Middletown transcript., 1915-07-31


Trust Company was ratified at Cam
bridge.
Six persons were injured as a result
OF collision between a carriage and a.
motorcycle on the Federalsburg-Hu -Hur-
lock road.
James Raisin, colored, was shot.
probably fatally, by Constable Dunn
at McGinn1s Corner, Queen Anne's
county while the negro was about to
shoot Sheriff Brown, of Kent county
Clarence X. Chrissenger, 81 years
old, fell from a porch at his home. in
Hagerstown, and fractured his skull,
dying soon after the accident. He
leaves his wife and three children.
Hon. Hoke Smith, United States
senator from Georgia, Secretary of the
Interior in the Cabinet of President
Cleveland, will be one of the speak
ers at the all-day farmers meeting at
Tome Institutes Port Deposit, Satur-
day. August IA. This meeting will be
held under the auspices of the allied
farming interests of Cecil county.
The dwelling house on the farm of
the late Richard Davis, near Wood
stock, was burned Wednesday, with
its entire contents. 1t was occupied
by Mr. Davis widow, Mrs. Julia Davis,
and her two sisters, Misses Emma and
Sofia Owings. The loss is about
$4,000, partially covered by insurance.
Several outbuildings also were de
stroyed.
The stockholders of the Blue Ridge
Knitting Company, $35O,OOO concern,
with branches at Chambersburg and
Mechanicsburg, have elected the fol-
lowing officers: President Jacob
Roessner; vice-president, Irwin r. Lin
ton Of Washington; secretary, Charles
H. Roessner; treasurer, H. E. Stamm
and directors, the officers and w. J..
Weihenmayer, Philadelphia.
Lightning struck the farm house of
Preston Gernand, near Myersville.
passed through two rooms, rendering
one person unconscious and stunning
three children who were asleep in a
bed. The nickel plate Of a set of har-
ness was melted and furniture in both
rooms damaged. The bolt struck a
chimney and after passing through the
room where the children slept tore
through the floor into the kitchen.
Miss Pearl Norris, Williamsport:
Miss Kate Coughlin. Berkeley Springs,
and Mrs. Reeves Hill, wife of the resi-
dent engineer of the Pittsburgh Lime
stone Company, saved the barn at the
Hill home. near Falling Waters, from
destruction by fire. Miss Coughlin dis
covered the blaze and gave the alarm.
With no male help at hand, the three
women pumped and threw water upon
the flames until they were extin-
guished.
It was reported relatives and friends
of Norman Bruce McCleary, convicted
at Rockville and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for
numbering his sweetheart's mother,
Mrs. Mamie B. Henry, in Hagerstown,
several years ago, are making efforts
to secure a parole for McCleary. A
petition asking the Governor to par
don the prisoner is being quietly cir
culated, it is said. It is reported the
petition was presented to former
Sheriff Thomas Snavely, but that he
declined to sign 1t.
The first cantaloupes of the season
were shipped from the fredericksburg
station last week. Hundreds of car
riers of fine fruit, Of excellent flavor,
are now going forward each day which
are being sold in the Northern mar
kets for 1925 per carrier. Shipments
Of watermelons are expected to start
in about 10 days. The bulk of the
crop will be late on account of the
poor stand of vines In the spring, due
20 the cool weather and cut worms.
Good prices are expected by the grow
ers.
Keller Bragunier, 16-year-old son of
Harry Bragunier, of Hagerstown, was
seriously injured when the bicycle he
was riding crashed into the automo-
bile of H. A. Parker, Portsmouth. Va.
Bragunier was thrown across the
street and rendered unconscious.
Louis d. Cresconzio, an Italian en-
ployed at the keystone Quarries, near
Frenchtown, Cecil county, was mur-
dered. His body was discovered late
in the evening in a pit. Four bullets
had been. fired into his body.
Mrs. Rosa V. Sands, wife of H. Els
worth Sands, a former Washington
business man, was the victim of a
fatal shooting accident at her home
near Potomac. Montgomery county,
when her nephew, Bertram Victor
Edward Tister, Is years old, of New
York city, shot her in the back with
a shotgun, killing her instantly. 1t
was another case of didn't know the
gun was loaded"
"A movement has been put on foot
looking TO the erection of a monument
In Hagerstown in honor of the Span
iBn-AmeFican War veterans.