The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-02-12
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.

Falling from a tree, Harold Miller,
OF Hagerstown, broke an arm.
Thrown from his buggy on the
Sharpsburg turnpike, Harry Repp was
severely injured.
Alighting before the train stopped,
Roy Ensor, of Parkton, was thrown
beneath it and killed.
Benjamin F. Zimmerman, of Adams
town, who pleaded guilty to a charge
of watering milk, was fined SIS in the
police court at Washington.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, will deliver the Founders Day
Address at the Tome School, Port De-
post, on May IA.
The first herring of the season was
caught near fredericksburg by James F.
Gambrill. This is regarded as a sure
sign of an early spring.
c. G. Brandenburg, a Western Mary
land Railway fireman, fell from an
engine in Hagerstown and was severe
ly injured.
Miss Sallie Bechtold, of Havre de
Grace, was overcome by leaking gas in
her bathroom and was found uncon-
scious.
]. Augustine Mason, of Hagerstown,
has been elected president and gen
eral counsel of the Security Cement
and Lime Company.
Chestertown Volunteer Firemen
have elected T. D. France, president,
and George G. Cannon, chief of their
organization.
Miss Mary Lassell, who disappeared
from her home in Kent county Is years
ago, has been located by her sister in
Holquin Hospital, Cuba.
One hundred and seventy marriage
licenses were issued to New Jersey,
Elkton in January, an increase of rs
over the previous month.
An amendment to the bill providing
for a $4,000 bond issue for a public
park for Hagerstown has been drafted
and will be introduced at once into the
Legislature.
A stone from King Solomon's quar-
ries has been presented the Coats
Lodge of Masons at Easton by DR.. c.
d. Harris, editor of the Southern
Methodist.
Warm weather has started spring
activities among farmers near Del
mar Plans made assure the greatest
acreage of cantaloupes in the history
OF this section.
Peter Welsh, 1O1 years of age, died
at Barton. He came from Ireland in
sailing ship in his youth. He worked
at the opening of the first coal mines
in the Cumberland region.
The Eureka fertilizer plant at
Frenchtown, has been sold by r. c.
Thackery, Frederick T. Haines and
William S. Evans, trustees, to the Ian
caster Chemical Company, of Lancas-
ter, Pa, for S10,259.
Miss Elsie Guiberson has been ap-
pointed principal at Oak Grove pub
Tic school, succeeding Miss Fannie
Peach, who accepts the appointment as
deputy postmistress at the North East
office.
An automobile driven by J. P. Ahern,
president of the Millington National
Bank, struck and seriously injured
Charles, the 11-year-old son of C. H.
Harris, a merchant in Millington. The
dad ran in front of the machine
While cunning in small skiff
Bryan Wood and Alvin McCauley, of
Galena, had very narrow escape from
drowning when their craft upset,
throwing both men into the water
They were rescued by fishermen.
Because it was warm there, J.
Lewis Demmitt, As years old, retired
ION the top of lime kiln near Woods
boro and dropped off to sleep. When
he awakened both his legs were
lcharred. He was hurried to Montevue
Hospital, where it was said both legs
probably would be amputated.
Citizens of the eastern section of
Montgomery county are interested in
the bill introduced in the State Senate
by Senator William Holmead, of
Prince Georges county, providing for
an appropriation of 100000 for the
construction of a pike from Sandy
Spring, this county, to Laurel, A large
part of the hauling done by the farm
ers of the eastern section of this coun-
ty is to Laurel
At the annual meeting of the Hagers-
town Automobile Club, Inc, at the
Offices of the board of trade, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, DR.. J. Roger Laughlin; vice
president, DR.. Victor D. Miller, Jr. sec
rotary, Roy Dancer; treasurer Charles
M. Dancer; directors, Mayor J. Nc
Pherson Scott, William B. Littleton, S.
H. Weihenmayer, Ernest Brining, II.
Dixon Mclaughlin, Albert Heard, H.
w. Kaylor, David P. Schindel and J.
Ellsworth Stonebraker.
The Pennsylvania authorities have
been requested to arrest William