The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-10
MARYLAND Affairs.

The Anne Arundel County Grange has de-
cided to hold an agricultural fair on Septem-
Der 81.
The Evangelican Church, at Hagerstown,
a handsome brick structure, was dedicated
last Sunday.
The Talbot Guards, of Easton, have re-
ceived their uniforms and look las pretty as
painted wagon
President Baughman, of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal, has appointed Mr.. Key, of Fred
erick, to clerkship in the Annapolis office.
Louis Caspari, ofBaltimore, quarreled with
his wife on Monday evening, locked himself
in room and then committed suicide by
hanging.
Judge l. Thomas Jones, of Howard
county, who has been suffering with an attack
of rheumatism for some weeks. is able to get
about with the aid of crutches.
At Altamont, Garrett county, last Saturday
evening, Hampton McCrobie wayland and
shot Robert jackson, who he suspected of
being too intimate with his wife.
George w. Porter, editor and publisher of
the Baltimore Journal of Commerce, and Sec
rotary of the Board of Trade of Baltimore,
died suddenly on Monday, at the age OF 62
years.
Robert Turner was accidentally shot and
killed at shooting gallery near Baltimore on
Wednesday, by rifle that went off as 1t was
being handed to him by Christopher Wagner.
Both parties were from Baltimore
Charles Borgess., of Ellicott City, while at
tempting to board moving train at that place
last Sunday, fell on the track. His left arm
was crushed between the elbow and wrist,
and the arm had to be amputated.
By the death of Mrs. Bruner, of San Fran
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chidiess widow, Frank G. and Joshua e.
Wrightson, of Talbot county. will get slice
of an estate inventoried at $4,000.
Miss Mary Eva Boyle, of Chambersburg,
/ Pa, died suddenly in Baltimore on Sunday,
from inflammation of the stomach. She was
| IS years old, and was a student at the Mary
land Institute School of Art and Design.
There were six slight fires in Baltimore on
Monday. On the same day two boys were
killed and others injured by the careless hand
ling of pistols. There were numerous acct
dents to hands, arms and faces from fireworks.
Ninety-eight boys have applied for admis-
sion to the McDonogh School. II. l.. CAN'T
and William F. Smith have been elected
tutors to fill the vacancies caused by the reslg-
nations of Messrs. Witzenbocker and Arnold.
Jobst Veeh, q Baltimore carpenter, fell
from roof of building in Baltimore We'd
nesday evening, and was instantly killed.
He had Just finished his days work, and was
about going down on ladder when he slipped
and fell.
Meesie Ross, young colored woman, was
found dead in bed at Cumberland on Tuesday
morning. VIM. Evans, also colored,. who
lived with her, has been arrested, and the
cause of her death is being inquired into by
the law officers.
R. E. Weber, an insane patient in the Ma.
ryland University Hospital, Baltimore, jumped
from second-story window last Sunday, ano
landed on his head on the pavement below,
dying instantly. He was timer by trade,
and his home was in Pittsburg, Pa.
1t is supposed that special convocation Of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Easton
will be called some time in September to
elect bishop, in order that he may be con.
secrated at the ensuing session OF the General
Convention at Chicago in October.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment go to Allan
tic CITY next week, and on Saturday, the
18th, will be reviewed by Gov. Lloyd, who
will be accompanied by his staff. Mayor
Hodges and other prominent Marylanders
will be present by special invitation.
Cardinal Gibbons and party are the guests
of Major N. S. Hill, at Deer Park. During
his stay at the Park the Cardinal will celebrate
mass every morning in the chapel near the
hotel, and on Sunday morning will preach In
the Catholic Church at Oakland.
The DeKalb statue is to be located on the
southwest side of the capitol at Annapolis,
near where the old fountain stood. The
board of governors and visitors of st. John s
College wanted the statue on the college
grounds, but Secretary Bayard thought that,
as it was commemorative of a state event the
capital grounds was the appropriate place.
Robinson w. Trader, an inspector of lum-
Der, died at the Baltimore City Hospital early
Sunday morning from an overdose of lauda-
nun which it is thought he had taken to
steady his nerves. He had been on pro-
years He was Al years of age, and a native
of Wicomico county.
On Monday night, near Bean store, Mont
gomery county, two miles north of Silver
Spring, George Dorsey shot and killed Geo.
Dover, both colored. There was a negro
dance going on at the time, and the men had
been drinking and then quarreled, when Dor.
sew stepped out of the door, leveled his pistol
and shot Dover down. Dorsey has been lodged
in Jail at Rockville.
Misco Marango, an Italian, was found in a
diving condition in a hole in the ground, back
Of the city spring on Calvert street, Baltimore,
on Monday. No one knew the hole was there
until the body of Marango was discovered. 1t
is only large enough for man to turn in,
and runs back into the bank some thirteen
feet. Marango was much emaclated and died
shortly after being found.
The stockholders of the Piedmont and
Cumberland Railroad held an election at
Cumberland on Tuesday, which resulted in
the choice of the following directors-S. B.
Elkins. H. G. Davis, I. B. Davis, A. Wilson,
John c. Brady, G. W. Spangler and W. j.
Read The officers elected were-President,
Stephen B. Elkins; secretary and treasurer,
h. C. Buxton. The amount of capital stock
was increased from 500, 900 to $3.50, 600.
DIR. X. E. Boteler, practicing physician
of Funkstown, Washington county, met with
serious accident on Wednesday evening.
The team attached to wagon heavily loaded
with hay which was being unloaded at his
stable started to run away. The doctor at
tempted to stop them, but was thrown down,
the wagon passing over him, breaking several
ribs, also his nose, and cutting and bruising
him badly. His injuries are of very serious
nature.
The market for Western wheat was excited
on Wednesday on the Baltimore Corn and
Flour Exchange, and the trading in August
and September deliveries reached about a
million bushels. August opened at SIT, went
up to ~, dropped back 10 oo3, ana closeu at
ST cents. The heaviest dealing was in Sep
TENDER wheat, which opened at sSi, went up
to got, sold down to S69, and closed at 81.
AT times the excitement ran pretty high, and
the break in the prices was as marked as the
advance.
A painful accident happened to Estelle
Davis. aged is years, the daughter of Benja-
min Davis, of Baltimore, on Tuesday, at 1r-
wing Park, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, near Annapolis Junction, where the
Hanover Street NJ. E. Church was holding
its picnic. Miss Davis was standing on a
patent swing, swinging herself, when her foot
was caught in an aperture of the pedal. She
fell, and the swing striking her broke both
bones of her leg just above the ankle, the bone
protruding through the flesh.
Franklin Brooks, well-dressed mulatto,
was before Justice Benner in Baltimore on
Thursday, on the charge of feloniously as
saulting Gertie Brettenheimer, aged IA years
The child, with two other children. identified
Brooks as the person who on Wednesday
night approached them on Little German
street and persuaded Gertie to go aside with
a promise of ice cream and cake. He pulled
her into an alleway, they said, and choked
her, leaving marks of his fingers on her
throat, but be was frightened away by a lady
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