The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-17
MARYLAND Afaifs.


The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was 274.
A storm at Atlantic City on Tuesday after
noon blew down Is of the 9Th Maryland Reg
iment tents
Bishop Paret confirmed class of fourteen
at All Saints p. E. Church, Frederick, on
Wednesday night.
Robert Ryan, aged As years, was knocked
down and killed by street car in Baltimore
on Saturday night.
The next exhibition of the Maryland Ag-
ricultural Society will be held at Pimlieo, be-
ginning September IA.
The Bay Ridge Company have built rail-
road from Annapolis to their famous resort.
Trains ran over it this week.
DIR. Samuel E. Wills, of the lower part of
Cecil county, died suddenly of heart disease
last Saturday, aged Go years.
The school commissioners of Washington
county have awarded contract for 81 200
public school buildings in Hagerstown.
VIM. McDevitt, well-known and respect
ed farmer residing near Frederick, died sud-
denly at his home Tuesday morning of heart
trouble.
Louis Devage, aged eight years, died on
Wednesday in Cambridge from burns received
by the explosion of coal oil can on last
Sunday. He was horribly burned.
James NJ. Pouder, a retired merchant and
well-kpown citizen of Baltimore, was stricken
with paralysis while transacting some bust
ness last Saturday and died on Monday.
The dates for the holding of the Baltimore
County Agricultural Fair have been fixed for
September It'll, 8th, 9th and 10th. A large
list of valuable premiums is being prepared.
The first annual fair and races of the Talbot
Fair Association will be held at Easton Sep
TENDER 81, %, % and "a. This brings it after
Pimlico, and makes it the first of peninsula
fairs.
Charles Wilmer, colored, while oiling an
engine at a saw mill in Baltimore, on Wednes-
iay, was seized with vertigo and fell against
the machinery, being horribly mangled, death
being instantaneous.
The Senate has passed Senator German s
bill to pension Ernest 81. Wardwell, of Oak
land, Garrett county-to grant him the pay
and allowance of captain and assistant quar-
termaster from May Is, 1866.
Ernest Brinkley, ofSomerset county, seeded
50 acres of land and thrashed 1880 bushels
of wheat, an average of nearly % bushels to
the acre. On % acres R. S. Cohn, of the
same county, raised 600 bushels of wheat.
The commissioners for Somerset county
have entered suit against the old board of
commissioners. The suit is for the recovery
of certain sums of money, which, it is claimed,
were applied or expended without the proper
warrant in law.
Henry Meyers, Baltimore shoemaker,
while under the influence of liquor last Friday
evening, quarreled with his son, Henry Mey-
ers, Jr., aged q years, and stabbed him with
knife. The young man was cut into the
heart and died in few minutes.
Anna Coleman, colored, "A years old, while
going down the stairsteps of No. AZ Boyd
street, Baltimore, Saturday night, carrying. a
lamp, fell, and her throat was seriously cut by
the broken glass The wound was three
inches long and four and a-half inches Deep
Henry Brauer, aged As years, while intoxi-
Gated. walked off the dock in Baltimore last
Friday, and was drowned. John Sumner,
aged years, was drowned in the same city
the same day. VIM. Orem fell from boatin
Baltimore harbor on Saturday night and was
drowned.
John Cremer has sued the Baltimore Amer
lean for S500O He will probably get five
cents. Not one suit in a hundred against
newspapers is successful. Publishers are
always careful to state facts and avoid mis-
representation. All strive for a reputation
for reliability.
The Baltimore Light Infantry Battalion,
Lieutenant Colonel II. A. Barry command
ing, will encamp at Colchester, on bluff of
eight acres, from Saturday, July 81, to
August 4. About 200 privates and officers
will form the encampment. The battalion
comprises four companies.
The thirty anniversary of the con-
secration of ST. Michael's P. E. Church. at
Reisterstown, was celebrated on Tuesday
morning by special services, and number of
clergymen were present. Rev. Arthur j.
Rich, has been rector of the church ever
since its foundation, When he took charge
there were six communicates; now there are
over 200.
Mrs. Caroline Hessler, aged about 40 years,
residing at No. 10 Constitution street, on
Wednesday morning cut her throat in Baltl-
more county. She went to the Wilson SAM
tarium for Sick Children on Tuesday morning,
taking with her her six-months-old child for
treatment and while there attempted to take
her own life. Her injury is serious, though
not fatal.
James Jones, aged about 80 years, was in
stantly killed on Monday night by being
struck and run over by train on the B. and
O. Railroad at McKinney's crossing, near
Lime Kiln switch, Frederick county, while
walking toward his home in the vicinity of
Buckeystown His body was horribly man.
gled He leaves wife and several children.
Jerome Kuhn, of Baltimore, who is charged
with assaulting and cutting Wallace Owings,
on June oath, was on Saturday released
in 81, 900 security for court. Kuhn is looking
very well and does not appear to be troubled
Al. I'LL .nA,a cd hxr Wall
Owings on the afternoon of the same day that
Kuhn assaulted him. Wallace Owings is now
in Calvert county, much improved.
James A. Coffay, son of John Coffay, of
Baltimore, was found Saturday morning un-
conscious from fracture of the skull, lying
alongside the track of the Lehigh Valley
Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He was re-
moved to the Blair county almshouse
hospital, where ne died on Sunday afternoon
without having recovered consciousness.
Motley D, Anderson, chief clerk to the
State Weigher of Live Stock, while engaged
at his duties at the scales near Calverton on
Tuesday afternoon about 2 O'Clock, was
stricken with apoplexy. He was assisted to
his residence, 427 Raynor avenue, and
physician summoned, but every effort to aft
ford him relief failed, and he died at half
past five o'clock. Mr.. Anderson was native
of Prince Georges county, and had been
chief clerk at the cattle scales for fifteen
years.
The funeral of DIR. VIM. H. Cole, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Third Mary
land District, took place Sunday afternoon,
in Baltimore, the services being held in st:
Vincent's Church. The funeral was attended
by a committee of the U. S. House of Repre-
sentatives, also delegations from the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Crescent and Calu-
met Democratic Clubs, the Federation of
Labor, the Journalists Club, and of the Con-
federate Maryland Line. Mrs. Eleanora
Cole, mother of the deceased, died the same
afternoon, shortly before the burial of her son,
from the shock occasioned by his death. She
was 60 years of age, and had been in feeble
health for some time.
James Jones, colored, has been committed
to the Somerset county Jail on the charge of
felonious assault on Mrs. Mary Treehearn
last Saturday night. Mrs. Treehearn retir
ed early that night and left the lamp burning
low. About ten o'clock some one lifted the
window, and With small bush put out the