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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1903
Page
3
Tas Westy News announces a twelve page edition set for Thursday with broad news and special features. It boasts Frederick city and county circulation as the largest bona fide paper and invites new advertisements with copy deadlines Wednesday at 5 pm and changes by 1 1/2 hours that day.
PURELY PERSONAL. Mr. Allen G. Quynn has returned from a trip to Philadelphia. Miss Tillie Fout, Enat Church streat, has returned from a visit to relatives in Baltimore, Md. Mr. A.J. Carns and daughter, Miss Emma, left yesterday for Altoona, Pa., where they will make their future home. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Heats, who have been visiting Mrs. J. M. Nelson, West Third street, have returned to their home in Allentown, Pa.
John Curry and Sarai F. Hall, both colored, receive manslaughter and penitentiary sentences respectively in Montgomery and Belair. Governor Smith grants a three week reprieve to Louis D. Grean who faced hanging at Haston. Prince George's County lowers tax rate to 95 cents per $100. An Annapolis Water Company directors’ revision fails. A Chesapeake bay mystery arises from Capt. Holt’s account of a man adrift, suggesting foul play. Local theater news highlights Ernest Shipman’s Shakespeare revival for Easter at City Opera House. Market quotes list basic grain and hay prices.
At a recent mayor and aldermen meeting the decision was made to pave the section of East Church Street between Chapel alley and the Pennsylvania Railroad with vitrified brick. Property owners agreed to share costs, with balance due to the city on prior paving. The city will hire Mr. Hatton and draft an ordinance, noting a deeper gutter and a probable sewer on the north side.
Eighteen foreigners injured in a blast furnace explosion at the Edgar Thompson works in Braddock Pennsylvania. Fourteen men seriously burned and one fatally burned. All victims described as foreigners with severe burns to head face and upper bodies.
Engine 1291 bound for Washington with about twenty loaded cars left the track yesterday morning at Germantown on a derailed switch. The engine and ten cars left the track and the engine rolled onto its side against the embankment. The engineer and fireman escaped unharmed.
George Good of Seneca in Montgomery county reports two more huge German carp weighing thirty and thirty-one pounds. This follows a previous catch of twenty eight pounds sent to Boyd's last week, marking a impressive run of large fish for the export fisher.
Funeral services for Mrs Blaine G Tucker were held Sunday at her home in Araby at 2 o clock with Rev Gray of Urleans officiating. Pallbearers were Ernest Myers Artie Fouche Edgar Null Millard Kidd. Interment followed at Olivet Cemetery. A T Rica & Sons were the funeral directors.
Geo Weber was arrested by Constable DaGrange at Point of Rocks yesterday afternoon and brought before Justice Smith. Weber is charged with being drunk fighting and resisting arrest. Weber was handcuffed and tied in a wagon and transported to Frederick. Justice Smith set a hearing for 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Officials announce completion of the B and O tunnel at Point of Rocks with the pew arch in place and the second track relaying to begin using new steel and rails now on the ground.
Ezra M Tabler of Monrovia has been appointed a fireman in the State Warsaw Navy Building in Washington. Pension increases announced for Alice R Derr of Frederick to 8 dollars per month. Maryland Opt Co Eyesight Specialists to visit City Hotel Wednesday April 1.
In Ellicott City yesterday the Howard county court overruled the motion to quash the indictment for arson found against Frederick Hooker by the Frederick county grand jury. Attorney Hayden attempted to cite irregularities in the grand jury finding and proceeding but objections halted that line. State's Attorney Worthington testified. Howard's Burke objected, but Burke admitted chairing the grand jury room during the investigation. Residents were summoned to Ellages Oisy on Thursday to oppose the motion to squash the indictment. Warerington argued grand jurors cannot testify to impeach their action or invalidate an indictment, a point the court sustained and none of the twenty summoned jurors were allowed to testify.
Reverend J H Balthis, nine months pastor of Trinity M E Church South in Frederick, is appointed by Bishop A Coke Smith to serve the First Methodist Church in Tallahassee Florida. A Randolph-Macon College BA graduate, he will attend Vanderbilt University next winter. Balthis departs Thursday morning amid well wishes from Frederick friends.
Mr Harry G Keefer lies in Haheemaan Hospital Philadelphia in better condition after three or four X ray treatments. Allen G Qayon traveled to Philadelphia to see him and reports Keefer appeared stronger since leaving Frederick though still pain free. Doctor W G McComas received a letter from the surgeon Mr Keefer’s operation thanking for the information and noting he has done well and that the X ray treatment has brought relief from pain and progress in bladder drainage.
Four year old George W. Beard grandson of G W Beard the Liberel atage driver wandered from the City Hotel around noon, reached the Patrick and Market streets corner, cried until found. A crowd helped identify him, and Officer Crouse then escorted the boy to his grandfather.
Miss Sallie Bartels is on the sick list. Master Mebrling Holdcraft is very sick at the home of his parents. East Mr. William Feaga, resident here for many years, is extremely ill at his son Edward's home in Yellow Springs.
Work stringing span wires on the B. and F. Railway will finish tomorrow and, if supplies arrive, track laying will begin immediately. Span wires extend to the Patrick Street corner.
A joint meeting of the G A R Sons of Veterans and Ladies Aid Society will be held tonight at the W O T U rooms. A literary and musical program will be rendered and refreshments served after the program. Tot Eisenhauer will announce by telephone from Baltimore tonight the McGovern Corbett fight rounds at his place of business.
Deputy Clerk Joseph Wood presented Clerk Douglas H. Hargett and deputies with a handsome bouquet of arbatas this morning. The readable date fragment notes City hotel on Wednesday, April 1, 1903.
Mrs M Garey aged 66 died yesterday from burns received while trying to smother a lamp fire that started when a child knocked over a lamp. The incident occurred at Brunswick on Sunday night. A boy aged 4 to 6 escaped with minor injuries. The house was saved with little damage. William Hanna, 45, supervisor of construction for the B and O tunnel at Point of Rocks, drowned in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal yesterday morning. He was last seen en route to his boarding house and presumed to have fallen in. He formerly lived in Little Washington, Pennsylvania. His body was prepared for shipment and sent home today.
Obituary notes William M. Smith of Dayaville dies suddenly at 68 after a fall from a chair, leaving a widow and nine children with funeral at his home conducted by Rev. Sappington. Also death of Mrs. George Rickards of White Oak Springs at 26 from typhoid fever. Public notice covers upcoming play A Desperate Chance at City Opera House with details of cast and Pittsburg prison escape context.
Theodore Kremer's melodrama Beyond Pardon comes to the City Opera House with a strong company led by Fred G. Ross. The emotional piece moralizes two wronged women through sacrifices on the altar of trusting love, following Kremer’s proven success.
The Secret Service reports discovery of two counterfeit bills. One is a 1899 five dollar silver certificate poorly made on thin paper with no silk fibre imitation. The other is a five dollar note reading United States the Citizen's International Bank New York pay to the bearer on demand five dollars bearing Garfield and a seal of unknown order. The note lacks signatures. Also, Jacob Green's will was probated yesterday in the Orphan Court, leaving his widow Isabelis Green all property after debts, then to his youngest son Stephen Ailen Green. Calvin T. Fox named executor.
Frank E. Koontz of Burkittsville renews his subscription to THE News, saying they have read it since childhood and cannot do without the good old paper. Children want it as soon as it arrives. The Maryland Opt. Co. promises better sight for all. City Hotel, Wednesday, April 1.
Samuel G. Duvall and J. D. Bante represent WM. Os in a matter involving Thos Bamber, James E. Haller, Davitt Wauxes, and Davis Baker as counsel. The document lists several individuals likely connected to a court or legal filing, naming attorneys and clients in a procedural context.
Telephones Unit 38 reports a panorama of new spring merchandise in a crowded store scene. Bargains span lawn and wool dress materials, black silks, and new wash waist patterns. Embroidered fabrics, Habutai silks, and limited white patterns are highlighted with emphasis on low prices and quick view.
Notice lists a Knights of Pythias special meeting at Pythian Castle Hall for first and second ranks with full attendance requested. Also includes multiple eye care ads with free examinations on April 1 1903 at City Hotel Frederick and Baltimore Maryland Optical Company promotions, plus hat display and misc services for patrons.
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