The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-10-03
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER

The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
Fliteen shares of Washington Coun.
W Water Company stock, par SO. sold
at auction Wednesday for $1,000 a
! share.
w, F. Miller, a Western MARYLAND
hallway fireman of Hagerstown. was
run over by locomotive at Wayne
castle, and the Altenwald cutoff. and
seriously injured.
Miss Pearl Mclaughlin, 1S-year-old
daughter Of William Mclaughlin. of
Oldtown, who had been missing from
her home for two months, was appre-
hended at Hagerstown upon her ar
rival from Cumberland
The position of commandant at
Charlotte Hall Military Academy is
filled by Capt. r. G. Bates, a gradu-
ate OF West Virginia University. For
the last two years he has been prin-
cipal Of Hedgesyille High School.
The barracks on the farm of Andrew
j. Miller, near Antietam we're burned
with the seasons wheat and hay crops.
entailing loss of several thousand
dollars, which is partly covered by
| insurance.
The new Church of God Wine-
brennerians), near Blue Mountain, on
the Edgemont-Rouzerville road, will be
| dedicated October 5. Rev. l.. F. Muir
ray, of Uniontown, Md, will preach
the dedicatory sermon. Rev. w. s.
shrimp is the pastor.
The School Commissioners are ar
ranging to establish a public school
at Somerset to accommodate the chill
/ dren of Somerset, Drummond and
| Friendship Heights, who were eXclud-
ed from the public schools OF the Dis
trict of Columbia.
With a preacher as one of the prin-
cipal witnesses against him, Ernest
Stevens, of Kaisiersville was arrested
on the charge of carrying concealed
weapons. Arraigned before Justice
Miller, at Clearspring, he was found
guilty and fined SIS and costs.
The Washington County Realty
Company has been incorporated with
a capital stock of $4,000, divided into
1900 shares. The incorporators are
ex-State Senator Norman B. Scott,
Jr., ex-States Attorney Alexander
Armstrong, Jr., and Ralph l.. Boyer.
Attorney General Poe in the contest
ed election case in Kent county, has
decide that tickets voted in one
precinct and marked for another can
not be counted. This condition arose
through marked tickets labeled for
wrong districts or precincts being sent
to voters.
Two of the most valuable pieces of
property in Ellicott City were sold.
One, known as the Angelo Cottage
property, was purchased by Samuel
Watkins. 1t is more than 100 years
old and derived its name from a
l., -ho 70 nth
the bank property, erected by the Eli
colts, who first settled here, was pur.
chased by Daniel Hewett. .
Capt. Whitfield Stansbury is critic
ally i'll at his home, near Hampstead.
Driving some stock from his lower
farm to the home place, the horse he
was riding slipped and fell on bridge,
throwing Mr.. Stansbury. He was
found unconscious. His face was bad
ly cut and bruised. A clot on the
brain caused by the fall produced
paralysis.
Frederick county will be represented
this year for the first time at the
Maryland Week celebration Of the
State Horticultural Society to be held
in Baltimore November II to 26. A
committee from the Farmers Associa-
ton, with Lewis F. Kefauver, Middle
town, chairman, will arrange for the
display. Apples and other fruits will
be made a special feature.
]. Vincent Jamison, Jr., an official
of the Jones Cold. Storage Door Com
pany, of Hagerstown, was seriously in
iured by an explosion in the galvaniz-
ing department at the factory Damp
coke thrown into tank exploded,
the fragments being hurled all direc-
lions. He was struck on the arms,
shoulders and face and was badly
burned.
The coroner's jury, empaneled by
Justice w. A. Britton to inquire into
the death of Fred Cullen, finished its
investigation and placed the response
bility for Mr.. Cullen's death on the
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and characterizes the affair as criminal
negligence Of a fearful nature. His
wife has just passed through a serious
onaration in the hospital and is pros