The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-03-18
Maryland Affairs.

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Col. Edwin H. Webster, of Belair, is ex
tremely i'll.
! Salisbury is 10 have large shoe factory
which viii employ over 100 hands.
Cerebro spinal meningitis is prevailing
among horses in parts of Cecil county.
Samuel Wagner died at Keedysville on
/ on Monday of heart failure, aged 80 years
Talbot county has about 400 miles of
road on which is expended annually the sum
OF SIS 900, something less than $40 per mile
Between 1000 and 5000 persons attended
sale Of cattle By the trustees of VIM }.
Shook, at Uhca, in Frederick county, on
Tuesday. A herd of 40 Holsieins sold at
prices ranging from S45 to sl02 per head.
Some Of the animals it is said cost $500.
Mr.. Henry Hoen. OF the firm of A. Hoeu
/ Il Co., photographers. died Tuesday at his
country home in Wayerly, aged sc years.
/ Mr.. Hoen was born at Nassau, Ger
MANY, and came to Baltimore about 1910.
He entered the employ of Z. Weber Co.,
| afterward A. Hoeu & Co., and few years
later he became partner in the firm. de
married Miss Mary Flynn, of Baltimore, who,
/ with two sons and four daughters, survives
! him.
| On January PC George Kimmelshne's barn
burned down near Cearloss, Washington
1 county 1t is thought TO have been set on
| FIRE by incendiaries. On Sunday night. it IS
| thought, these same incendiaries put poisoned
cornmeal in the troughs of his horses for a
quantity was found ia the stable the next
| morning and one horse died. The following
note was tackled up on the horse trough:
'Mr. Hummelshine,. you saved your stock the
time of the FIRE. Save it now. You bet you
\ are left this time"
/ r D. a
wears. was playing with a pet dog Tuesday
morning when the animal ran into the street.
! Just then a cable car came up, and, striking
! the dog. killed it. The little girl ran to save
| her pet, and in reaching for 1t fell beneath
| the car. She was wedged between the front
wheel and the grip bar. An officer and
citizen attempted to extricate her, but so
| tightly was she wedged in that she could not
| be moved. Jack screws were employed to
raise the car, but she was dying when she
/ was removed.
| Henry Lampert, single man, aged about
90 years and partial mute, committed sui
| eide some time OF Monday by jumping off
4 the White Rocks, at Champions Gap Rohr
ersville district, Washington county. For
years his mind was weak, and he tried on
| different occasions to kill himself A few
months ago he cut his throat with knife.
Later he set fire to his fine residence near
| Locust Grove, and but for the timely inter
vention of neighbors would have burned
| himself alive. He had been at Belleview
Asylum, Hagerstown, for several weeks. He
was last seen on Monday afternoon walking
toSard the mountains. He did not return to
his home at night and the next day neighbors
| instituted search and found his body at the
base of tall cliff, forty feet high, known as
the White Rocks. His remains were man
gled and his skull crushed.
The great tinware factory of the Matthai
Ingram Manufacturing Company, said to be
the largest plant of the kind III the world,
and located at the corner of Marshall avenue
and Wells street, Baltimore, was damaged by
fire to the extent of over $4,000 early tues
day morning. The loss is fully covered by
insurance. The flames were discovered at
five o clock in the southeastern annex to the
main building, brick structure 60 100
feet and three stories high, and by almost
superhuman efforts on the part of the city
firemen, employees of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company and employees of the fac
tory the destruction was confined TO the
building where the fire started Three alarms
were sounded. There was a scarcity of
water, owing to the smallness OF the mains
in the vicinity, aud although the fremen
worked desperately, the flames spread with
great rapidly AT this junetnre two 1alii-
more and Ohio locomotives, equipped as Are
engines, came to the rescue, aud making
connection with an artesian well in the River
side yard, assisted materially jn subduing The
flames. The loss is about $50. 600, and over
700 persons are thrown out of employment.