The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-27
Maryland Affairs.


which are Presidential offices.
Mrs. Rebecca Matthews died in Baltimore
on the 10Th instant, aged 80 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sterling, aged % years, died
in Somerset county, on October IL.
John Bloom, of Mt. Pleasant district, Fred
erick county, aged 90 years, died on Monday
last.
Lizzie Hips, of Baltimore, was fatally
burned on Tuesday by her clothes taking hire
frvm stove.
Dr. Samuel S. Robinson, prominent ply
stefan of Beair, died suddenly from heart dis
ease on Monday, aged 10.
On Tuesday night coal oil warehouse, on
Cheapside, Baltimore, was burned. Loss
$4,000. Several fremen were injured.
Mrs. Eleanor Stoner, widow of the late
Samuel Stoner, of Oak Orchard, Frederick
county, died on Friday of last week, aged 16
years.
In Baltimore. on the 23d instant, Mrs.
Elizabeth Ann Turpin, died aged 81, and on
the oath, in the same city. Mrs. Edith b.
Scott, aged So.
Asbury Cole. colored, was arrested in Bal
timore, on Wednesday charged with killing
Samuel Young, colored, at Cecilton, Cecil
county, in August last.
David Crack, colored, said to be l07 years
old, and Susanna Oaks, colored aged 10.
were married at Upper Marlborough, Prince
Georges, county recently.
The husband of Mrs. James Cunningham,
of Homecoming, who died last Tuesday, was
killed in the Koontz mine one year ago. They
leave ten small children without support of
any kind.
The postoffice at Hancock enjoys distinc-
ton which is different from any other in the
country. 1t has box renters from three differ
ent states-West Virginia, Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Jane Moore, of Towson, is the posses
sor of beautifully ornamented pitcher which
has been in her family 200 years. 1t is in a
splendid state of preservation, being only
slightly cracked.
Two young colored men quarreled in Balti-
more, on Monday, over six, cents and Gilmore
Bolden, notorious rough, stabbed Benjamin
jackson to death.
Five persons are in the penitentiary for
life. They are Henry James Spencer, John
Heath, colored, Frank Brogden, John A..
Scott, colored, and Paul Reed. Each was
convicted for murder.
While Captain R. Powell and a young man
named Warfield were having friendly wrest-
ling bout on board an oyster boat, at Cooks
Point, near Cambridge, on Sunday, both fell
overheard and were drowned.
The Governor has appointed Henry D. Har-
Ian to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Baltimore in place of Judge Brown, retired
on Saturday. Judge Harlan is only 80 years
of age and was sworn in on Monday.
A set of chimes, costing about 81, 800, has
been ordered for the Evangelical Reformed
Church of Frederick. The late Louis Mar
kell left 5000 for this purpose, the balance
being made up by wealthy members of the
congregation.
Isaac Thomas, well-known resident of
EIkton, was found dead in the small frame
building in which he lived, on Tuesday morn
ing, lying on the floor. He was the oldest
member of the Elkton NJ. E. Church, and
was elected first superintendent of the Sunday
school of that church many years ago. He
was in his Slst year.
Hon. George VIM. Brown, chief judge of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, retired
on Saturday last from the office which he has
held for over fifteen years-first by appoint
ment, and then by election of the people.
He retires with the best wishes of the legal
fraternity and of the whole community, whom
he has served, and served well, for nearly a
life time in various capacities. Judge Brown
was born October 10, 1912, in Baltimore, and
has filled many positions of trust.
A sad case was brought to the attention of
the police in Washington, d. c., on Sunday
A woman was found wandering about apply
ing for admittance to various houses where
she was not known. She had with her four
children, the Oldest 10 years of age, and the
youngest only =. She was arrested, when she
gave unmistakable evidences of insanity 1t
was ascertained later that she was a Mrs.
Walker, of Prince Georges county, the child
of well TODD parents. Three weeks ago her
husband deserted her.
Mr.. William Chase Barney, accompanied
by his young English wife, has returned to his
native city, Baltimore, after an absence of
nearly forty years, and has taken apartments
at the Mount Vernon Hotel. Mr.. Barney is
grandson of Samuel Chase, Signer of the
Declaration of independence, and is the only
living grandson of any of the Signers. 1t is a
strange circumstance, that the last surviving
Signer Charles Carroll), the last surviving
widow of Signer, and the last surviving
grandson of a Signer, should be Marylanders.
On Friday afternoon young man named
John Carly, son of Samuel Carly, of Broad
fording, was killed at the fair grounds Hagers.
town, where he was engaged in attending to
Ohio j. Shifier's cattle exhibits. He was
standing with a number of other persons in
the space enclosed by the race course watch
ing the process ofinfatiDg the hot air balloons.
As the second balloon was about TO ascend,
one of the heavy poles, about forty feet long,
fell to the ground, crushing Qarty in its de-
scent. His skull was fractured and both legs
we're broken in two places. The young man
meyer recovered consciousness, but died in
ten minutes after the accident. He was about
20 years old.
Rev. VIM. Heilig, of Lutherville, Baltimore
county, died on October 10. He was born
near Germantown, Pa, June Z, 1913; was
graduated at the Gettysburg College in 1899,
and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in
1s41. He entered the Lutheran ministry, but
in 1866 his health became impaired and he
moved to Lutherville and became a teacher
in the Female Seminary at that place. From
1859 until 1864 he was professor of German
and history in the Baltimore City College
Since that time he has filled the pulpits of va
rious Lutheran churches, and when he died
was pastor Of the church at Sweet Air, Balti-
more county. Two sons ard three married
daughters survive him.
Lafayette w. Duvall, while blowing out
potatoes in Unionville, Frederick county, last
week, unearthed hidden cavity large enough
to have engulfed him and his team. As the
patch is piece of level or lowland, the exis-
tence of such cavern was never suspected,
and Us discovery was very surprising. Mr.
D. was blowing along when suddenly one of
the horses legs slipped into the opening, but
was as quickly withdrawn. He saw at a
glance that the earth around it was sinking,
and Immediately left the pillow and jumped
aside. Upon examination it was found that
the excavation is of funnel shape, and the
horse, quite heavy animal, had accidentally
stepped upon the highest point of the cavity,
the thinnest place, and broke through, pass.
Jag over it quickly enough not to follow the
sinking earth.
A fierce wind storm in the nature of tor
nado passed over Frederick at about six
o'clock p. m. on October 10. and did con-
siderable damage. A tin roof was blown off
and a balcony smashed on large building
on North Market street, owned by Capt. Jos.
Graf. A new frame stable on Bentz street,
just completed that day, owned by Joshua
Dill, was demolished. Several windows were
smashed in the Citizen office, two large doors
were blown off the establishment of Hagan
Bros. on West Fourth street, and many tele-
graph poles and trees we're prostrated. The
electric lights in the city were partially put
out by distractions over the wires, and the
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