The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-11-14
Maryland Affairs.

10 such an extent lhat uhe schoOls nave Oeeh
closed.
Ex-Sheriff George d. Day, of Howard
county, has been appointed by the President
as Indian agent at Oklahoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Poole celebrated
their golden wedding Saturday at their resi-
dence, Woodberry, Baltimore.
Hon. Louis L. McComas is extremely i'll
at the residence of his father-inl-aw, near
Williamsport, with typhoid fever.
Fire bugs are at work in Cecil county,
three barns and other buildings having been
burned last week, and one this week.
fatal disease has attacked the hogs in
the neighborhood Of Charlestown, Cecil
county. 1t is said to resemble cholera.
Mrs. Sarah Flax, Russian, was burned
to death in Baltimore on Thursday. 1t is
supposed she started fire with coal o l..
Fair Hill and Principle Furnace public
schools, in Cecil county, have been closed on
account of diphtheria among the children.
Miss Margaret Neale, of Charles county,
on Thursday celebrated her 50th anniversary
as a member of the Visitation Nuns at Mt.
de Sales Convent, near Baltimore.
fire at Steelton, caused loss of $4,000
on Saturday night. Fortunately it was dis
covered in time or greater damage would have
resulted to the works located there.
Capt. James Etchberger, of Baltimore,
celebrated his 87th birthday on Tuesday.
Up to few years ago he wa, a commander
of vessel. During the war of 1924 he
was captain of a privateer.
A despatch from Cumberland says that
great indignation is felt at the action of DR..
Craegen, the County Physician, on Monday,
in cutting out the stitches in wound because
the patient was unable to pay the fee de-
manded.
Albert g. Warfield died in Howard county
on Wednesday of last week, in his 18th year.
He was one of the most prominent citizens in
the county, and the esteem in which he was
held was attested by the large attendance at
his funeral.
Mrs. Eliza Hightman, widow of Joseph
Hightman, of Burkittsville, Frederick county,
died on Tuesday morning, aged SO years.
She was the mother of Judge John Hight
man, who dropped dead in his store at Burk-
ittsville on the morning of the Sd inst.
Thomas H. Matthews, President of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Balti
more County, was knocked down on Thurs
day afternoon of last week by street car
and received severe injuries. Mr.. Matthews
is II years old, and his injuries may prove
serious
In Kent county, last week, Thomas Thomp-
son was found guilty of murder in the first
degree for killing VIM. Adams. Both are
colored. and the cause was Jealousy. Law
renee Burkhart was also convicted in the
second degree for killing VIM. Garnet. both
eolored.
Mr.. William Franklin Combs died on the
9Th instant, at his residence, in the sixth
district OF St. Mary's county. Mr.. Combs
was in the sixty third year of his age. He
was a brother of Robert C. Combs and of DR..
Charles Combs, of Leonardtown, and was
beloved by all who knew him.
Among the large wheat crops made in
Cecil county was one on the farm of Thomas
Kirk, near Conowingo, where % acres, drill
measure, yielded a crop Of 1876 bushels. Five
acres of the ground were cornstalk, which
produced 81 bushels per acre. Seventeen
acres produced 37S bushels per acre.
The new Pine Grove United Brethren
Church at Rayville, sixth district, will be
dedicated Sunday, 18th instant, and Salem
United Brethren Church, Beckleysvile,
Baltimore county, will be dedicated on Tues
day, November II. Bishop E. B. Kephart,
D. D., of Toledo, Iowa, will officiate on both
occasions.
A large barn on the farm of McGill Belt,
near Adamstown, Frederick county, was de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday night. Two horses,
a colt, 700 bushels of wheat, 40 tons of hay,
carriage, threshing machine and lot of
farming implements were in the barn and
were all destroyed. Loss, $500; insured
for $4,000.
A barn and granary on the farm of Jacob
II. Taylor, in Back River Neck, Baltimore
county, was destroyed by FIRE Sunday. 1t
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wheat straw, two wagons and farming utensils.
The granary contained 500 bushels of wheat, a
part of which was saved in a damaged condi-
ton. The building was l25 feet long and q
feet wide. The farm was rented to Calvin 7.
Touchstone, who estimates his loss at 81 900;
uninsured.
The corner stone of the Methodist Protest.
ant Church of Woodsboro' Frederick county,
was laid Saturday afternoon in the presence
of large audience, Rev. w. NJ Strayer,
president of Maryland Conference, and J. NJ.
Gill, the pastor, conducting the service The
church is S0x50, Gothic in architecture, with
u tower so feet high, and will cost between
| 81, 900 and s., 1000. This building is to take
the place of the old frame structure, which
was built in 1929, which is one of the first
Methodist Protestant churches built in Mary
land.
Sixty persons on Tuesday attended meet
ing in Baltimore to commemorate the hang
ing of the Chicago anarchists. The stage was
decorated with the red flag draped in black.
Upon pedestal inscribed, "let the voice of
the people be heard was a gallows about
two feet in height made of flowers. The
meeting opened with u funeral march. Then
Maggie Hanitsch recited ''The Revolution"
and Isabella Hanitseh acclaimed Hermeghs
"Beit und Arbeit." The speaker of the
evening, was Robert Steiner, of the Chicago
Arbeiter Zeitung.
The population of the thirty-three Mary
4 land cities, towns and villages having one
thousand or more inhabitants in the order of
their rank is as follows: Baltimore city,
434 .439; Cumberland, 1929; Hagerstown,
10,11s; Frederick City, s,193; Annapolis,
town, 1854; Have.d Grace, 1924; Easton,
1889; Salisbury, 1905; Westminster, 1908;
Chestertown, 1852; Sparrow's Point, 2,507;
Elkton, 2,Sls, Gainesville, 2,ll5; Laurel,
1884; Port Deposit, 1,908; Pocomoke City;
1866 Rockville, 1865 Crisfield, 1855,
/ Westernport, 1,526; Hyattsville; 1909; Eli
colt City, l,4S8; Snow Hill, l,4S3; Belair,
LAG; ST. Miehael's 1929; Centreville, 1909;
Williamsport, 1,277; Northeast, l,249;
Sharpsburg, l,163; Chesapeake City, 1855;
Oxford, 1,lS5; Oakland, 1,046.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary II. Bnscoe,
widow of DIR. John H. Briscoe, took place on
Tuesday afternoon from St. Pauls Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Rev. DR..
J. S. B. Hodges, rector, officiated. The pail
bearers were chosen from among Mrs. Bris-
GOES great nephews. They we're: Messrs.
II. Ashton Ramsay, John Fitzgerald, VIM.
II. Hunter, Samuel Robertson, Southeron
Key and DIR. Compton. Mrs. Brscoe was the
oldest representative of the family of Francis
Scott Key. She was one of the beautiful
daughters of Hon. Phillip Key, of ST. Mary's
county. Her great-grandfather was Lord
Philip Key the FIRST of the Key family that
came to America, near the end of the six
teenth century, and settled in St. Mary's
county. Lord Key was the great grandfather
Of Francis Scott Key. At the battle of North
Point Mrs. Briscoe had four uncles whose
names stand high in American history: Col.
McHenry, Col. Ramsay, Lieut-Co Heath
and Robert Morris. Mrs. Briscoe was a
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