The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-16

OPOa4NEA Vi NLlt MARY IdIu HOUSE VI
Delegates and chairman of the Demo
cratic County Central Committee, is a
candidate for the nomination for
State Senate
The Empire Theatre Company,
Frederick, composed of B. Evard
Kepner, William o. Kolb, F. Lester
Smith, w. L. o. Fisher, Howard
Young and NJ L. Troxell was organ
lied Saturday The company has
taken over Junior Hall and will con-
vert it into modern theatre.
The Highland Grange has elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: Master, John w. Galbreath;
overseer, James J. Wilson; chaplain,
S. L. Irvine; lecturer, D. G. Harry;
steward, William H. Day; treasurer,
f. L. Martin. and secretary, Mrs. Will
liam F. Stubs.
Louis. fiye-year-old son of Aaron
Cline, was drowned in an unfinished
well at his fathers home, Pleasant
dileV, east VI EOlultDSDufS.
DR.. c. K. Messick, of Baltimore, pur-
chased from trustees 25 acres of land,
containing a lithia spring, in Indian
Springs district, Washington county,
for $4,000.
The storehouse of Frank Sterling,
located at Tawsonia, a suburb of Girls
field, was destroyed by fire The loss
is about $4,000, partly covered by in
surance.
Chauncey Simmons was arrested in
York, Pa, Thursday charged with rob-
bling the house of Frederick C. Pierce,
in Frederick of jewelry valued at S25.
He was brought to Frederick
William HubbarG's horse and buggy
were taken from Airey Saturday.
Sunday morning the horse was found
exhausted at Travers Wharf, II miles
away, with the buggy demolished.
The Hagerstown Street Commits
sioners have passed an order that af
ter February l the consumption OF
current bought of the municipal light
plant shall be regulated by meters,
abolishing all fat rates
Rev Dr. Frank J. Gunsaulus, presi-
dent of the Armour Institute of Tech
nology, Chicago, has accepted an in
vitation to give the commencement
address at the Tome School for Boys
on June 10, 1913.
Raymond Buhrman was shot in the
left hip while tussling with his friend
Frank Robertson, as the youths were
going to Buhrman's home, near
Smithsburg Buhrman's clothing
caught fire from the pistols fare.
Among the roads of Montgomery
county to be improved within the near
future is that from Woodmont to Glen
Echo, through the subdivision of
Edgewood, a distance of about three
miles, and the River road from Co
hasset to the District of Columbia line,
also about three miles in length.
M. R. Robinson, Baltimore and
Ohio brakeman whose run was out Of
Connellsville. where he boarded, was
killed at Manila, east of Sand Patch
tunnel, by falling from the train, the
wheels of which passed over his body
His head was cut off and his body was
badly mangled.
The Annapolis Chamber of Com
MERGE has launched a movement to
secure for that city the annual meet
ing of the Maryland State Teachers
Association this year. The chamber
named Mayor Strange, Messrs. Chas.
F. Lee, Clifton c. Moss, George T,
Melvin and Alfred Turner, a commit
tee to work to that end.
Margaret Birely. three-year-o
daughter OF Thomas Birely, living near
Blue Ridge Summit, while playing
about her mothers sewing table, fell
upon a pair OF scissors, which pune
tured her neck and severed the jugular
vein She bled to death in her
mothers arms.
Eli Lukolo and Milon Misevie,
Austrians, in the employ of the West
ern Maryland Railway, were drowned
at Cumberland. They were at work
or the pier for the new bridge. While
starting for their camp Lukolo
stumbled over a board at the edge of
the canal and was unable to swim.
Misevie started on a run to the rail
way station for aid, but fell into the
feed lock and was drowned.
A transcript of the record of the
case of Norman Bruce McCleary, in
dicted in Washington county for the
murder of Mrs. Mamie B. Henry,
mother of his former sweetheart,
Lupah Henry. last August, has been
received by the clerk of the Circuit
Court, Rockville, and the case will be