The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-05-23
Maryland Affairs.

A cooperative creamery at MangansvllleI
Washington county, turns out nearly half a
ton of butter daily.
Arthur Johns, Sr., well known farmer
and politician of Cecil county, died suddenly
on Sunday. aged 81.
John P. Pfeiffer, for many years leader OF
the Naval Academy band at Annapolis, died
on Sunday, aged 75 years.
About 1900 hands are at work on the Ches-
apeak & Ohio Canal, trying TO put the old
ditch in sufficient repair TO hold water
The order to close the public schools of
Baltimore county on June LIST has been re-
scinded, and the schools will be continued
until June 30.
Mr.. Joshua Miles, ofSomerset county, will
deliver the address Of welcome at the meet.
ing of the State Teachers Association at
Ocean City.
Brown & Mckinney. tanners, OF Frederick,
have made a deed of trust. Losses by fire
and depression in prices and trade are the
causes assigned
Of Gaithersburg, Montgomery county, died
suddenly at his home in Roanoke, Va, on
Tuesday evening, of heart trouble.
The peninsula towns of Delaware aud
Maryland are organizing boards of trade for
the purpose of advancing local interests and
inducing capitalists to invest in manufactor,
| les
Gen. John Ii. Bryant, of New York, who
offered 81 800, 900 for Baltimore city 5 interest
in the Western Maryland Railroad, will make
another bid shortly, increasing the sum over
the first offer.
At Towson, Baltimore county, on Thursday,
Mrs. John Carroll, of the Caves filed q
bill in equity, through her COUNSEL Elk Gov
Whyte, against her husband for divorce
ameRsa et Horo.
Arthur NJ. butcher, alias Melyin S. Wells,
was arrested on the farm of DIR. benjamin
Shipley, near Alpha, Howard county, on Sat
urday. He is wanted in Massachusetts for
robbery, and made desperate effort to escape
from the officers.
The breaking down of a treste on the
| Maryland Central Railroad few weeks ago,
resulted in the death of four persons. On
| Thursday the grand jury of Hartford county
presented the directors of the railroad COM
pany for mansaughter.
! Woolman j. Gibson, father of ex- Congress-
man Gibson, of Easton. and Lieut.. 5. ii.
! Gibson, U. S. N, died in Baltimore on Sat
urday last, aged so years. He was native
Queen Anne's county, and was buried at
| Centreville in that county.
/ 1
tence of the Navassa rioters to Imprisonment
for life at hard labor. The guilt of the six
convicts was well established, but there were
conditions surrounding the murder that led
the President to change the sentence.
Rev. Osborne Ingle has been rector of All
| Saints Episcopal Church, Frederick, for a
quarter Of a century, and the twenty fifth an
niyersary of his rectorship was observed by
about 500 members of the Church and others
at the rectory on Wednesday evening.
The shipments from the mines of the Cum
! berland coal region for the week ended MAY
16, 1891, were 81, $50 tons. and for the year
| 1,630, $50 tons, an increase of 800, G79 tons as
compared with 1890. Nearly three fourths
were shipped over the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road.
The handsome residence ofM Dali Worth
iDgton, in Baltimore county, near Alberton,
was destroyed by fire late Monday afternoon.
| The fire is thought to have been communicat-
ed to woodwork from the kitchen chimney.
The loss is estimated at about $1,000. The
insurance is 5000
Rev. j. R. Miller, of Cearfoss Washington
county, fell out with his congregation and
ceased preaching to them. He did not va
cate the parsonage, however, and the trustees
| appealed to the law. The Washington county
circuit court last week decided Mr.. Miller
would have to vacate.
Mrs. Melvina r. Ewing, widow of the late
| kirkpatrick Ewing, died very suddenly on
Wednesday afternoon at her residence near
| Cowpen's Station, on the Maryland Central
Railroad. Mrs. Ewing had been at Towson
during the day. When she reached the porch
of her dwelling on her return she sank to the
| floor and died almost instantly.
Vim. Massey, fifteen year-old son of John
Massey, living in the second district of Queen
| Anne's county, near Church Hill, was pillow
ing Tuesday afternoon when the horse took
| fright and ran off, Young Massey caught the
animal, and it is supposed in bringing him up
suddenly the horse fell on him and killed
him. He was dead before help could reach
| him.
w. c. Haymsn, telegraph operator and
assistant railroad agent at Salisbury, while
endeav1ring to board moving freight train
there on Monday, fell and was run over, re.
ceiving injuries from which he died an hour
later. The accident occurred between five
and six o'clock in the afternoon, in the pres
ence of several persons, and it was such
sickening sight one man tainted.
The journeymen painters of Hagerstown
have organized a union for mutual benefit
and protection, and decided that the scale of
wages be advanced five cents per hour after
! the nrSJ OF June, from Twelve 10 Hlteen cents
per hour, or at the rate of 81 per day of ten
hours. The bricklayers, who demanded nine
hours without change of pay, have had the
concession promised in most cases.
Two children of Mrs. Alice Dennis. on the
farm of Robert j. Walker, near Garland,
Hartford county, were severely bitten by
mad cat, which fastened its teeth in the calf
of a little girls leg, and afterwards seized the
boy in about the same place, and would not
relax its hold until its jaws were pried open.
The cat is supposed to have been bitten by a
mad dog, and grave fears are entertained on
account of the children, who are nine and ten
years old, respectively.
The dwelling house on the farm of Charles
Z. +. Howard, three miles northwest of Fred
erick, was destroyed by fire between and 6
ocock Wednesday evening. The fire origi-
mated in a defective chimney. Through the
efforts of neighbors the barn and other out
buildings, with most of the household furni-
ture, were saved from the flames. Loss about
s., 500. Insured in the Farmers Fire Insur-
ance Company, of York, Pa.
! Abraham Meek, who resides near Hutton's
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, FIVE
miles west of Oakland, committed suicide on
| Tuesday with shotgun. On the Slh of April
last he was convicted before Justice Gender,
of Oakland, upon the charge of selling whisky
without license and sentenced to forty days
in Jail. He was released on Monday morning,
and went at once to his home where he acted
strangely and gave evidence Of insanity.
Mr. Lewis Ridgely died at his home, at
West Friendship, Howard county, Wednesday
morning, after having been bed-ridden with
rheumatic affections for thirteen years. He
was seventy eight years of age, a prosperous
/ farmer and SON. of Samuel Riagely.--r,ssss,
owned "HayGeld,n in the third district Of
Howard county. He leaves two sons and two
daughters. His wife, who also survives him,
was Miss Elizabeth Worthington. sister Of
Dr. Thomas c. Worthington, of Howard
county, and of Messrs. Charles and Amos
Warrington, of Baltimore.
Articles of incorporation for the railroad
to be built in Cecil county were signed Sat.
urday by Walter NJ. Franklin, of Lancaster,
Joseph NJ. Showalter, of Oxford, incorpora-
tors for Pennsylvania, and j. d. Carter, w.