The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-06-21
Maryland Affairs.


stitute of Homeopathy began on Monday at
Deer Park, Garrett county.
Laura Louise Graham, of Baltimore, gave,
berth on Saturday to twins, one of whom had
a full set of teeth. Both died.
The Wilson Sanitarium, on the Western
Maryland railroad, ten miles from Baltimore,
was opened on Monday morning.
St. Johns College will celebrate its centen-
NAL anniversary JuEe %, and on the succeed
ing day the annual commencement exercises
will take place.
Frank Paynes, white man, was arrested
Saturday and committed to Jail at Frederick
for hearing on Tuesday, for attacking and
beating woman named Ellen Butler, living
near Frederick junction.
Telephone communication was established
on Tuesday between Ellicott City and Baltl-
more This puts the Baltimore Exchange IN
communication with Ellicott City, Frederick,
Hagerstown..and Waynesboro', Penn, the lat
ter place being 80 miles from Baltimore
B. F. Stone, of Baltimore, about 60 years
old, attempted suicide last Friday by cutting
his throat. He was elected from the house
where the attempt was made, when he went
to Druid Hill Park and drowned himself IN
the reservoir He had been drinking heavily.
Samuel Lewis, who had just completed
was taken to Boston on Saturday to answer
four indictments on a similar charge. Lewis
was formerly q wealthy ink manufacturer OF
New York, but squandered his money in dis
sipation.
Walter S. Woodall, about 26 years old, COM
mitted suicide by drowning in Morgans creek,
near Chestertown, on Thursday of last week.
1t appears that young Woodall applied to Z.
Rasin for the lease of farm for the ensuing
year, and referred, without permission, to
Albert X. Cory and Garrett Foxwell as to
his character. Some one told him he had
made himself liable to Imprisonment by so
doing. This so preyed upon his mind that he
offered a colored man SIS to row him out on
the river to let him drown himself. This the
man refused to do, and Woodall has been
missing since Thursday. 1t was thought he
was visiting his brother, Harry Woodall,
prominent farmer of Worton. His clothes,
however, were discovered on the banks of the
creek on Saturday last, which led to search
resulting in the discovery of his body on Sun,
day by Mr.. VIM. Shinn, with whom Woodall
had been living.
Joseph j. c. Dougherty, superintendent of
the money order division of the Baltimore
postofiice, has been suspended from duty on
account of deficit in his accounts of $500.
The cause. as stated by Dougherty to Post
master Adreon, was that he had taken the
money to invest in policy and lottery, though
he said his-frst shortage was by reason Of an
error in his accounts. Dougherty is widow
err, about 90 years old, and has been i'll the
postofice 10 years. At large money-order
offices like Baltimore it is customary for the
money order division to carry about $4,000
balance. Dougherty frequently carried as
high as S., 500 balance from day to day.
While Gen. Harrison, one of the government
special agents connected with the money order
division of the postofiice, was making an ex-
animation last week, he found that MIR.
Dougherty's books were not all right. he
was charged with the matter and admitted 1t.
The Baltimore San of Wednesday says =
Miss Lulu Hurst, the young Georgia girl
whose exhibition of power in overmatching
physical force have attracted much attention
in the South, gave private entertainment at
noon yesterday on the stage of Ford's Opera
House in the presence of a number of medical
men, athletes and others. Miss Hurst came
on the stage accompanied by her father and
mother, Professor Atkinson and Mr.. Cohen,
her manager, all of Georgia. The young lady
who, as stated by her parents, was sixteen
years old last Monday, is tall, with brown hair,
which hung in curls, and she weighs probably
40 pounds. Among others present were DR..
J. E. Michael, powerful man and heavy
weight, who tried to hold an opened umbrella
over him while Miss Hurst pressed the palms
of her hands against the handle. Both Dr.
Michael and the umbrella performed some
surprisingly grotesque antics about the stage,
while Miss Hurst laughingly followed after.
When she took her hands off the wrecked
umbrella fell to the floor Mr.. Christopher
Billopp and Mr.. Robert Fraser, well known
athletes; Professor Miles, DIR. William H.
Grim, DIR. Cuddy and other medical men OPP
posed their physical strength to the power
exerted by Miss Hurst, and she twirled each
and all of them about in way that was pro-
badly new experience to them. Several
gentlemen in turn endeavored to hold bill
lard cue horizontally with their tightcst
clutch while the young lady laid her open
palms upon it. Mr.. Duncan, from Johns
Hopkins University, wanted to steady chair
against his person by grasping the back, but
she laid her open hands on the chair and
from one side of the stage to the other. DR..
Michael struggled to press the chair to the
floor with the young lady's palm beneath the
seat Then three men tried it, but it was not
successfully done. She lifted heavy men off
the floor by placing her open palms on the
sides of the chair near the top. After an
hour of illustrations of her power that would
have winded prize-fghter, Miss Hurst was
unruffled and smiling. While the scientific
BILE, they think it lies in her muscular strength,
and that it is not supernatural.
A collision occurred on the Camden and
Atlantic Railroad, between Haddonfeld and
Ashland, on Saturday morning, between the
Atlantic City accommodation train and
Lakeside Park excursion train. Eight per-
sons were killed and nine badly wounded. A
number of others were badly shaken up, but
did not receive injuries that required surgical
treatment. The point at which the accident
happened is considered the worst on the
road, it being long curve through cut, and
bounded on one side by a dense growth of
timber. 1t it said the conductor of the mail
train disobeyed orders,
Alexander Fiddler, IL notoriously bad char
acter, who had been concerned in the robbery
Of an emigrant near Fort Meade, Dakota, was
taken from an officer by n gang of masked
men Mt Sturgis, on Saturday morning, and
lyuched on general principles. His accom-
plices in the robbery two soldiers, named
Hewes and Brown, are in danger of similar