The Democratic advocate., 1888-10-13
Maryland Affairs.

Mrs Mary A. johnson, aged Sc, died near
Ellicott City, on Saturday.
Isaac Brown died at Conowingo, Cecil coun-
ty, on the 4th instant, aged sc.
Mrs. Hester, wife of Hon. Allen Bowie
Davis, died near Rockville, Montgomery
county, on Tuesday, in her 18th year.
F. B. Harman & Son, members of the Corn
and Flour Exchange, Baltimore, and doing
general flour business, have made an assign
ment.
AT the Cecil county fair, on Friday of last
week, Wilson Coudon beat the world s record
in throwing the 16-pound hammer 119 feet 8
inches.
Alexander G. Sellman, who was recognized
as the chess champion of the South, died at
his home in Baltimore county on Sunday,
aged SO years.
]. W. S. Carly, chief clerk of the Frederick
postoffice, has been elected discount clerk of
the Frederick County National Bank, vice
VIM. Walsh, removed.
Ruhle's school house, in the sixth district
of Baltimore county, was burned on Monday
morning about 10 o'clock. The children es-
capped and all the books were saved. Loss
$1,000; insurance $500.
William Winstanley, 60years of age, assist
ant agent of the Northern Central Railway
at Monkton, Baltimore county, was fatally
injured on Saturday morning by an express
train while crossing the track to deliver the
mail.
John C. Harper, well-known farmer and
Democratic politician, died near st. Michaels,
Talbot county, on Monday night. Several
times he had been asked to serve the party,
but always declined, preferring to labor in the
ranks.
The entire family, seven in number, of DR..
A. Trego Shertzer, of Baltimore, were attack
ed with lead poisoning on Monday night after
drinking milk which had stood for 36 hours in
new milk can. None of the cases proved
fatal.
Thirty cases of typhoid fever are reported
in the villages of Woodbury. and Hampden,
part of the district recently annexed to Balti
more. In Hampden the cases, all in one row
of houses, are ascribed to the use of well
water contaminated by waste from slaughter
house.
In the circuit court at Frederick last week.
Frank V. Staub was sentenced topay fine of
500 and costs for selling liquor to minors,
and Max Rudolph, saloon keeper for sell
ing liquor on Sunday and to minors, to pay
fines aggregating, with costs, between 5000
and $500, in default of which he was sent to
Jail.
In Frederick on Tuesday night Charles A.
Baer, alias August Porter, and John J. Van
Fossen quarreled in the house kept by Julia
Lidey, when Van Fossen shot and instantly
killed Baer. The latter was an eX-police
man, and was dismissed for killing Israel
Graft in 1888. Baer was AZ years of age and
is a married man. Van Fossen was arrested
soon after the committal of the crime and lodg-
ed in the station.
Mrs. Rebecca Seth, of Baldwin, Cecil coun-
ty, was 100 years old on Tuesday. She had
Is children, 6 sons and daughters. Five
sons and three daughters survive. Eight of
the children are married. Four died in infancy
She has so grandchildren and 81 great-grand
children. Mrs. Seth has been blind for 1G
years; she is, however, able to find her way
about the house. She has but few gray hairs,
and it is not improbable will live for several
years to come.
A Cincinnati and St. Louis express train,
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran
into a freight train, near Dickerson Station,
81 miles west of Washington, shortly before
midnight, on Saturday. Both engines, two
express cars, the mail car baggage car and
three freight cars were wrecked. Three men
were killed, namely: William H. Wiley, postal
clerk; John Casey, postal clerk, and George
Ridenbaugh, brakeman. Six trainmen were
injured, none fatally All the passengers,
though thrown violently forward by the shock,
escaped injury.
George W. Baker, one of the best known
citizens of Hartford county, and one whose
name is more familiar in the canned goods
business than almost any other man in the
country, died at his residence near Aberdeen,
on Wednesday morning, aged 73.years and
months. Mr.. Baker was the originator of
the now extensive canning business of Hartford
county He was the pioneer in packing to-
matoes and corn, aq operation which is today
in progress in hundreds of factories in Har-
ford. He leaves large landed estate, est-
mated at about 1900 acres, all in the second
district of Hartford county. This season it
required about 5000 acres to produce the
corn that was packed and sold with his label.