The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-03-17
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.

Washington county, died at Mount Nor
ris, ILL.,, aged s. years. He was pioneer
settler of Ogle~ county, Illinois, where
he lived SO years.
The Teachers Association of Allie
gany county elected the following Off
GERS: President, Q. H. Bruce; vice
president, Herman G. Weimer; secre-
tary, DIN Rice, assistant secretary, John
T. Walsh; treasurer, Geo. M. Perdew.
A few days ago an eel was caught in
fish pot in Antietam creek, Washing
ton county, by Thomas w. Bussard,
which measured IoH inches in circum-
ference and AZ inches in length and
weighed ? pounds and 7 ounces.
Ex-Governor and Mrs. E. E. jack
son have given 5000 toward liquidating
a debt of $1,000 on Morgan College,
Princess Anne.
Stranghn Prachett, Of Somerset coun-
ty, recently bought nine mink hides on
Hollands Island, paying s. for them.
He sold them to William Barbon, in
Somerset, for $2S, and Mr.. Barbon sold
them to Albert Wingate, of Wicomico
county, for $32.
Mrs. Bennetta McCordic was fatally
burned; Annie McCordie, aged a years,
was burned to death, and another child,
William McCordic. aged 6 years, is not
expected to live, as result OF fire
which destroyed the grocery and dwell
ing of William H. Graves, 1914 North
Washington street, Baltimore.
The sophomore class of the Charlotte
Hall Military Academy, in St. Mary's
county, elected the following officers tor
the balance of this year; R. R. Dennis,
president; H. Horsey, vice-president; F.
G. Murray, secretary, and w. G. Cough,
treasurer.
The sale of live stock on the farm of
School Commissioner Frank w. Mish,
at Charlton, Washington county, amount
ed to more than $1,000. Lloyd Lowndcs,
Jr., of Cumberland, bought yearling
stallion for $4Io. A registered mare was
bought by w. H. Zepp, of Carroll coun-
ty, for $23o Robert Thayer, Of Chi
cago, bought four fine horses. George
Henson, of Berkeley county, West Viz
ginia, paid $Ioo for registered cow.
Elk Sheriff NJ F. Seibert, of Hagerstown,
purchased registered bull for Sos.
Other buyers were w. A. Johns, of Get
tysburg, Shropshire ewes; Wade War
field, of Howard county, swine.
Centreville is to have an electric-light
and gas plant in the near future. Mr.. D..
S. Pidnell, of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
representing the Bruce Electric Light
Company, conferred with the Town Com
missioners and the contract has been
signed. Mr. Pindell's plans were at first
| far-reaching. He intended lighting, from
central plant, Denton, Church Hill,
| Greensboro, Chestertown and other sur
rounding towns, but this plan has been
| abandoned for the present. The plant
| at Centreville will be near the town.
| The equipment has been purchased and
will be forwarded in few days, so that
work can begin at once. Mr.. Pindell
| has been granted franchise for the
town of Chestertown and will shortly
begin the erection of plant there.
The Hoover House, three-story brick
| structure in Hagerstown, was sold TO
| William H. Armstrong for $4,000.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Chas. E
Remson, owner of Greenberry Point
farm, across Seven River from Annapo-
| lis, fell through a trap door of his sta
| BILE on the second floor, and broke his
neck
The Queen Anne's County Commits
sioners in order to be in position to take
advantage of the State-aid provision for
roads filed with the highway division
of the Geological Survey requisition
| for FL miles. 1t is claimed that macadam
] or telford roads will not be practical
| in Queen Anne's on account of the great
expense of construction. There is no
stone in the county suitable for road
making and all such material would have
to be hauled from a distance. On thu
| other hand the State Road Commission
is not favorable to making sand or clay
roads, which roads could be constructed
for about $500 or 5000 a mile The
County Commissioners have asked the
| highway division to submit a surveying
estimate of what macadam or telford
roads would cost a mile. This esti-
mate will then be submitted to the tax
| payers of Queen Anne's county at a
general meeting called for that pur-
! pose.
| Vaughn f. Bonner, of Newmarket,
| Dorchester county, blew out the gas al
the West End Hotel, Philadelphia, a few
days ago as he was retiring to rest and
was discovered unconscious next morn
ing, with a roll of bills in his pocket
He was carried TO the University Hos
pital and is now recovering, but refuses
to narrate his experiences.
Secretary of State Tilghman directed
the Governors attention to the fact that
he had received many letters from DIFF
ferent States asking information regard
ing soldiers who fought in the War of
1872 He told the Governor he had dis
covered that the muster rolls of the
Maryland troops in that and other wars
had been sent to the War Department
at Washington in 1859. The Governor,
after conference with the Secretary OF
State, and the Adjutant-G General, in
structed the latter to take steps to have
these muster rolls of the Maryland troops
returned to the State, to be preserved in
the Adjutant-Generaps office. 1t is the
| purpose of the Governor to have collect