The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-01-22

A thief entered the stable Of ]. M.
Robbins, of Laurel Brook, Hartford
county few nights ago and stole
driving horse valued at $3.50. The
same night buggy and harness we're
stolen from A. G. Archer, who is Mr..
Robbins tenant.
Thomas Chopper, 81 years old, a
farmer living near Bishop, committed
suiced by drowning himself in creek
near his home. The young mans
mind had become deran3ed few days
previous to the suicide. This Is
thought to have caused him to commit
the act.
The fact that the district nurse had
Just helped him into morris chair
saved an elderly cripple named
Webster from an awful death when a
piece of wall paper fell on hot stove
in his room on Pleasant street, Cam
bridge, and carried the flames to his
bed, which was destroyed. Webster
escaped with burns on leg and hand.
The people of the western part OF
Sussex county, Delaware, have been
provided with another means of trans
portation in the Observation-Disclosures
motor bus line. The line starts at
Bridgeville, Del, and runs to Easton,
Md. 1t touches at Cambridge, Nd,
and all of the principal Delaware
towns.
A train rider tried to shoot Railroad
Detective John Massie in Hagerstown
when the officer attempted to arrest
him as he jumped from Cumberland
Valley Railroad freight train. The
train rider refused to get off when or
dered by the crew and threatened
them when they made attempts TO
eject him forcibly.
When the employees of the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad. a subsidiary of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, received
their pay checks at Hagerstown they
found attached a notice to the effect
that the checks must not be cashed at
saloons or any place where intoxicat-
ing liquors are sold The notice warns
the employees that they will not be re-
tanned in the service of the company If
their checks are cashed at places
where intoxicants are sold
Miss Myrtle Martin, 10 years old.
daughter of Frank Martin, near Forest
Hill, attempted to rekindie fire in
the kitchen stove with coal oil, when
the flames ignited the fluid in the can.
An explosion occurred, and the girl.
enveloped in flames, ran screaming to
the yard. Her father, who was driving
a team of horses to the barn, saw his
daughter coming frantically towards
him waving her arms. He threw his
overcoat about the girl and extinguish-
ed the flames. Mr.. Martin secured an
automobile, and, placing his daughter
in it, record-breaking trip of 80 miles
was made to Baltimore hospital
The girl died that night.
Marcellus Pippin. retired farmer
living near Ridgely was beaten severe
| ly by a gang of masked robbers. Mr..
Pippin and his brother, John. live
alone. Mr.. Pippin was aroused from
his bed by a knock at the front door.
| Opening the door, four men entered.
They asked for something to eat. Mr..
| Pippin started to prepare coffee when
one of the men came up behind him
and struck him with a club. The
farmer jumped to his feet and attacked
the robbers, but was finally overcome
I His head and face were bruised, the
robbers clubbing him nearly to death.
The Pippin brothers. 1t is said, are
| quite wealthy, and, 1t is claimed, have
most Of their wealth in cash concealed
around their home. The robbers we're
frightened away before finding the
money.
The Tekoite Literary Circle has
been organized at Webster, Hartford
county, with the following officers:
President, Wilbur W. Walker; vice
president, Newell o. e. Treadway;
secretary, Mrs. Richard Hopkins;
treasurer, Mrs. William Tobin: pro-
gram committee, Mrs. w. S. Walker,
Mrs. Charles Tolson, Miss Helen
Holett, Miss Margaret Moore and Miss
Winifred Evans; social committee,
Mrs. John Preston, Mrs. Marion
Thompson, Mrs. Murriel Evans and
Misses Idella Treadway, Mary Walker.
Marie Temple and William Thompson.