The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-01
Maryland Affairs.

Funkstown district, Washington county, anC
already several of the residents have lost val
liable porkers.
Mrs Elizabeth Brown, q widow lady, aget
IS years, and quite deaf, was run over anC
killed at Ellicott City last Saturday evening
by train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road.
Sallie Skratorzk, aged 16 years, was fatal.
burned on Tuesday morning in Baltimore
while kindlinga fire with coal oil. Her moth
er was severely burned.
By collision of two buggies, near Airing
ton, Baltimore county, last Sunday afternoon
John Larkin, of Baltimore, was thrown GU
and received injuries from which he died OF
Sunday night.
The county tax in Calvert county is Sl.21i
on the $780, The state tax is 1Ss, making
the whole tax rate Sl.40l on the 500. Cal
vert county is under Republican rule, and the
great bulk of the party colored voters.
The Baltimore Orioles are doing fairly wei
in the championship games. Including
Thursdays game. when they. defeated the
Brooklyns by IA to 9, they had won six and
lost four games, making the club tie with
Brooklyn for second place.
The tenth anniversary of Johns Hopkins
University, in Baltimore, was celebrated or
Monday. Since its foundation the whole
number of students admitted has been 923, Of
whom Ago were from Maryland and the re
mainder from other States of the Union and
foreign countries.
The strike on the Frick-li street railway,
Baltimore, terminated on Monday, the mer
deciding to accept the company wages rather
than remain idle longer. The company was
filling the places of old employees with new
men. and the fear of being left out entirely,
fastened the action of the strikers.
Daniel Wilmer, aged eighty-fve years
Henry Newcomer, aged eighty.three years:
Samuel Rice, aged seventy-eight years, all
residents of Beaver Creek district, Washing.
ton county, met at the store of Mr.. Milton
Wilmer, that district, a few days ago. The
aggregate of their ages was two hundred and
forty-fve years.
Shortly after noon on Sunday last William
Cuars, shoemaker by trade, aged about Be
years, was found dead in his shop at Johns
Vile, Frederick county. DR.. F. Sidwell was
summoned and made an examination, and
being satisfied that the deceased died from
natural causes, it was thought unnecessary to
hold an inquest. 1t is supposed he died some
time during the night previous. The de-
ceased had recently spent short time al
Montevue Hospital He was German, and
had resided in townsville for the last five OIL
six years.
The Board of Public Works on Thursday
elected Jacob Fl. Plowman, of Hartford coun.
ty, commander of the oyster navy to succeed
the late Captain James |. Waddell. Mr.
Plowman was one of the Hartford county re-
representatives. in the House of Delegates du-
ring the recent. session of the Legislature
n I p4t.a IN, 1nhn
and took prominent part in the proceedings
of the House. He is an active, energetic
worker, with an economical turn of mind, and
it is expected that he will prove valuable
public officer.
The elections in Annapolis and Brooklyn
Anne Arundel county, on Wednesday, result
ed in favor of license. Local option has pre-
vailed in the county for three or four years,
and on petition of the citizens of these two
places, the Legislature granted new election
to take the sense of the people. Twelve hun
bred and seventeen votes were cast in Annap.
oils, of which 825 were for license, and 392
against. In 1882 the city gave 555 majority
against license In Brooklyn the majority fol-
license was Sc. At both elections women
electioneered for the ''dry" ticket.
Two sons of Jacob Potts, aged 10 and L
years "ClC
with two other boys in house recently va
Gated at Catoctin Furnace, Frederick county,
by Jacob Reed former boss at the furnaces
The children discovered in the building sew.
eral dynamite caps, which Reed had left there
The shells were tempered with by the boys
and exploded, injuring all of them badly.
The Potts children were most dangerously
wounded, having their clothes torn into shreds
their eyes closed up and their bodies cut and
lacerated. Physicians, however, pronounce
them out of danger.
Herring were never known to be so abun
dant as they are at present in the Susquehan
ma river From the river banks they can be
seen in vast numbers swimming about in clear
water, and when the river is calm the whole
surface is enlivened by them. They are O
good size and condition, but the demand fol
them is limited Shad are not plentiful, and
it is thought the immense schools of herring
are driving them out of the river. Herring
bring from 10 to 20 cents per hundred, shad
from $40 to S13 per hundred. The quantity
of shad and herring received at Havre de
Grace daily is very large, and prices there
are often forced very low. Shad have sold as
low there as 81 per hundred, and herring car
be had at almost any price.
David Lewis was accidentally killed las
MOuudy dlLSEuObu III Ddibi'
more county, near the Edmonson avenue
bridge. He and Vim. Claggett and two young
boys, Albert Walters and David Collins, all
of Baltimore, went out together They had
only one fowling piece, a small single barreled
bird gun, loaded with No. shot. Claggett
carried the gun over his shoulder, and Lewis
was walking several PAGES behind him. When
nesr the bridge Claggett took the gun from
his shoulder to let down the hammer. Lewis
then stood about ten feet from him, with his
back turned to his friend As Claggett was
letting down the hammer, the gun acciden-
tally discharged. The entire load of shot
entered Lewis's head behind the right ear,
entering the skull at the base of the brain.
He fell, dying almost instantly.
Rev. Bernard A Mcguire, S. j., the distin.
guished Roman Catholic missionary and
preacher, died at st. Josephs Hospital, Phil
adelphia, last Monday morning, after brief
illness, in the 69th year of his age. He had
gone to Philadelphia from Washington to
conduct spiritual retreat but was taken i'll
the second day after his arrival. AT first his
illness was not thought to be serious, but
later his symptoms developed that uremia,
resulting from kidney troubles, had set in.
Father Mcguire was born in County Longford,
Ireland, February IL, 1918, but came to this
Nucu OHl1 OLA years Vi llC lC-
ceived his classical education at st. Johns
College, Frederick City, and entered the So
ciety of Jesus September 20, 1887. He was
educated in philosophy and theology at
Georgetown College, and was ordained to the
priesthood in 1850. He soon afterward be-
came President of the College, remaining such
until 1858, and subsequently filed the same
position a second time, from 1865 to 1870.
Henry Fryer, aged 6S years, the gatekeeper
at the Pimlico entrance to Druid Hill Park,
was found dead last Friday night about 100
O clock, hanging head down from large ash
tree which stands within 10 feet of the gate
and Immediately on the border of the road.
Mr.. Fryer could not have long been dead, as
the body was still warm, when discovered,
and parties who had short time before pass
ed the gate NOTICED him in his usual good
health at his post. His devotion to favorite
rosebush caused his death. He took great
pride in training it up the ash tree, and on
more than one occasion Capt. Cassell had
demonstrated with him about climbing into
the tree. Only the day before the accident
Capt. Cassel had told him if he again caught
him up the tree training the rosebush the
bush should be cut down. The poor man S
affection for his flower tempted him to ven
ture up the tree again. He no doubt lost his
balance and fell. The heel of his right foot
caught in the crotch of a limb, and he hung
suspended, with his head about five feet above
the ground, until he died.
Hanrv Davis co1ored was Iodgnd in iail at