The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-08-04
MARYLAND Analrs.

In hent county the wheat ylelueu from Il
to 80 bushels per acre.
Mary L., wife of Henry Stabler, Montgom-
cry county, died on Tuesday last.
The Third Battalion of the Maryland Ma
tional Guard is in camp at Bay Ridge.
Henry c. Thomas and John w. Hargett,
well known citizens of Frederick county, died
on Monday.
John Wallace, colored, fell from wagon in
Baltimore, while asleep, on Wednesday, and
broke his neck.
Rockville, Montgomery county, has pop
ulaton of 1900 and embraces 600 acres in its
corporate limits.
Henry j. Morris, of Baltimore, WAS injured
by his horse falling in steeple chase at Sa-
raioga on Saturday last.
George Bond, aged 81, died in Baltimore,
on Wednesday. He was postmaster at Eli
colt City under Pierce and Buchanan.
A creamery company has been incorpora-
ted at Willow Grove mills, near Fair Play,
Washington county, with capital of $1,000.
Edward l.. Stonebraker, of Baltimore, was
killed at Hyattsville, while getting on a train.
His right thigh, left ankle and head were cut
off,
Thomas Marmaduke, OF Georgetown, D.
c., has been lodged in Jail at Rockville, on
the charge of abducting three year old child
of Franklin Mace,
An injunction has been granted by Judge
Lynch against the Frederick electric light
company, and the matter will be settled to-
day, Saturday.
Mrs. Mary A. Bowers died in Baltimore on
Sunday, aged 90 years. During the war of
1924 she assisted her parents in making
bread for the soldiers.
VIM, Reading has sold his Cabin John farm
of 5a5 acres in Montgomery county to Wash
ington party for SIC, 900, reserqing the dwell
| ing and 48 acres Of the tract
About $50 Sisters of Charity from various
parts of the United States will go into an
\ eight-days retreat at st. Joseph's, Emmits-
] burg, beginning Monday, August @.
I The upper section of Howard county was
| visited by an unusually heavy thunder storm
1 ON Friday evening. 1t was attended by hail,
which did much damage to the growing crops
Cardinal Gibbons has received official in
formation from Rome notifying him of the
appointment of Rev. DR.. John S. Foley, of
ST. Martins church, Baltimore, as Bishop of
Detroit, Michigan.
On July %, Martin NJ. Higgins shot Thomas
! H. Trippe, in Easton. 1t was the result of
an old feud. Trippe attacked Higgins with
cane and was warned 10 desist, but did not
dR so. Che T2qpd is net dangerous. Hig-
gins was held for court,
On Saturday last during game of base
ball between the Gaithersburg and Rockville
mines, of Montgomery county, a dispute arose,
which resulted in general fight, in which at
least twenty participated: Some were wound
ed, but none fatally.
Groome Knight, son of Deputy Collector
VIM. NJ. Knight, died July q, at his fathers
residence. in Baltimore, of bilious dysentery.
Young Knight was % years old and had re-
GENTLY been appointed civil engineer on the
Northern Central RAILROAD:
Sadie Dickinson, colored, was arrested in
Baltimore, on Saturday night for painting
the town red" At the magistrates office
sha swore terribly and when fined IS cursed
the Justice and told him to make it $25, which
the accommodating magistrate did, and con-
tiuued to do so until the fines reached $75,
when Sadie let up.
: The first order for peaches to the Baltimore
Fruit and Produce Exchange was received
on Wednesday from Ontario, Canada. 1t
calls for ten carloads Der day of Crawford
yellows and Old Nixon variety. SIX hun
dred and forty baskets comprise carload.
The parties ordering expressed their prefer
ence for Maryland peaches.
Mrs. John Clipps, residing at Shookstown,
Frederick county, was bitten some time ago
by copper snake. She was nursing an in
FAINT, and continued to feed it milk from the
bosom. The wound healed, and she felt no
effects of the poison. The infant, however,
sucked the poison with its milk, and died
from tie effects Tuesday night.
A decision as to the cause of the collision
between the yacht CLEAN and the steamer
Joppa. in which Mr.. I. Harrison Garrett lost
his life on June It'll, was rendered on Monday
by the Baltimore Board of Steamboat 1nspec-
tors. Captain Frank Torrey, of the Clean,
was found guilty of unskiled navigation, and
his license as master and 6rst-class pilot was
\ revoked.
/ 4 HuMhar Of farmers living in aFaagersEovn
] district, Frederick county, among whom are
Messrs. Jacob Hinea, Calvin Fisher, John
Ahat and Geo. MartE, have secured the legal
services of Hon. Milton G. Urner and Vim.
P. Maulsby, Jr., to defend them against the
enforced payment of various promissory notes
which they were induced, thoy claim, by mis-
representations to give TO certain bohemian
oat agents some time ago, and which are now
about falling due.
1t is announced that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad authorities have determined to
Immediately complete the connection between
their Philadelphia extension and Staten
Island. This will be done by making avail
able the 09year trackage contract which
exists with the Reading and New Jersey
Central. Engineers are now locating the
route from Roselle, on the New Jersey Cen
trail, to the bridge over the Arthur Kill. With
that structure the connection on Staten Island
will be completed by October 1st
} The storm of Friday evening" July q, was
unusually severe in portions Of Frederick
countY. At LadieshuTg, in a belt about hall
a mile wide, and for considerable distance,
the hail fell in such quantities as TO give the
appearance of snow, covering the ground to
the depth of fully an inch. Entire fields oil
growing corn were literally cut to pieces.
Among those who sustained losses are George
w. Barrick, Calvin and Levi Hinea, Hezekiah
Delaplane, Lycurgus N. Phillips. Charles E.
Dougherty, John P. Roderick, William H.
Smith, Horatio Eyler, Amos Eyler, David
Schaeffer. D. H. Hildebrand and Robert
Barrick. The damage done to ths above
named parties and others In the county is es-
, timated at from five to ten thousand dollars.
On Wednesday, Laura G. Bradley and her
son, Thomas G. of Montgomery county, asked
for writ de ebrioso against Geo. g. Bradley
, the husband and father. The petition char
ges that the defendant is an habitual drunk
: ard. and is incapable of managing his affairs,
| and that jury of inquistion be summoned
to ascertain the facts in the matter. A jury
: has been summoned and the case will be tried
on Monday next The social prominence
and extended connection of the parties of the
suit has rendered the case one of more than
t ordinary interest George G. Bradley, the
defendant, is a nephew of the late Joseph b.
Bradley, ofthA Washington bar, and one oil
: the largest and most successful farmers IN the
county. He was for some years the leading
MERCHANT in ELLIOTT City, and has a large
circle of influential relatives in Howard coun-
ty.
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