The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-14
Maryland Affairs.

At Ellcott City, on Monday, Jason VIII
liams, colored, was sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of VIM. Dansey, colored.
Miss Sarah Duncan, aged % years, died
suddenly on Sunday night of an overdose OF
chloral, taken for nervousness. She was
visiting friends in Baltimore.
William g. Gordy, of Wicomico, was on
Friday last elected by the Board of Public
Works, commander of the new police tug,
which will be ready for service next week.
Gardeners grain elevator, at Canton, Balti-
more, was burned Wednesday night, together
with Is 200 bushels of corn. Several vessels
loaded with grain had their cargoes damag-
ed. Loss 100000. .-..
First Lieut.. John H. Coale, of the second
United States cavalry, died on March 81, at
Fort Custer, Montana Territory, after an i'll
ness of six months. Lieut.. Coale was born in
Baltimore county, and was 46 years old.
The storehouse and stock of dry goods and
groceries of Thomas H. C.. Reed at Darling
ton, Hartford county, were entirely destroyed
by fire at an early hour Sunday morning.
Loss sc, 900: insurance 81, 1000. Cause I'M
known.
Col. Herman Stump's barn and contents
were burned on Wednesday morning. The
barn was set on fire by tramp. 1t was one
of the finest in Hartford county, and cost
81. 500. Insurance on barn and contents
So, 900.
On the third day of May next the semi
centennial anniversary of the founding OF the
Elkton PRESBYTERIAN Church will be celebrated.
Rev. J. o. Murray, professor of English liter
aturc in Princeton College, n. j., will be
present and participate in the exercises
Mrs. Nathan R., widow of Prof N. r.
Smith. died shortly after u clock yesterday
morning at her residence, SO Saratoga street.
She was IS years of age, and was born IN
Burlington, Vermont, but had lived IN Baltl-
more half century. Her husband died IN
1877.
Anna Matthews. of Chsrles county, has been
arrested, charged with attempt to poison the
family of Joseph III. Penn, of Pomonkey,
where she has been employed as cook. 1t
is charged that she made two attempts, using
rat poison in the coffee and in the dish OF fish.
All the members of the family were made
violently sick.
The work of dredging the Choptank, near
Greensborough, is being pushed by Engineer
Sudler, and the present available appropria-
ton of 81, 900 will be exhausted by the mid
die of MAY, when channel % feet wide and
6 feet deep at mean low water to within
quarter of mile from Cases Landing will
be navigable.
Gov. Hamilton has pardoned Milly Innis,
celored, of Calvert county, sentenced to be
hung for the murder of her child and whose
sentence was committed to Imprisonment tor
life. The woman wished to obtain situation
which was eligible to a woman without chill
dren, and to affect that end drowned her
child in a creek.
At a meeting of the Board of Public Works
last Friday, the proposition from President
Augustus Albert and DIR. Benz. King, of the
Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad, asking
an extension of the time for the purchase OF
the States interest in the Annapolis and
Elkridge Railroad, from September, 1888, to
May, l, 1885, was granted.
The remains of an unknown white man
were found early Tuesday morning lying across
the track of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
near Patapsco Station, short distance from
Baltimore The body was very much mutt
lated. The jury rendered verdict that he
was supposed to have fallen from train while
stealing ride. The body was buried We'd
nesday afternoon by the county authorities.
Abram Bishop, a man aged about seventy,
wears, was killed about two miles west OF
Hancock on Saturday night, as is supposed
bv one John McKusker. Bishop, with three
of his sons and four of the Mckusker family,
were in town during the day and drinking
freely. In the evening the whole party start
ed out of town in Jacob Mckusker's wagon
in an intoxicated condition, and on the way
got into drunken row, during which John
McKusker struck Bishop on the head with
fencerail, killing him almost instantly.
A shooting affair occurred at Annapolis
Saturday night in q saloon near the postOttlce,
-, oh ma named ,t0hn johnson
was shot in the head. The disturbance was be-
tween a party of citizens and a marine from
the Naval Academy named Smith. 1t was
claimed that Smith was attacked by the
citizens. who drove him into a corner OF the
saloon and assaulted him. Smith fired five or
six shots in rapid succession, one of which
struck johnson. who was passing between the
rooms inhicting a severe wound IN the head;
After discharging the contents OF his pistol
Smith was overpewered by the crowd and
badly beaten.
Preliminary steps have been taken by some
of the relatives of the wife of the late Abram
Adams, who had been engaged in business IN
Cincinnati, but died at the residence of bis
sister, in Frederick city, to contest his will.
Mr.. Adams made ample provision for his
wife, who is said to be in an asylum, but dl-
rected that the proportion of his estate left
for her maintenance, shall, at her death, go
to his heirs To this clause principally eX-
ception is taken, and a legal decision as to
his right to do this is asked. 1t is understood
that among counsel engaged are Hon. ). u.
Carlisle, Hon. Ben. Butterworth and Hon.
NJ. G. Urner. The estate is valued at from
| $3.50, 900 to $500, 200.
On Thursday of last week Cecil p. Whitta-
ker, a son of George Whitaker, proprietor Of
the iron works at Principle, was visiting his
farm, at Turkey Point, Cecil county, opposite
Spesutia Island Mr.. Whitaker, Lewis JEFF
! ferris and a colored boy named VIM. Hopkins
went to Havre de Grace in the afternoon IN
an open boat. The wind was blowing strong
ly when they started to return to Turkey Point
| in the evening, and some of Mr. Whitaker S
friends tried to persuade him to wait tol
smoother water The boat sailed away, and
that was the last that has been seen of its Oc-
cupants, On Friday morning the boat was
found at Wilson & Rutter's fishing shore, con
tanning nothing but Jefferis' S coat The oars
drifted ashore at another point.
Mrs. Sarah Coddington was buried al
| Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, on Fri
day last. She was born at Fredericktown
! MARYLAND, April 8, 1871, and at the time Of
! her death was in the ninety-second year Of
her age. She went to Cincinnati with hel
husband, Stephen, in 1916. He was steam
boat captain, and died in 1886, leaving hel
with eight children, all of whom are living
except one. A short time after arriving il
! Cincinnati, Mr.. and Mrs. Coddington returned
to Maryland, riding on horseback, the only
method of conveyance then known between
Maryland and Ohio, carrying with them one
of their children-Nelson-who is still living
at his residence in Cincinnati, and with whom
his mother was living when she was seized
with pneumonia, which caused her death.
Tobias F. Hudson, man with numerou:
aliases, was arrested at Greenville, Tenn, OF
Wednesday, by detective employed by
States Attorney Remley, of Washington
county, as the man who stole pair of horses
from Mr.. Geo. w. Stonebraker, of Hagers
town, and a horse and buggy of Mr.. William
Kemp, of Williamsport This section of the
state has suffered heavily of late from the de
predations of horse. thieves, and Hudson is
believed to be the chiefof regularly organic
ed gang that has been operating in Western
Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania fol-
some years past. Sheriff Knepper left or