The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-02
Maryland Affairs.

week, a very small number, and the births
were 104.
The champion hog of the state so far, is a
900 FOUNDER, raised by Hezekiah Harley, oil
Hagerstown.
Robt. Lease, aged about 55 years, an ex-
sheriff of Frederick county, died on Thursday
of last week.
Mrs. Mary Sellman, mother of Sheriff Sell
man. of Anne Arundel county, died on Christ
mas day, aged so years.
James Madison Whitby, who was formerly
an active Democratic leader in Caroline coun-
ty, died at his residence near Ridgely last
week, in his 18th year.
Twenty-one out of flock of twenty six
sheep belonging to Mr.. VIM. d. Carter, near
Lynch's Station, Kent county, were either
killed or crippled recently by dogs.
AT a caucus held at Barnums Hotel the
Baltimore county legislative delegation agreed
to ask for the election of Philip l.. Moore as
reading clerk of the House of Delegates.
Jacob Houck, for many years prominent
merchant at Clearspring, Washington county
died suddenly last week, from the effects OF a
stroke of paralysis. The deceased was 81
years old.
Miss Annie Hauer, an elderly lady of Fred
er1ck, became ITl8uteHeu dt oOiiic huaS1uSAoN
ers on the street, started to run and fell down
striking her head on the pavement and receiv-
ing serious injury.
The farm house of Mr. John Grace, Pataps-
co Neck, about three miles from Baltimore,
was destroyed by fire early Saturday morning:
The family had barely time to get out, and
nothing was saved.
A Baltimore architect is engaged in prepar-
Il h0fa1 n ha araptad
Frederick on the site of the Carlin House.
The property had been sold to Mrs. A. c.
Carlin for $4,000.
The house of DIR. Emil Bessels, the Arctic
explorer, at Glendale, was burned on Friday
of last week. All his books and charts and
other valuable documents relating to Arctic
matters were destroyed.
To prevent him being lynched the sheriff
of Montgomery county removed Charles
Claggett, colored, from the Jail at Rockville
to the Frederick Jail. Claggett made felon.
ious assault on seven-year- old daughter OF
John Leizer, on December Is.
J. Granville Richards, memberelec of the
next Legislature from Cecil county, residing
at Porter's Bridge, while returning from his
store to his residence, about half mile dis
tant, on Saturday night, was attacked by two
men and robbed of over 500. He was seri-
ously injured.
At the Maryland Military and Naval Acad-
envy, at Oxford, on Sunday morning, cadet
Richard o. Reinhard, of Indiana, was acct
dentally shot and killed by cadet Patrick j..
Gavagan, of Michigan, with pistol. Rein
hard was fourteen years old, and Gavagan is
but thirteen.
T. B. Dorsey, of Ellicott City, had nine
coops of fowls on exhibition at the fair which
recently closed at Allentown, Pa. Mr.. Dor
sey won five first, one second and seven spec
;ai prizes, including the great special for the
best bird of any age or variety in the show,
all classes competing.
The four-year old son of Joseph Martin, of
Leitersburg, Washington county, met with an
accident on Monday that resulted in death
Tuesday morning. The child, while playing
in the kitchen, overturned bucket of hot
water, which scalded it in terrible manner
and with fatal result.
Mr.. John Stelzle, who was shot in his sa-
loon, 3O4 North Howard Street, Baltimore,
Christmas night, died Saturday afternoon,
having lived over nineteen hours after being
shot through the heart. He was shot by
Joseph Knopf AS to the details, the crimi-
nal court may be able to find out after two
weeks trial.
JOln DrOWU, Oi DTONuSNlllci
county, celebrated his 95th birthday on De-
cember 20. He served as soldier in the
war of 1872, and was at the battle of North
Point In 1924 Mr.. Brown built the first
house in Brownsville, in which he has ever
since resided. In 1888 he was commissioned
postmaster at Brownsville, and served in that
capacity nearly fifty years.
On Monday night Ernest Bratten, color
ed boy, stabbed and killed Samuel Blake, a
colored man, during drunken quarrel at a
festival near Girdletree Hill, Worcester coun-
ty. The quarrel arose over woman whom
Bratten was escorting from the party. Blake
aeeosted Bratten in language rather insulting,
whereupon the latter drew a knife and stabb-
ed Blake in the neck, severing the jugular
vein. Blake died in about five minutes.
Three boys, one aged seven years and the
others ten years each, and sons of VIM. Hal
Ter, Mrs NJ. E. Fallon and Peter Eader,
respectively, we're painfully injured in Fred
erick on Monday by the discharge of gun in
the hands of young son of Mr.. Thos. 81.
Smith. The youngest boy received from
thirty to forty shot in his hand and calf of his
leg, and the others about fifteen shot each in
their legs. The boy who did the shooting
claims, It is said, that he did not know the
gun was loaded when he pointed it at the
other boys. The youngest of the lads is bad
ly hurt.