Middletown transcript., 1915-01-23

John NJ. Clayton, of near Calvert,
who was recently arrested charged
with violating the livestock quaran-
tine laws in forwarding cows into
Chester county, Pa, has been fined
$40 and costs.
A thief entered the stable OF ]. M.
Robbins, of Laurel Brook, Hartford
county, a few nights ago and stole a
driving horse valued at $3.50. The
same night buggy and harness were
stolen from A. G. Archer, who is Mr..
Robbins tenant
Thomas Cropper, 81 years old, a
farmer living near Bishop, committed
suiced by drowning himself in a creek
near his home. The young mans
mind had become deranged 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 a 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 Delaware Maryland
motor bus line. The line starts at
Bridgeville, Del, and runs to Easton.
Md. 1t touches at Cambridge, Md,
and all Of the principal Delaware
towns.
A train rider tried to shoot Railroad
Detective John Massle in Hagerstown
when the officer attempted to arrest
him as he jumped from a 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, 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 II
their checks are cashed at places
where intoxicants are sold.
Miss Myrtle Martin, 1S years old
daughter of Frank Martin, near Forest
Hill, attempted to rekindle a FIRE in
the kitchen stove with coal oil, wheI
the flames ignited the fluid dn the can
An explosion occurred, and the girl
enveloped In flames, ran screaming t.
the yard. Her father. who was driving
a team of horses to the barn, saw hii
daughter coming frantically towards
him waving her arms. He threw hi
overcoat about the girl and extinguish
ed the flames Mr. Martin secured al
automobile, and, placing his daughte
in it, a record-breaking trip Of 80 mile
was made to a Baltimore hospital
The girl died that night.
Narcellus Pippin, retired farme
living near Ridgely was beaten severe
ly by a gang of masked robbers. MI
Pippin and his brother, John, liv
! T.
his bed by knock at the front dool
Opening the door, four men entered
They asked for something to eat M
Pippin started to prepare coffee whe
one of the men came up behind hil
and struck him with a club. Th
farmer jumped to his feet and attacke
the robbers, but was finally overcom
His head and face were bruised, tn
robbers clubbing him nearly to dealt
The Pippin brothers, it is said, al
: quite wealthy, and, it is claimed, haV
most of their wealth in cash coneeale
. around their home. The robbers wei
frightened away before finding II
4 money.
The Tekoite Literary Circle hi
!. been organized at Webster, Harfol
: county, with the following officer
President, Wilbur w. Walker; vic
president, Newell o. E. Treadwa!
. secretary, Mrs. Richard Hopkin
treasurer, Mrs. William Tobin: pr
i gram committee, Mrs. W. S. Wake
= Mrs. Charles Tolson, Miss Hell,
Holett, Miss Margaret Moore and Mi
!. Winifred Evans; social committt
E Mrs. John Preston. Mrs. Mari,
y Thompson, Mrs. Murriel Evans al
Misses Idella Treadway, Mary Walk'
/. Marie Temple and William Thompsc
!. The Cecil county school board h
q ordered the Calvert Agricultural Hi
= School and the Calvert Public SchC
~ closed on account of dipththeria
n the neighborhood, and Elkton Pub
School, No. IL, and st. Augustine Pl
Il lie School, No. 2, Second district,
u. account of scarlet fever.
= Mrs. Fannie Thawley, of ne
,e Queen Anne's. widow of Alexand
a Thawley, has been officially notih
:. that she has been left an estate valu