Selections From State News Of Yesterday And Today
Journal notes many local happenings from Maryland including Florence House of Fackstown cutting her throat but surviving, and the 24th Johns Hopkins annual commencement at schools. It records a New York census conspiracy motion by Joseph H. Ching, the Conoly funeral turnout, Edward Stevens plea for placing an infant on a Hagerstown porch, and a Newport News bride in Gaithersburg. Also cites Hobson addressing Polytechnic Institute graduates, William Lee suing Cumberland for nursing, Wood and Barber jail transfers, Loree and Potter’s rail inspection trips, and a Montgomery county marriage to Elizabeth Miler at Olney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence House
Fackstown
Washington County
Johns Hopkins University
Iochocs
George Shifler
Eakle's Mille
New York
Joseph H. Ching
St. Marie
Feneral
Sherif J. Ross Conoly
Cecil County
Jorge Slake
Edward Stevens
Hagerstown
Clarence Heeter Small
Newport News
Anne Rebecca Briggs
Gaithersburg
Montgomery County
W. A
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Polytechnic Institute
Academy of Music
Baltimore
William Lee
Cumberland
Joan Woods
Brady Barber
Maryland
Allegany County
House of Correction
Loree
Potter
Baltimore and Ohio
Josiah J. Hatton
Misa Elizabeth Louise Miler
Brookeville
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
Olney
Railroad Casualties and the Toll of Rail Travel
Analyzed from an Interstate Commerce Commission report, annual rail death and injury figures reveal 78,412 killed and 415,707 injured between 1885 and 1899, including 25,999 railway workers killed and 322,146 injured. The tone questions urban panic versus official statistics, noting many casualties were trespassers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fjarper
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
United States
New Orleans
Conewago Chapel Transferred to Harrisburg Diocese
Three miles west of Hanover Conewago Chapel changes control from the Society of Jesus to the Harrisburg diocese. Jesuits who served as missionaries for two centuries established Catholic churches in Carlisle Chambersburg York Gettysburg Hanover and western Pennsylvania towns. Jesuit lands near Conewago remain, but the church vicinity goes to the bishop for church use. Retiring Jesuit Fathers head to Emmitsburg to open new schools and missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conewago Chapel
Hanover
Society of Jesus
Harrisburg
Carlisle
Chambersburg
York
Gettysburg
Hagerstown
Pennsylvania
Cambria
Westmoreland
Gonewago
Old Conewago
Emmitsburg
No Third Term Planned by McKinley Federal Dispatch
Special dispatch reports President McKinley stating there is no plan for a third term. The message comes from Wassixcrox dated June 11.
Mrs Akenley Better
Special Dispatch to The News from Washington June 11. Doctors this morning pronounced Mrs McKinley better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Akenley Better
Wasninaroy
Abrs
McKinley
Cantaloupe Pest Guide by State Entomologist Townsend
Maryland horticultural bulletin warns cantaloupe blight damages leaves and vines, reduces fruit size and flavor, and urges early prevention. It describes the disease caused by Macrosporium pericumerium, brown leaf spots, and the need for Bordeaux mixture sprayed weekly or every 7 to 10 days, with proper preparation and equipment for fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend Tella
Iste
Maryland State Horticultural Department
Townsend
Lovelvania Legislature Advances Pathway Bill
A fragmented report on a Delaware era measure enabling underground or elevated railways with local consent, plus a related act to fix Delaware River depth. Includes oblique notes on an elopement suicide, a New York tobacco dealer’s family, and endorsements for Chamberlain’s remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Jane
Thos
McOtt
Hal Kong
Fenott
Dour
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Pocht
Union
Povernor
Mgr. Cooper
Delaware
Congress
Delaware River
du Fest
BRIEF BITS Shows Fraternal Rites and Housekeeping Ponders
The item cites the Supreme Council of the Improved Order of Heptasopha meeting in Boston and the Imperial Council of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Kansas City. It quotes Queen Sophia of Sweden on nursery history and nursery music, notes the season’s housekeeper dilemma over windows up or down, promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment, and includes quick tips on whiskey and household goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adeeb
Aviates
Anilin
Dis White
Ted
Noptiern Hotel
Pharout sTowes
Lorias
Theou
Rose le Sebre
New York City
Supreme Council of the Improved Order of
Imperial Council
Kansan
Sophia
Sweden
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nebraska
Omaha
Neb
Baker
Jaw of
A. Boschee
Boccee
Green
Main’s Drug Store
Wassixcrox
McKinley Thie
Lovelvania
W .S. Whedon
Winterset
Iowa
Mardura LE
Chamberlain
Geo. EB Cary
Warhington
Chamberlato
A. L. Pearre
Allen Rohrback
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N
Carter
Wheatland
M & OL
Peacock
Paul Jones
Sherwood
Wilgon
Gibson
GO Taylor
oHaever
Dumbarton
Green River
Inter-State
Wholewie
Carrollton Chemical Co
Cay
Pwell Dressers
Pasart
Ideal
Wii
J. T. Cousin
Oxfords
Allnutt & Woody
Geo. A. Gileeasy
N. Market St
Frederick
P. S
D. & D. Institute
Nananans
Hall
FL J
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & CO
Hall's Family
Harper
C. N. Hauer
Great Southern Pig. Co
Frederick, MD
Wall Street
America
C. E. Mackey & CO
Clinton E. Main
David Wineberg
City Hall
Central Hardware
South Market Street
WM. S. Miller & CO
H. E. Wilcoxon
Music Hall
N. Market Street
A. E. McConnell
West Patrick Street
Brish’s Bazar
Mitdawiy
Carty
Carty’s
Carty’s Furniture Store
E. Patrick St
Fred’k, Md
Serge
B. H. Blackston & Son
JAS. E. Walker & CO
James E. Walker & Co
Carnegie
Lowenstein & Wertheimer
B. Rosenour & Sons
W. H. B. Etchison
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