The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-06
MARYLAND Affairs.

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Mrs. Anna P. Brady, aged 81 years, died
in Green Spring Valley, Baltimore county,
on Wednesday, from general debility.
Ex.Judge Henry F. Carey died in Balti-
more on Friday night of last week. He was
on the bench in Baltimore from 1867 to 1882.
The Potomac Paper Company plant at
Cumberland has been decreed to be sold.
The liabilities of the company are Sl20,000.
Ex-United States Senator Anthony Ken
needy, died on Sunday in Annapolis, aged 81
years. He was a Wing, and served in the
Senate from 1857 to 1868.
The Peoples ticket was elected in Bruins
wick, Frederick county, on Monday, and a
proposition to issue $50, 900 in bonds for
street improvement was defeated by vote
of l02 to Us.
Mrs. Sarah, wife of Rev. John w. Kirkley,
ofthe NJ. E. Church, Baltimore, died on Tues
day, aged IS years. She was known as an
energetic worker among the sick and destitute,
especially during the late war.
A fire in the business part of Cambridge,
on Saturday, destroyed fifteen houses, includ.
ing bank, two hotels, two newspaper offices,
business houses and dwellings, the estimated
loss being sos, 900, insured for S35, 900.
JOnn IL. heDDy OF hOTCeSlcF COuhly, ndu
a flock of l6 sheep killed by lightning on Sat
urday. The sheep had taken refuge under
the overshoot of the barn, from the storm,
lightning struck the barn and glanced off into
the flock.
On Saturday night AN alfray occurred in
Queen Annc's district, of Prince Georges
county, between Frank Helcorn, colored, and
Joseph II. Ireland, in which the colored man
was badly cut in the abdomen. DR.. S. Beard
considers the wound very serious one.
Three members of Wesley Chapel NJ. h.
Church, Annapolis, were read out of church
last Sunday. They had organized praying
band, held meetings at the same hours regu-
lar services were held at the church, and
were adopting Second Adventist doctrines.
During the electrical storm in Cecil county
Saturday afternoon barn, G5 by 80 feet, on
the farm of George and Miss Mary Ricketts,,
mile and quarter north of Elkton, was
struck by lightning The barn was destroyed,
together with 500 bushels of wheat, 800 bush
els of oats, which had just been threshed an
hour before, 80 tons of hay, mower and
binding machinery and several small farming
implements.
Ex.Judge John II. Price, of Hartford
county, died at Da. lngton, on Wednesday, in
his S5th year. In 1855 he was elected judge
of the sixth circuit, composed of Cecil, Har-
ford and Baltimore counties. Notwithstand-
ing he was elected by the American or Know
Nothing Party, he dealt out the severest SEN
fences to the scoundrels of that party, who
removed their cases from the city to the coun-
ties, thereby hoping to escape the gaIlows
or long sentences.
VIM. B. Attix. of Talbot county, was COM
mitted by the Judges of the Orphans Court
on Tuesday for contempt He had been cited
to appear before the court on the charge of
ii. treating his motherless child of fourteen
months old. He was rude in his manners
and noisy in his speech. Repeated warnings
having failed to make him behave, the court
tried IMPRISONMENT. This is the first time in
fifty years that the Orphans Court has had
to resort to imprisonment for contempt
John NJ. Hastings and Jacob W. Powell
have brought suit against Worcester county
for alleged damages sustained to them on the
Fourth of July while attempting to cross Dun
cans bridge, spanning the Pocomoke river,
near Whaleyville. This bridge, the parties
to the suit say, was very defective, inasmuch
as there was large hole in it, at which the
horse became frightened and backed, with
the carriage and its occupants, into the river,
inuring both men seriously and damaging
the vehicle.
Duringa thunder storm on Monday George
Etzler, near Liberty, Frederick county, was
struck by lightning and so badly injured that
he may die. The lightning struck tree about
two hundred yards from where he was stand
ing, ran along a wire fence and then struck
Etzler, first tearing his hat off, then running
down his right breast, burning a hole into
the bone, then on down his side to his right
foot, burning into the bone all the way down.
His shoe was torn off, and hole burned
through his foot. When picked up he was in a
deporable condition.
A fight occurred on Tuesday night in the
| southern part of baltimore; between soli1
| Dougherty and his son John, owing 10 the
bad treatment of the wife by the husband.
Later the fight was renewed, and in the melee
the sons throat was cut His dying state.
ment was made in which he said ''he could
not recognize bis assailant, but thinks it was
done by some one from the outside, while he
was calling for assistance. The senior
| Dougherty was arrested on the charge.
| tits understood the commissioners for Fred
| erick county will hereafter refuse to make APP.
| preparations to cover the expenses incurred
| by constables in arresting tramps and others
for violating a recent enactment of the Leg
islature by riding on freight cars without per
mission. This expense, which has been very
heavy, it is commended SHOULD be borne by
| the railroad companies, as they alone are
| benefited. Several tramns arrested on Sat
urday for the violation Of this law were re-
| leased.
| A cat supposed to be mad sprang upon a
| little boy five years DID, child of Silas W..
| Barnes, at Aberdeen, and scratched and bit
| the child's face and arm. The cat was pulled
| off and thrown upon the ground, where it at
tackled and killed two Ghiekens beflrs It
could be in turn killed. The cat was pet OF
| the little boy, and he weht to it, having been
told it was sick, and was gently stroking its
back when the animal turned upon hin and
fastened its teeth in one of his cheeks so firmly
that it had to be pulled off violently. DR.;
| Virden took the spinal cord from the cat and
| sent il to the Pasteur Institute, New York,
| to determine il the animal was suffering from
rabies. The child will be sent also for treat,
ment, dependent upon the result ofthe exam
ination by experts of the cats spinal cord.
Lewis johnson, colored prisoner in the
penitentiary, was shot on July 80 by wall Off
Ger W. G. Horn while attempting to escape.
| johnson was received at the pententlary De-
tober 25, 1881, to serve a term of eight years
for robbery. He was assigned to work in the
marble yard and among his other duties he
was required to clean the Office in the yard,
which is at the north side of the prison yard,
He did the work while the other prisoners
were at breakfast. In. his attempt to escape
johnson split l6-foot board into three pieces
and fastened the ends together with strong
wire Ha ATTACHED an iron hook to one end
of the board, and his scaling ladder vas com
plete. He tried to disguise himself by don
ming suit of pEeralls belonging to one of the
superi9tegdents. The wounds are severe but
not serious. Johnson has already served q
term of five years in the penitentiary for as
sault with intent to kill. He was released in
August, 1891, two months before his present
term of Imprisonment began.
The Potomac Valley Railroad, one Of the
extensions of the Western Maryland, was
opened. for freight traffic on Monday. The
new road is 1913 miles long, 1873 miles ofwhieh
are in Maryland and one mile is in West
Virginia. There are in addition two miles of
sidings. The road extends from Williamsport,
Nd, where it connects with the main line Of
the Western Maryland, TO Cherry Run, in
West Virginia, where connection is made
yith the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio.