The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-08-11
STATE NEWS.

dlOOt REPUBLICANS oecl0co 10 nOml-
nate full county ticket
Presbyterians OF Midland, Allegany
county, will erect new church.
Rex Smith will make two flights day
at Rockville during the Fair.
John U. Adams, former editor of the
Hagerstown Daily NeaUs, is dead.
The Norrisville Farmers Club held a
three-day picnic at Fawn Grove.
State Senator Blair Lee addressed a
large meeting of Democrats at Upper
Marlboro.
Admiral Togo, the hero of the battle
OF the Sea OF Japan, was the guest of Bal
timore City.
Judge Joseph Reading decided it lawful
to serve meals to strangers in Montgom-
cry county on Sundays.
Dorchester Republicans decided to
concentrate all their efforts on the success
OF the party's State ticket.
The biplane of Harry n. Atwood was
held on an attachment for an alleged
automobile hire bill of Sis.
Several tents at Wesley Grove were
DESTROYED by FIRE recently, caused by the
explosion OF gasoline stove.
DR.. Winford H. Smith. the new Super
lntendent OF Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, is due August 18th.
Members of Troop IS, of the Boy
Scouts, Baltimore, pitched camp for a
ten day stay at COLCHESTER Beach.
Mrs. William Lawson, Of Crisheld, was
killed while alighting from an excursion
tran returning from Ocean City.
Mrs. Johanna Winkler, of Lansdowne,
was decapitated by an express train on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
hrs. Phillip w. Truehart, daughter OF
Collector of the Port Stone, is seriously
Ill al ST. Joseph's Hospital, Baltimore.
Applications for a receiver for the
James P. Shannon Company, operating
the Eutaw House, Baltimore. was made.
Roads Engineer Shirley reported that
the storm Of last week caused $50, 600
damage to roads and bridges in Baltimore
county.
Mr.. Eugene Lawrence Perry became
manager Of the Auditorium Theatre,
Baltimore, succeeding the late Jefferson
D. Berstein
Mrs Susanna K. Tobey, a sister of the
late Enoch Pratt, Baltimore, died in
Wareham, Mass, on Sunday, at the age
OF 100 years.
Rev. S. Braren. pastor of Bedford
Street German Lutheran church, Cum.
berland, has resigned to accept call to
Marietta, Ohio.
The Baltimore County Commissioners
refused to sanction the Lords Day Al
lance order for Sunday observance o
the liquor laws.
Belair was included in the itinerary o
State Senator Arthur p German, Ir.
in his Campaign for the Democratic
nomination for Governor.
President Robertson, Of the Western
Maryland Railway. outlined the plans fol
Improvements to terminate at Baltimore
which will cost s., ooo, 900.
Mr.. Henry A. Wise, Assistant Super
intendent of Public Schools. Baltimore
notified the teachers retirement funo
trustees that he would not retire.
Joseph Bellrutis, laborer, So4 Yves
Pratt street, Baltimore, was killed be-
meath a freight car at Mount Clare
yard, while seeking employment.
President Alexander Robertson, O
the Western Maryland Railroad, vii
receive rug from the skin of a beal
killed by an engineer on the road.
Thieves at Cavetown, who have beer
raiding hencoops for several weeks anc
have stolen chicken. have turned theil
attention to stealing fruit by the whole
sale from orchards.
The Consolidated Gas, Electric Llgh
and Power Company, will shortly cree
two-story generator house at the
southwest corner of Heath and Leaden
hall streets, Baltimore.
President Daniel Willard, of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, Mrs. Willard
and their son, Daniel Willard. Jr., saileo
| from New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm
| II, for four weeks tour of Europe.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee for Baltimore met this week tc
adopt a course in keeping with the State
Primary Election Law in reference to the
election OF a governing body of the
| party.
A thief gained entrance to the dwelling
of Samuel w. Cation, of Hagerstown
| and ransacked the house from top to
bottom in search for money. The con-
tents Of the bureau drawers were dump,
| ed upon the floor.
Passenger train No. So, on the West
| elm Maryland Railroad, ran into a beal
that was crossing the track near Chea,
Cut, 22 miles west of Elkins. West
Virginia, and killed the animal. The
bear weighed $50 pounds.
Caught in a whirlpool off Connelly's
Point near Sharptown recently, a boat
rowed by Aldon r. Elzey, 10 years old,
filled and went to the bottom and young
Elzey was drowned. The body was re-
covered short time after the accident.
Cardinal Gibbons left few days ago
for New York. From that city he will
90 to Long Island, where he will spend
several weeks with friends. The prelate
takes this trip annually and usually
spends the month of August in the
North.
Garfield Short, Of Savage, Howard
county, was instantly killed at the Gull
ford quarry. He was helping to hoist a
stone weighing about two tons when the
chain broke and the stone fell upon him.
His body was removed to his home az
Savage.
The largest blacksnake or reptile OF
any kind ever seen around Williamsport,
was killed in a ravine on the Stake farm,
adjoining that town, by G.. A. Lizer.
The snaEe uac ovar ceven feet in lenoih