The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-12-19
Maryland Affairs.

The Liberty and Frederick turnpike mas
declared dividend of FIVE per cent.
friedrich banks had on deposit at the close
of business on December 2, Sl,S47, 3S7.S2.
MANY persons in Hagerstown and the coun-
try around have been attacked by the grip.
Owing to the grip many farmers in Caroline
county are unable to finish their winter farm
work
The grip has made its appearance IN Fred
erick and many persons are confined to their
homes.
Allan McLane. brother of ExGov. Robt.
McLane, died in Washington ID. T., on We'd
nesday.
Vim. Duvall, aged 65 years, who resides in
the fourth district of Howard county, has
been declared insane.
j. Frank Ford, the recently elected Clerk
to the Court of Appeals entered upon his
duties on Wednesday.
Wild geese are numerous on the Wicomieo
river, Southern Maryland, and local sports
men are bagging them in large numbers.
VIM: Numsen, aged ss years, died in
Baltimore on Wednesday. On the same day
Henry Strobel, aged "a, and Richard l.. Ross,
aged 20.
The fire in the mountains above Clearspring,
in Washington county, is spreading over a
large area and doing considerable damage to
the timber.
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker has established
horse breeding at his farm in Green Spring
Valley, Baltimore county. He has now
several very fine stations and mares.
Samuel Beal Merrck, one of the best
known citizens of Talbot county, died on
Tuesday from Bright disease. He was IS
,,oo,e IL HnnJ haJ 6l1a1 cauaral OffiaaS
At Dayton, Howard county, Mrs. Martha
Scriyener, aged seventy three, and Miss Susie
Crook, her companion, died Of pneumonia,
on Wednesday. Mrs. Scrivener's son is very
i'll also.
The three young men from Hagerstown,
VIM. l.. Unseld, W. d. Wolf and John E.
King, who were killed on railroads within the
past two weeks, were all engaged to be mar.
ried about the holidays.
Henry H. Bush, aged about eighty years,
of the second district Of Anne Arundel county,
died Wednesday evening of pneumonia. Mr..
Bush was the first engneman that ran train
over the old Annapolis and Elkridge Railroad.
The grip in Cecil county is reported by
physicians to be very bad In Elkton and
vicinity fully $50 cases are reported. As yet
but one has proved fatal, Sunday night two
cnurCneS IN GIlkIOu were GlOStu III consequence
of it.
Frank Alexander, aged % years, was in.
stantly killed at ElktOn, on Monday. he
attempted to cross the railroad in front of an
express train and was hurled fifty feet from
where he was struck being driven through
board fence, and every bone in his body was
broken.
Cedar Point farm, well. known summer
i he r,, gal
by Henry Bros, of Baltimore, for $780, 900.
1t will be much improved and beautified for
the next season. In the same county, farm
of 125 acres was sold at public sale on Tues
day for 1904 to Miss Julia R. Key. 1t is we'll
improved.
At Mount de Sales near Gainesville, on
Saturday, Mother Mary Julia Freeman; Sister
Mary Frances Bunting, directress, and on
Wednesday, Mother Mary Regina Neale, died.
Each of these ladies entered the convent at
from IA to l6 years of age and all died from
old age. They were representatives of some
of the oldest families in the State.
At a special session of the Dorchester
court, on Monday, Isaiah Wilkins, colored,
plead guilty to manslaughter, and was sentenc-
ed to ten years in the penitentiary. Wilkens
was indicted for the murder of his stepfather,
John Keene, man seventy years old, on
the 4th of last July, in Lakes district. He
stabbed the old man in the neck with his pen
knife, inficting a wound that caused death
six days after.
Powell's Point farm, on Skipton creek.
Talbot county, 1896 acres, belonging to the
estate of the late Nicholas Goldsborough. was
sold at public sale on Wednesday, and bought
by Gen VIM. McKenney. of Centreville,
| Queen Anne's county, for $4,000. General
McKenney is the largest owner Of improved
lands on the Eastern Shore. He has over
fifty farms in Queen Anne's county and some
in Kent His grain crop amounts to l25, 900
bushels of wheat and corn year.
DR.. julius Friedenwad, resident physician
at the Baltimore City Hospital, says that the
hospital is crowded with patients suffering
| from the grip. Twenty patients were reciev-
ed last week, and as many more were turned
| away on account of the crowded condition o..
the public and private wards. DR.. Friedeu-
valid says the grip has appeared in a more
serious form than ever before, and that it
leaves the patent in more enteebled condi
ton. 1t also has tendency to develop into
pneumonia.
| Hon. Barnes Compton, Congressman from
the Fifth District, has in his life had great
deal of good luck, but has his full share of
accidents and bad luck. He was badly hurt
some years ago in railroad accident, he was
voted out of his seat in Congress by Speaker
Reed, he was injured in foot and ankle by the
accident at the reviewing stand on the even
ing of the great Democratic torch-lght parade.
and last week he stumbled and fell, before
he was fully recovered from the last accident,
and produced another painful and stubborn
fracture. He is now at Old Point Comfort.
G. Clinton Winebrener, of Walkersvile,
Z 81 bas farr Nj Diaasarf
and recently a number of chickens have been
stolen from the place. Tuesday night he went
over to watch for the thief and during the
night saw man approach, get bag full of
chickens and prepare to leave. He rushed
out upon him and grabbed him. tearing his
coat nearly off, but the fellow, who was
reconized as man by the name of Wezel,
got away. He left behind him his horse and
cart and the chickens, which Mr.. Winebrener
has in his possession. Wetzel struck for the
woods, and has not been seen since.
| Mrs. Mary Rosenbauer, who was arrested
Sunday night on warrant sworn out by Rev.
J. c. Schrantz, of St. Alphonsus' Church,
Baltimore, charging her with threatening to
kill him, had "a hearing on Monday. A
number of witnesses testified to the threats
that had been made against the priests life.
Father Schrantz said he was afraid she would
do him bodily harm. He said he believed she
was insane. When her mother died, about
four months ago, Mrs. Rosenbauer seemed
to be under the impression that the priest had
killed her. She was declared to be insane
and will be sent to an asylum.
Some time last summer William Kyle, a
farmer, residing near Fair Hill, Cecil county,
missed one of his largest hogs, weighing $50
pounds. After searching for it for some
time he gave it up as lost few days ago
he cut the end off of straw stack and was
surprised to see the hog come forth alive but
somewhat thinner. 1t is supposed the straw
had slipped DOWN on it, and in its efforts to
{. get out had worked its way into the stack.
Upon examination it was found that the hog
had eaten its way for good length in an up
ward direction. The actual time of its i'm
prisonment was three months and four days.
Mrs Rebecca Seth, widow of the late
Thomas Seth, aud noted as the Oldest person
living in Cecil county, died Wednesday morn,
ing at the age 1903 years and months. She
has been residing with her son near Baldwin,
three miles from Elkton, on the Baltimore