The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-04-03

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Application has been made to Gov
ernor Goldsborough to pardon Charles
Wilcher, who was sentenced to the /
Maryland Penitentiary last May for
six years for burglary in Hagerstown.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company has decided u acres of land
on West Lee street, in Hagerstown,
to the newly-incorporated Terminal |
Storage and Ice Company for $4,000.
Senator Omar D. Crothers, who for |
the past FIVE weeks has been a patient (
at the Union Hospital in Elkton, has /
entirely recovered and is again able to
attend to his law practice.
Miss Anna Woullard, 19 years old |
OF Brunswick, entered suit in court |
against Charles Edgar Halter. of |
Frederick, for $1,000 damage for
breach Of promise.
Fruit trees in Caroline are now COW |
cred with blossoms. and the outlook is /
for one of the best fruit years known |
for long time, unless killing frosts |
intervene.
Joseph w Phelps has sold to Arthur
X. Austin and Sidney H. Henry his /.
farm in BlaCkwater, known as the
Darby farm. The place contained
about 140 acres.
John Harvey, colored, employed at
the Fleigh Garage, Hagerstown, was
badly injured by the explosion of gas.
which accumulated in the furnace, into
which gasoline-soaked waste had been
thrown
John Trout, the 70-year-old Union
veteran who gained notoriety by ad-
vertising for a wife. despairs Of Sc
curing helpmate and has advertised
his farm and household effects, near
Park Mills, for sale.
Miss Marian Coffin, SO years old,
daughter Of Mrs. Mary Catherine
Coffin, of Muirkirk, Prince Georges
county, died at the Homeopathic Hos
'pital, Washington, from the effects of
an operation performed about three
weeks ago.
William Johnson, colored. charged
with the death Of Harry F. Scrivener,
white Of
about two miles south of Beltsville,
Prince Georges county Mounted Ser
geant j. ]. Murphy, of the Tenth
precinct, made the arrest.
Rev. Charles D. Lafferty, of Rock
vile, formerly rector of St. Bartholo-
news Episcopal Church, Laytonsville,
and st. Johns Church, Olney, has ac-
cepted call to the rectorate of the
churches at Poolesville and Barnes
Vile.
Charles Price, employed in the
Western Maryland Railway round
house, at Hagerstown, was accident
ally struck a glancing blow on the
head while at work with a 2O-pound
sledge hammer and his ear was near
ly torn from his head
Samuel Moore. the 7-year-old lad
who shot and killed Henry Herbert
Dorsey, an Eighth district farmer, near
Pilot in January, and his brother,
Arthur Moore, aged II years, have
been taken to the Henry Watson Chill
drens Aid Society Home, in Balti-
more.
Among the recent real estate trans
actions in Cecil county are: The
George R. Howard farm in Elk Neck,
on Elk river, containing 800 acres, has
been purchased by Dr. Bayard Muir
ray the Alfred farm in the Fourth
district has been sold to William T.
Rothwell, and the Seminar farm of
"A acres, in the Fourth district, to
Albert Janney.
Deputy Sheriff James Temple is the
third candidate for the Democratic
nomination for sheriff in Caroline
county to appear in the field, and an
other reported addition to the list of
aspirants to this office is Jacob
Hughes, of Greensboro. George W.
Kelley, of the Fourth district, and w
T. Elliott, of the Seventh, have been
avowed candidates for several weeks.
The Masonic fraternity, of Sails
bury, comprising the Thomas Shryock
Commandery, the Chesapeake Arch
Chapter and the Wicomico Lodge held
held its annual reception and banquet
at the Masonic Temple, at which many
visitors from POcomoke City, CTisfield,
Princess Anne, Delmar, Sharptown and
other neighboring towns on the Pen
insula were entertained.
Griggs Flanagan, IA years old, son OF
the late John d. Flanagan, and a mem
Der of the graduating class of the
Shepherdstown Graded School, was in
stantly killed and his mother, Mrs.
Bertha D. Flanagan, injured in a run
away accident near Molers Crossroads.
The two were on their way home when
team going down steep hill. Just
as they passed the team the horses
became frightened and dashed into the
vehicle The buggy was demolished
and the heavy farm wagon and horses
passed over the wreck.