The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-20
Maryland Affairs.

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has had for ten years.
Eliza Stone, aged "a years. died in REFS
terstown on Saturday last
Hagerstown is TO have another bicycle fac
tory with capital of $50, 600.
Cattle shipments this week, from Baltimore
to Europe, amounted to l,l90 head.
-Four prisoners escaped from the Anne
Arundel county Jail on Monday night
Pear blight is prevailing on the Eastern
| Shore and many orchards are ruined.
On Tuesday Cardinal Gibbons celebrated
| the oath anniversary of his ordination as
bishop.
| Chestertown, Kent county, is TO have glass
factory. Sand ofa superior quality has been
! found and work will be commenced at once
Salisbury, Wicomico county, has the largest
stores in the State. Many of them are three
stories high, with a basement, and are 4Oxl6O
| feet
Hagerstown's alleys, side streets and sewer
pipes are in such filthy condition that
health officer has been appointed to look alter
them.
An old law has been enforced in Hagers-
town in regard to selling on Sunday. Drug
gists and others have been arrested for hlling
prescriptions, &c.
Joshua Ranhouser, aged 81 years, died in
Hartford county ON Sunday. He was born
near Dover, York county, Pa, and was promi-
nent in Methodist church work.
Frank W. Mish has been chosen examiner,
&c, of the public schools of Washington
county. Mr. P A. Wilmer, who has held the
office for "a years, refused To surrender, and
will contest the new law.
| At Woodlawn camp, in Cecil eouaty, on
Sunday, during fight Henry Jordan attempt,
to shoot Vim. Hess. Some one knocked
Jordan arm down and the ball took effect in
| Jordans leg, causing terrible wound.
The Woodstock Granite Company has ship
| ped block of stone weighing twelve tons TO
Baltimore to be used in the Fidelity Company
I new building 1t loaded an entire flat car and
was hauled from the quarry, near Woodstock,
| by ten mules.
On Wednesday the Hotel Avon, at Easton,
| was sold to the mortgages for ST., 800. The
land and buildings cost S35 900, and the fur
uiture about Sl5, 1000. The furniture is owned
by the proprietor 1t is the best hotel on the
Eastern Shore.
! On Monday while riding alta tournament in
the fifth district of Montgomery county, John
Culberson, aged about twenty years, was
taken suddenly i'll, supposed to be caused by
the bursting of blood vessel, and died with
in quarter Of an hour.
straw baler, rick of straw and several
hundred bales of straw belonging to Wilson
B. Tschiiiely, near Hunting Hill, Montgomery
county, caught fire on Monday afternoon and
were entirely destroyed, involving loss of
about $500 above, insurance.
George jones, a colored barber, of Denton,
Caroline county, was arrested and lodged in
Jail the charge of not settling his board bill,
recently contracted on a campmeetng ground.
This is the first arrest made in the State under
| he In rail- 70 hotels boarding
houses.
Mrs. Eliza Sudler died at her residence, in
Sudlersvile, Queen Anne county, on Mon
day, aged sc years. She enjoyed good health
until three years ago, when she received
stroke of paralysis. She was the widow of
the late DR.. Arthur A. Sudler, once promi-
nent in the county.
On Saturday night, in Baltimore, fight
T over game of cards took place between some
eolored men, and William II. Jones killed
Thomas Mitchell. On the same night, quar-
rel by colored men resulted in George Davis
biting the entire lower lip off of Daniel W.
Banks. Both are colored.
Mountjoy Luckett, aged about As years,
only surviving sou of the late Mountjoy Lnckett,
prominent lawyer of Frederick, died on
August IL from general debility He was a
near relative of the Maulsby and Nelson fami
lies of Frederick. With his death his i'm
mediate family became extinct.
Maurice A aged sixteen years, son of
Frank A. Gray, of Georgetown, D. c., was
accidentally shot and killed by his brother,
Leslie B., aged twelve years, on Tuesday
morning, at the residence of Mr.. W. c. l..
Mattingly, near Lusby's postoffce, Calvert
county, where both boys We're on a visit, the
shot tearing of one entire side of his head
johnson Ridge. IL years old, attempted to
jump ON a moving freight train on Friday of
last week, lat Edgemont. on the Western Mary
land Railroad. He slipped and fell between
the wheels and his leg was crushed. He was
taken to the Maryland University Hospital,
Baltimore, where he died at 3 2. NJ. The
body was forwarded on Saturday morning to
Edgemont, where the boy father, George W.
Ridge, resides.
John p. McElderry died August u, in his
I'D year. Mr.. MeElderry was born at GlaS-
var, Charles county. He was graduated
from the academical department Of the Uni
versity of Maryland, and was engaged in the
lumber business in early life. He afterwards
took "a position in the Navy Department at
Washington, which he held continuously for
thirty years, when he returned to Baltimore.
Mr. McElderry married Miss Ellen NJ. Cox,
of Georgetown, d. c., who died several years
ago. He leaves one son Horace c. McElderry.
The greater portion of Delmar, lying in
Delaware and Maryland was destroyed by fire
Tuesday afternoon. The burned buildings
included all the leading stores, two churches,
the railroad station and repair shops of the
Delaware Railroad Company, the postofiice,
Delmar Hotel and thirty or forty dwellings,
The town was of frame and the loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Several hundred people
are homeless. One person persisted in the
conaagration, but the body could not be iden
tilted. In all there were 81 buildings burned,
most ofthem owned by the railroad employees.
The double funeral of Mr.. Gustave and
Mrs. Charlotte Booming, an aged couple,
which took place from Abingdon NJ. E.
Church on Sunday, was an impressive and
interesting ceremony, one that is seldom wit
messed by many Mr.. and Mrs. Booming were
natives Of Germany and had lived for many
years in Philadelphia, but lately had resided
with their son-in-law, DIR. Opperman, at
Abingdon. Hartford county. He was 81 years
of age and she 78 years old. They had been
married for over fifty years. They were sick
only short time. Both were taken sick
about the same time, and after an illness of
only few days died within few hours of
each other, and were buried in the same
grave in the cemetery at the church, which is
built on the site of Cokesburg, the first
| Methodist college established in this country.
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