The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-08-07

-iOthI any anu lOuI u his TlDS were
broken.
Justice Doub fined Daniel Wolf, of
FunkstOwn, SO and costs for permit
ting dead horse to remain in his
stable unburied.
Lightning struck the home of
Harvey S. Miller, near Grantsville.
tearing down the chimney and scat
tering bricks and plaster about the
floor of the kitchen and dining room
The siX-year-old adopted son of
Snively Grove, of near Keedysville,
fell upon pair of scissors he was
carrying. The scissors penetrated his
abdomen, intiicting a severe wound
Charles w. Mckinney, of the Ninth
district of Cecil county. has announced
his candidacy for Assistant Treasurer
of Cecil county at the Democratic
primaries
Postmaster Harry A. Carroll, of
iAufAC VIC VII ave- lldo dohtu llldl iit
Council assist him in the establish
ment of a freedelivery system in that
city in the near future.
A civil service examination for a
postmaster at Liberty Grove, Cecil
county, will be held at the Havre de
Grace school building Saturday, Au-
gust %.
Christopher Burns, aged 81 years, of
Havre de Grace, was killed Thursday
by fall from the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Companys steel bridge across
the Lehigh river between Mauch
Chunk and Packerton
The Frederick County Commission
ers have decided to use convict labor
on county work. Convicts will be
used upon new concrete pavement
around the Courthouse and later will
be used on roads.
The campaign committee to take
charge of the contest to secure a new
for Caroline county has decided to be-
gin work and will soon open head
quarters.
John Bestpitch and Clyde Harding,
two farmers, were fined 500 each for
contempt of court in violating an in
junction obtained by Charles Web
or pf ;,,.
them from selling to the Phillips Pack
ing Company
The Choptank marsh on the Caro-
line county side of the Choptank river
at Dover Bridge has been sold by James
r. Harding to General Joseph B. Seth.
1t is a great muskrat ground and is
rented out in sections for that pur-
pose and thousands Of rats are trap
ped there every year.
DR.. c. s Brown, 81 years old, past
department commander Of the Depart
ment of Georgia and South Carolina,
Grand Army of the Republic, and wife,
OF Fitzgerald, Ga, are visiting DR.
''lON II NOuolllr vi HtlluS DION H. at
Brownsville Washington county,
where DR.. Brown was born.
The dwelling owned and occupied by
Frank Burns, Jr., near Singerly's, two
miles north of Elkton, together with
the furniture, was burned The family
was away from home at the time It
&c +hCr oh ln Nd
then set on fire The loss is about
$1,000, with partial insurance
The suit of Mrs. Katie l. Taylor
against the Western Maryland Rail
way Company for $4,000 damages for
the death Of her husband, who was
killed in train derailment at
Patapsco March 81 last, was com
promised in Hagerstown Friday, the
railway company paying Mrs. Taylor
$500.
Mrs Ella CObaugh, Of lockwood,
has entered suit against the Western
Maryland Railway to recover $4,000
damages for the death Of her husband,
while working at the coaling station
at lockwood. Defective machinery is
alleged to have been responsible for
his DEATH
DR.. Rowland II. Ford, a Queens
town physician, and Marion Council,
a young farmer, both had a narrow
escape from death when the auto
droven by DR. Ford collided with Mr.
Councill's carriage, wrecking the ma
chine, nearly killing the horse and
throwing both men a considerable
distance. Both escaped injury.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee Of Washington County passed
resolutions providing for the election
on September at the primaries of
five members OF the State Central
Committee from this county. six dele
gates to the State convention and 10
delegates from each voting precinct
to the county convention, which will
nominate a full county ticket. The
county convention will be held Thurs
day, September %.
At a meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Williamsport, Nessle and
Martinsburg Railway Company in
Martinsburg, John Carmichael, of Ha-
gerstown, was elected president to
11S II