The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-25
Maryland Affairs.

largeu on tHe EASTERN oHore ne&I seaSou-
From 2 to u inches of snow fell on Tues
day night in various portions Of Vermont
Owing to lack of orders the Singerly wood
pulp mills at Elkton have closed for short
time.
! Queenstown, Queen Annes county, had a
disastrous fire on Saturday last Loss about
| $4,000.
A negro tramp set fire to a rick of clover
on the farm of VIM. Reich, near Frederick
on Tuesday.
The sawBuck and the stone pile are the
police recommendations for the cure of va
grancy in Baltimore.
By the fall of scaffold in Baltimore, on
Friday of last week, Charles Richter was killed
and John Bouchal fatally injured.
The residence of VIM. J. Smith, of Calvert
county. was burned on Wednesday, and the
family barely escaped in their night clothes.
The late election in Washington county
will cost in the neighborhood of 81 ,250, or
little over 49, cents for each of the 1904
voters.
Chief Judge Hunter Boyd has set aside a
deed made by John Bitner, bachelor, of
Washington county. The heirs claimed undue
influence.
Several incendiary fires have occurred in
Somerset county recently. A vigilant COM
mittee is about to organize. The latest fire
is the canning works in Princess Anne by
some tramps.
Senior Carlos Diaz Gomez de Cadiz. the
/ Spanish Consul at Baltimore, committed
suicide on Friday of last week by jumping
1 from the fourth story Of his residence. He
was insane.
meeting of the Maryland State Temper
| ance Alliance was held in Baltimore on
Monday, and committee appointed to draft
a general local option law to be submitted to
the Legislature.
Associate Justices Lynch and Vincent, of
the Sixth Judicial Circuit, will require a
| legislative extension of their terms Of office
this winter, as they each arrive at the age of
20 years before the legislature of 1896.
! A fight took place in Dorchester county,
on Friday of last week between John Ryan.
an oyster dredger and Elijah Carey, who was
driving along the road. Ryan was shot and
death ensued. Carey was arrested and lodged
in Jail.
Judge Harlan, in Baltimore, has decided
that the Equitable League of America, which
has 1000 members in Maryland and other
States, had forfeited its charter by engaging
in the seven year endowment business in
abuse of its corporate privileges.
A novel proposition has been made between
two clergymen in Baltimore, Rabbi Schanfar-
/ Der, of Bar Sinai Temple, and Rev. Richard
/ Harcourt, of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, to exchange pulpits. The PROPOSE
ton has not yet been sanctioned by the
church authorities.
Sheriff Plummer of Kent county, lost horse
in a singular manner on Thursday. His stock
was turned out over night on the Dehl farm,
which he has rented for pasture. During the
night the horse got his head in the crotch of
"A tree, and could not get it out. He was
found dead next morning.
The motion to quash the 10 indictments
against ex banker f. V. Rockafellow, in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on. Wednesday, was denied
by Judge Lynch on the ground ''that sub
stantial justice was what was needed in this
case" rather than artificial nicely. The trial
was then begun The Indictment charges the
defendant with accepting deposits knowing
his bank to be insolyent at the time of such
acceptance.
The Southern Maryland Railroad Company
was incorporated on Thursday with capital
stock of $500, 900, by Frank r. Biedler, Wm
I. Biedler, Ralph S. jackson, James C.
Crosby and Howard H. Ridgway. The prin-
/ cipal object of the company is said to be the
completion of the Drum Point Railroad. The
road extends from Baltimore to Drum Point,
in Calvert county, Nd, at the mouth of the
Patuxent river, distance of 81 miles. About
go miles of the road are graded.
The grand jury of Talbot county, in com
| pliance of instructions of Judge Stump, in
vestgated the matter of the position of the
picture of Lincoln on the tickets in that coun
ty, and ignored it 1t will be remembered
! the Republican leaders instructed the negroes
/ al, II
nose. The face was turned to the left, and
1 following instructions the negroes placed their
/ mark to the right Of the Democratic emblem
and thus voted full Democratic tickets.
Several tracts of mountain land at Hagers
town were sold on Saturday at higher prices
| than ever known before. The heirs at law of
George Pond sold 20I acres, situated above
! Cavetown, for 500. rs an acre to Dr. d. w.
Crowther, of Hagerstown. The development
of the peach industry in the mountains has
! caused this decided advance. Curtis Gouker
| sold . acres unimproved, TO John Hoffman
| for $3.50; Alex. Neill and j. NJ. Keedy,
/ trustees, sold SO acres four miles in the noun
tain to Mr.. Foltz for 81 800
/ Harry Richardson, son of the late Joshua
Richardson, hung himself in his barn, near
Farm Grove. Hartford county, on Sunday,
/ morning. He is said to have gone to his
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/ clock was found by his wife hanging by a
rope from one of the rafters. She cut him
down and dragged him TO the house and then
gave the alarm. A jury gave a verdict of
suicide. Mr.. Richardson was about &c years
! of age and leaves widow, but no children.
1 Depression of business matters is supposed
to have been the cause Of his suicide.
Mr.. Martin r. Joyce died at 935 O'Clock
on Friday night of last week at the Niagara
| House, in Baltimore. An operation had been
performed on him at noon to remove a stone
from his bladder. Mr. Joyce was apparently
in good health until few weeks ago. At no
time prior to the operation had he been con.
/ fined to his bed. Mr.. Joyce was the eldest
son of Judge Eugene I. Joyce, of the Appeal
| Tax Court. He was born October 3. 1868,
ard was educated at the Baltimore City
College and at West Point Military Academy
lie gave up his military career to study civil
engineering, and after awhile abandoned that
10 study law. He was graduated from the
MARYLAND University Law School in 1887,
and had practiced in Baltimore since that
time. Mr.. Joyce was twice a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates. In the session
of 1892 he served as chairman Of the corpo-
rations committee. He was engaged TO be
married to Miss Mary MoDevitt, of Philadel-
phia.
Brent Bennett, aged years, son OF Louis
II. Bennett, of Baltimore, was killed Sat
urday morning on the Western Maryland
Railroad bridge which crosses North avenue
above Fulton avenue, by the Union Bridge
express. The boy and his brother Charles
went to the suburbs to spend the day. Police
man Stocksdale, of the mounted force Of the
North western district, saw the boys going
across the bridge, and at the same time heard
the train coming, but he was too far away to
give them warning. Charles got off the track
Just in time to save his life. The engine
struck Brent on the head and threw him to
the other side of the bridge, and the child
was afterwards picked up by Policeman
Stocksdale. His skull was shockingly crush
ed. He was still alive when the police
man arrived, but died few minutes later
j. B. King, theengneer, testified that he
saw the boys on the track, and put his air
brakes hard on, but could not stop the train.
The jury rendered verdict of accidental
death