The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-11-06
Maryland Affairs.

Rev. Frank Montgomery Strother, of the
Baltimore Conference, M. E. Church South,
died at Markham Va. last FRIDAY, October
Is.
The Centreville Observer reports the elope.
ment of VIM. Cables, of Kent county, aged
II, with Miss Lily Brady, of Queen Anne's,
aged IS.
Senator Lanes high license bill was carried
in Washington county by 600 majority, and
the proposition to build new Jail was lost by
over 1900 majority.
A man named Hewitt, while endeavoring
to get aboard vessel in Cambridge harbor,
upon which he was engaged, fell overheard
and was drowned. He was intoxicated at the
time.
The body of an unknown German, supposed
to have been drowned off some oyster vessel,
was found floating in Coulbourn's creek, an
inlet of the Annamessex river, Somerset
county, on Saturday last.
John A. White, of Cumberland, was on
Wednesday committed in default of $500 bail
on charge of attempted felonious assault on
Mrs. Rebecca Dawson, near Rawlings, We'd
nesday night White denies the charge.
At Emmitsburg, at an early hour on We'd
nesday morning, the stables connected with
the Western Maryland Hotel, together with
contents, consisting of five tons of hay, fifty
bushels grain and a number of wagons, were
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss reported
about 81 200; partially insured in the Royal
Insurance Company of Liverpool.
The annual meeting of the Association of
Public School Commissioners will be held at
the State Normal School on Tuesday and
Wednesday, November 23rd and oath. The
first session will be called at noon on Tuesday.
Between 0 and II of that day members and
J.. I'D - nj
class rooms and witness the ordinary exercises
of the school.
The Easton Electric Light Company, capt.
tai $50, 900, has been Incorporated. Directors
Philemon S. Reed, president; Col Oswald
Tilghman, vice president; Chas. L. Wright
son, secretary; VIM. E. Shannahan, treasurer;
James II. Covington and j. Chandler Roach.
The company has obtained from the town
commissioners the right to use the streets for
poles and wires.
There were three fires in Baltimo on
Wednesday between the hours of A. NJ. and
p NJ, two of which occasioned a second
alarm to be sounded. One occurred in the
warehouse of John r. Hudgins Co., Pratt
street; another in the kitchen of Paul 4 Jor-
dams restaurant, Baltimore and Holiday
streets, and the other in the building of the
Walker Horseshoe Company, Locust Point.
AT TatuXenI Clty; Nndiies Cum v" uoS
day, fourteen. yearold son of Jane Gross
was seriously and probably fatally shot by
another colored youth with a shot gun. 1t is
said the boy who did the shooting was giving
Gross lesson in military tactics, and ordered
him to advance and then to stop. Gross did
not stop, and the other boy pointed the gun,
which was discharged, the entire charge en-
tering Gross arm and frightfully manging it.
Statistics furnished by the Johns Hopkins
University show that the academic staff for
1867, including professors, lecturers, asso-
ciates, &c, numbers Al. OF the $50 students
49, are graduates, including fellows, 100
marticulates, 80 special and 7 preliminary
medical; 1873 students are from Maryland, IL
Ohio, IA New York, II District of Columbia,
IL Massachusetts, 10 from Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Canada, Illinois, 8 Georgia,
California, 6 New Jersey, North Carolina,
Indiana, Wisconsin, 5 Iowa, Nebraska. Japan,
4 Connecticut, South Carolina, Alabama,
Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ten
nesse, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Col
orado, Vermont, ! West Virginia, Rhode
Island, Delaware, Texas, Mississippi, China,
Germany, England, United States army and
United States navy.