The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-03-28
Maryland Affairs.

Hagerstown, died on Monday at the age of
IS.
Oehm & Co., of Baltimore, are to receive
the contract for furnishing the letter carriers
of the United States with uniforms this year.
Mrs. Ida Atwell, of Baltimore, while walk.
ing along the street with her husband, on Fri
day night Of last week, was seized with heart
disease and died almost Instantly.
Mrs Rosina B. l.. Walker, aged "a years,
widow of Patrick Henry Walker and daughter
in-Iaw of Noah Walker, founder of the house
of Noah Walker & Co, died in Baltimore on
/ Thursday
A strike of stonecutters is reported at the
! granite quarries, Baltimore county, near
/ Woodstock, and the operations of all the
other workmen are said TO have suspended in
! consequence.
The Union League OF Baltimore has secur-
ed an option on property in the centre of that
city, and will form a building company, with
a capital stock of $500, 900, 10 purchase and
| improve the premises.
Charles Ordinger, a well known resident of
| Wiliamsport, Washington county, died on
Monday at the age of 10. He was farmer
and miller and was member Of the Mary
land Legislature in 1882.
The heavy rains have caused great loss TO
the Prince Georges county farmers. Wheat
| fields are under water, tobacco beds recently
planted are thoroughly saturated and in many
places completely washed away.
Mrs Hipsley, well known lady of Howard
county, died Saturday morning at the resi-
dence of her son-in-law, eX.County Commits
sioner Vim. II. Forsythe, of the third dis
trict. She was 75years of age.
The British steamship Strathairly, with iron
ore from Cuba for Baltimore, was wrecked
Tuesday morning on the North Carolina coast.
Capt. Wynn and Is officers and men were
drowned. Second Officer Turner and 9 men
we're saved
Mary C. Webb, colored, was sentenced to
the pententiary for u years by Judge
Wright, of Baltimore, for stealing. She had
made a business of hiring TO families, staying
awhile and then leaving with all she could
carry. In the last case she set fire to the
house while the family were absent.
The Hagerstown Fruit Package Company
has been organized. They will manufacture
baskets and crates in which to ship fruit.
| The capital stock has been fixed at $4,000.
The large quantities of fruit shipped from that
section every year created demand for u
factory Of this character in the county.
The Maryland Court of Appeals on We'd
nesday delivered an opinion in the ease of
the Drum point Railroad Company VS..
L
void the 100000 subscription of Anne
Arundel county to the stock of the Drum
Point Railroad and relieves the county from
its payment.
Mrs. Ann NJ. Jenkins, widow of Mark W.
jenkins, died in the house in which she was
born, in Long Green Valley, Baltimore
county, on Thursday, aged IS years. She
| leaves three children, five grandchildren and
two great grandchildren, the latter being the
tenth generation born in Maryland. She was
the Oldest OF the Jenkins family, to which
she was related.
The residence of j. Harold Wheeler,
| Marengo, Miles River Neck, Talbot county,
was burned Thursday of last week. Much of
the furniture in the house and all the clothes
of the family, except what they had on, were
! lost The dwelling was one of the finest in
the county, and was built several years ago
| by Mrs Hannah Maupin, Mrs. Wheeler 5
mother, and cost about $4,000. There was
| Sc, 900 insurance on 1t.
Mrs. Amelia Z. Handy, relict of the late
Thomas B. Hamby, lawyer of FORK county,
| Pa, died on Saturday last in Elkton, aged SO
years. She fell and broke her arm two
months ago. and had been failing since.
She was a daughter of DR.. James Clayton, Of
Bohemia Manor. She was n cousin of the
late John NJ. Clayton, and niece of the late
Judge Thomas Clayton, both Of whom served
| Delaware in the United States Senate. She
leaves FIVE children.
In the Howard county court on Wednesday
| five Young men, Lee Mullen, Harry Stukey,
| William Chatan (alias Dutch Count, Frank
Mooney and Rube Richardson the Kid, were
sentence They had all been convicted of
highway robbery and assault to kill on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains, and is
| the gang that Chief Grammar, of the Baltimore
! and Ohio, and Chief Detective Nansant, OF
! Baltimore, captured after long hunt. Judge
| Jones sentenced each one of them to seven
! years in the Maryland Penitentiary. They
| took the sentence with apparent unconcern,
and one of them Frank Mooney remarked
| TO chief Nansant after sentence If the Judge
/ thought seven years would reform them he
would show him better at the end OF that time.
Il is currently reported that stock com
pany is to be organized at Beckleysvllle to
rebuild Beckley's paper mill, which was de-
stroyed by fire nearly two years ago. The
new mill, which is to have all the latest i'm
provements in paper making machinery, will
| be much larger than the former one. The
| capital stock of the company is to he $780,
| 900. OF this stock Jacob Grimm, who will
| be the president Of the company, takes $780,
| 600; W. L. Grimm, who is to be General
| Manager, takes $4,000; Daniel Beckley, the
! former owner, takes Sc, 000 and the balance
! of the stock is to be taken by outside capital
lists The branch road now being built by
| the Hoffman Bros. will be extended to the
new mill via the Gunpwder Falls and George S
Run, thus securing transportation facilities
| equal to those of the most favored Localities.
Hiram P Tasker, who has been engaged
| for the last four years as special agent, em-
ployed by the county commissioners of Allie
,,,l 10 fran ha lac
Of untaxed lands belonging to non residents,
makes an interesting report on the subject.
| He states that there are at least 126, 600 acres
in Garrett and 1000 acres in Allegany
! county that are not on the assessment books,
making in all about 1875, 900 acres, or more
than one fourth the total area of both counties,
that have paid no taxes whatever for about a
century. Much of this land is valuable for its
| timber, coal, fireclay, iron ore and other min
erals. OF the military lots he says he finds
| there were about 4.l65 awarded, of which
| 2,575 were distributed by lot among the
| soldiers, recruiting officers and legal repre-
sentatives, 63G to actual settlers and the
| balance to purchasers. More than 1900 OF
| these lots are in Garrett county.
The grand jury of Howard county sent in
three additional presentments of John A.
| Denton, late clerk to the county commission
ers, in the Howard county circuit court ON
| Tuesday. The charges are of embezzlement.
The sums named as Incorporated aggregate
| 1898. 81 This, with the amount named in
] the previous presentment for larceny, makes
the entire sum claimed to have been taken
! $659.59. The presentments represent the
alleged wrongdoing to have been in the sum
mer of 1889. The accused, who had already
been released on $1,000 bail, entered into
personal recognizance for the sum of 500 in
/ each of the three cases just sent to court.
The grand jury advises ''that changes be made
in the conducting of affairs in the county
commissioners office that will make more
secure the peoples money committed to their
charge" Denton's trial will take place next
Monday, and some startling developments
are expected
Owen Donovan, civil engineer and
farmer, aged so years, died Sunday in the
| eleventh district of Baltimore county. He
was i'll for more than three years with an