The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-07-08
Maryland Affairs.

Two barns ana contents, near barton,
Allegany county, were burned by fire. crackers
on Tuesday.
a. L. Newbold, Of Annapolis junction,
has been appointed as student at West Point
Military Academy.
Benjamin Zepp, aged so years. painter,
fell from a ladder, in Baltimore on Thursday,
and broke his neck.
Forty-one young women took the white veil
in the Order Of the Sisters of NotFe Dame,
in Baltimore, ON Sunday.
Miss Jeanette Eleanor Briscoe, aged 81
years, died at St. Mary's City, st. Mary
county, on the 4th instant.
Mrs. Louis Irrelevant Wigfall. widow of
United States Senator Wigfall, Of Texas, died
in Baltimore on Wednesday.
Hagerstown had several small fires on
Tuesday from fire crackers. One of which
came near proving disastrous.
One hundred and thirty-two new dwelling
houses were constructed in Hagerstown from
January l, 1898, to July !, 1893-six months.
The Frederick Female Seminary is now
the "Weman's College Of Frederick and is
under the patronage of the Reformed Church.
John E. Schmidt and Henry lick commit
ed suicide in Baltimore, on Thursday. The
first hung himself, the other took laudanum.
A negro picnic was held at Muirkirk, Prince
Georges county, on the 4th. Result-two
men fatally cut and beaten and fifteen others
severely wounded.
VIM. Brown, colored, was accidentally
killed at the Brush Electric Light Works in
Baltimore ON Wednesday, by coming in con-
tract with live wire.
J. Howard Hammett, of Baltimore, was
drowned at Sparrow's Point, on Tuesday, he
E.,r hoo, t,tr al kkAr
resides in Mechanicstown, Frederick county.
Fully 10000 people were at Pen-Mar on
Tuesday. Addresses were made by Gen. II.
H. Carr, Joseph S. Heuisler, Col. H. Kyd
Douglas, Joseph Thompson and Isaac Lobe
Strauss.
A new observatory, called "Tiptop Tower, :"
constructed of iron, has been erected on Mt
Quirauk, the highest elevation near Pen Mar
1t is seventy feet high and $500 feet above
the level of the sea.
Gov. Brown telegraphed to the managers
Of the Worlds Fair to allow the removal Of
the agricultural exhibit from the Agricultural
Building to the Maryland Building, rs where
it stands at present it is no credit to the state
VIM. d. Mack, G. A. R. veteran and q
clerk in the War Department at Washington,
had both feet so badly crushed by Western
Maryland Railroad train at Edgemont, on
Tuesday, that amputation will be necessary.
Carl Steinmeier and Carl Hampel were ar
rested at the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, on
| Monday. In their valises were found over
$4,000 worth of porcelain paintings and
medals which were stolen from the Chicago
Fair.
St. Johns College, at Annapolis, was
damaged by fire Tuesday night, to the extent
of $500. A rocket set fire to the cupola and
in a few moments it was in a blaze. The
firemen worked hard and confined the flames
to the roof.
John Cline, farmer, aged 40 years, while
driving across the tracks of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, at Elk
ton, Cecil county, on Tuesday, was struck by
train and killed. His 9-year- old son, who
was with him, escaped with but slightinjnries
Robert Morrison, of Laurel, Prince Georges
county, met with painful accident on Mon
| day. While leading a steer to town he be-
came entangled in the rope, and was dashed
violently to the ground, breaking his collar
bone and bruising himself considerably.
Herman D. A. Henning, q sculptor and
teacher of modelling and drawing at the
Maryland Institute, died Monday in Baltimore,
from pneumonia. Mr.. Henning was born in
Elborfeld, Germany, 81 years ago and came
| to Baltimore, when boy. He made the
statues for the st. Paul street bridge A
widow survives MIN.
The "Painter's Rest farm, containing 266
acres. in the first district of Cecil county, has
been sold to William Price, of Middetown,
Del, for So, 900 cash. During the electrical
storm that visited the county on Monday
evening lightning struck and killed three
horses on the farm of Joseph Fl. Steele, near
Chesapeake City. The horses were insured.
The tomato acreage in Kent county is
larger this year than ever known, although
many who are growing them largely for cam
| ing purposes find it almost impossible to
secure stand of plants, on account of cut
| worm. Mr.. l.. c. Justis, Ir., Of near Ken
nedyville, has set out over 200,0 plants,
more than half of which are resets, and still
has not satisfactory stand.
The hard crab business has taken on its
usual large proportions. Oxford, st. Michaes,
Claiborne and Tilghman's Island, in Talbot
county, are the principal shipping points. The
new wharf of the Maryland Steamboat Com
pany at Tilghman's Island gives that section
the advantage of the crab trade this year for
the FIRST time. One dealer is putting up devil
ed crabs for the use of the restaurants inside
the Worlds Fair grounds.
Ben Webb, colored, of Caroline county,
met with peculiar accident and doubtless
narrow escape from death Monday night last
He and little boy were the sole occupants
of their home, which is near Preston. Webb
was sitting near the chimney when a stroke
of lightning sent the bricks here and there.
The lightning struck Webb's right heel, burn
ing up and charring the homes of his ankle
and foot and spreading open in long cash
the bottom of the foot, The foot was ampu.
tated,
Portions of Calvert county are suffering for
want of rain, Corn is looking well and the
wheat harvest is over. 1t is generally con-
ceded that there will be one-half crop peaches
in the upper part of the county. Many of
the farmers who went heavily into this indus
few yesrs ago are now regretting the step as
the trees were planted on some of the best
tobacco land, and the increase in the price of
tobacco makes its tillage more attractive than
the uncertain yielding and low prices Of
peach crop.
David Carca1d, a prominent and we'll
known citizen of Calvert county, died sud
denly in bis carriage while on his way to
attend a conference of the M. K. Church
South. DIR. Smith was with him. Mr.. Car
caud was for a number of years county com
missioner and judge of the Orphans Court,
and was appointed by Governor Brown a
delegate to the State tax convention. He
was large land owner, but divided up the
principal part of his real estate some years
ago among his children. He was about 60
Years Of age, and leaves q family of four
children.
Mrs Sidney Ann Wilmer, a native of Mary
land. died last Saturday in Brooklyn, N. Y.
She had left Baltimore for Brooklyn many
years ago, and was related to some Of the
oldest and best families Of the state. The
depeasedis husband I, A Wilmer was n we'll
known literary man in Baltimore and Phila-
delphia, and in his youth the most intimate
friend of Edgar Allen Poe. A similar friend
ship existed between Mrs. Wilmer and the
poets wife, Virginia Pee, Of whom she had
many interesting "reminiscences to relate. |
While Mrs. Wilmer possessed a mind of un-
usual strength, and was passionately fond of
books, she was equally noted for her thorough
ly domestic disposition and absorbing deVo,
ton to her home and family. Only three
ont of thirteen children survive her.