The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-05-05
STATE NEWS.

Governor Crothers is inspecting roads
on the Eastern Shore.
The fund for the Cardinal Gibbons
Memorial Hall was increased by $685..
A German Evangelical church has been
organized in Cambridge, with Rev. w.
E. Hauff as pastor.
Early reassessment returns indicate
that the new taxable basis of the State
will exceed 81, 100, ooo, 900.
Governor Crothers accepted an invi-
tation to attend the Homecoming cele-
bration at Towson. May II.
The jury in the case of Andrew Bis
sett, on trial at Cumberland for attempted
criminal assault, failed to agree.
In the Circuit Court at Rockville,
Samuel H. Angle, of Hagerstown, won
his suit against Matthias P. Moller.
Mr.. Herman A. Won der Horst, who
was secretary of the Baltimore Baseball
Club, died at his home in that city.
Wilfred H. McCardell was elected
president of the Hagerstown Bank, to
succeed the late Edward w. Mealey.
J. Irwin Bitner, whose will was probated
at Hagerstown, leaves the bulk of his
estate, valued at $500, 900 to his widow.
Fire destroyed the large barn owned
by David Smith and tenanted by Samuel
Shenaback, near Charlton, Washington
county
A diamond-studdied badge will be
presented Marshal Farnan in the Mary
land Theatre at ais O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon.
Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte was sued in
the Court of Common Pleas for $40, 600
damages, the suit arising out of ques-
ton as 10 some lots
Peyton Poole was sentenced to 10 years
in the Penitentiary by Judge Duncan, at
Towson, on the charge of shooting to
death his niece, Viola Poole.
Olivia Kunkle, said to hale from York
Pa, committed suicide by inhaling gas
fumes in the house of Mrs Rosa Carton,
on Aisquith street, Baltimore.
Col. John W. Avirett was expelled
from a meeting at Cumberland. because
he advocated the Evitts Creek plan for a
new water supply for the town.
Members of the Annapolis Aerie of
Eagles are making extensive preparations
order, to be held there May IS, II and IS.
A delegation of citizens from Williams
port appeared before the Washington
County School Board and requested that
a new sChoolhouse be built in Williams
port.
Under the leadership Of Dr. Mary Sher-
wood, the girls of Goucher College, Bal
timore, have inaugurated a crusade
against flies and mosquitoes in the mar
kets of that city.
Robert L. Haines, night Waterman at
the Hagerstown Electric Railway car
barn, sustained mortal injuries by being
crushed between two cars. He died yes
terday at the Washington County Hos
pital
The Bethesda District Civic Federation
has been organized. The membership
of the federation consists of the citizens
association Of the seven villages or sub.
divisions near the District of Columbia
line.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs adopted resolution Directing to
the use of an engraving of Brigham
Young on the silver service to De pre-.
sented to the battleship Utah by the State
of Utah.
The Maryland State Equal Franchise
League has passed a resolution de-
nouncing polygamous Mormonsm and
an effort will be made to have Congress
pass bill prohibiting it any where in
the United States.
Lindsay Mcdonald Sylvester, of the
Maryland Agricultural College, won first
honor; Carl Twigg. of Western Maryland
College, second honor at the annual con
test of the Oratorical Association OF
Maryland Colleges, held at Westminster
The trustees of the Children's Hos
pital have purchased the Keyworth es-
tate, large tract of ground in the rear
of Druid Hill Park, on which will be
erected a new school house The land
comprises seventeen acres, overlooking
the city proper.
Edward Kane went to a cabin near the
Liberty road. occupied by his wife and
John Kennedy, boarder, and shot at
Kennedy with double-barrel shot gun
as the latter dashed from the premises.
Kane then beat his wife over the head
with the weapon
Captain John H Gibbons. who will on
May 18th, succeed Captain John M. Bow,
yer as Superintendent of the Naval
Academy, paid an informal visit to the
institution recently. He was accompa-
MED by Mrs. Gibbons, and they were
entertained at luncheon by Captain and
Mrs Bower