The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-12-10
Maryland Affairs.

rockville has organized an athletic club
with 40 members.
Lawrence B. Kemp, of Baltimore, has
been appointed bank examiner for the State.
One hundred and eighteen persons have
been bitten by dogs in Baltimore since Janu-
airy l, 1892.
On Tuesday the non-jury term of the Cir
cult court Of st. Mary's county was in SEES
sion. All the business was transacted in I!
hours and the court adjourned.
Henry Disston & Sons, of Philadelphia.
through their agent, A. p. Shockley, at
Elkton, purchase annually for their employees
1900 turkeys as n Christmas gift. He will
pay 10 cents per pound.
Joseph Selden Davis, the well known ne
gro lawyer of Baltimore. died on Tuesday
from Brights disease. By his gentlemanly
demeanor he won the esteem and respect of
the bar and they speak in the highest terms
Of his attainments.
James Orr, a prominent citizen of Port
Deposit, died on Friday of last week, of
pneumonia, in his S0th year. He was the
last of the family of one of the Oldest settlers
of Port Deposit. He leaves u family of three
daughters and two sons.
George w. Cramer has sold fine i'm
proved property on the northern suburbs of
Frederick, containing twenty acres, to George
A. Dean, superintendent of the Merchants
and Miners Transportation Company of Bal.
timore. for sig, 800 cash.
The Tariff Reform Club of Frederick, Mr..
j. Roger McSherry, president, are making
arrangements to take part in the Cleveland
inaugural ceremonies. They expect to have
nearly 500 men in line, all wearing light
colored overcoats and derby hats or beavers.
VIM. S. Raynor. Albert Gottschalk, Jos
eph NJ. Cone and f. S. Rice have disposed
Of their stock in the Buena Vista Springs
Hotel property to George X. McGaw and
Robert Rennert, of Baltimore. The parties
selling lost $4,000 on their investment last
season.
The Crisfield Ice Company has a flowing
well of water, affording at least 1876 to $50
gallons per minute, coming from depth of
1000 feet through 3-inch pipe. This is a
source of great rejoicing to the citizens of
Crisfeld, as this is the first successful effort
made in finding water.
The Governor has signed the death war
rant of Alfred Stout, fixing the date of exc
cution January 81, 1893. Stout was con.
victed of the murder of George Dittmar.
The blow which resulted in the death of
Dittmar was struck in Cecil county. Dittmar
died in Philadelphia, Pa.
At Cumberland on Monday, man named
Flake met with a painful accident while
butchering hogs. When engaged in scalding
one of the animals his foot slipped into the
seaIding water. When his clothing was re-
moved great chunks of flesh came away with
his trousers. He is in critical condition.
A number of gentlemen of Baltimore have
purchased deep Landing and white
Hail., two fine farms adjoining the village
of Rock Hall, on the shores of the Chesa-
peake, in Kent county. The purpose of the
purchase, it is said, is to establish a santa
rum for chronic diseases of the throat and
lungs.
Farmer Halowell, near New Garden,
Montgomery county, was aroused in the mid.
die of the night on Tuesday, by some one
wanting help Ito catch my pig and put it
back in the wagon He dressed, and
helped the stranger. Next morning he was
astounded to find his best pig missing. He
had abetted the theft
Gov. Brown has sent out formal notices to
the city of Baltimore and throughout the
State generally, notifying the magistrates
that the law prohibits their committing in
sane paupers to the House of Correction,
and requesting them to be more careful in
their examination of cases before them, so as
not to embarrass the working of the Honse
of Correction.
James c. Lees large barn, near Thomas
Run, Hartford county, was burned on Friday
night of last week, with its contents. There
was in the barn $50 bushels of wheat, 40
tons of hay, $50 barrels of corn, 1000 bun
dies of fodder, all his farming implements
and one OK. The remainder of the cattle,
being secured by patent fastener, were re-
leased by the operation of IL lever from the
outside and escaped The cause of the fire
could not be ascertained. The building and
were insured in the Hartford Com.
pany for $1,000.
The jury in the Tyler-Shaw homicide case
in Talbot county, came into court at 2, 10
O'Clock Saturday afternoon and rendered a
verdict of guilty of murder in the second
degree" The verdict caused a sensation in
court, but there was no demonstration. ia
cob Weaver, the grandfather of the prisoner
aged S5 years, who has stood by VIM. Pres |
ton Tyler in these troubles and has been in |
court all the time, broke down when the
verdict was announced. ''This is horribe''
he said to Senator Gibson, who put his arms
about the old man and tried to comfort him. I
The parents of the prisoner and his other
friends maintained their composure. The yer
dict was surprise to the community, as it /
was generally supposed it would be either /
guilty of manslaughter' or mot guilty."
The punishment for murder in the second 4
degree is confinement in the penitentiary for |
not less than five nor more than eighteen |
years A motion for a new trial was made,
but was overruled and the accused was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for five years.