The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-15


Baltimore.
Braddock Heights season will |
open on Monday, June Sth. for
the summer.
Two business blocks were burn.
ed in Atlanta, Georgia. The loss
is estimated at 81, 25O,IOO.
4 tThe highest officer in the NAVY.
Admiral Dewey, is a native of
Vermont, a State without a sea.
port.
John Fogle. of near Walkers.
Vile, this county. was drowned
recently. while fishing in the Mo-
nocacy.
Governor Crothers visited the
Maryland Agricultural College
and presided at meeting of the
Board of Trustees.
Chief Horton, of Baltimore.
narrowly escaped death recently, !
being thrown from buggy while |
answering a fire alarm.
Collector Stone, Seargent at
Arms, of the Republican Ma
tional Convention, left for Chic
aga to assume his duties.
During the last six months
II, 200 children under five years
old, have died in the tenement
districts of New York City.
The trial of James B. Smith
for the murder of his wife in Cum !
berland, resulted in verdict of |
murder in the second degree.
Mrs. B. V. Norris, who spent
the winter at the City Hotel,
with her brother, Senator Nor
wood, has returned to her home
in Liberty.
Mrs. Russell Sage has offered
5000, 600 towards an endowment
fund for the American Bible So
Getty, if the latter will raise a
alike amount.
The Inaj palm is the tree which
is distinguished for having the
largest leaves. They often reach
a length of five feet and are from
ten to twelve feet in width.
Mrs. G. A. Gordon. of Spring
field, Ohio, who has been visiting
relatives and friends in this city,
has returned to her home, accom-
panied by Miss Catharine Rams
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Greg
Dry. of Brunswick, announce the
engagement OF their daughter,
Miss Martha Geneveive, to Mr..
Alfred Coke Cham bars, of Pitts
burg, Pa.
Because of reduction from
125 cents to ii cents an hour in
their wages, number Of train
hands employed by the Hagers-
town Electric Railway Company
quit work.
John Gosh Bower. of Bower &
Miller, owners of the Hsgerstown
Table Works. sailed for Europe
the past week, where he will
spend three months trying to re-
gain his health
Samuel NJ. Rohr has filed in
Hagerstown a bill for an absolute
divore from his wife, Jennie Rohr.
They were married in 1904, in
LeiseDring, Pa. Desertion is the
charge alleged.
An enterprising scissors grind
er. of Los Angeles, California,
has mounted his grinder on an
automobile, using the cars power
to also run the grinder. and now
rides from place 10 place instead
OF walking, as be formerly did.
Congressman Gill, of Baltimore,
introduced resolution in the
House calling upon the Secretary
of War for an explanation why
the bid of the Merchants Coal
Company, of Baltimore. was re-
jected, although it was the
lowest.
Miss Marie Kaufman was
awarded a verdict for 81, 666.65
against Thomas M. Nelson,
stock holder in the Crawford Auto
Company. of Hagerstown. for
personal injuries sustained 10y
being struck by an automobile be-
longing To Mr.. Nelson.
La certain town in Indiana
man brought sult against hard
ware company. for $4,000 dash
ages. He claimed that u rope
that he had bought to commit
suicide with broke, and thus
foiled his plan. After the rope
broke, he, SAID, that he could
not get up enough courage to try
it over.
Poolesville puts up $50, 900, the
amount necessary to put the town
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