The citizen., 1914-12-04
STATE news
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
Observation-Disclosures

Thomas Marshall, son of Arthur
]. Marshall, fell from wagon at
Aireys and was so badly injured that
he died from the effects of the fall.
Claude McCusker, Of Hancock, who
killed Justus Roman four years ago.
was convicted at Hagerstown Of muir
der in the second degree.
Jesse Lancaster, colored, who has
been stealing mail pouches at Rock
vile during the last several months.
has been arrested, and has confessed.
Lockjaw having set in from gun
shot wounds sustained week ago,
Beulah, the 11-year-old daughter of Ed
ward Steltz, of Aberdeen, died in
Havre de Grace Hospital.
Franklin A. Dick, well-known
farmer, residing near st. Michael, is a
patient in Emergency Hospital at Eas-
ton, suffering with a badly shattered
arm, the result of gun accidentally
discharged.
A large barn. four horses, Is tons of
hay, eight tons Of straw and about 500
bushels of wheat on the farm of Harry
Jamison, near st. Georges, along the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, about
seven miles east of Elkton, were
burned.
Cambridge Lodge of Elks gave q
banquet at the Hotel Dixon. Comp
troller Harrington was toastmaster.
Alfred ]. Carr, exalted ruler of Balti-
more Lodge of Elks, delivered the
principal address. Others who re-
sponded to toasts were Lloyd Webster,
DR.. E. E. Wolff and P. Watson Webb.
The second trial Of the suits Of 98
property-owners of Port Deposit
against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road and the American Bridge Com
pany, for damages to property result
ing from the disastrous ice gorge
three years ago, on being called for
trial In the Eastern Court, was re-
moved to Baltimore city for trial.
The tomato canning factory of Hub
bard & Reid, at East Newmarket, was
destroyed by fire. The night watch
man and colored man who lives just
across the road from the factory dis
covered the fire about the same time,
but II had gotten so much start that
it was impossible to put 1t out. The
loss, including building, machinery and
goods, Is estimated at about $4,000.
Max Boward. Is years old, was shot
with cat rife that was not loaded"
by Frank Norris, aged Is, companion.
It is said Norris pointed the weapon at
Boward and told him he intended to
shoot him, and Boward told him to
shoot as the gun was not loaded.
Norris pulled the trigger, and the
bullet struck young Boward on the
right side of the abdomen and lodged
on the left. At the Washington Coun-
ty Hospital the bullet was extracted.
Henry C. Somner, Of Atlanta, Ca,
who fought in the Franco-Prussian
War and was taken a prisoner in 1870,
has been spending few days in Fred
erick. He has four nephews in the
French Army, two of whom are wound
ed in hospitals in Paris and the other
two are In the fortress at Verdun. He
has q sister-in-law nurse in a war
hospital in Paris. According to his
letters the death rate among young
soldiers has been high.
After the court had overruled a mo-
tion for new trial, asked on the
ground that the verdict Of the jury
was against the weight of the evi-
dence, Judge Peter, in the Circuit
Court at Rockville, sentenced Jacob
L. Cue, convicted Of second-degree
murder as a result Of killing Horace
Young, near Damascus, on August rs
last, to Is years in the Penitentiary
In passing sentence. Judge Peter re-
marked that the verdict Of the jury
was approved by the court.
A number of meetings will be held
in Montgemry county this week by
commuters and others affected by the
advance in rates proposed by the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad in order to
place before the Public Service Com
mission Of Maryland and the Interstate
Commerce Commission vigorous pro-
test against the increase, which means
within a fraction of 40 per cent. ad-
vance in all classes of tickets to and