Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-21
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY !
NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS
Negro Boy Accused of At
tempting to Poison CoIored
Man and Wife.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, April %, 1912
On a charge of attempting to poison
Daniel Brooks and wife, colored. who
live near Jamestown. this county, John
Williams a sixteen-year- negro boy.
was lodged in Jail here today by Con-
stable Thomas Small. He will be given
hearing before Justice Reading in the
police court here next Tuesday.
Williams was employed by John Hig-
don, Jamestown district farmer. and
it is charged that he put paris green
into bucket Of milk he carried to the
Brooks home for his employer. A war;
rant was Immediately sworn out against
Williams. The boy admitted putting the
poison into the milk. it is said. but gave
no reason why he did so.
The county commissioners have ap-
proved the report OF NJ. Donaldson
knight, Warren V. Magruder and Perrie
+. Waters. who were appointed to de-
termine whether the public convenience
required the opening of a road from
Chevy Chase Circle TO the Great Falls.
along the route of the boulevard the
Chevy-Chase-to-Gre Land Com
pany proposes to build. and who unani-
mously reported against the proposition.
The commissioners fixed last Tuesday to
near protests, If any, against the ratifica-
ton OF the report, but no one appeared
in opposition.
Had the road been opened the commits
sioners would have been requested to call
special election to enable the voters
OF Bethesda and Potomac districts,
through which the proposed road would
have passed, to determine whether the
two districts should be bonded for Sias,-
600 to assist the land company to build
the proposed boulevard. As matters
now stand the land company will have
to foot the entire expenses should the
boulevard be built.
Extending Gas Main
The Georgetown Gaslight. Company il
engaged in extending a gas main along
the Georgetown and Rockville pike to
Bethesda, this county. 1t Is understood
to be the purpose Of the company to
eventually extend the main to Rockville.
On certificates Of Drs. Thomas X. Con-
rad and John L. Lewis, the county COM
missioners have adjudged Cora E. Speau-
bling to be Of unsound mind, and have
ordered her committed to the Springfield
Hospital for treatment at county ex-
pense.
the clerk of the circuit court here to Miss
Leola l. Savage and Martin L. Poole,
both of Poolesville, this county.
The follow ng are among the transfers
OF real estate recorded in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court here during the
week: Grace A. L. Walker to William s.
HaIton, lot at Kenilworth: Charles w.
Wise to Harry K. White, lot at Somer-
set; Charles F. Kirk to A. b. Farquhar.
eighteen acres; r. Holt Easley to Ira 8.
Shade. lot at Silver Spring; Zachariah
G. Cooley to Allen r. Carlisle, one acre:
Henry l. Black to Claude v. Cooley. 80
acres near Barnesville: county commits
sioners to James Duvall, one-half acre:
Anne M Renshaw to Edward J. Stell-
wagon. lot; Beall w. Unglesbee to L. ].
Wilmarth. $50 acres; Albert C. Reynolds
to Charles c. Glover. 13O acres; Cyrus
keiser to John L. Lewis, lot in Highland
Park; Sarah S. Mackall to Mary Reilly,
two acres; w. Z. Virts to John F. Jen-
klnS, one acre.