The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-21
Maryland Affairs.

Rt Rev. VIM. Paret, Bishop OF Maryland,
expects to sail for Bremen July p.
Stores, meat, corn and chicken house are
being robbed in Anne Arundel county.
The first Maryland strawberries arrived in
Baltimore on Tuesday and sold from Is to II
cents box.
Daniel P. Thomas, well-known citizen of
CAROLS Manor, Frederick county, died on
Monday, aged sixty-one years.
Hetty Littler, colored, aged so years, was
fatally burned at New Market, Frederick
county, on Saturday of last week.
An incendiary fire at Upper Marlborough,
Prince Georges county, on Saturday night
destroyed eight buildings, including hotel.
DIR. VIM. H. Grimes, aged 70 years, died on
Thursday at Bakersville, Washington county.
He was widely known and highly esteemed.
The new United Brethren Church at My
ersvile, Frederick county, will be dedicated
on Sunday, I'D. Bishop E. B. Kepphart
will be present.
George w. Marshall aud John A. Courtney
who were sentenced to the penitentlary on
Wednesday, escaped from the Hagerstown
Jail on Thursday.
Barney Totagrando, an Italian stonecutter,
employed by McClenahan Il Bro, of Port
Deposit, committed suicide Sunday morning
by cutting his throat from ear to ear.
Work men in making excavation for
building in Frederick city opened into cave
containing stalactite formations. The size of
the cave has not yet been ascertained
The Italian residents of Baltimore are pre-
pairing for Columbian celebration on Octo
Der II next, and have applied to Mayor La
trobe for his assistance in arranging parade
Naval Cadet Joseph C. Croft, of Maryland,
whom ex Congressman McComas appointed
| in 1889, has been dismissed from the Naval
Academy, by order of the Secretary of the
Navy, for taking liberty unauthorized. Croft
had reached the second class.
| Jonathan Kesser, Of Bond county, ILL.,,
| aged 80 years, and Mrs. Harriet Griffith, OF
| Monrovia, Frederick county, aged 40 years,
were married near Monrovia on Tuesday eve
ming. Elder Samuel Utz, of Newmarket,
performed the marriage ceremony.
Rev. J. w. Santee, D. D., the venerable
pastor of the Reformed church in Cavetown,
| Washington county, has rendered his resigna-
ton. DIR. Santee has been pastor OF the
| church since April, 1851, and retires now
from desire for rest. His son, Rev. Charles
Santee, has been called to succeed him.
George Elliott, of aeronaut fame, died in
the almshouse at Bay View, Baltimore. on
Monday. He was one of the pioneer aerial
navigators in this country, and made the first
balloon ascension in the city of Baltimore in
1884 He was in the S7th year of his age.
He applied for admission to Bay View last
March.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reports
Aoril earnings of $2,01S, 70S, an increase OF
$75, 468 over last year. Expenses, 81, 4Sl, 274,
an increase of $50, 523. For seven months
the earnings were $l4, 10, 500, an increase of
$l,059, $50. The expenses for the same pc
Rod increased 81, 1870, 407, showing a decrease
of net earnings of $l2l.O2I.
Between / and o'clock on Wednesday
morning the carriage sheds, implement house
and a carriage, buggy, implements and farm
ing machinery on the farm OF Jacob V. SUM
mers, near Frederick, on the pike to Yellow
Springs, were destroyed by fire. The prop.
erty was fully insured and the fire is supposed
to have been the act of an incendiary.
That well-known hosiery. the Mansion
House, corner of Fayette and st. Paul streets
Baltimore, so long kept by Isaac Albertson
and where he amassed fortune sufficient tc
enable him to retire from business, is to be
closed on the first of June, the city requiring
much of the ground on which it stands torthe
widening of Fayette street. The work is now
in progress.
J. w. Bishop, the engineer at the Hote
Hamilton, in Hagerstown, met with a serious
accident on Saturday. He went up to the
third floor of the hotel in the elevator, in
tending to get off and to send the elevate
down empty. In attempting to do so he wa
caught between the top Of the elevator doc
and the floor and seriously wounded ant
bruised about the head and body. Bishop;
home is in Winchester, Va.
The Spencers, of Lapidum, Hartford county
who are among the most extensive fishermen
! ofthe Susquehanna, state that the pack o
I herrings in that neighborhood for the seasol
, did not 90 above 25,000 barrels. The Sus
, ouehana season closed on Saturday. All thu
fisheries in the river have paid well. Il
the Potomac it is stated that the contrary !
the case, the reports generally agreeing tina
the season Just closed was about the wors
ever known in that river.
A bad wreck occurred on the Norfolk an
Western Railroad, ten miles south of HagerS
town, about o'clock Sunday morning vii
, liam HAYS, the conductor, was killed job
i r, Hawke and J. R. Hawke, of Lewistown
j Pa; B. V. l.. CLANCY, of Breathedsville
, Washington county; Charles W. Wennei
, freight agent N. g. W. r. r., and an unknow
f man supposed to be b. A. Rogers, OF Bu
chanan, Va, were more or less seriously in
= jured.
q The county commissioners of Hartford hav
S increased the taxable basis of the Philade
g mia. Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
e $4,000 per mile, the Baltimore and Obi
S Railroad to $1,000 per mile, and the Bait
Y more and Lehigh to 81 900 per mile. III
d p. w. & B. Railroad and the B. & o. Raj
It road operate little over eighteen miles
IS that county, and the baltimore and Lehig
n Railroad twenty, three miles. The B. .
n now pays taxes on 1921 ,029, the p, w.
on 1926, 805, and the B. & l.. on SO, 800.
James Taylor, colored, was arrested fc
u assaulting the eleven-year-old daughter o
" John W. Silcox, of Kennedyville, Kent cour
= ty, on Sunday. 1t was with much difficult
y that lynching was prevented, the sheriff tai
y ing the man down the river on tug boat o
. Monday, and returning to the Jail before dal
y light ON Tuesday morning. On Tuesday
II was decided that the man should not be take
u away and a crowd gathered about 10 at nigh
- - demanding the opening of the Jail. Upon b.
i ing refused the doors were battered aowr
T. the negro taken out and hung to a tree in til
M centre of the town.
Of Barton and vicinity, in Allegany county
s, was visited by an unusually heavy rain on Wee
e. nesday afternoon, accompanied with hail. Ill
'e water came rushing down the tramway leadin
:, from Swanton mine in great volume and wit
ty terrific force, carrying everything before i
in Great stones rolled before the swollen strear
IS as though they were pebbles. At the corne
d of Latrobe street the rubbish became lodge
is against small bridge. This turned the wa
h ter out of its track, and it shot ten feet int
n the air, and overaowea the street, and ra
into the houses on the east side, doing COZ
siderable damage. Railroad street had tn
appearance of a river, and crossing it was OF
II of the question for some time. The peopl
:. became alarmed and would have soon move
d out had the rain continued much longer. TIL
? gardens on the mountain sides were badl
!, washed.
n Hon. William Walsh, the Nestor of tn
a Allegany county bar, and who repre- sente
g the Sixth district in Congress during tw
terms, died in Cumberland on Tuesda
morning. He was the last Democrat to rep
g resent the district in Congress prior to til
g election of Hon. VIM. NJ. McKaig. Nj
/, Walsh who was the most prominent lawye