The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-07-29
MARYLAND Affairs.

iteuerlch CITY rs threaleheu WIN "a'et
famine.
Prohibitionisis are nominating county
tickets throughout the State.
B. F. Darling, of Hartford county, from
"A acres cut 90 tons Of hay.
Well improved real estate is selling in Kent
county from 81 to $50 per acre.
A number of Methodist Protestant Churches
are being built on the Eastern Shore.
A number of horses and cattles were killed
ON the Eastern Shore by the storm on We'd
nesday
Owing to damage TO the engine at Spar
rows Point, the rolling mill has been COM
PEELED to shut down.
The Southern Electric Company of Balti-
more has appointed a receiver; assets $lI5,-
900. liabilities 100000.
Havre de Grace and Aberdeen, in Hartford
county, and Port Deposit in Cecil county,
are to be lighted by electricity.
Caroline county was visited by terrific
rain and wind storm on Wednesday; orchards,
buildings, ETC., were destroyed.
! The peach crop of Delaware and Maryland
will not realize over 100000 bushels, fully
one third less than the first estimate.
Disastrous forest fires are raging in Somer..
set county Farmers are on guard day and
| hlSul oEhtI " fiOttNe thSA SNhNHrs'
Robert Minor, negro horse thiefof Wash
ington, d. c., is in the Prince George eoun-
4 ty Jail for stealing horses in that county.
Barn burning is becoming very common on
the Eastern Shore. few examples from
Judge Lynch would soon put stop to it.
By an incendiary fire the barn and contents
including two horses, on the farm OF Thomas
Hill, in Kent county, were burned on Monday.
Partially insured.
Moses P. Haro, aged 20 years, an inmate
Of the Cecil county almshouse, fell down a
fight of stairs on Monday breaking his neck,
fram which he died instantly.
| Many improvements have been added to
the Mccullough Iron Works, at Northeast,
| Cecil county, and they are now able to COM
plete with any works in the country.
Jacob r. Alice, has sold his farm, situated
on the Manokin river, about three miles from
| Princess Anne, to Powell Bros, of the famous
Shadeland farm, in Pennsylvania, for $l4,-
00a.
Rev. VII. II. Powers, rector of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, Towson, filed n
bill of separation from his wife and asked an
Injunction to restrain her from entering his
house.
Frederick county is suffering from drought
| Pastures, corn and potatoes are suffering ana
many wells and streams are dry. The same
| condition exists in Allegany and Garrett
counties.
Fire-bugs are at work in Hagerstown. An
attempt was made to burn the Daily Globe
printing Office on Tuesday night, and also the
new building Of the Kelley Institute, in course
of construction.
Thomas Line, well-knoyn resident of
| Boonsboro, Washington county, who was so
! L 81 ~ Col IN
the Thursday previous died from his injuries
on Saturday last.
Thomas Richardson, who resides near the
border line, between Somerset and Worcester
\ counties, is 80 years old. He has never miss
ed voting year since he was Il years old,
and has always voted the Democratic ticket.
E. A. Merceron, of Howard county, was
badly hurt few days ago by horse, which
in swinging its head 10 fight the flies struck
Mr. Merceron in the face and broke his nose.
The accident was as remarkable as it was
painful.
The body of f. F. Cleave, of Patterson,
Pa, who escaped from Mt. Hope, near Balti-
more, on July 16, was found in pool in
Franklin Square, Baltimore, on Saturday
last He had had been an inmate of Mt.
Hope for number Of years.
Joseph Geffin, an employee in the ore mines
at Samples Manor, near Sharpsburg, Wash
iugton county, was killed by bank of ore
falling upon him on Monday. His body was
very badly mangled. He was aged about fifty
years and is a man OF family.
While taking sail on Tuesday afternoon,
near Salisbury, by the jibbing of the boom
four ladies were knocked overheard and
drowned They were Misses Martin Smith,
of Baltimore; Lula johnson, Maggie Taylor
and Nellie P. Patrick of Wicomico county,
| aged from lG to 2S years.
In Baltimore, on Friday night of last week
John J. Dobbin, interfered between a colored
| man and woman, who were fighting. Shortly
/ after the negro man returned with two com
panions and struck Dobbin with stone,
crushing in his skull, causing death on Tues
day. The three men were arrested and are
held for the murder.
Frank Bowers was arrested on Saturday by
| Detective Seibold, in Baltimore, charged with
| burning the barn Of Cyrus ID. Bell, near
| Williamsport, Washington county, last March.
The detective had been working ON the case
some time and said he overheard Bowers say
| he had set fire to the barn because Mr.. Bell
had caused his arrest and Imprisonment in
Washington county. He has been taken to
| Hagerstown.
Samuel Crone, of Middletown, Frederick
county, while playing ball on Saturday last
was struck on the left side of the face by
ball, which was violently thrown by George
| Wise. After the accident young Crone
managed to walk to the house of Stephen
| Coblentz nearby. where he fell unconscious,
and remained in that condition all through the
day. He is suffering with a split jaw bone
and conclusion of the brain.
On Tuesday, at Hagerstown, John Middle
| ton, an insane colored man, escaped from
Bellevue Asylum. He assaulted Mrs. Eyler
Albert. knocked her down and severely beat
her. He then threw her baby ont the window.
| He chased several women and assaulted Mrs.
! Edward Fridinger. In an attempt to assault
Mrs. Louis Weihr her husband came to her
rescue, but was knocked down and his upper
/ lin nearly severed from his jaw. The crazed
man was finally captured by Constable Stoffer
and taken jail.
The bank barn of Hamilton Stottlemeyer
near Church Hill, Frederick county, was
burned Saturday night 1t is said that a
tramp called at Mr.. Stottlemeyer's during
the evening and asked for permission to sleep
in the barn, and it is thought that the fire
originated through his carelessness, although
he gave up a lot of matches before entering
the building. All the contents, comprising
the newly gathered hay, farming implements,
ETC., were destroyed. Nothing has been heard
Of the tramp.
Edward Austen, of the tenth district of
Baltimore county, will have great crop this
i year. He owns 100 acres, running from
| Glencoe on the Northern Central Railroad
i eastward about AZ miles. He has the largest
i herd Of dairy cattle in the state. This year
Mr.. Austen will harvest $50 tons of hay from
400 acres, and about $500 bushels of wheat
| from l55 acres, some of which will average
% to so bushels. Two hundred and fifteen
acres is in corn, which is most prosperous,
and will yield over 1000 barrels, so acres in
corn for ensilage. and 100 acres in oats, which
E'Sillsleld 5000 bushels
al Sunday morning fire was discovered in
a fable of Ohm w. Emmert's in Hagerstown,
and before it could be stopped spread TO the
large store of Jones & Smith, damaging the
residence of Mr.. Emmert, and the Mail build :
/ ing. Assistance came from Chambersburg
and Waynesboro, Pa, and from Martinsburg,
West Virginia. Less over $l20,000. Owing
IN a hioh wind the sharks were carried IA great