The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-01-24
Maryland Affairs.

Robert Collingsworth. B. d o. K. r.,
freight conductor, was killed in Baltimore,
on Tuesday, while crossing in front OF an en-
CINE. Joseph Bollinger, was also killed on
the same day on the same road, in the same
city.
| Sylvia Patterson and VIM. McRea, both
colored, of Somerset county, quarrelled on
Monday about who should arise first. Finally
the woman got out of bed, procured an axe
and went 10 work on his skull, producing
wounds from which he died during the day.
Mrs. Anna C. Strong, 30 years of age, went
to the office of her husband, Ralph Strong, in
Baltimore, on Saturday. and, in his presence,
committed suicide by shooting herself. IL is
said that she feared her husband was about to
abandon her on the ground that he had
married beneath his station.
Dr. Howard A. Kelly, who has charge of
the department for diseases of women at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, success
fully performed the "Cesarian operation on
Friday of last week. This is the fourth
operation for DR.. Kelly and he has been sue
cessfu each time. The mother and child are
doing well.
A deputy sheriff of Dorchester county
reached Baltimore on Tuesday with prisoner
for the House of Correction, and proceeded
to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station with
him, the prisoner was handcutfed, and when
the deputy went to get on the train he said to
the prisoner, well go this way, he replied,
''Ill 90 this way" and Immediately made a
break and was soon lost in the multitude of
cars.
Tyler Droneburg, well known blacksmith
of Evansville, Frederick county. was killed on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on Monday
night, near Hartman's. He had been in
Frederick, and, missing the train for home,
started to walk there by way of the railroad.
His body was found on Tuesday in a mang-
ed condition by track walker Peter Uuberger.
Droneburg was thirty years old, and leaves "a
wife and four children.
Gov. jackson has issued Il call for i State
| immigration convention to meet in Baltimore
on February Is, in order to secure desirable
artisans, land workers, etc. de says: All
citizens of the State interested in the subject
are invited to attend, and it is recommended
that all land and improvement companies
and neighborhoodS in which there is much
surplus land for sale should provide for
proper representation at this meeting. The
special need for Maryland seems to be for
immigrants of the right class who will come
in families or colonies, aud, taking up small
holdings by purchase or as tenants, occupy
our unused land and carry on trucking, fruit
growing, dairying and the other lines of
farming for which this State is particularly
adapted.
John Seifert, who was cut in the abdomen
last Fridas night, died on Monday morning
at the Baltimore University Hospital, North
Bond street. The c6roner's jury verdict was
THAT John Seifert came to his death from
being cut in the abdomen with some sharp
| instrument in the hands of Frederick Rouse,
January lG, 1891 The evidence was that
Seifert had tried to assist Rouse TO his room
while the latter was very drunk. and that Sci
/ fert soon returned from upstairs and said,
''The shoemaker has cut mel' Rouse lock
| ed himself up in his room, and to capture
him patrolman Clemson had to rst in the
door. Several knives were found, but no
marks of blood were upon any. Both men
were married, but neither lived with his
/ family. Sefert's daughter testified that she
went to see her father on Sunday and that
he told her ''the shoemaker" had stabbed
him.