The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-09-23
Maryland Affairs.

Calvert county Prohibitionists have placed
a full ticket in the field.
An electric road is to be built between
Belair and Havre de Grace.
Mrs. Julia Woolford. of Centreville. died
on Sunday last in her 93d year.
Daniel Wilmer, of Washington county,
died on Saturday, in his esd year.
Mary Ellen Reeley, colored, of Baltimore,
has been arrested for having four husbands.
A company has been chartered in Balti.
more to build AN electric railway from Canton
10 North Point.
Hartford county was visited by heavy rain
on Friday evening of last week. Great dam
age was done.
AT the NJ. E. Church, in Northeast, Cecil
county, 20 members were taken into the
church on Sunday last.
1t is said the oyster bars Of the Chesapeake
bay and its tributaries are filled with the
choicest oysters Last winter being too
severe for the dredgers to dam ige them.
During storm on Friday afternoon of last
week the barn on the farm of b. Geary
South, near Hagerstown, was struck by light
ming and burned, together with all the crops,
etc.
Since the adoption of rapid transit systems
by the street railways of Baltimore % persons
have been killed and 65 injured. The last
victim was Mrs. Harriet Zimmerman aged 6S
years.
James B. Councilman has laid out his farm
If $50 acres, near Pikesyille, on the Balti
more and Reisterstown turnpike, for the pur
pose of selling lots to those who desire TO live
in the country.
John c. Leib, treasurer of the Northern
Central Railroad Company and of the Balti
more and Potomac, dropped dead on Monday,
afternoon, in Baltimore, from paralysis of the
brain just as he left the office.
Daniel Jones, of Frederick, was convicted
on Thursday OF wiie.beating, and was sen
fenced to receive 80 lashes, the Judge request
ing the sheriff ''to lay them on as hard as he
could as Jones had been before the court
several times on similar charges.
John NJ. Vincent, merchant at Walston's
Switch, Wcomico county, was found in
woods near his residence, on Monday, with
n gaping wound in his right side made by the
load from shotgun. He was ont hunting,
and it is supposed the gun accidentally
discharged.
Sunday last there were four persons in at
tendance at the morning service of the Meth
odist Protestant Church, in Salisbury, whose
combined ages foot up to 1856 years. These
were: Mrs. Hetly Brumbley, aged 81; Mr..
Joseph Collins, so; Mrs. Cooper, so; and
Mrs. Dashiell, 95 years.
The home of Richard n Thompson, at
DougEoregan, Howard county has been visit
ed with more than ordinary affection. With
in short period four out of six children have
died, aud now Mrs Thompson has become,
it is thought, hopelessly insane. 1t has been
decided to remove her at once to Mount Hope
Asylum.
While the new cruiser Montgomery was
being given trial on the Chesapeake Bay,
on Wednesday steam pipe burst, and Chief
Engineer Zachariah Meushaw, of the Colum-
bia Iron Works, and coal HEAVIER John Doyle,
were scalded to death. At the time of the
accident the vessel. was making 49, knots an
hour, one knot in excess of the contract re-
quirement.
At Port Deposit, on Friday evening of last
week, lightning struck the Jacob Tome In
stitute, breaking the slate roof and knocking
off some of the sheahting. The carpenters
were at work in the building at the time, and
one had Ratchet knocked out of his hand.
The building was vacated in short order and
without much ceremony.
Deputy Marshal VIM. H. Droste. Of the
Baltimore police force, committed suicide on
Saturday by cutting his throat. For some.
time he had been complaining, and was re-
tired, and it produced melancholia. During
the late war he was employed as ship car.
penter in the Confederate navy yards, and in
running blockades. and was universally popu-
lar.
Adams & Blake, who have since July, 1891,
been publishing the Daily and Weekly News,
Hagerstown applied to the court on Satur-
day for a receiver. The court has appointed
j. Clarence Lane receiver. The Daily News
is the oldest daily paper in town, having been
established in 1878 by NJ. E. Fechtig. The
plant will be sold by the receiver, but the
publication of the paper will not be interrupt.
ed at present.
Ex-Judge Richard Grason, of Towson,
Baltimore county, died on Thursday, in his
18th year. He was son of. Gov Vim. Gra-
son. and was born in Queen Anne's county;
in 1850 he was appointed deputy attorney of
Cecil county by Encouragement R. j. Brent,
and upon the adoption of the constitution of
1851 was elected State 5 attorney for the same
county without opposition, and was reelected,
being the only one on the Democratic ticket
that was successful that year. In 1857 he
moved to Towson, and in 1864 was elected
judge and was elected in 1867 for Is years.
An electrical storm passed over Ellicoit
City and vicinity on Friday night of last week.
A remarkable feat of the lightning was to il
Illuminate the main auditorium of Emory Meth
odist Episcopal Church by entering the
church on the electric light wires and affect
ing the switch in such a manner rs to turn on
the full incandescent power from the dynamo.
Persons who saw the church suddenly light
up were alarmed, fearing the building had
been struck by lightning. The light could
not be turned off in the usual way by use of
the switch, and an electrician had TO be called
in.
An interesting law point was brought out
in the Circuit Court in Frederick on Sat mr.
day in the case of the State versus Mrs. John
Leopold, Of Knoxville, charged with an
assault upon Mrs. Anna Danner. The women
had had dispute about the pasturage of a
COW, when Mrs. Leopold assaulted Mrs. Dan
ner with stout stick Mrs Leopold was
defended by lawyer p. F. Pampel, who show.
ed by the evidence that Mrs. Leopold's hns-
band was nearby when the assault occurred,
and therefore, the husband being present, the
wife was not responsible. This view of the
case was also taken by the court and they
pronounced the woman not guilty.
BIG FIRE IN WISCONSIN.