The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-16
Maryland Affairs.

ii. II. Robinson, editor of the Homecoming
Review, Allegany county, died Sunday.
The remains of Mrs Catherine Pattison,
mother of Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
whose death mt Alexandria, Va, was publish
ed last week were Inferred at Cambridge last
Friday.
James f. Lee, Il member of the Baltimore
Corn and Flour Exchange, and Republican
candidate for the Legislature in Baltimore
county last fall, fell dead from heart disease
on Monday, whilst on his way home.
Much activity is being displayed by the OPP
position to local option in Prince Georges
county in obtaining signers topettions asking
the present Legislature to repeal the prohbl'
tory enactments and substitute therefor a IL
cense law.
On Sunday Mrs John H. Clark, of Cum.
berland, was shocked to find that her two.
months old infant was dead in her arms. She
did not know it until the child grew cold
Disease of the brain was supposed to be the
cause of her death.
I The sixteenth annual session of the Grand
] Lodge of Maryland, Knights of Pythias, was
held in Baltimore this week. Officers were
I elected as follows: F. w. Kranz, grand
chancellor; S. p. Tustin, grand vice chancel
lor; l.. H. Meyer, grand prelate; Vim. S.
1 Quigley, grand master of exchequer; james
Whitehouse, grand keeper of records and
/ seal.
/ At meeting of Reynolds Post, Grand
I Army Republic, committee consisting o.
/ Col Geo. W. f. Vernon, Capt l.. NJ. Tim
norman, Capt. Jas. Graft, John j. White and
| x-Mayor l.. H. Moberly, was appointed to
solicit contributions for the fair to be held by
1 the X. +. Lee Camp of the Confederate Vet
Grams, at Richmond, Va, for the relief of dis
abled Confederate soldiers.
| In the Criminal Court of Baltimore on
Monday Judge Duffy rendered a decision on
! the demurrer to the indictments against the
/ late Board of Fire Commissioners, sustaining
l all the indictments, but ordering the State 5
/ Attorney to enter nolle pros against all the
members of the Board except j. Frank Nor
rison and Samuel w. REGISTER. This was
! done on the ground that the city ordinance
did not include either expressly or by impli-
cation any one except those actually interest
ed in city contracts.
About nine o clock Monday night the Rock
land Bleach and Dye Works at Rockland, in
| the third district of Baltimore county, on the
! Falls road, about eight miles from Baltimore,
at the entrance of Green Spring Valley, were
destroyed by fire. The property is owned by
| Messrs. Thomas Wright, John Wright, Thos
Wright of r. and Robert Wright, and the bu-
siness was conducted under the firm name OF
r. Wright & Co. The mill, which was a
large stone and frame structure, was used for
bleaching, dyeing and finishing cotton goods
and yarns. Loss $4,000; insurance SIC, 602
In saloon on North Gay street, Baltimore,
shortly after noon Saturday, James Higgins,
alias Richard Hadley, chief of a gang who are
said to have robbed over forty postofiices,
principally in the Eastern States, was arrested
by Postoifice Inspector Henderson and Detec-
tive ID. Pinkney West, on charge of being
concerned in the recent robbery of the Annap-
oils postofice. Officers arrived on Sunday
| from Litchfeld, Connecticut, to take Higgins
to that place to serve ten years sentence in
prison for burglary, he having escaped after
the sentence was passed and before he was
gotten TO the penitentiary.