
graduates and the degrees to be conferred
June a are as follows: Mabel Claire
Fout, bachelor Of arts, Elkins, w. Va;
Leannette Falconer Rathbone, bachelor
of philosophy, Parkersburg, w. Va;
Gypsy La Bell SSSichard, bachelor Of phil
osophy, Mannington, w. Va; Nina Hell
en- Burt, bachelor of philosophy, Man
hington, w. Va; Eula Hickman, bach
elor of arts, Moorefeld, w. Va; Grace
Janet Dodge, bachelor of arts, Washing
ton, D. c.; Viola Smith, bachelor of arts
Snow Hill, Maryland; Annie Rernsburg,
bachelor of arts, Sharpsburg, Md; Mary
Belle Barlow, bachelor of philosophy.
Beverly, w. Va; Angela Pinkley, bache-
lor of philosophy, San Francisco, CAL;
Roberta H. F, Bishop, bachelor OF arts.
Smithsburg, Md; Miss Blanche Lou
derbaugh, Grantsville, Md, previous
graduate in the normal course, who has
been in attendance the past year will
receive the degree of bachelor of philos-
ophy. Miss Beulah May Kern, Sails
bury, N. c., who took the degree OF
bachelor of arts in 1904, will this year
have conferred upon her the masters
degree. Miss Catherine Ulery, Green's
burg, Pa, former graduate, who has
pursued advanced work in Boston and
elsewhere and is now teaching in Penn
sylvania, will receive the degree of bach
elor of arts.
James E, Slater and Miss Susie Hou-
ser, both of Montgomery County, were
married in Rockville by Rev. Thomas H.
Campbell
Spencer c. Jones has announced his
candidacy for reelection to the State
Senate. He will be opposed for the
Democratic nomination by Blair Lee,
who announced his candidacy several
weeks ago.
Governor Warfeld announced the fol-
lowing appointments: Joseph E. Nc
Knepp, Judge of the Orphans Court for
Dorchester county; DR.. Maximus White
hill, of Unionville, Frederick county, to
be president of the State Bureau of I'M
migration; Alfred D. Bailey, justice Of
the peace for the Second district Of
Prince Georges county; Matthew Sloan
to be member of the board of directors
of the Home In6rmary of Western Mary
land; Joshua Wilson Jones to be JUS
tice of the peace for the First district
of Calvert county The Governor post
poned action on the appointment of a
notary public for Cambridge, Dorchester
county, made vacant by the resignation
of Mr.. J. Fred. Barton.
The Hagerstown Academy of Music,
owned by the heirs of the late Gov.
William T. Hamilton, will be remod-
eled.
Mrs. Johanna Fisher, aged 63 years,
wife of Julius Fisher, died in Hagers-
town of heart disease. Her husband
and seven children survive, including
Mrs. J. o. Wrightson, of Baltimore
William c. and J. H. Fisher, of West
Virginia.
Mr.. Charles w. Ireland, of Baltimore,
presented to Governor Warfeld an ap-
plication for the pardon of Sadie Brown
(coloredy sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for larceny. The Governor
said he thought for the present, at least,
the prisoner was best off in the peni-
tentiary.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has
rendered its decision in the case of Es-
telle Parshley and husband, of Takoma,
Montgomery county, against Frank l.
Hewitt, of Silver Springs, reversing the
decision of the Circuit Court. The de-
cision not only declares unconstitutional
the law under which the property at Ta-
koma Park has for several years been
sold for taxes and renders titles to all
property thus sold of no value, but also
affects the titles of all property sold for
taxes at Kensington, Garrett Park and
Glen Echo, the charters of which towns
are almost identical with the charter oi
Takoma Park The decision is of wide
spread interest in Montgomery county
where numerous transfers of real estate
have occurred within the last few years
bv reason of tax sales at the places men,