The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-08-24
Maryland Affairs.

vile, Frederick county, on Thursday.
John w. Mccoy, a prominent citizen OF
Baltimore died on Tuesday, aged Us years.
Within few months over $1,000 worth of
horses have been stolen in Frederick county
An unknown man committed suicide in
| Riverside Park, Baltimore, on Monday after
noon.
The President and Mrs Harrison have
decided to attend the Baltimore exposition in
September.
Mrs Rachel Waters died at West River,
Anne Arundel county, on the 18th instant, in
her Slst year.
Centreville is to have water works. The
contractors are at work and expect to finish
it by November.
A Washington company have bought land
near Oakland and will erect a large hotel for
summer boarders.
W. S. Harrison, a prominent farmer of
Potomac district, Montgomery county, died
on Monday evening, aged 10 years.
Rev. Henry Wall, d. D., a well known
clergyman of the Diocese of Easton, died on
/ Monday, near Chestertown, in his I'D year.
Emanuel Drummer. aged about 65 years, one
ofthe best known colored residents of Middle
town Valley, Frederick county, died Monday
night.
/ A fourteen year old lad named Mitchell, of
+, Hagerstown, while bathing in Antietam creek
on Tuesday, went beyond his depth and was
/ drowned.
/ On Tuesday the farm of Hammond Whip
/ perman, near Beckleysville, Baltimore county,
+ containing 81 acres, was sold to NJ. W. Ofutt
/ for 81 ,225.
John Dodd, Chief Judge of the Orphans
/ Court of Queen Anne's county. was thrown
z 4 ErtIax- nf lost vraaL ap1
/ received injuries which may prove fatal.
/ Charles Edwin jenkins, one of the Judges
+ of the Orphans Court of Baltimore, died on
/ Wednesday. aged "a years. He was promi-
nent in Democratic politics and was member
I Of several orders
T Otto Duker & Co.. of Baltimore, have been
awarded tina contract for furnishing the
rious courthouses and postofiices east of the
( Rocky Mountains with desks and counters for
f the coming year by the United States Govern
7 ment.
The wife OF Adjutant W. Kennon Whiting
Of the Fifth Maryland Regiment, died sud
denly on Friday of last week, at the residence
OF her mother, Mrs. Z. I. Niers, at Rock
Vile, Montgomery county, where she was
visiting. Her age was 80.
The Democratic county central committee
Of Washington county on Tuesday fixed upon
August SIS, as the date for the primaries to
select delegates to the county convention to
be held m HagerStown on the Sd of Septem-
Der. 10 select delegates to the stale convention
The survey Of the route for the proposed
new railroad from tiaiihersburg to Seneca,
Montgomery county. has been completed, and
the survey Of the rpGte Is 10 be- extended
through Virginia to make connection with the
Washington and Eastern Railroad ~ Herndon
Station.
Mr. Russ. Of the Potomac Mining Company
OF Montgomery county, shipped on tuesday
,o Chicago for exhibition and assay twenty.
hy. hundred pounds OF ore taken from the old
Montgomery mine. This property is owned
bv Mr. Russ, Of Chicago, and NJ. Carroll. of
baltimore.
Edward Uowues, eolorcd, who attempted To
COMM, felonious assault on Mss Ida Book
81, ia Queen Anuc's county, last week. was
arrested on Saturday and lodged in jail At
Ccngreyile after q hearing, at which be was
committed sar the action Of the grand jury.
lie admits the assault.
The lao acrsS Of land, comprising the
farrls Ia Frederick county Of the late Lewis
McNuFray. we're GA Tuesday transferred by
deed 70 Joseph d. Baker, of Frederick. The
price paid was Si0f. ASH Mr.. Baker has
cold "a Mrs Jane w. McMurray Si2 acres Of
ibis land for SIS, 452.o2-
Que Of the largest picaie gatherings in
Frederick county during the present summer
was held Saturday IN Gambrilfs woods, a lev
miles west Of Frederick. under the auspices
Of the Rocky Spring Sunday schools There
were probably from two thousand 10 thrce
thousand people present.
90 Thursday the coroaor : Jury in the case
al Rrish ". Burgess. Of Liberty, Frederick
COUNTY rendered verdict that hrs death was
due 10 poisoning by stryehnlue, administered
bv soms one unknown. Mr.. Rnfgess died
suddenly on the 7th instant, and BIS stomach
and contents were seat 10 Baltimore for analy-
SIS.
Prof Michael Wiescl, a prominent musician
Of Cumberland, died on Monday. he was
bora April Is, 1918, near Frankfort on the
Main. Germany. He came 10 Baltimore in
lss6, aud WAS 4 member OF the famous Entaw
Band. that PLAYED az the inauguration OF
Harrison in ls4t and AZ hts death a month
later.
IRE IN Baltimore on Saturday nigh, de-
strsyed a four story building, owned by J. II.
short, on Uhlers alley. The first foor was
{ ,,,,cupied hv John H. Short & Co. as q factory
{ for making sash. doors. Windows aud cabinet
woods The second. third and fourth floors
were occupied By the Jacobs L Wilson Con
pAny, manufacturers Of sash, doors and yin
dow frames The Jacobs & Wilson Company
- l.
J. II. Short on the building, $4,000; insured.
The school commissioners Of Howard
county have revoked the contract made with
W Il Deuley, Of Baltimore, to bald the
sehoolhouse al Lisbon, owing 70 the failure
on his Part TO comply with the terms OF the
contract, and the contract was awarded %
NJ l.. Isaac, the next lowest bidder, tor
81 2,iG. 81. They also appointed Misses Ida
Oldheld. f. Gertrude Waterman Josephine
Hopkins, Katie II. Welsh, Kitty g. Fi'e and
ida Caathorn 10 free scholarships in the State
Normal School.
Mrs. Mary Ann Miller, widow Of Daniel
Miller. founder Of the firm of Daniel Miller
4 Co. died on Wednesday at her summer
residence, at Nj Washington, Baltimore
/ county. OF general decay Of the vital powers.
Mrs. Miller was Il daughter Of Louis Klein,
/ of Loudouu county. Virginia, who was one OF
I the defenders Of Baltimore IN the war Of
( lsI2-i4 She was married to Mr.. Miller m
E 1884. and survived him nineteen years. They
Z had six children, three OF whom are now
/ living. Mrs Miller was in her 18th year.
! A remarkable runaway Of steam locomo
Z tive occurred in Baltimore GA Monday morn
/ ing. The pondsrous piece of mechanism,
/ although runningas fast as steam could propel
/ il through four stations and half dozen
I tunnels at a time of day-between nine and
{ CLOCK -NNGN ltfGFt Ntft tfftAAN VI tltbEftt
/ stirring about the tracks. injured no person,
I and ala no damage until it reached Calvert
I Station, ia the very hear, Of the city. There
I its career was stopped by running into two
/ empty coaches and driving them through the
/ - inch side wall Of Nelson, Morris 4 Cos.
/ storage house, No. 500 North street. The
/ locomotive, which was yard engine No. IS, OF
the Northern Central Railway, had come,
/ without engineer or fireman, from Lafayette
/ Station, Que mile west Of Fulton Station.
I The present outlook for crops in Calvert
county is not very bright one. In fact,
there is nothing at all but little corn, and
Z very little Of that, as the farmers were unable
/ to get il planted owing to the very rainy sea
( son. What little they did succeed in planting
I has been so checked by the recent floods that
I in some places the grass is nearly as high as
/ the corn aud will not yield one third the usual
/ crop. Il is really distressing to the nu-
+ merous vacant fields that were plowed for
/ tobacco and other crops, but they, being SO
wet and muddy, had to be left out entirely.
/ Fields where previously at this season OF the
1 wear you would have seen fine crops growing
/ look now more like green pastures then any
/ thing else The harvest was very small there.
( What wheat they did save has since rotted or
/ sprouted in the stack, making them look
/ more like green mounds than stacks ofwheat.
/ This is a gloomy outlook in a county where
1 the tax rate is sc cents on the 500.
/ IT, - u; c;.Is Of tho Western MARYLAND r r