The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-11-26
Maryland Affairs.

Wheat has been seriously damaged by the
fly in this Stale.
Typhoid fever is prevailing in Garrett eoun-
", and many deaths have occurred.
Miss Mary Abell. daughter of the late A.
S. Abel, of Baltimore, has become a member
Of the Order of st. Francis de Sales.
January Is has been set by Gov. Brown
as the day on which the eight murderers Of
Dr. j. II. Hill, of Kent county, are to be
executed.
Counterfeit silver dollars are plenty in Bal,
timOre, and two men were arrested in Bal
iimore for passing them. They acknowledge
ed their guilt and were locked up.
The farms and stock of NJ. E. Goldsbo-
rough, near Easton, Talbot county, were sold
on Tuesday Purchased by Richard u. Colds
borough, of Washington, d. c., for about
$4,000.
Col Alfred Spaies, formerly of Cumberland,
died in Washington, D. c., on Thursday of
last week, in his S0th year. For many years
he was prominent in Democratic circles and
had held several prominent positions.
a barn on the farm of John T. Dutton was
blown down on last Friday by heavy wind
storm that passed over that section of Charles
county. The barn contained 5000 pounds
of good tobacco, which, being very dry, was
greatly damaged.
Dr. Henry j. Houck, prominent Balti-
more physician and AN ex member OF Bait
more City Council, whose city residence IS on
Pennsylvania avenue, died very suddenly at
Ocean City on Tuesday from taking dose OF
bichloride of mercury in mistake for choral.
At the opening of the Montgomery county
court last week when the jury was called there
were three absences. Judge McSherry or
dered the clerk to draw three other jurors to
serve ms grand Jurors aud three others from
the general box to serve as petit jurors, the
three not answering their names being stricken
from the panel in accordance with an act
passed by the last General Assembly.
Daniel Homberg, a Baltimore county dep.
uty sheriff, who was convicted in the United
States District Court October 81 of obstruct-
ing and hindering the registration OF James
Cooper, colored, has been sentenced by Judge
Morris TO four months in Jail and to pay the
costs Of the case. amounting to over 500.
Sentence had been suspended under a motion
for new trial The offense occurred when
Cooper presented himself at the registration
office at Sparrow's Point, in the seventh pre-
cinct of the twelfth election district OF Baiil-
more county.
In Frederick, on Saturday last, was the
largest political Notification ever known in
that city. Fully 1000 persons were in the
parade, while on the sidewalks there were
over 5000 people. After review at the agri
culture fair grounds free lunch was served,
consisting of coffee, lamb and beef sandwich
es. of the latter about 1900 had been pro
vided. The demonstration wound mp with
congratulatory speeches from Gen. Mckaig,
Colonel Kilgour, Colonel Baughman and Mr..
]. Roger McSherry. At Oakland, in Garrett
county, the Democrats paraded the same day
in six inches Of snow.
Robert Hill, about 81 years old, was struck
and killed Saturday afternoon by locomotive
at Falston. on the Baltimore and Lehigh
Railroad. Hill, who was farm hand in the
employ of J. Wilson Moore, was crossing the
track in "a two horse wagon, when the loco
motive whistle sounded rapidly several times.
The sound appeared to paralyze him with
fear. for after his horse had cleared the track
he was seen trying to back them. The loco
motive, with only a tender attached, was pro
ceeding from Belair to Baltimore. The front
wheels of the wagon were torn off, the wagon
smashed and Hill thrown away from the track,
his skull being crushed. Death was instan-
taneous. Hill leaves wife and one son.