The citizen., 1914-02-27
MARYLAND NEWS
IN. SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.

WA4hdhi DUHSuOl, q OlVu war vet
eran, died at Pinesburg, aged IA.
Hans Jacobson, laborer Of Cum
berland. fell heir 100000.
William H. Booth, farmer Of West
Elkton, committed suicide while in
sane.
Edward T. Roe, 76 years old, died
at his home, near Chapel, in Talbot
county.
Naval Academy authorities appoint
ed a board to investigate the Mo
Dowell- Green shooting affair.
At meeting held at Salisbury it
was decided to offer an anti-shipping
bill for Wicomico county.
A large barge loaded with oyster
shells sank near Betterton. The crew
escaped in life-boat
Mrs Ann Elizabeth Beckley died at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Joseph
lands, near Williamsport.
The infant son Of John Lowery, near
Cumberland. was killed in fall from
chair. The skull was fractured and
blood vessel was ruptured.
Captain NJ. W. Crockett, assistant
keeper of Tangier light station, near
Crisfield, was killed by being knocked
overheard from sail-boat from the
jibing Of its boom.
At a convention of farmers, held at
Sandy Springs, Montgomery county,
resolutions were adopted condemning
the attempt being made to have legis-
lature repeal the Haman Oyster Law.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Ralph w.
Mcdowell, o. S. N, shot Frank Green
In Annapolis, for cutting ice on which
the Naval Acade.ly man and others
were skating.
A warehouse and 600 barrels of oil
belonging to the Standard Oil Com
pany on the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road, near Hagerstown, were burned.
Loss, $4,000.
After rounding out three-quarters Of
a century, John G. Hankey, retired
resident of Hagerstown, died on his
birthday anniversary of general de-
bility He was born at Brownsville.
Leonard S. Keith, wanted in Prince
George county, was arrested in Wash
ington. Sheriff George Hardy, of
Prince George county, took Keith tick
with him.
The Cecil Farmers Club held it's
February meeting at the home Of w.
Palmer McFadden. Several speakers
from the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege addressed the farmers.
The middle convocation of the
diocese of Easton held two-day meet
ing in Christ Episcopal Church, with
Bishop Adams presiding. The convo-
cation sermon was preached by the
Rev. w. Y. Beavan.
Fearing absolute prohibition legisla-
ton, a large number of citizens Of
Kent county met at Chestertown and
endorsed bill on the lines Of the
Delaware law, which will be submitted
to the legislature.
Farmers of fredericksburg are plan
ming to grow cantaloupes on an ex-
tensive scale the coming season. Be
sides the large acreage put out in the
past, they will plant from 800 to 500
additional acres this year.
The large potato house ON the farm
of Nicholas Laigneil, at fredericksburg,
was destroyed by fire together with
several hundred baskets of sweet
potatoes housed in it. Laigneil's resi-
dence nearby was saved by his family
and neighbors.
The Orphans Court of Cecil county,
in special session, heard the exceptions
filed by Dr. A. C. Crothers to the ac-
count OF Omar d. and Emerson r.
Crothers, executors Of the late Cover
nor Austin L. Crothers in the estate of
his brother, Charles G.. Crothers. The
items excepted to were ordered passed
as proper charge against the estate
of Charles c. Crothers.
NEWSY ITEMS.