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

Some months ago the woman NAiis-
tan Temperance Union of Christeld an
ilounced that they had taken up the work
OF establishing a Public General and Ma
rine Hospital at Crisheld. Such an IN
stitution has been long and sadly lett
necessity in this thickly settled section
which is in so close touch with many
other points in Somerset and Worces.
ter counties. Maryland; .Accoinac and
Northampton counties, Virginia, and
with Deals, Smiths, Tangicr, Fox and
Sykes Island Since the union made thls
decision they have been working stead
lily to raise the necessary funds and have
met with encouraging success.
Charles w. and Walter M. Sewell have
obtained from Richard S. Dodson fine
planting grounds in Tide Mill
creek, a tributary of Miles river, Talbot
county, where they will engage in bus
mess Systematically and on quite large
scale. A building is being erected, where
! someone will reside constantly to watch
the grounds and see that the oysters are
not disturbed.
Some oysternlen OIL Tired Avon river
| have earned SI.75 u day by Clustering
through the ice with long-handled tongs.
They pushed their boats across the ice
/ to the oyster bars, cut holes through the
ice and loaded their boats. Since the
river is partially opened oystermen living
near Oxford have pushed their boats
over the ice to the open water and are
! now busy again. Tired Avon river has
been frozen up for one month.
Herman w. King, member OF the
section gang of the Western MARYLAND
Railroad. with headquarters at Wayne
| Castle, attempted TO commit suicide by
hanging himself in an clubhouse near his
| home, at Nicodemus Creamery. His wife
| and children found him hanging in the
| building unconscious. with bride rein
| about his neck His wife cut him down
| and summoned neighbors, who finally re-
suscitated him. He has long been de
| spondent.
The Talbot County School Board has
offered reward of $50 for information
leading TO the arrest and conviction or
the party who set fire to the Eastern
| Primary School building. The incen-
| diary placed quantity of excelsior and
kindling saturated with coal oil opposite
an air opening in the foundation OF the
building and directly below lath par
tition. Remnants OF the excelsior and
kindling remain. A special detective
| has been set at work on the case
Charles Barton was conveyed from
| Hagerstown Jail to the penitentiary as
life prisoner for murder He did not
care to leave the jail and expressed l,or-
| ror of the penitentiary At the depot he
was asked by lawyer who it was he
| nf Simon
Talheim. Barton was silent for awhile
and then replied: you know"
Governor Warheld will shortly have
large Maryland flag raised on the
| fiagpole of the Government House, IN
| Annapolis, whenever he is i'll town, and
haul it down when he is out OF the CITY,
| This plan is followed by President
! Roosevelt. who has his flag floating
FROM the White House whenever he -
in Washington.
John Ramsburg. aged .3S years, com
| initted suicide February 2I by hanging
| himself from the rafter of barn on the
farm OF George Hanky, near Creagers-
town.
The Caroline County Commissioners
have petitioned for STATE aid 10 con-
/ struct four miles OF nlacadali roads, as
follows: One mile near fredericksburg,
one mile on the Denton and Hillsboro
| road. / mile on the Denton and Greens
| boro road and mile on the Greensboro
/ and Oakland road Road Engineer llil-
! Ter will endeavor 10 locate in the upper
| Choptank river bed another stratum OF
mari with which to improve roads OF the
county. Several miles of roads near
Greensboro made from this material
about I6 years ago have proved very
durable These roads cost practically
nothing, the farmers having hauled and
spread the mari, which was Thrown
| from the river bed by the Government
mud machines while deepening The chan
! mel.
Mr. Charles II. Redden, DR.. P. r.
| Fisher and others employed a largs
corps TO cut down the marsh timber
| which for more than hall century had
| shut off the west and river view OF
Denton. The Baltimore, Chesapeake
and Atlantic Railway Company owns
large part of this tract and gave con-
sent that the obstruction b. removed
The work required several days, The
| logs and quagnirc were frozen as they
Iidu Iiblf uSOii lVl many NNata .ttf'
facilitated the work.
Mr. Wesley farrell, president OF the
| Board OF Caroline Co,iiliy Commission
| ers, met with very severe accident Al
his ..Jmc near Ridgcly He had started
into his field on a stalk sled 70 haul
| fodder. In some unaecountablc way liz
fell. with one foot in front OF the Sled
and being unable to stop his mule team
they dragged the sled with great force
against his right leg fracturing il IN
four places between the ankle and knee
Prompt surgical aid was rendered.
Mrs. Mckinney, widow of Israel Nc
Kinsey. OF Della, Howard county, fell
on the ice and sustained bad fracture
of the bones OF her hip. She is advanced
in age.
| Joseph Holmes. Tor many years SUI
perintendent of the Della Cotton Mills
! for William J. Dickey & Sons, has re-