The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-02-20
Maryland Affairs.

| An electric railway is to be extended from
| Baltimore to Ellicott City.
Baltimore city has given $4,000 for col
| ored manual training school,
The Beckwith Iron Mills, of Paterson, n.
j.. viii be moved to Curtis Bay, near Balti-
| more.
During january eleven females died in
Frederick county whose ages amounted to
$40 years.
Professor Ely, of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, has resigned to accept professorship in
the State University, Madison, Wis.
During January $50, O5j barrels of flour,
| .922, 16i bushels of wheat and 4,5l9, 489
bushels of corn were shipped from Baltimore.
John H. Bein. aged "a years, committed
suicide by hanging himselfin Druid Hill Park,
| Baltimore, on the 18th instant. Mental trOu
| BILE.
Centrevile was threatened by fire from "a
sedge field on Saturday last The fire depart
ment were called out and soon had the fire
under control.
Frederick county grand jury was discharged
on Saturday. They state that fully one third
of their time was occupied in investigating
liquor cases.
Mrs Ann Magruder, aged 50 years, died in
Baltimore on Sunday last. Margaret Jack
son, colored, died on Monday, in the same
city, aged nearly 102 years.
John Reichard, aged SO years, ofnear Rohr-
ersville. Washington county, was instantly
killed on Saturday by being run over by Il
heavily loaded wagon. He leaves wife and
several children.
Chestertown will soon have fine railroad
facilities. The road will run from Singerly,
in Cecil county to Easton, Talbot county.
At Singerly it will connect with the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad.
Dispatches from Garrett county represent
the snow storm of Thursday and Friday OF
last week as the severest since January, 1886.
Snow fell for SO hours, and in many places
roads were completely obliterated by the
drifts, and many sheep and cattle were frozen
to death.
While returning from church, near Middle
town, Frederick county, on Tuesday night of
last week, Cornelius Main, aged 10 years, was
stabbed in the right groin. Several young
men we're skylarking and one named Green
became angry and cut Main. The wound
will prove fatal.
Randolph Daley, of Baltimore, aged 9
years, was bitten by mosquito last summer,
on the right leg. The leg became so inflamed
that it had to be amputated, but the poison
had been absorbed and he died IN the Johns
Hopkins Hospital on Sunday.
A curious accident occurred on Monday at
UnionvIlle, Frederick county. John d. Cal
theirs straw stack toppled over, burying two
cows beneath it, killing one and paralyzing
the other one on one side. The stack had
become top-heavy from the frequent rains and
snow, and had frozen and formed a solid mass.
Mrs. Jane NJ. A. Petit died in Frederick
on Tuesday, after an illness of several months,
in her Slst year. She was member of the
Presbyterian Church for 80 years, and had
closely identified herself with the religious
welfare of the community. She was a daugh-
ter of William NJ. Beall, former cashier of
the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
and President of the Mutual Insurance Com
pany. Her husband, H. NJ. Petit, who died
in ls47 was the experimenting civil engineer
in the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to Point of Rocks. and was also
prominently connected with the building of
the National road from Cumberland to the
West.