The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-06-10
Maryland Affairs.

Taxes for municipal purposes in Hagers-
town are 81 cents on the 500.
c. W.. Lord & Co., the well known wooden
ware dealers of Baltimore. have failed.
Spring lake creamery, at Chesapeake City,
Cecil county, was burned on Monday. Loss
So 900.
C. Eppler & Sons. barrel factory, in Bati-
more, was burned on Friday night of last
week; loss $4,000.
Since the opening of the strawberry season
! from three TO six cars were shipped daily
from Ridgely, Caroline county.
Jacob Wheatfeld's box factory on south
Howard street, Baltimore, was burned on
Tuesday night; loss over $4,000.
Edwin Booth, the noted traged;an. died in
New York city on Wednesday. He was born
near Belair, Hartford county, November 10,
1888.
Severe storms visited Ringgold and Bakers
vile. Washington county, on Tuesday.
Trees were uprooted, eutbuildings overturned
and corn fields flooded.
At Belair, on Saturday, Eli Tucker was
convicted of manslaughter. He was tried for
the killing of Uriah johnson in April last.
Tucker is a farmer and is worth over $50, 900.
The General Synod ofthe Lutheran Church,
which had been in session at Canton, Ohio,
adjourned on Friday of last week. Hagers-
town was selected as the next place of meet
ing.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
Tuesday forwarded eleven carloads of Mary
land strawberries from President Street Station
to Boston and thirteen cars from Calvert Sta
lion to Buffalo, N. Y.
On Wednesday of last week Dennis, an
aged colored man, was killed by his son in
Wicomico county, who also seriously wound
ed his wife and fled to Pocomoke swamp, with
several parties in hot pursuit. The parricide,
who used a shotgun in the tragic affair, has
but ore hand. The murderer gave himself
up to the sheriff on Saturday.
Washington city capitalists are negotiating
for the purchase of !, 200 acres of land at
Plum Point, Calvert county, on the Chesa-
peake bay, for which the offer made is So, 900.
1t is the purpose of the owners 10 construct
a large hotel at the point, the terminus of
the projected Washington and Chesapeake
Railroad.
Glenelg, the estate formerly owned by the
late General Tyson, near GAINESVILLE, Howard
county, containing 407 acres, has been sold
to Mr.. Charles w. Knox, for SIS, 900. When
owned by General Tyson, % years ago.
Glenelg comprised about 500 acres. The
property is enhanced by II magnificent granite
residence, which is said to have been built at
cost of over SIS, 900.
Ezra Reynolds died Suddenly at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Martha Boyer. at
Samples Manor, Washington county, of
epilepsy, at an advanced age on Tuesday.
He commanded the first boat through to
Georgetown on the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal. While resident of Kansas he was
attacked by desperadoes and stabbed danger
ously several times. In returning to Mary
land he fell from the train in an epileptic fit.
| He was possessed of remarkable physique
and survived many ills which to others would
have proven fatal.
/ During the prevalence of violent storm
which passed over Hartford county, Sunday. Il
( good deal of damage was done. The storm
was very severe in the river section of the
county and the Darlington neighborhood.
Lightning struck and killed horse which
Mr. Isaac Wilson was driving. The barn oil
Andrew Famans, near Millgreen, was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground. Moth
| ing but the live stock was saved. The build
4 ing was insured. Near the same place the
chimney on the house of John M. Scarboro
was struck, knocking it all to pieces.