Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22


Callie Swope, near Chewsville
Governor Harrington signed over 20
bills passed by the legislature.
Fire destroyed the residence of Dol
Bey Gloyd, at Gaithersburg.
Mrs. R. Marion Leonard, near Skip
ton, Talbot county, committed suicid
by sws&Owing carbolic acid.
Harry S. Allows tailor shop ant
furnishing store, at Hagerstown, wa
burned.
The Eastern Conference of Mary
land, Church of the Brethren, met a
Meadow Branch, Carroll county.
The voters of Mount Rainier decided
in favor of a 100000 bond issue for {
water systemand sewerage plant.
R. Arthur Blann, 76 years old, pros
porous farmer near Trappe. Talbot
county, died Of paralysis.
Governor Harrington signed a large
number of bills passed by the last leg
islature.
Rev. H. NJ Wharton, of Baltimore,
will conduct an evangelistic campaign
in Cumberland.
Fifteen cottages and bungalows at
Arundel-on-the Bay, six miles below
Annapolis, were destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $4,000.
Solomon Sudler, colored, was
hanged at Westminster for the muir
der, January 1, near Silver Run, of
William F. Brown, farmer.
Mrs. Henry Turner, of near Knox
vile, was run down and killed by
Baltimore and Ohio express near Fred
erick.
Rev. DIR. S. W. Owen, former presi-
dent Of the Maryland Synod and of
the General Synod of the Lutheran
Church of the United States, died in
Hagerstown.
William o. Soper, convicted of man
slaughter, by causing the death of
Harry A. LATTER, was sentenced at
Rockville. to pay fine Of $500 and to
serve three months in jail.
Harry Gwynn, q, of Rock Point, was
shot and killed in an oyster pungy near
La Plata, and Reginald Hancock, of
the same town, was arrested on the
c5arge of firing the fatal shot.
Judge Harlan, at Belair. has granted
a temporary injunction for the city Of
Havre de Grace, prohibiting the con.
struction Of dams across the Susque-
hanna River by interests vested in the
of the Susquehanna
Power Company.
Miss Grace Marshall, for years i'm
prisoned in her home near St. Mich
aels, and who has been under treat
ment in Baltimore since her rescue.
has been removed from the city to the
home of her aunt, Mrs. H. Rena James,
in Talbot county.
Despite the fact that under the rul-
Ing Of the State Tax Commission, Allie
gany county's taxable basis has been
reduced $2.O00,000, and the further fact
that $45,0O0 of debt was paid off, the
Allegany county commissioners fixed
he county tax rate at 81, the same
rate that prevailed last year.
Herbert Orr, formerly an assistant |
n the quartermaster's division of the |
War Department, and Mrs. Watkins, |
If Boonville, Ind, were struck by a
ar on the Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis Electric Railroad, near
Academy Junction, and instantly
Tiled.
All Baltimore and Ohio clerks on
he Cumberland division have received
Increases running from 81 to SIS a
Month from April l. The increase will
fleet approximately 200 clerks in the
arious Offices of the company here.
he raise is part of the movement to
tandardize salaries on all divisions.
he local men were receiving less
han clerks on some divisions, but all
ill now receive the same.
An English scientist believes there
; an individuality in heart beats af-
Getting the handwriting to such a de-