The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-28
Maryland Affairs.

Western Maryland Railroad net earnings
for December show an increase Sl4,3fZ.I0
over December, 1891.
In Baltimore, on Wednesday three persons
were burned to death by the explosion Of coal
oil and gasoline stoves.
Communication with Chincoteague Island =
is still blocked by the ice, and the people are
in a very bad plight for food and fuel.
James Harris, of Chesterstown, drove a
horse and sleigh on the ice from Howell's
Point to Havre de Grace on Thursday.
Six stores and postoffices on the line the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad were robb
ed Friday night of last week.
Patrick Fox, aged 102 years, died in Balti
more on Saturday. He was native of
Ireland, and had resided in Baltimore since
1913.
VIM. j. Lang and Charles Derschinger, of
Baltimore, on Sunday, skated to Annapolis
in four hours They found the ice so rough
that they returned by railroad.
John R. English, aged 81 years, died ia
Baltimore on Sunday. He was the leader of
the toughest know nothing club in Baltimore
during the supremacy of that party.
Three children of John Suite, near Clear
spring, Washington county, had their hands
and feet frozen. Poultry in the county froze
to death and many cartridges have been killed
by the freeze.
Several peach orchards on the Eastern
Shore are reported as being killed by the
continuous cold weather. An examination
shows that the buds have been killed especi-
ally on the water courses.
There was more ice in Chesapeake Bay on
Saturday night than was ever before known.
1t extended about ten miles outside, and
pilots performed the unprecedented feat Of
boarding incoming vessels by passing on the
ice.
One of the oldest residents of diminishing
district, Mrs. Sarah Singer, is died the.
Dist instant, aged % years. She had been
blind for n number Of years, but a few weeks
before her death regained her sight, and could
see as well as ever.
AT Hagerstown, on Saturday, Harry Sum
mers was arrested upon the charge of having
instigated two boys TO set fire to graDary in
rear of the Western Enterprise Fire Com
pany's building, that place on Friday night
last. He was held for Court.
There are said to be at least 1000 oyster
men along the shores of the Chesapeake who
are dependent upon charity for food to sus-
tain life, and that there is great suffering
among them. They have done no work for
a month or more, owing to the ice.
Alfred Stout, colored, was executed at Elk
ton, Cecil county, yesterday, for the murder of
George Ditmar, an old German farmer, who
lived with his wife on small farm near
Bohemia Manor. The crime was committed
on the night of February /, 1891.
DIR. Charles A. Baldwin died in Smthsburg,
Washington county, on Saturday of double
pneumonia and heart disease. He was the
son of John Baldwin, residing at Long Green,
Baltimore county, was graduated at the
Maryland University, and prachced medicine
at Smithsburg for twelve years.
Two men on Sunday walked from Horse
Hammock to Deals Island and from there
to Cris6eld. They bring distressing account
of the condition of the islanders. There is no
wood or coal TO be purchased. The cattle
have been killed, and the only articles of
food left in the stores are beans and molasses.
John Schroyer, an aged citizen, died at
Myersville, Frederick county, last week. He
was rs years, old and until two years ago
had not allowed his beard to be cut since the
war, in consequence of VOW he made that
if the North was successful in the civil war
he would never cut his beard. He stuck to his
resolution with grim persistence, until finally
he was prevailed upon to have his beard cut.
He leaves large family of children.
To demonstrate the strength of the ice in
the bay c.. w. Harris, C. A. B. Crowding,
and Walter W. Crowding of Kent county,
rode on horseback from Barnard's wharf to
Stony Point, Hartford county, on Tuesday.
The bay at this point is nine miles wide and
very bad, and it took nearly three hours to
make the trip. Realizing that some might
doubt their adventure, each brought back
bundle of sedge to show that they had reach
ed the Western Shore. They discovered no
air-holes.
The 109th session of the Baltimore Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church will
convene in Hagerstown on March l and will
continue one week, Bishop John P. Newman
presiding There will be fully 300 ministers
present and Official visitors, including Bishop
Bowman, Bishop Hurst, chancellor of the
New York University; DIR. Buckley, editor of
the Christian Advocate; Chaplain MeCafe,
secretary of the General Missionary Society;
DIR. Kynett, secretary of the Board of Church
Extension. This conference met in Hagers-
town in 1858, in 1878, and now in 1898.
At Pocomoke City, Worcester coun ty, on
Sunday last the thermometer registered 50
below zero. Rabbits, quail and all kinds of
game are so poor that it does not pay to hunt
it. Wild ducks are plentiful on the river near
there now, being driven inland in search Of
food. Buzzards and birds of prey are be-
coming unusually bold and fearless on account
of hunger. Refuse and scraps from the table
are eagerly devoured. The very unusual
sight is often Witnessed OF buzzard standing
on the top Of kitchen chimney, uumindful
of the smoke, warming himself hy the heat
from the stove.
William Welsh, who lives on Edmondson
avenue Baltimore was 90 years old on Mon
day. He is the oldest member of Eutaw
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and was
present when, on May 10, 1908, Bishop As
bury dedicated the church. Mr.. Welsh was
admitted to membership in the church two
years later, at ten years of age. He attended
the church September u, 1874 when, by the
firing of cannon from Federal Hill, notice
was given of the invasion of Baltimore by the
british, He and other boys, after the sum
mary dismissal ofthe congregation, engaged in
molding bullets for the use of the American
soldiers.
Mrs. Isabel II. Mackall aged about 81 years
wife of DIR. Richard C. Mackall, of Elkton,
Cecil county, and sister of Mrs. DIR. John
II. lamar, who is the only remaining member
of the Hollingsworth family, so prominent in
the early history of this country, died on Sun
day of Bright's disease of the kidneys, from,
which she had been sufferer for several years.
She had been member of the Presbyterian
Church since girlhood. Mrs. Macka1l was
the eldest daughter of William Hollingsworth
and granddaughter of Zebulon Holdings
worth, who took CONSPICUOUS place in the
war Of the Revolution. One son, William
Hollingsworth Mackall, survives her.
Leutenant-C Colonel Francis @. Wyse, {. S.
A., retired, died at Pikesyille Saturday. He
was retired on February %, 1879. Colonel
Wyse was native of Maryland, and was APP
pointed cadet at the Z. s. Military Academy,
on September /, 1888, was graduated on July
l, 1887, and entered the army with the rank
of brevet. second- lieutenant, and on July 81
of the same year he was made second lieu.
tenant, and frst-lieutenant in 1888. On
March 3, 1871, he was promoted to the cap
taincy, and on July II of that year he was
brevetted major for gallant and meritorious
conduct at Calabosa river, Mexico. He was
appointed major of the Fourth Artillery on
May II, 1861, and lieutenant-eolonel in Nov
ember. He resigned on July %, 1863