The Democratic advocate., 1891-04-18
MARYLAND Affairs.

Much damage was done III queen AHheS counly
last week by the heavy rains.
Rockville, Montgomery county, is booming, and
many houses are being erected.
Coneordia Masonic Lodge of Baltimore celebrated
its 9sth anniversary on Monday.
Threats to burn barns in Middletown Valley,
Frederick county, have been made.
Fully $4,000 will be expended in Hagerstown
| and vicinity this year on new buildings.
Fully ninety per cent of the peaches in wicomico
have been killed by the recent severe cold weather.
Cheap lands are available in Southern Maryland.
An Anne Arundel farm of 435 acres sold last week
for s7,7O0
Untaxed property to the amount Of S70,l4I has
been returned from the 18th, lst and ID districts of
Baltimore county.
Michael Zimmerman, who was at one time sheriff
of Frederick county, died near Creagerstown Mon
day, aged rs years
L Nevett Steele, aged s. years, died in Baltimore
on Saturday. He was one OF the most prominent
lawyers in the state.
On Wednesday night the steeple of the NJ. E.
Church at Crisfield Somerset county, struck by
lightning and damaged.
Gilbert +. Chinn, colorad, porter in the employ
of the B. d o. Railroad, Baltimore, has fallen heir
to $4,000 by the death Of a relative in Colorado.
VIM +. McKewen, a well known Democratic poll
tican of Baltimore, died on Thursday from paraly-
sis. ne had been clerk of the criminal court for
three terms.
DIR. James Carey Coale died in Baltimore Mon
day. aged &c years. Christopher Lipps, aged ~ also
died on the same day from the grip. lie a
native of Bavaria.
A large brick barn on the farm of Adam Finkbiue'
near Annapolis was burned on Sunday, several
cattle and nearly all the utensils were burned
Loss above insurance 5000. Il
At meeting of the Pikesville Grange Baltimore
county, on Wednesday, Charles 7. Cockey stated
that fully two-thirds of the property of the county
are exempted from taxation.
Andrew Denver the drum major of the United
States Naval Academy Band died suddenly, in
Annapolis Wednesday. He had been connected
with the academy for thirty four years.
Patrick Kelly, Of st. Dennis Baltimore county,
died on Thursday of last week. lie juror of
the present term. Several other jurors also sick
and it is feared business will be retarded.
Jay f. barrow, proprietor of the Claren don Hotel
in Baltimore, died on Sunday, in his Goth year. He
was a native of Vermont went to Baltimore ten
years ago aud became proprietor of the Clarendon.
Levi Price, IL farmer, residing near sparkss sta
ton, Baltimore county, died Sunday night at the
age Ol u years lie was HlclnDeT Ol lnc oOClety VI
Friends. Two sons and one daughter survive him.
Lewis Flair and John Dutrow two members of the
gang of thieves who have been operating extensive
ly in the mountains west of Frederick city, were
arrested Saturday night i'll the act of robbins hen
roOst.
The Scranton Steel Company, of Philadelphia,
filed petition in the circuit in Baltimore for
a receiver for the Baltimore and Eastern Shore r.
X. The company alleges that the railroad is in
debted to them for steel rails to the of $780,,
600.
The work of repairing the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal is being rapidly pushed forward. 1t is ex-
peced to have the canal restored far as Williams
port by May l6, and with good weather the entire
route will be completed by July l. The work of
repairing boats has also been begun.
The three Navassa Island rioters under sentence
of death in Baltimore, have been granted a respite
by President Harrison from May 18th to June 12th,
in order to give time to examine the papers in the
matter of the application for Communication of the
death sentence to imprisonment for life.
VIM. A. wisong, late treasurer of the Poor Associa-
ton of Baltimore and also treasurer of the Minis
ters Fund Of the Lutheran Church, of the city
whose defacations announced few weeks
ago. died suddenly at the residence ofhis brother in
Martnsburg, West Virginia, on Tuesday.
Michael sheehan and Peter Dignan prize lighters,
had bare fist ightt finish early Sunday morning
in Anne Arundel county. The purse was 500 and
gate receipts from 800 persons. The men weighed
1f pounds each. Marquis of Queensbury rules gov
crned and the fight was awarded Sheehan.
Henry Magruder, colored was arrested on Friday
of last week OH the charge of barn burning. 1t
with difficulty that he was saved from lynching,
owing to the intense excitement, he having threat
ened to burn several barns in Montgomery county.
He was taken to Frederick for safe keeping.
Burglars entered the house of Granville Richards,
in Cecil county, on Sunday night, and upon being
discovered. shot Mrs. Richards in the neck and Mr..
Richards in the stomach. Mrs. Richards died
shortly after and Mr.. Richards is seriously wound
ed. The murderers escaped. Mr.. Richards was
connected with the Custom House in Baltimore
On Thursday night of last week the warehouse of
Jacob T. Towsou, at smithsburg, Washington county,
robbed. 1t has been broken int at least once
year for the past six seven years. On three of
these occasions the iron safe in the warehouse
blown open and small quantities of money carried
of. The warehouse stands along the railroad and
is somewhat isolated from the town.
Henry Hale coored, aged IS years, met horrible |
death on the farm of William Waskey, near Jeffer
son, Frederick county, on the 10th instant He was
driving team ofhorses, which for some cause be- |
came frightened and ran away. In their flight they
ran into a tree, crushing Hale in most horrible |
manner. The injured man fingered nearly four
hours after the accident, when he died.
On Thursday trestle broke down the Mary |
land Central Railroad, near Belair, and three men
were killed The train consisted of l6 freight cars
and two engines. The fell 50 feet and took fire
from the engines One of the men asked TO be kill
cd so to be relieved from his sufierings. Fully
three hours elapsed before assistance came but the
men were dead their comrades could do nothing |
for them.
Mary Metzdorf, aged between IL and Is years was |
placed oil trial in Baltimore, on Monday, for the |
second time for the murder of her little brother,
James, by poisoning; also OF Louisa Broadwaters.
boarder in the same house Mary employed in |
a wholesale drug store, and, having grudge |
towards her stepmother mixed arsenic with the |
familys food. The result two deaths, the step
mother narrowly escaping the same fate. Verdict |
guilty of murder in the second degree.
The trial of the suit of Brown Il Delashmutt, of
Frederick, against the Frick Company, of Waynes |
boro, Pa, was begun in the United States Circuit
Court In Baltimore the 10th instant before Judges
Bond and Morris. The claim is for $1,000 damages
for alleged breach of contract for putting up a
refrigerator and ice making machine Fisher Bruce
& Fisher counsel for the plaintiffs, and ex-Gov.
Whyte and Vim. p. Maulsby, Jr., of Frederick, for
the defendants. Verdict for plaintiffs for 800.
The U. S. Fish Commission is about to investigate
the condition of the oyster beds in the Chesapeake
bay. and the steamer Fishhawk has been ordered, |
for that purpose, to Pocomoke and Tangier Sounds
About nine years ago the same steamer dredged in
deep water little below Annapolis. and in ten
bushels of shells taken from the bottom of the bay,
there were not oysters enough to satisfy the appetite
of hungry man. The legislative party ON board
the steamer expressed their astonishment at this de-
monstration of the scarcity of oysters in the Chesa
peake.
George Small senior member of the firm of Geo |
Small & Co., died in Baltimore Saturday He
born in York, Pa, in 1926. and at the age of 2
went to Baltimore With the aid of the milling |
house of p. A. & S. Small, he supplied the Brazil
market for many years with 10000 barrels of -four
annually. He aided in the opening of the Northern
Central Railroad. and had been for many years one
of its directors. He also director of the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad, of the First National
Bank of Baltimore, and President of the Ashland |