The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-09
MARYLAND
STATE NEWS
NeWsy Items Gathered From
All Parts Of the Stare.

| lHStoH, mas dpplleu lot lDe DeneHL or
the bankruptcy law. His liabilities are
$3,S14.26 and assets $2,OOO.O9.
Hagerstown. - Potomac Lodge or
Odd Fellows voted to erect temple
on lot the lodge recently purchased
from Francis II. Miller on South Po-
tomac street for $4,000.
Crisfeld.-Iu a severe electrical
storm John Sterling was killed near
High School. The bolt broke his neck
woman in the same room was render
ed unconscious.
Havre de Grace.-Representative
Democrats met in the City Court room
Wednesday and effected a temporary
organization preparatory TO organic
ing Wilson, Marshall and Talbot
club.
Salisbury-During a severe electric
al storm lightning struck and set fire
TO the overall factory owned by J..
Ernest Moore, at Frutland, complete
" destroying it, The loss will exceed
$4,000, partly covered by insurance.
Conference.-The Markleton Hotel
Company has sued the Connellsyille
md State Line Railroad Company, the
subsidiary OF the Western Maryland
Railway in Pennsylvania, for $4,000
damages.
Hagerstown. - DR.. ]. NJ. Gaines
instituted suit for damages against his
aeighbor, Mrs. Mary A. Sewers, for
respass, alleging that when she built
4 driveway on her residence lot she
eIcroached on his property.
Cumberland-Mrs. Lena L. Cline,
who recently attempted suicide by
drinking carbolic acid and gashing her
arm, instituted suit for divorce from
her husband, A. c.. Cline, as soon as
she was dismissed from the Allegany
Hospital.
Elkton. - Philadelphia capitalists
have purchased for $4,000 the Lam
saster, Oxford and Southern Railroad,
Known locally as the Peach Bottom
road 1t is reported that the road will
pass into the hands of the Philader
phia, Baltimore and Washington com
pany and be greatly improved.
Cambridge Governor Goldsborough
and Levin 6. Dali have been elected
rice-presidents of the Dorchester
/ National Bank of Cambridge, the
1 former resigning from the directorate
of the Farmers and Merchants Ma
tional Bank before connecting him
self with the other institution.
Hagerstown.-Th Clearspring Tour.
nament Association decided to hold its
eleventh annual tournament August
81. Charles c. Dennis was elected
president of the association. Charles
| l. Smith will be the chief marshal and
Richard Hartle will have charge of the
automobile parade.
Rockville.-The County Commission.
ers have decided to appropriate $4,000
to enable the County School Commits
sioners to provide temporary public
school facilities for the hundred or
more children of Chevy Chase and Vi
cinity who were excluded from the
public schools of the District OF Co
lumbia by recent act of Congress.
Chestertown.-Info has been
received here that the big strawboard-
factory, which has been closed several
wears, will start in a few months. The
mill employs about 50 men and 80
mules, buys the farmers straw and
helps the whole community. 1t is now
owned by the American Strawboard
Company, having been released from
the Union Box Board Company.
Hagerstown.-The Mayor and City
Council have received draft of the
anti-spitting ordinance framed by a
committee of the Board of Trade, with
the request that the ordinance be
adopted at once and enforced. The
draft has the united backing of the
Board of Trade and the local branch
of the Maryland Association for the
Prev ention and Cure Of tuberculosis.
Centreville. - Raymond Hollis, a
young negro, jumped from the second
story window of a magistrates Office
and made his escape after he had been
arrested on the charge of burglary at
the store of ?. H. Feddeman. Deputy
Sheriff Robert Coursey was examining
Hollis when the negro suddenly dived
! from a window and landed upon
! chicken house He was captured. He
has been released on $500 bail.
Hagerstown.-Ralp Williams, son
o. Davis Williams, employed at the
Antietam FIGURING Mill Company's
mill at Funkstown, narrowly escaped
| death by falling from the top of a
stepladder upon line shaft belt. In
! falling he struck Albert Shilling, the
! foreman, breaking his fall. Williams
/ foot caught in a rapidly revolving
wheel and he would have been whirled
I to death had the heel of his shoe not
torn loose. His leg was badly sprained.
Elkton.-During a severe electrical
storm which passed over this section
! lightning struck and destroyed the
large douHe-deck barn on the farm
owned by Miss Katie Price, two miles
east of this city, and tenanted by Will
| liam Lumm.