The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-03-07
Maryland Affairs.


Baltimore county.
William Simms, aged 924 years, died in
Baltimore on Thursday.
DR.. Joseph B. Garrett, died in Frederick
on Monday from heart disease.
Thomas NJ. Green, a well-known grocer of
Baltimore, has made an assignment.
Steel shipbuiding will be commenced at
Sparrow's Point, near Baltimore, at once.
The sugar refinery at Curtis Bay, near Bal
timore, turns out 1900 barrels per week.
The road convention held at Bel Air on the
9th ult. passed resolutions asking for State
aid.
William Fell Giles, of Baltimore, son of
the late Judge Giles, died in Paris on Thurs
day.
VIM. Stanley, aged 81 years, prominent
lawyer of Prince Georges county, died on
Tuesday.
Dudley T. Morton, senior member of the
shipping firm of A. B. Morton & Sons. of
Baltimore, died suddenly Monday, aged 60
years.
Arrangements have been made for the
erection Of hotel and large apartment
house at Charles street and Mount Royal
avenue, Baltimore.
Mrs. Margaretta Helm attended service at
St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Baltimore, on
Thursday night, was seized with a coughing
fit and died almost Immediately.
Samuel S. O'Neal is building new hotel
near the Buena Vista Springs Station, on the
Western Maryland Railroad, near Penmar,
which he will call the Cascade House.
Geo. F. Gephart, aged 50 years, we'll
known lawyer of Baltimore, died suddenly at
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i'll health for sometime but seemed to be i'm
proving at the time.
Christian Thomas, well known citizen of
Hagerstown, died suddenly late Saturday
night Last fall he had stroke of paralysis,
but Saturday afternoon he was on the street,
apparently in his usual health.
George Dettmar, rs years old, OF Chesa
peake City, Cecil county, died in the Penn
sylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia, on We'd
nesday, from exhaustion, due to injuries re-
ceived at his home on the night of February
LIST, when he was assaulted by an unknown
burglar.
fremont the country residence of William
Baker, Jr., on the Frederick road, near Bal
timore, was burned Thursday night. Loss
$25, 600. The house was built 200 years ago
by the ancestors of the Baker family, and
contained many heirlooms, some of which
were saved.
Rev. Henry Bruner, pastor of the Buckeys-
town Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Frederick county, died Monday
morning of Bright's disease at his home, in
Buckeystown, aged As years. He was a ma
tive of Pennsylvania, and his remains were
taken to his former home, near Bedford, Pa.
George w. Isaac, one of the oldest citizens
of Howard county, died in Ellcott City on
Wednesday afternoon of pneumonia, in his
eighty-fifth year. He was one of the best
known residents of the county, having served
as crier of Howard County Circuit Court for
the past fifty years. His father was the late
John Isaac, who occupied the same position
before him. He was twice married and his
descendants number over so.
The telephone company in Baltimore few
days ago announced that it would shortly in
crease rates and collect tolls upon all mes
sages transmitted by any person other than
the renter. The signatures Of about 800 drug
gists have been secured to an agreement to
order the removal of telephones from their
stores in the event of the telephone company
carrying out its intention of increasing the
rate of rental. Ii is expected that 200 more
subscribers will sign the agreement.
The bunker conference which will be held
in Hagerstown in June next, it is estimated
will be attended by $4,000 or 10000 people.
Preparations are now being made to accom-
mOdate the visitors, and contract for l60,-
900 feet of lumber has been given out. A
tabernacle 126xl14 feet will be erected near
the Seminary and also a large number of TEN
porary houses for boarding and lodging the
visitors. Water will be run to the grounds
and they will be lighted with electric light.
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eighty-third year of her age, died in Belair on
Judge George Y. Maynadier. She was
sister ofex.Judge George Yellott and of Jer-
emiah Yellott, of Baltimore county, and a
granddaughter of Parson Coleman, the first
rector of the Old Rock Spring Church, Har.
ford county. Messrs. John H. Maynadier, Of
Baltimore city, and Jeremiah and Vim. G.
Maynadier, of Baltimore county, are her sous.
The Trustees of the Peabody Institute, in
Baltimore, have elected Prof. Philip r. Uhler
Provost of the Institute, to succeed the late
DIR. N. H. Morrison. Prof Uhler has been
connected with the institution as librarian for
% years. The offices ofprovost and librarian
have been combined. The trustees have ac-
cepted, through William L. Walters and B.
F. Newcomer, a sum of $4,000 left by the
will of the sculptor, Rinehardt, for the uses
of an art school. 1t will be known as 1.-THE
Rinehardt Art Fund.-
Prof. II. Newell Martin of the Johns Hop
kins University writes of the possibilities of
Chesapeake Bay ''Not one-sixteenth OF its
area fitted for oyster breeding is now the seat
of oyster beds simply because the young
oysters sink into the black mud, which is the
garden ground of their food, and are there
smothered. To insure the use of these posi-.
BILE but now barren grounds it is merely neces.
sary that some hard suhstances-old oyster
shells, bricks, stones-shall be strewed over
the bed of tie bay, in order to give the young
oysters resting place for their growth. If
efficiently protected, such new made oyster
beds would, by their rental, pay all the taxes
of the State. Our oyster grounds are capable
of yielding hundreds of millions of dollars Il
year, if we would only allow persons to lease
from the State certain grounds suitable for
oyster breeding, though now having no oysters
on them, and insure the lessees protection by
the oyster fleet.
The first case under the law authorizing
criminal proceedings before II magistrate
against any one obstructing public highway
was tried on Tuesday before Chief Judge
Fowler at Towson. George p. B. Brown, of
the fourth district, had been summoned to
appear before justice for obstructinga side
ditch along road leading from Woodensburg
to Fowblesburg and judgment was entered
against him for $50. The law imposes a fine
Of S. per day for the offense, and the magis,
trate charged for ten days. The suit had been
brought by Jesse Upperco, road commits
sioner, in the name of the State and for the
use fthe county commissioners. Mr.. Brown
took an appeal from the decision of the mag
istrate, and his counsel, Major John |. yell
lott, made motion to quash the proceedings
upon the ground that there must be criminal
proceedings and not civil suit before a mag
istrate TO collect the fines imposed. Judge
Fowler said that State warrant should have
been issued instead Of summons, as in the
case of ordinary debt. The county has to pay
the costs, amounting to about $50.
Miss Jeanette Res and Mr.. l.. G. Green's
fielder were married Sunday night by Rev. DIR.
II. Hochheimer, of Eden Street Synagogue,
Baltimore. The nuptial ceremony was per.
formed at the residence of the brides mother,
Mrs. L. L. Ries, 43O South Broadway. The
bride was dressed in travelling costume, with
hot and o,lovee IN notch A honnuat fnliouad