The citizen., 1910-01-14
MARYLAND NEWS.

Mr.. Henry w. A. Lee died at his
home i'll Belair.
Thomas Hammond died near Ruths-
burg, Hueen Anne's county, aged So.
Midshipman H. F. Henderson, Ir., has
been dropped from the Naval Academy.
Joseph A. Parks ended his life in Ha-
gerstown because of i'll health.
P. E. Porter was reelected Fire Mar
shal OF Annapolis, under the new
method
The Peninsula Horticultural Society
began three-day meeting at Center
vile.
The authorities at Hagerstown have
started crusade against merchants who
have no licenses.
Miss Clara Butler was killed by Bal
timore and Ohio train at Holloheld,
Howard county.
George Estep, car repairer, was
crushed to death in the Western Mary
land railroad yards in Hagerstown.
The Baltimore County Teachers Asso.
citation will petition the Legislature for an
increase in their salaries
Eastport, a suburb of Annapolis. con-
tanning $500 inhabitants, will probably
be annexed to the State capital.
AT meeting of representative men at
Cambridge it was decided that the court
house should be remodeled.
The Knights of Pythias lodges of the
Fifth district of Maryland held their an
nual district meeting at Laurel.
Rev. Patrick Healey, S. J., formerly
president of Georgetown University, died
after lang illness.
Joseph Steplik, driver, of Reisters-
town, was fatally injured in runaway
accident on North avenue, near Charles
street, Baltimore.
Thomas England, brakeman, killed
himself with pistol at his home on East
Fort avenue, Baltimore, while his wife
was standing near.
Charles Randell, employed as a driver
for John NJ Dennis, of Sherwood, was
struck by an express train and died soon
afterward.
The Court of Appeals sustained the
Baltimore City Court in the decision in
the Starr Methodist Protestant Church
case,
Mayor Strange of Annapolis will ap-
point three delegates to conference of
those interested in fort at the mouth of
the Chesapeake.
Lieut.. Joshua G.. Harvey, Tr, of the
Fifth Regiment, has been elected COM
mander of Troop A to succeed Capt c.
Lyon Rogers, Jr
A farewell banquet will be given by his
merchant friends to Oscar G. Murray
when he retres as president of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
Walter R. Rudy, postmaster, and men,
Der of the firm of Rudy and Routzahn,
druggists, of Mt. Airy, is confined to his
home as a result of bad fall on the ice.
The sum of $67, 500 was the price paid
for the Baltimore W0rld, an afternoon
newspaper, sold at auction at the Real
Estate Exchange in Baltimore.
Earl d. Wilson, the midshipmyn whose
neck was broken in football game last
October, has continued to improve, and
his complete recovery is now looked for.
The Legislature will be asked to take
the management of the public roads of
Prince Georges county out of the hands
of the county commissioners and place it
in the hands of board Of road directors.
Six miners were killed and six injured
in an explosion at the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company's mine at
Plymouth. The bodies have all been
recovered by daring rescuers.
Professor Martin Bates Stephens, State
Superintendent of Public Education
was married recently to Miss Nellie
Johnson. daughter of Mr.. Purnell John
son, prominent resident of Denton,
Caroline county.
J. Vincent Jamison, president of the
Jones Cold Store Door Company, sold
avenue, Hagerstown, to st. John T. Car
michael, chief engineer of the Western
Maryland Railroad, for $II 500.
The natural gas enterprise, it is said,
has been killed by the Board of Estimates
of Baltimore, in imposing impossible con-
ditions. The Gas Company officials noti-
fled the Mayor that it had no further
proposition to make. The amended or
dinance was then sent to the Second
Branch where it was laid on the table,
after lively debate.
City Register Thomas, of Baltimore,
was charged by the Mayor with misde-
meanor in office in a special report sent
to the Second Branch of the City Council.
This resulted from the allegations that
Mr. Thomas had loaned sums OF money
at usurious rates of interest A colored
jantor in ore of the public schools claims
l 1 n rV~t
rate of S per cent. month, and that he
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