The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-05
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Elkton.-Matthew Russell, seventy
! nine, well-known farmer of Fifth
| District of this county, died at Union
| Hospital here after short illness.
For number of years the deceased
| was one Of the Democratic leaders OF
| the Northeast District. He is sur
vived by widow, who is also serious
ly i'll, and seven grown sons and one
| daughter.
Baltimore.-For the benefit of the
| Maryland Academy of Sciences, a
| pageant of conservation and exposi-
ton" will be held during the week
| of October 20 at the Richmond Mar
ket Armory. The pageant is entitled
1.-THE Coming of the Lord of the Ches-
apeake." The synopsis was written by
| DR.. Francis C. Nicholas, director OF
| the academy. Baltimore merchants
and manufacturers will have exhibits
at the exposition.
DISTINGUISHING that special atten-
ton be paid to the State hospitals for
| the insane and that they be placed on
par with the State University, DR..
Hubert Work, Secretary of the In
| terror, addressed the serli-annual
meeting of the Medical and Chirurg-
| ical Faculty of Maryland here. DR..
Work, who formerly was president OF
| the American Medical Association, en-
phasized the need for work toward the
prevention Of mental diseases. The
| State hospitals of Maryland, he said,
are splendidly managed institutions
and come more nearly being general
hospitals than many others which bear
that designation.
Cumberland.-Ga Maria Ro-
perto, alias, Roberts, naturalized CIT
lien, wanted for the murder OF Will
liam e. Riley, this city, and the shoot
ing of Bessie M Riley, daughter Of
the slain man, on September Il at the
Riley home, is under arrest at Akron,
Ohio, and has confessed, police report,
and Deputy Sheriff Cook and Assistant
Chief of Police Minnicks have gone to
Akron to bring him here. A photo
graph of the man under arrest reached
here and was identified by Miss Riley
and two children who live at the Riley
home at, Roperto. The authorities had
posted reward of $500 for his ap-
prehension.
Aberdeen.-Thomas Neary, work
man at the Government Proving
Grounds here was burned to death in
his bed. Neary, who was 45 years old,
was native Of Ireland. He had no
relatives in this country. 1t is thought
Neary was smoking in bed. fire from his
pipe igniting the bedclothes when he
fell asleep. He was fully dressed when
he lay down. When found, however,
practically all clothes had been burned
from his body. Joseph Byers, also
boarder at the house where Neary
stayed, smelled smoke. Breaking into
Neary's room, he found the bed mass
of flames. Neary was dead when aid
arrived. A collection was taken up in
st. Joan de Arc Chapel to defray fu-
neral expenses.
Hagerstown.-When the State game
laws were made no provision was pro-
vided for the time when skunks be-
came so numerous as to be pests and
not game. Sharpsburg, small town
near here, has now run afoul OF that
oversight. With the town the home
of hundreds of skunks and the game
season two months of, citizens are In
a predicament as to how to get rid OF
the unpleasant animals. A fine OF $25
is threatened by Deputy Game War
dent Champion, who issued an edict
declaring anyone who killed one OF
the animals before December 1 would
be arrested Immediately. Where the
"cats" came from is a mystery and
how to do away with them is another
mystery. The town is open to sugges-
lions.
Frederick-Miss Lenora B. Smith
and Thomas P. Johns, both OF Carlisle,
were married on the summit Of South
Mountain, Just across the Frederick
county line, by the Rev. U. s. G. Rupp,
Of the Lutheran Church. The couple
motored from Carlisle to Hagerstown
and, after securing marriage license
came to this city and aksed the Rev
erend Rupp to marry them. When the
minister examined the license he In
formed them that the law required the
marriage to be performed in the coun-
ty where they secured the license.
The couple then suggested that they
go across the county line and selected
a spot near the historic Dahlgren
home, on the top of the mountain. they
were accompanied by William G.
Snyder. Jr., and Miss Geyle E. Bppley,
who acted as best man and maid of
honor.
Baltimore. = All recruiting records
here since the close OF the World War
were broken during the last month, ac-
cording to Capt. A. P. Sullivan, COM
mander in Maryland of the army re-