The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-02-27
Maryland Affairs.

John Fitch, aged Sc years, died at Fuller.
ton, Baltimore county, on the 18th instant.
During the week 226l head of cattle and
500 sheep were exported from Baltimore.
Edward Lauterbach, of New York. has
bought the Drum Point Railroad for SIS, 600
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has adopted
the block signal system between Washington
and Philadelphia.
DR.. Lewis H. Steiner, librarian of the
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, died
suddenly of apoplexy on Thursday of last
week
J. w. Sh uck, postmaster of Cumberland,
has been held in $1,000 bail to answer the
charge of embezzling $500 in money order
funds.
According to recent reports there are fifty
Grand Army Posts in Maryland, with a total
membership of 1900, and an expenditure
last year of $4,000.
grain blockade occurred ut Frederick on
Tuesday, owing to the want of cars. Over
10000 bushels being received at the various
warehouses.
James Health, coored, while oystering
near Chestertown, struck diamond back ter
rapin nest from which he took 40 in about ten
minutes. The terrapins were sold for about
5000.
Frisby Evans. colored, aged SO years, died
in Elkton, on Monday. He was born slave
but was set free when 23 years old. Frisbv
was "a general favorite and had great repu-
tation throughout the peninsula as whistler.
Eleven of the passengers on the steamship
Weimar, which arrived at Baltimore on Mon.
day, have been detained. They are said to
have been employed to work for the Connels.
vile Coke and Iron Co., of Connelsville, Pa
Harvey Green, the colored temperance lee.
turer, who fatally stabbed Charles Ross, in
Westernport, Sunday night, was placed in Jail
at Cumberland on Tuesday. He was held
responsible for Ross death by the coroner's
jury.
John Collins, IL miner. was killed in the
Franklin mines, near Westernport, Tuesday
morning. He was working under some dan
gerous slate, and it felon him, crushing the
life out of him. He was "a years old and
single
Mary Ella. daughter of 0uterbrdge Horsey,
of Frederick county, was married to Warwick
L. Montgomery, of High Bridge, N. Y. in
Washington, u. c., on Saturday last The
attendance was composed of the elite of both
cities and Maryland.
Alfred Stout, coored, was convicted Of
murder in the first degree, at Belair, on Mon
utN. III TGDEudIy vi last year lie uuTueTtu all
old German and his wife named Ditman in
Cecil county. The feeling was so strong
against him that the case was moved to Har-
ford county.
Joel Gutmau, of Joel Gutman Il Co., mer.
chants, Baltimore, died from heart disease on
Tuesday night, in his esd year. From poor
pedler be advanced to be one of the best
known business men in the city, and was
prominent i'll everything Of charitable, bus
mess, educational and religious character.
An incendiary fired the dwelling aud other
buildings on the farm of Marshall Brown,
near Brighton, in Montgomery county, on
Saturday last. The fire was discovered by
son of Mr.. Brown. and when, he went out TO
give the alarm by the farm bell he found the
rope cut from the bell. Loss above insur-
ance $4,000.
Arrangements haze been made for cabling
twenty five miles of Governor Bowie's pas
senger railway system in Baltimore, and op-
erations will begin March /. The work will
be carried on at the rate of 500 feet a day. The
parts of the road to be cabed are the red
and white lines, so called because of the
dominant color of the cars. These will par
allel the Traction Company's road. 1t is ru-
mored that the latter company will cable the
Linden Avenue Line of the Frick system,
recently purchased for 81 100000.
Petitions are in circulation favoring the re-
peal of the present local option law in the cor
porate limits of Ellicott City and asking the
substitution Of high license IN its stead. The
movement has received considerable encour-
age ment, and it is believed that sufficient
number of names of leading residents and
tax payers ofthe town will be secured to Justify
the members of the legislature for Howard
county to take action in the matter.
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Hickory, before she breathed her last, told
physician who was in attendance, that a few
days previous her son Lawrence, while in a
drunken frenzy, had knocked her down, and
stamped on her. A post mortem examination
revealed the fact that the old woman's collar
bone had been broken, and her chest broken
and crushed. The sou disappeared from
Piedmont, and has not yet been -found.-It is
said that Hickory and his mother had often
quarrelled.
At Princess Anne, on Saturday afternoon
last, colored boy was assisting mason ~
doing some work in a mill, when he was.
caught by the machinery and hurled upward.
He fell to the floor with great force. An ex-
animation revealed the fact that the boys.
left leg had been broken above tse knee; his.
right leg, below the knee; his left arm, be-
tween the elbow and shoulder; collar bone
dislocated, and there was a deep. cut below
the under lip; several upper teeth were knock.
ed out and the upper iawbone fractured, ami
there was also an ugly bruise over the eye.
Notwithstanding he is SO badly hurt, he Is now
getting along very well and hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery
The five story building the Southeast
corner of Baltimore and Eutaw streets, Bal
timore, was damaged by FIRE on Wednesday
afternoon 1t was owned by the estate of the
late A. s. Abell The stock and machinery
belonged to tho Friedenwald Lithographing
Company and to Cone Bros, Lowman
Burger, clotAiers. Publications owned by
Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Institute,
Enoch Pratt Library, United States govern
ment and the City Directory were injured
Leon Talbot, fireman, was suffocated by
smoke, and Frank Miller, another fireman..
made remarkable escape from death.
Dr. Charles T. Breedlove, dentist of Bal.
timore, committed suicide in St. Louis hotel
on Tuesday. In the same room and not far
from DR.. Breedlove stood Isaac Judson,
teacher in the high school of St. Louis, the
was to leave the next day in company with Jud-
man for whose love he committed the deed.
Breedlove reached St. Louis last Monday, and
son, but missed the train. Judson returned,
to Breedlove's room and found letter lying
on the dressing-table addressed to himself.
He was in the act of reading it when he was
startled by the report of revolver, and,
looking up, saw Breedlove falling to the floor
with the smoking pistol clltehed in his right
hand. He died almost Instantly The let
ter, which was addressed to Judson, reveals
a peculiarly morbid state of mind. Breed
love saws he finds it unable to live without