The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-02-18
Maryland Ana1rs.
John King, of Montgomery county, died Oh
Tuesday in bis SD year.


Tuesday in his SD year.
Miss Jane Kelso, near Gray, Baltimore
county. died on Tuesday aged 81 years.
Henry Houck. aged 81 years, died in Fred
erick on Monday. He had been sheriff, judge
of the orphans court, and filed other offices.
Harry, l5.year.old son of Mr.. J. Coli
flower. of Graceham, Frederick county was
thrown from the back Of colt on Tuesday
and insti.niy Killed.
Dora. d :, daughter Of Samuel Burgess.
uf Eilis,s, ily. was terribly burned On lues-
das, whl. .,ying - youusor sislcr from biNns
burned by AN upset coal stove.
Dr. William +. Thornton, member of the
Baltimore city council, fell from his step on
Friday evening of last week, and died on Sat
urday from concussion of the brain.
John S. George, aged 70 years, died on
Sunday last at his residence, Locust Grove,
Baltimore county, after sickness of several
months, of complication of diseases.
George Hastings was tried at Towsontown
last week for the murder of John Clancy, at
St. Dennis, in October last, the jury rendered a
verdict on Sunday night last of manslaughter.
Mauxman, a stallion owned by Mr. Gar
mendia, of Frederick, died on Tuesday. He
was valued at $40, 900, his owner having re-
Gently been offered near that figure for him.
Miss Mary Duncan, former resident of
Baltimore, died of pneu monia on the 9th inst.
at the residence of the Rev. T. K. Peck, ID.
D., at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, in
her slst year.
At CrsGeld, on Tuesday evening, VIM. f.
Brown, of Philadelphia, while handling q
revolver, accidentally shot and killed John
Wilton, colored. They were friendly and on
the best terms.
William Thorne, negro, was arrested in
the house of Francis Barron, in Baltimore,
about o'clock on Monday morning. The
alarm was given by Mr.. Barron's two daugh-
ters. Thorne was arrested.
James McKinsey, of Elkton, was held fol
court in the sum of S2l00 for violating the
prohibitory liquor law of Cecil county, OF
Tuesday He eoolly drew a check and de
posted with the magistrate as the security
required and was discharged,
A company was incorporated in Baltimore
on Tuesday which proposes to send merehan-
disc and mail by electro automatic power ovel
an elevated railway, the cars of which cannot
run off, and to make the time of transit fror
Baltimore to Washington ten minutes.
Mrs. A. Maria Evans, wife of the Rev.
David Evans, died suddenly Of paralysis in
Baltimore on Sunday, in the 18th year of her
age. Mrs. Evans had been an active member
of the NJ. E. Church for 55 years, and was
widely known and loved for her many virtues
Mrs. Isabella Fopless, 80 years old, died
in Baltimore on Tuesday from the result OF
burns received on Monday night. She had
lust given her sick husband some medicine
and going down stairs tripped, causing the
lamp to explode. The burning fluid was
thrown over her person.
The Salisbury post Office was robbed on
Tuesday night Of Sl700 in money and stamps,
Information was telegraphed and upon the
arrival of the train at Norfolk, Va, three men
were arrested and large number of stamps,
and several checks, drawn in favor of G. r.
Rider, the postmaster, were found upon them
Sl056. II in stamps, money and checks were
recovered.
| A young man assaulted Miss Sophie Hun
gerford, n school teacher In Baltimore, as
she was passing through Druid Hill Park,
| Tuesday morning. She caught one Of his
fingers in her mouth and bit It severely. She
| then drew a revolver, at the sight of which he
ran, but she fred two shots after him and is
uncertain whether either took effect. Sever
al outrages of similar character have occurred
in lonely sections of the Park.
James B., aged years, son of Mrs. Louis
Latchford, Mount Vernon, Baltimore county,
while crossing a lot near Chestnut avenue,
| Hampden, on Wednesday, lighted cigarette,
| a spark from which set fire to his clothing.
Before assistance came his clothing had burn
ed completely off, leaving his body blistered
from head to foot. The hair was singed from
his head. He was taken to his mother
house, where he died in great agony few
! hours later.
Hon. John Wethered, aged n, died on
Wednesday evening, at Catonsyille,- Balti-
more county, from heart disease. He was
one of the original owners of the Wethered-
vile woolen mills, Baltimore county, and from
whom both the mill and village take their
Names Hew as elected to Congress from the
third congressional district on the Wing
ticket, andwas one of the members of the
that body framed the constitution of Maryland
of 1867.
A remarkable operation was performed on
the little son of Joseph Doward, of Salisbury,
by DR.. G.. II. Cantwell, of Wilmington, Del,
one day last week. For some time past the
boy had peen troubled with restlessness
which could not be accounted for, and at
night he would awake his parents by the
most fearful shrieks. Medicine was given for
the removal of tape worms, and the boy was
relieved of a tape worm measuring eighteen
feet. Still his restlessness did not cease, and
| he was taken to Wilmington, where the sur
geon took from the boys stomach seven
reptiles resembling scorpions. Some of them
we're dead and some alive, the others having
been killed by the use of electricity. The
reptiles were as large as the end of the thumb
of a man and about an inch long. They were
perfectly formed and have the usual head
and tail of the scorpion. When taken out
they were fastened on to a huge tape-worm.
The boy seems much improved and is bright
and lively as ever. The doctors cannot ac-
count for the appearance of the reptiles in the
boys stomach except on the hypothesis that
stream. 1t is thought by some that the So
called scorpions may be what are commonly
known as "spring. cleapera, little reptile
resembling a scorpion, seen in almost any
spring,