The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-06-15
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE is, 1906.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Maryland Affairs.

Hagerstown corporation tax Is 40 cents
on the 500.
W. H. Troxell, of Emmitsburg, fol
many years proprietor and editor of the
Enmitsburg Chronicle, has retired.
Eleven young men were arrested, charged
with destroying the property of Chu QnOng,
proprietor of Chimes restaurant, III Park
avenue, Baltimore.
Wolf Levy & Barney Fink, Baltimore,
clothing factory, was raided by two police
men on Sunday, and finding % men hard
at work, arrested them for working on
Sunday.
Ellsworth C. Lynch, aged p years,
committed suicide Sunday morning by in
haling Illuminating gas at the home Of
Mrs. Catherine West, with whom he board
ed. at 1914 East Monument street, Balti-
more. This was the second and successful
attempt.
Frank Welsh, aged 81, of Cumberland,
a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad brakeman,
while under his train fixing coupling,
Sunday. was so badly crushed that he died
at the Allegany Hospital few hours later.
Ii is understood that an engine ran into the
rear of the train and pushed a car over him,
the car injuring him internally.
Lewis I.amkin is the only Hagerstown
contractor who has submitted bid fol the
construction of the shops for the Western
MARYLAND Railroad in Hagerstown. The
three buildings will require about 500, 900
bricks. several hundred thousand feet of
lumber and several carloads of cement
Ten miles of track will be laid in the new
yard.
Washington county peach growers are
much alarmed over the heavy June
drop. Some owners of large orchards
are already predicting that they viii not
have over half crop. Trees that bore
heavily last year seem to have very little
vitality and as a result the ''drop Is
heavier with them than with those trees
that bore but little fruit year ago. There
is big crop of cherries.
A new pipe line to carry oil FROM the
fields of West Virginia to the Atlantic
Coast viii be constructed parallel with and
a few miles north of the Mason and Dixon
line. At the foot of the mountain, down
from Penmar, there will be erected alarge
pumping station. The engineers engaged
in running the line have crossed the line
and are working toward Baltimore. The
line is being constructed by the Pure Oil
Company, an independent oil corporation.
They are being followed by right Of way
party, and as soon as they are secured,
viii dig trenches and put down pipes.
Capt. Lyon C. Rogers, Jr., who, on
Wednesday Of last week, was deprived of
his command Of Troop A, Maryland Ma
tionaI Guard, at Pikesville, Baltimore
county, and was succeeded by First Lieu
tenant Hugh Gelston, may be court mar
tailed if he persists in ignoring certain or
ders issued to him By the Adjutant General
Of the State 1t is expected that Capt.
Rogers will Immediately send to the Adju-
tant General the enlistment papers, which
are the cause of all the trouble, thus putting
an end to the matter at once. If he fails
to obey the repeated orders issued TO him
to forward these papers in reasonable
length of time. it was stated at brigade
headquarters June s, that the Consequences
would be very unpleasant for all concerned
On June 10 Ms. Gordon Barnes and
Miss Frances Powell, two young ladies of
Kingston, Somerset county, were felonious-
" assaulted near their homes by an Ut
known negro. The two ladies had been
attending religious services at st. Mark
Protestant Episcopal Church at Kingston
and were returning to sheir homes, about
500 yards from the church, between 5
and O clock, when they noticed a strange
negro walking a short distance ahead Of
them. On entering short skirt of woods
through which they had to pass they no
ticed the disappearance of the negro, and
when they reached the centre of the woods
he jumped out in the road facing them.
With long knife in his hands, the fend
ordered the ladies to follow him into the
woods or die with their threats slashed
from ear to ear Trembling with fear, the
two women followed him In the woods
he feloniously assaulted both of them, and
with threat Of death if they made any out
CRY until he was far away he left them.
The negro made his way to RehobOth on
foot, and there stole horse and carriage,
which he drove to Pocomoke, leaving it
there and taking the midnight train last
night to Cape Charles, Va. The news of
the crime, with the description of the
criminal, was telegraphed up and down the
peninsula this morning, and the negro was
found near Cape Charles and arrested at
that place after hard chase and fight
at about 1870 clock. He viii We
brought to Princess Anne, the county seat
of Somerset, and lodged in the county Jail
to await trial.