The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-10-24
MARYLAND Affairs.

east, jecll county, died suddenly ON sun
day aged S.. He was stricken the third
time by paralysis and died in three hours
alterward. He leaves six sons and two
daughters.
Nathan Robinson, who killed George c.
Durno on General Beale's stock farm, near
Hyattsville, September l, was convicted
Saturday at Upper Marlboro of man
slaughter and sentenced to eight years and
six months in the penitentiary.
The draft from a passing engine sent a
stone flying from the ballast on the p, w.
and B. Railroad track, striking John
Lumm, colored, who was standing at the
Iron Hill crossing, knocking him down
and disabling him, but breaking no bones.
The Oheb Sholam Hebrew congrega-
ton, of Baltimore, has arranged for the
purchase of lot on Eutaw place, on which
to erect a synagogue equal in architectural
beauty and interior decorations to any
church or synagogue in the United States.
George Wilson, colored, on Saturday
night severely cut James Sheubrooks and
Ed Reed, near Denton, Caroline county.
\ fight between colored men was going on,
and they went to stop it and were cut by
Wilson. Wilson was arrested He has a
bad reputation.
Mrs. James c. Forman, of Baltimore,
committed suicide on Sunday by taking
100 grains of arsenic She was a daughter
of John Hodges, of Ellicott City, popular
with her relatives and acquaintance and
seemed to be happily married. She leaves
baby two months old and had not been
well since its birth.
Milton Easton, aged sixteen years, eldest
son of Clinton Easton, undertaken and
livery man, of Ellicott City, on Sunday
had his skull fractured and was so otherwise
injured by frightened mare in his father S
stable that he may die. His father was
also badly kicked in trying to extricate the
youth from the perilous situation.
Miss Emiline Clark, of Smithsburg,
Washington county, on Monday commit
ted suicide by hanging herself in the
smoke house at Barney Flory's residence,
where she had been making her home with
her married sister, Mrs. Flory. She was
forty years of age. No cause could be
assigned for the act 1t is said she is the
third of her family to commit suicide.
John Il. Downes, of Kent Island late a
tax collector, and of good family connec-
tons, has been arrested on warrant
sworn out by his bondsmen, charging him
with cmbezzlement and defalcation. In
default of bail he was committed to Jail.
He has, it is charged, on several occasions
succeeded in borrowing money on his
notes, with forged names of his friends as
security.
Action for criminal libel has been
brought by Robert Moss, Democratic can
didate for State Senator in Anne Arundel
county, against VIM. S. Ridgely and Geo.
T. Melvin, proprietors of the Maryland
Republican, for publishing a communiea-
ton rejecting on the personal and politi-
cal character of the candidate The ac-
eused waived an examination and gave
bail in $500 for court.
The roller -four mill of John Jones at
Mechanicstown, Frederick county, on the
Western Maryland Railroad, was totally
destroyed by fire on Friday mig last.
The building was a frame structure and
was fitted out with rollers and new ma
chinery about one year ago. The estimat-
i H. = e5, ooO, Insurance a3,O 900. Tire
fire was not discovered until the interior of
the mill was mass OF flames.
Daniel Morton, laborer at the Besse-
mer Steele Works, Sparrows' Point, met
an awful death Tuesday morning, shortly
after he had begun his days work He
was employed on the elevator, and in
reaching for prop, with which to hold the
machine, it suddenly descended and caught
his head between the floor and an iron bar.
crushing out his brains. He died instantly.
Morton was an old hand at his work, and
he had evidently grown careless, as some
testimony proved, He was forty-fve years
old, and leaves a wife and two small child
rem, who resides on Sparrows' Point.
Miss Alice Hecht committed suicide by
jumping from the Washington Monument
in Baltimore on Tuesday. She had been
suffering from nervousness for some
months. In the fall of 1880 a young man
named johnson, from Richmond, Va. who
had been disappointed in love affair,
went to Baltimore and jumped from the
1 top Of the monument. Three months
before man bent on self destruction had
killed himself by leAping from the dome of
the Capitol at Washington. Johnson's
body was fearfully mangled by striking the
iron railing. His leap was witnessed by a
score of people.
James Bradley, 35 years old, an en-
ployer of the Singerly Pulp Mills, Elkton,
is charged with severely cutting his wife
with razor and attempting to take his
own life with the same instrument The
affair occurred in his own house, Monday
evening after supper, while he was getting
ready to shave and his wife was busy
clearing up the things on the supper table
Ii is stated that something the wife said
angered the husband. The wife struggled
and got away, with a cut to the bone on
both jaws and across the chin. She had
slight cash on the throat and some cuts on
the fingers. The man had a deep cash
three inches long on the left side of his
throat, nearly severing the jugular vein
The womau's screams brought the neigh
bors to the scene, and Bradley was taken
into custody He was very weak from
loss of blood. He denies cutting his wife
and lays the blame on her, She is thirty
years old. It's thought that the husbands
case is serious He has acted very strangely
of late and is supposed to be out of his
mind The couple have several small
children, and one of them, boy seven
years old, witnessed the difficulty.
Miss Annie E. Gale, of Still Pond,
Kent county, died suddenly Thursday,
October Is, and Mary Brown, colored
girl, aged II years, who was the ladys
servant, Has been arrested, charged with
poisoning her mistress. The girl says that
Trough on Rats" had been used on bread
to poison rats, and added miss Annie