The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-03-10
THE NEWS
OF
MARYLAND

Cumberand-The State Board of
Education, represented by five mem
bers-Dr. NJ. Bates Stephens, DR.. II.
H. Lewis, Col w. II. Powell, Clayton
Purnell and II. c. Longnecker-at Oak
land, heard the charges filed against
OF schools in Garrett county. The
board will meet in Baltimore on We'd
nesday, March IL, to consider the tes-
timony and render its decision. A
large number of witnesses were sum
moned from all parts of the county.
Some ~ or 10 were heard for the
complainants and half dozen by the
defense Richard T. Semmes. of Cum
berland, brother of John E. Semmes,
OF Baltimore, was attorney for the
complainants and William Renix Of
tutt, of Oakland. represented Superin-
tendent Browning. The charges, nine
In number, involved inefficiency and
violations generally of the school law
Of the State. superintendent Brown
Ing said some time ago politics fig
ured in the prosecution. The defense
attempted to show spite Thomas J..
Browning, cousin of Superintendent
Browning, had been among the fore
most in making the charges, and an
attempt was made to show that his
son, Henry Browning, had been an
unsuccessful applicant for the position
filled by Superintendent Browning.
Annapolis.-W Albert Mitchell, a
young white man, who had been en-
ployed as special Waterman by resi-
dents of Randall's Court, admitted
that he had set fire to pile OF laths
and lightwood against a shed which
formed portion of the Victoria
Building, on Maryland avenue, at an
early hour of the morning of Feb
ruary IL. He was promptly put I'M
der arrest and is now lodged in An
napolis jail. The confession was
made to State Fire Marshal Ewell,
Detective Kratz, Mayor Strange City
Fire Marshal Porter and Police Ser
geant Holiday Later the confession
was reduced to writing and signed
and attested by Mitchell before JUS
tice John N. Davis.
Williamsport.- State Superior
Court, in session here Friday, af-
6rmed the conviction in the Dauphin
county court of Joseph NJ. Huston,
of Philadelphia, architect of the
Pennsylvania State Capitol, at Har-
risburg, the last of the IA men in
dicted in the scandal to face a trial
court. Huston was convicted of con-
spiracy to defraud the state in con-
nection with the furnishings of the
capital, and was sentenced to a term
of not less than six months nor more
than two years in prison and to pay
fine of $50. If Huston follows the
other men convicted in the same case
he will take an appeal to the State
Supreme Court and enter bail pend
ing a decision.
Pocomoke.-The building committee
of the Fruitland Bank, of Fruitland,
awarded the contract for its new bank
ing house to H. B. Pilchard, contractor
and builder, of Pocomoke City. The
building is to be of pressed brick, In
diana limestone trimmings, tile floor
In lobby, metal ceiling and slate roof,
the inside trimmings to be of oak.
1t is to be situated on the main street,
near the depot, and the work is to be
begun at once. A shirt factory is also
planned. AS Fruitland is only a few
miles from Salisbury and both towns
spreading toward each other, they are
looking forward to the time when
Fruitland will be one of the suburbs
Of Salisbury.
Cumberland.-It has been decided to
locate the main shops of the Western
Maryland Railway at Cumberland, ac-
cording to the statement of Industrial
Commissioner Austin Gallagher The
location, it is understood, will be at
Ridgeley, on the West Virginia side
Of the Potomac river, where the divi-
sion shops now are, though a site at
Cumberland race track, on the Mary
land side, is said to have been under
consideration.
Hagerstown.-Th two-story dwell
Ing of Jesse Flohr, near Deerfield, east
of Blue Ridge Summit, along the West
ern Maryland Railway, was burned
with nearly all its contents. A coal
oil lamp which Mrs. Flohr was carry
Ing exploded in bedroom upstairs
and set fire to the bed clothing. A
sewing machine, a few dishes and sew
eral articles of furniture were saved.
Cumberland. The City Council
passed an order offered by Commits
sioner Thomas w. Koon that all city
employees be required to make an hon
est effort to pay their debts, and, IL
necessary. the city attorney draw an
order to that effect.
Hagerstown.-In honor of having
made the greatest gain in membership
In Maryland in 1910, Hagerstown
Court, Tribe of Ben Hur, was present
ed Tuesday night with a banner BY
State Manager F. H. X. Nichols.
Salisbury.-The search for John
Hitch, the farmer who left his wife
In q ctora harp SATURDAY. apd boc Ma