The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-07-26
Maryland Affairs.

Mr.. John Russell, well-known citizen OF
Brooklyn, Anne Arundel county, committed
suicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting MIN
self in the head.
The Ashland Iron Company will shut down
their works on the Northern Central Railway,
in Baltimore county, August l. About SUI
hands are employed. Stagnation OF trade Is
the cause of the stoppage.
The buildings of the Zell Guano Company,
ON Fort avenue, near the Baltimore and ONO
Railroad crossing, Baltimore, were complete
ly destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon with
their contents. Loss over 500, OOO.-a--
At Johnsville, Frederick county, Sunday
night, the store of c. +. Taylor, we'll known
merchant, was entered through the cellar and
robbed of about $500 worth of boots, shoes,
hats, &C., and a small amount of money.
Charles Schomann, aged 2s years, of Balti-
more, attempted to commit suicide at Govans-
town, Baltimore county, on Tuesday, by
shooting himself in the head. He took pol
son first, but that making him sick it was
emitted. H4..
A contract has been entered into by the
Western Maryland Railroad with Joseph G.
johnson, of Baltimore, for the erection oftheir
new depot at Hagerstown. The building will
be of pressed brick, with brownstone trim
mings, 40 by 120 feet, two stories high, and
will be used for freight and passenger traffic.
Henry Bloom, Baltimore and Ohio ex-
press messenger, was arrested last Friday IN
Pittsburg, Pa, on the charge of having stolen
package containing $4,000. 1t is charged
that instead of delivering it, Bloom took the
money home and offered to divide it with his
bondsmen The latter took the money and
had Bloom arrested.
Cleveland Gossard is the name given a
opH tha tpvop third child nF Mr.
David Gossard, of the Clear Spring district,
Washington county. Of these children four
teen were boys and nine girls, and twenty one
are now living. Mr.. Gossard is about fifty
five years old and his wife ten years younger.
1t is happy family, and all are Democrats.
George w. Hazeltine of jamestown, New
York, shot and killed Mamie Thorpe, and
dangerously wounded Mamie White, in a
house of evil repute in Baltimore on Saturday
afternoon. The murdered woman was the
wife of a Mr.. Thorpe, but was separated from
him. The party arrived in Baltimore from
Toronto, and all were on drunken debauch
The barn and granary of Luther NJ. Offutt,
residing near Great Falls, Montgomery coun-
ty, were destroyed by fire at l O clock Monday
morning. The barn contained variety of
improved machinery and the granary from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred barrels
of corn. The cause of the fire is not known.
The loss is estimated at $500; no insurance.
At Homecoming on Sunday Thomas P. MINI
mo, aged over sixty, a photographer, was
annoyed by several youths who were at his
house. He ordered them to go. They did
not do so, and the old man drew revolver
and fired, the ball striking John Udy, aged
twenty, in the left breast. Luckily it struck
some photographs in Udy's coat pocket and
only made flesh wound. Nimmo was ar
rested.
Last week John Smith, farmer, living
twenty miles east of Cumberland, while digging
post holes, discovered jar containing a guam
tity of old gold and silver coin. He is reti-
cent about the amount, but rumor places it at
from five hundred TO FIVE thousand dollars.
There are many theories as to where the coin
came from, one being that it belonged to a
misery old bachelor who was found dead in
the road about ten years ago.
A large switzer barn ON the farm of George
Meyer, about three miles southeast of Freder-
ick, was Destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The
contents, all of which were burnt, included l.
GOO bushels of wheat, II tons of hay, harness
and farming implements, a valuable horse and
a calf The loss is about $4,000. There is
an insurance of 81, 900 on the barn and $500
on the wheat. The fire is believed to have
been the work of an incendiary.
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Thomas Owens, of Anne Arundel county,
eloped on Tuesday with a negro named Jesse
Platter. They went to Washington, where
they were arrested on Telegram from the
lady brother-in-law, stating that she was in
sane. They were released, however, as the
laws of the District of Columbia do not forbid
the intermarrying of whites and blacks.
Several justices refused to marry them.
1t is rumored that the two babes of Mr..
John w. Robinson, of Sharptown, who died
suddenly last week, were poisoned. The
babes were twins, and about six months old.
They had been raised on the bottle from birth.
The man from whom Mr.. Robinson procured
milk for the babes gave his cow some potato
tops which had "Paris green on them, put
on to destroy bugs The babes were robust,
and never had days sickness till they drank
the milk after the COW had eaten the potato
tops, and they were taken seriously i'll imme-
diately afterwards and died before night.
At Saratoga on Monday Compensation won
for Gov. Bowie his first victory on the turf
this season. Gov. Bowie has had very bad
luck this season. The winter was a hard one
on his horses. They started in numerous
events at Washington and Baltimore, but
could not win. They were not fit and were
not started after the Baltimore meeting until
Monday, when the half brother to Crickmore
showed his heels to such good ones as Burgo-
master, Lucky B., Referee, Cardinal McClos-
key and others. 1t was for purse at a mile
and five hundred yards, and the Maryland
gelding won it easily in the good time of 2. lGi.
John Wesley Green, colored, was shot in the
back by police officer Frederick Kruse, of the
western police station, Baltimore, early Sun
day morning, and was taken to the Universe
ty Hospital. He boarded an open car of the |
Citizens Line on Fayette street, near Arch, |
at 1915 A. NJ. on Sunday and quarreled with
the conductor, who, with the assistance of the
driver and at the request of several passen-
gers, put him off at Mulberry alley, west of |
Fremont street. After being elected he struck |
the driver in the face and fed to the rear of |
a store on Baltimore street, where he was |
found by officer Kruse concealed. 1t is stated |
that he drew a razor and made an attack on |
the officer, when the latter fired and shot him.
The negro died, and Kruse has been exon
Grated.
The Bethel A. NJ. E. Church of Chester
town has been holding u camp-meeting in
JEWELS woods, near Worton Station, in Kent
county. The camp opened on Friday last
and it was determined that Sunday should be
a gala day. Excursion trains were run from
Smyrna, Clayton, Millington, and Massey's
and intermediate points. Vehicles of every
character and description brought colored
people from miles around. 1t is estimated
that nearly 1000 were present. Things pass
ed off pleasantly until about clock in the
afternoon, when crowd assembled around
sick horse and some drunken men began to
beat it, against the protests of the owner He
and in the melee which ensued PTS
tolls were drawn and fired at random. Clubs,
knives and razors were freely used and gen.
eral fight took place. Many of the shots fired
must have been in the air. A number of peo-
Pile received flesh wounds, and one man was
shot in the hand. William Ashley, from
Millington, was shot in the stomach, and his
INJURIES are pronounced fatal. Nelson Reed