The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-20

All bids received for building a mu-
nicipal electric plant in Centerville
have beer rejected.
Mrs. Katherine Wilson fell from a
porch roof at her home at Cecilton
and sustained serious injuries.
The price of bituminous coal has
been advanced by the coal companies
80 cents ton.
H. A. l'aine, road engineer for Car
oline county, has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect March /, 1913.
Owing to the high price of hard
coal many of the residents of Havre
de Grace are using soft coal with fine
success.
The stockholders of the Perryville
Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany nave asked for the appointment
of a receiver.
Obscured by bushes, Bon Towner,
of near Perryman, was accidentally
shot in the face by his companion
while rabbit hunting.
The Western Maryland Railway is
building new bridge over the Po-
tomac river near Dam No. 5, 10 miles
west Of Hagerstown.
While placing rafters on the new
Earn Of Thomas B. Mcdonald, near
Morrisville, John Brooks fell so feet
and was killed almost instantly.
Miss Blanche Ford, of Elkton, has
resigned as principal of Providence
public school and Miss Lulu Moore
has been named as her successor.
Frank Eakle and Howard Johnson,
boys, were severely injured by falling
20 feet from a ladder across a barbed-
wire fence near Leitersburg.
John Abbott, member of the House
of Delegates of 1910 and chairman
of the Allegany county delegates, is
seriously i'll at his home here.
Thrown from a wagon when the
body bolt broke, Andrew Wylie, rural
mail carrier from the Colora postotfice,
=, mi
Reed Kirk, a farmer near Pivot
Bridge, is confined to his home with
serious injuries, resulting from being
kicked by a horse.
William c. Fisher an aged resident
of Funkstown, Washington county, his
wife and two sons, were nearly as
phyxiated by coal gas escaping into
their sleeping apartments.
Having reached the age limit of 70
years, Barclay Brown, baggagemaster
on the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Central Railroad, will be retired in
January.
Bids are being asked by the Penn
sylvania Railroad for a large oper-
ating tower known as an electro-me-
chanical cabin at Pencader, short
distance from Newark.
No criminal proceedings have been
taken against the three men held by
a coroner's jury at Waynesboro for
the wreck on the Western Maryland
Railway at Pen-Mar.
Prof. c. Edwin Carl, for 16 years
principal of the Washington County
Male High School, at Hagerstown,
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect January 8.
Surveyors are mapping out a new
line for the B. G. o. Railroad from
the east end of its Susquehanna
bridge to Cooks Point, distance of
two miles.
Cumberland is constructing an as
pnaltum plant and asphaltum will be
used in street-making here, instead
Of fire brick, which has been used
heretofore.
The Rockville Musical Club has been
organized with 20 members and the
following officers; President, Berry
E. Clark: secretary-treasurer F. Bache
Albert; director, William F. Pretty
man.
Telephone subscribers in Cecil coun-
tv have been notified that their year
" rate will be increased to $26 for
residence phones and $36 for business
phones, Notwithstanding existing con
tracts. The Public Service Commits
sion will first have to approve the
change.
George Killorain, charged with rob
bling a store at Preston, escaped from
the Denton Jail by breaking a hole
through the ceiling of his cell. He is
supposed to have made his way to
Delaware.
An auto truck line to connect Cam
bridge with Taylors Island, Is miles
away, has been started. The truck
win carry about % passengers and is
exneeted TO make two trips each way