The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-03-23
Maryland Affairs.

Robert Bolton. sgvd - years. died ae2F
Falsiou, Hartford c0anty, on Saturday
Tbs ssraaa sac and grisi laiil Of Bevau &
piudell, in Anne Arsade! coaHiy, sSs hafRed
on Tuesday night.
John RAYMOND, native II Switzerland,
died uear Elkinn. Cecil cnaHly. On the lbsh
instant. aged 50 yraFs-
BLANCHE GRAY. aged 81. q lesd womaR u
Baltimore, died from sounds infected BY -.
shannon, on Saturday night lass.
Henry $. Cogdoa. Of ceeii eoaasy, has
made an assignment. tie was IN extensive
farmer and dealt largely in estsie,
Mrs. Elizsbcsh Lane, aged =, died IN
Hagers,own, on Saturday. See leasas sever
al children. al prominent IN Washington
county.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Andrews, sgsd -, died
in Denton, Caroline county, or "Wednesday
She did not use glasses, having received her
second sighii
The jury 10 tbs hgIless cas- cases, 81 Eli.
colt City, we're unable 70 agFea aad Eera dis
charged. The eases viii De retired u the Sep
tember term.
DR.. George Sudro~. one OF tbs editors Of
the GrnaH Journal, Baltimore, died on
Saturday. He was educated az Germany, bot
NEGtCtAu4 tNAt aa+fAAi W AtNfNF-tN'
Col Arthur john Wills, oae OF shy besi
known aud weaiJhies' citizens Of Caroline
county, died nj Pouer's Landing on Saturday
afternoon OF las. week, in bis 10Th year
Patrick Dolan, aged s., and hia wife, aged
IS. died on Sunday last in Baltimore Mrs.
Dolan died shortly ailer aeon, aud her haa
band at $50 p. m. They had bean married
over 60 years.
Charles G.. Minnick, died in Lincoln Kan.
ses, on Wednesday, IN his 9lsi year. He was
a maize Of Baltimore, and was soldier IN
the war of ls1z-it. In 1878 be sTfeRded the
meeting OF The Old Defenders
The Democratic State Central coamitiaa
has been called 10 meet al BaFaum's Hotel,
baltimore, on Wednesday, April 3D.. This Is
a right move. Early organization Is necessa-
~. and strong nominations should be made
for all Offices throughout the State.
Among the prisoners 10 jail at EIlieott City
is a colored man named Darby, who never
had enough to eal. lie is sik tset aRe inch
high, and weighs only 1870 pouuds- On BUT
day last the sheriff determined 10 oil him up,
so be gave him half gallon Of soup. eight
sueh dinners as were given tbs other prison
ers. and Darby packed il all away and wanted
more.
Mr.. Folger McKinsey Of the firm Of Mekin-
sey & Carly, publishers and proprietors Of the
Frederick daily and weekly Times, filed a bin
in the Circuit Court GA Monday praying the
appointment Of Hon Milton 6. Urner agd
Mr.. John c. Motter as receivers, TO conduct
the business and publish tbe papers, DC.
This action, it is stated, was necessiiated BY
tbs lack Of ready capital to meet heavy ex
penses incurred by the purchase of machinery
aud material, and the inability to make close
collections, &c.
An elevator in the machine shops of Flynn
& Emrich, 10 Baltimore, fell Monday morning
from the fourth foor distance OF forty teeI,
severely injuring three men who we're upon II.
The men were carrying on the elevator heavy
iron bar, held vertically, which as the elevator
reached the top struck the ceiling, aud the
strain upon the light rope broke the cog wheel
controlling the drum which at once gave way,
causing the elevator to fall. A fourth man
who was on the elevator saw the danger and
jumped from the elevator TO the fourth floor.
Doctors and scientific men in Scranton, Pa,
are Interested in a peculiar case which degel-