Middletown transcript., 1914-12-12
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
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The jury of inquest which investi-
gated the death OF 15-year-old Max
Boward, Of Hagerstown, who was kill
ed by a bullet fired by 11-year-old
Frank Norris, son of Charles E. Norris,
absolved young Norris from all blame.
Young Norris claimed the shooting
was accidental. Mrs. Vernie Lapole
and Mrs. Lowell Wood, sisters Of the
dead boy, testified that young Boward
declared that the shooting was acci-
dental.
A motor bus line, with a capacity
of 25 passengers, win be established
between Frederick and Baltimore by
H. G. Lescaleet, of Liberty. The route
will be the same that the old omnibus
ratified over so years ago. The dis
tance is 46 miles and will be made in
two and a half hours. The bus will
leave Frederick in the morning and
return in the afternoon. Mr.. Lescaleet
has operated motor bus line between
this city and Liberty for II years.
The trial Of Mrs Virginia Rutter,
Of Philadelphia, charged with setting
FIRE to the house in which she lived
In Cecil county. came to quick end
ing wednesday. The defense put on
the stand but six witnesses, after
which the case was given to the jury
without argument, and in less than
three minutes the jurors returned with
verdict of acquittal.
At the fifth annual convention Of
the Cecil County Sunday School AS
sociation, held in Rising Sun, Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, officers we're
elected as follows: President, Edwin
D. Carhart, Zion; vice-president,
Webster Brown, Calvert; secretary
treasurer, Joseph NJ. McYoy, Elkton.
Cadet Frederick Dodge, Of Washing
ton, while playing quarterback for the
Charlotte Hall Military Academy foot
ball team, had his ankle broken and
is now in an unfavorable condition in
a washington hospital. This is the
fourth accident from football this sea
son, and probably the worst.
Charged with the theft of knives
and reYolYers from the Brown Imple-
ment Company, Walter Carroll, JEFF
fries Baldwin, Walter Robinson, Ed
ward Hines and Carroll Shanahan, of
HaYre de Grace, were held under
81 900 bail for the grand jury.
Capt. s. C. Cardwell, 81 years old,
Of the commanding officers staff at
Fort Howard, near Baltimore, died at
the fort after having underwent three
unsuccessful operations for tumor on
the brain, the result of an accident
about 1S months ago.
Edwin D. Carhart, of Zion. has been
elected president and Joseph NJ. Nc
Vey, Of Elkton, secretary-treasurer of
the Cecil County Sunday School Asso-
citation.
Falling while descending steps at
her home, near Zion, while carrying
a child, Miss Anna Mary Crothers sus-
tanned a broken nose, but the child
escaped injury.
Mrs. Frank M. Dick has sold Ham
brooks Manor, near Cambridge, to w.
E. OgilVie, q millionaire sugar planter
and president OF the Havana Central
Railroad.
The Board Of County Commission
ers of washington county passed a
resolution against the rigid enforce
ment of the vaccination law.
Friends of Chief Judge Albert Con
stable, of Eikton, are booming him for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor.
Congressman David ]. Lewis filed
his expense account with the clerk of
the Circuit Court of Allegany county.
He spent $1.924.41.
Capt. William H. Fullam will cease
to be superintendent Of the Naval
! Academy next June. He will reach
the grade of rear admiral in May.
The 2OO-acre farm of William S.
Byers. in the. Second district of Cecil
county, has been bought by John s.
Myers. of Philadelphia, for $500.
Fire destroyed the Benjamin Foxall
concrete block works in South Cum
berland. Loss, $1,000.
As a result of revival at Moore's
Chapel. near Elkton, 98 persons have
been added to the church membership.
BY holding fair and supper the
ladies' of st. Peters Guild, of Sails
bury, netted $3.50.
The old Hebrew Synagogue property
In Hagerstown was sold to George B.
Oswald for $500.
James Schubert, Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad brakeman, was killed by
a train at Sewell Junction.
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