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


Capt. Levi Phillips was found dead in his
boat at Annapolis
Well improved land is selling in Queen
Annes county at from $40 to $50 per acre.
A knitting mill, with 40 machines, is to
be started at Brunswick, Frederick county.
Several families in the Middletown Valley,
Frederick county, are suffering from typhoid
fever.
John Wehner. of Baltimore, aged 81 years,
went to the polls on Tuesday morning last,
voted, and fell dead.
Bishop A. A. Curtis, of Wilmington, Del,
confirmed So persons at the Elkton Roman
Catholic Church Sunday evening.
James McCallister, an inmate of the Wash
ington county Jail committed suicide on
Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid.
The Western Conference of the Maryland
Lutheran Synod will be held in Trinity Luther
an Church, Hagerstown, November u.
Mrs. Susan Bachtell, widow of the late
Henry Bachtell, died at Chewsville, Wash.
ington county on Monday morning. in her
81 st year.
The large brick residence on the farm Of
Frederick Taft, in Prince Georges county,
was burned Tuesday night 1t is said to have
been built in Colonial times.
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in Wicomico county. Dwellings. stores,
corncribs, meat houses, etc., are looted and
the contents carried off and secreted.
Geo VIM. Cramer, Secretary of the Fred
erick Agricultural Society and also of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, committed
suicide on Thursday. He was short $ll 600
Willie Walker, aged Is, and Willie Lark
ford, aged IA, have disappeared from theii
homes in Princess Anne. They had been
reading sensational papers which Walker.sold
Mrs. Samuel Grove, well-known lady
residing few miles south of Middletown
Frederick county, who was stricken with
paralysis several weeks ago, died last SUNDAY
afternoon, aged y years.
Work was begun on the Boonsboro electric
road on Monday. Electrician Edgar l.. Mil
Ter says the Middlelown and Frederick roat
will also be built and that in a few days th'
public will be assured of the fact by the
commencement of work upon it.
The large DWELLING at St. Michael's, Talbo
county, owned by Miss Mary c. Gibson, O
Havre de Grace, and occupied as n residence
by w. Sidney Easter, was burned on Sunday
The furniture and other contents ofthe house
except what was in the garnet, was saved.
James Mount, near Van Bibber Harfort
county, was attacked last Saturday by col
ored man named johnson, whom he had dis
charged the day before. While Mr.. Noun
was filling milk cans Johnson approached
Mount from behind and struck him on thu
head several times with a railroad car coupler
Mr.. William DeFord, president of tn,
Baltimore Sugar Refining Company, died il
Philadelphia, Pa, at $50 o'clock Monda,
evening. His death was caused by an acct
| dent He fell from the window of privat,
infrmary, where he was being treated TO
heart trouble, and received injuries that caus
ed his death two hours after the fall.
John II. Blake, one of the editors of tbs
Hagerstown Daily News, was shot at earl,
last Saturday morning as he was leaving tn
door of the editorial office into the street b,
a man wearing q SLOUGH hat pulled down owe
his eyes and standing but a short distance
away. The bullet whizzed past Mr.. Blake
head and imbedded itself in tree near by
The report of the pistol awoke the neighbor
hood and number of printers rushed out o
| the Office and with Mr.. Blake pursued tn,
lint he acnor,ad