The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-10-31
Maryland Affairs.

Typhoid fever has broken outn McDonoSh
school.
Baltimore county has 1926 voters regis
tered-l4 ,27l white and 1855 colored.
Uriah Duckworth, aged % years, died at
Barton, Allegany county, on Thursday.
Severa schools have been closed in Caro-
line county owing to the prevalence of diph-
liberia.
E. Tyson Wares barn, at Towson, with
contents, including a fine horse, was burned
on Sunday.
On Tuesday Philip Farney, OF Baltimore,
committed suicide by hanging. He was an
incurable cripple.
George G. Myers, well known in railway
circles in Baltimore, fell dead in a street car
in that city on Sunday night last.
The liver of the large man eating shark,
recently caught in Sassalras river, near Shall
cross wharf weighed sixty-fve pounds.
The centenary celebration of the Roman
Catholic Seminary and College of st. Mary,
Baltimore, was held ON Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Rev VIM. II. j. Reaney, of st. Peters
Church, Libertytown, was awarded the set of
vestments at the Catholic fair held in Fred
erick this week.
John b. Dorsey, of Phoenix, Baltimore
county, committed suicide Monday morning
in the woods near his home. He was 20 years
old and unmarried.
In Queen Anne's county go pounds of
/ paper were used in printing the Australian
tickets to be used next Tuesday. The size of
the ticket is l7x22 inches.
George L. Stocksdale, keeper of the court
house at Towson, Baltimore county has been
indicted for the larceny of money from the
! g o0Hca IA Tho Of 500
Henry Wunder jumped from the fourth
story of the Baltimore City Hospital, on
| Thursday, aud fell feet foremost on the head
of a colored man named Neal Cook. Both
escaped serious injury.
Miss Louisa Gunther, aged 40 years, com
mitted suicide in Baltimore, Saturday last
She was from Bosley, Baltimore county, and
had made an attempt on Friday night, but
was not successful and took 100 grains of
arsenic.
/ Bunco men are working their games among
farmers throughout the State. If they would
read the papers more closely and not be so
anxious to make money fast they would not
be swinded. Always remember that sharpers
play to win.
Divide L. Rochester, son of the late Earle
Rochester, who many years ago was a most
prominent lawyer in Caroline county, died
A1situAhsA1 III AS0iitOHi dtN lplbJ
His death was attributed to blood poisoning
occasioned by bad tooth.
The Trinity German Lutheran Church,
Baltimore, celebrated its centennial anniver,
sary on Sunday. Many visiting clergymen
and prominent citizens were present Cardi-
nal Gibbons sent letter with copy of his
book, ''The Faith of our Fathers.
At Reisterstown, Baltimore county, on
Thursday, All Saints Episcopal Church was
consecrated. 1t was the gift Of VIM. Keyser
in honor of his mother. An immense crowd
was present. At the conclusion of the ser
vices an infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Brent
Keyser was baptized.
Postmaster johnson, of Baltimore, having
. made protest against Civil Commissioner
Roosevelts criticisms of his Office, Postmas-
ter General Wanamaker has given instruc-
tons that the whole matter be Investigated by
the Department Inspectors, and two of them
are now engaged in that work.
The barn and stables on Gen. f. f. Hard
castles Jamaica Point farm, tenanted by
| 1ilghman Seymour, were burned Sunday
morning. Mr.. Seymour lost eight mules,
three horses, much farm machinery and i'm
plements, a quantity of grain and 1000 bun
dies of blade fodder. The buildings were
1 comparatively new and valuable.
Samuel B. Mofitt, an old and highly re
spected farmer, residing near Northeast, Cecil
county, died suddenly Monday afternoon from
a second stroke of paralysis. He was taken
i'll in q field where he was experimenting
some farm work and died there He was II
/ miller by occupation and operated the Stoney
Run Mill. He was seventy eight years Of age.
| A large barn on the farm of William H.
/ Fox at Rocky Ridge, Frederick county, was
/ struck by lightning during the storm on Mon
| day evening and was burned to the ground,
with all its contents. The destructive bolt
came between and clock. The loss is
between s., 600 and Sc 1000 insured in the
/ Phoenix Company of Brooklyn. All the stock
was gotten out safely.
/ The railroad station at Royal Oak was
/ broken into on Sunday night last, and ran
J sacked in searched of money and other valua-
/ bles, but the booty was not worth the trouble,
/ as nothing valuable was missed from the
| Office This is the third time the station has
been burglariously entered. Entrance was
/ effected by breaking pane of glass above
I the fastening, and raising the lower sash.
Bishop Isaac Pfoutz, oft the German Baptist
/ Church, died at his home, in townsville, Fred
eriek county, on the 18th instant, in his S9th
wear. Bishop Pfouiz was we'll known in the
| German Baptist Church, of which he was one
/ of the leaders in the district to which he be-
longed and labored for many years. He was
/ intimately known by the congregations con
shutting what is called the Tunker Church all
over the United States. He was born in
Frederick county, and spent his long life in
the neighborhood of the society to which he
belonged, known as the Beaver Dam Church,
over which he presided, and in which he
preached for a long time. HE bishopric,
or eldership, was extensive. 1t was pre-
coded by Elder Jacob Taylor, who was
4 preceded by John Gaber, who was preceded
by Daniel Taylor the first presiding church
officer in Frederick county, who emigrated
from Pennsylvania about the time of the Rev
dictionary War, and formed the nucleus of
the German Baptist Church, by whom large
house for religious worship was erected in
1928 in Beaver Dam Valley. He leaves his
second wife and two small sons, besides many
relatives and friends. His remains were in
tered in the old burying ground at the old
church in which he preached, and where he
presided over the deliberations of council
meetings and yearly conferences. The lu-
neral services were conducted by Elder Daniel
X. TAYLOR, under whose eldership the church
is now and has been for some time, and Jesse
r. Fox.
Rev. Dr. o. Il. Tiffany, a prominent Meth
odst minister and former member of the
Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, died in Minneapolis, Mimi, on
Saturday. He was pastor of the Hennepin
Avenue Church of that city. DIR. Tiffany was
born in Baltimore in 1925, was prepared for
college in the University of Maryland aud in
1874 he was graduated from Dickinson Col
lege, and four years later was appointed pro-
fessor Of Greek in that institution, The same
year Dr. Tiffany was admitted to the Balti-
more Annual Conference in the Methodist
Church. In 1856 he became minister of the
Associate Reformed Church in Baltimore,
and four years later he was called to Chicago,
where, during the war, he was an earnest ad-
vocate Of the Union and the freedom Of the
negro. After leaving Chicago he held APP
rointments in Newark, N. j., New York,
Washington, St. Paul, Mimi, and Philadel
phia. In New York he organized the Madi
son Avenue Church, taking up a collection
of S2l2, 600 for its support. He returned to
Philadelphia, going thence to Harlem, and in
1889 went to the Hennepin Avenue Methodist
Eniscnnal Chnrch in Minneanolis. Mimi He