The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-04-29
MARYLAND Affairs.

MISS Margaret fOrter uleu on Sc1tuIo1y- hi
Baltimore, in her 9lst year
James B. Baker, of Hartford county, has
sold his farm of 525 acres TO John Michael
for SO. CO.,
The house in which Commodore Decatur
was born is still standing near Berlin. Wer-
eesier county
Crisfield, Somerset county, has an artesIan
well over 1000 feet deep 1t will be used by
the ice manufacturing company.
Electric roads are talked off in Washing
ton, Frederick, Montgomery, Howard and a
portion of Prince Georges county.
Fire burned the electric light plantin Sal
isbary on Saturday afternoon, leaving the
town aud many private residences without
light
The Baltimore Sugar Refinery, at Curtis
Bay, which has been idle for the past year. is
TO resume operations early in May with largely
increased capacity
Baltimore county tax rate will be 20 cents
on the SI00s same as last year, notwithstand-
ing the greatly increased taxable basis, about
s., 100. 600 additional
Secretary Of State LeCsmpie is i'll of con
sumption He is not confined to his bed.
but his condition is such as to alarm his
friends and he will be sent to his home in
Jacob Goldenberg died in Baltimore. on
Saturday. in his 93d year He was born in
Prussia and came to Baltimore in 1852 and
children survive him.
Charles Carroll Egerion. of Baltimore, has
sold To the Maryland Granite Company of
Chicago. ILL.,. the large green stone quarries
and land near Delta. in Hartford county, con
tanning 50 acres. for $62-5o
Since the failure of the peach cultsre on
the upper Maryland and Delaware Peninsula,
the land formerly used as peach orchards has
been planted with English walnut, Japanese
chestnut, pecan and hazel nut trees
Wm. Schoil, of Ceresville, Frederick
county, committed suicide by hanging him
self on Friday of last week He was 81
years old. and for q year or two had been
suffering from a weak mind oceasioned by
falling from tree
The average death rate in Baltimore, &C
eording 10 Secretary Carter, of the Health
Department, for the sixty years between
1882 and 1892, ranged from 27.25 to p. "a
per 1000. This raie of mortality greatly ex-
ceeds that of the rural districts of Maryland.
William Pinkney, eolored, was convicted
of murder in the first degree. at Upper Mari
boro, Prince Georges county, on the DIST
instant. for killing Francis NJ. Bowie a few
weeks previous Daniel Barber, colored,
was tried before the court on Monday,
participant in the murder, and was convicted
of murder in the first degree. Both have
been sentenced to be hung.
Col Edwin H. Webster died on Monday
last near Belair, Hartford county, of Brights
disease. in his 18th year. He had been a
member of Congress, collector of the port Of
IL I l. Il
other places of trust. He was a lawyer of
some prominence, leaves foar children, :wo
daughters and two sons His mother was
Hanson Of Kent county.
William H. Williams. of Delta. Hartford
county. WAS accidentally killed on Friday Of
last week while working in Benefits slate
quarry. He was oiling the machinery at the
slaie-sawins table when his clothing caught
on the set-serew, drawing him into the belt
ing and whirling him around the shaft at
terrific speed, causing instant death. He
called for help. but it was impossible to stop
the engine in time 10 save his life. 1t took
thirty minutes to extricate his mangied body
from the machinery.
A special train of 10 locomotives and II
cars. illustrative Of the development of the
locomotive. left Baltimore on Saturday night
for Chicago 1t is part of the exhibit of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Among the
old locomotives are the Atlantic, the first
OF the '.grasshopperH type, and the Ma
zeppa-; the first of the crab type. I'M
ike the John Ball. which has gone to Chi
cago in the remodelled form of 1858, both
the Atlantic and the Mazeppa are in their
original form. The former was built in 1892
and the latter in 1896.
Mrs Jennie Robinson, of Cincinnati. Ohio,
died recently aged 100 years.
Last weeks storm is said to have ruined
the oyster beds along the Connecticut coast.
Early vegetables and fruit were injured by
the frost in several of the Southern States on
Saturday aud Sunday
By Inc storm ON Lake Michigan, on Thurs
day of last week. over Sse0.D00 in shipping
and nine lives were lost.
.Iudson Wooiter, living near Weston, West
Virginia. is 10 years old, and stands feet
s inches in height and weighs over 200 pounds.
The recent frost in Mississippi has either
killed or greatly injured the cotton. There
is time TO replanf. but in many seciiohs there
is no seed
kilograms from West Tennessee and North
Mississippi aud Arkansas state that frost has
pretty generally
Gen Edward Fitzgerald Beale died in Wash
ington, ID. C., on Saturday afternoon aged
II years. He was u soldier of the URion,
and served one year rs Minister to Austria.
The stone coping of several four-story
houses in Peel road, Kilbourn, London, Eng,
fell on Monday afternoon while the street was
full of pedestrians and four persons were
killed and fifteen were injured.
A telegram from Virginia, Illinois on Tues
day says that the Illinois and Sangamon rivers
are on rampage, several thousands acres of
bottom lands being submerged.
President Cleveland gave reception on
Monday, afternoon to the Duke of Eeragua
and his party. There was an entire absence
Of formality, and the visit of the distinguished
Columbiaus TO the White House was short.
A partition wall in a new electric light
building, at Cincinnati, collapsed Monday
carrying IA workmen into the &c liar, a dis
lance of 40 feet. One was killed, four fatally
injured and three others seriously injured.
The judges of the Court in Jasper and
Newton counties, Missouri, have ordered all
all prisoners in the jais to work on the eouu-
ty roads for eight hours daily. As result
of the order tramps are fleeing from the State.
The big Yates failure at Rochester, N. Y,
precipitated failures la Columbus, o., with
liabilities aggregating 100000. The con-
Germs involved are the Ohio Coal Exchange,
Crescent Coal Company, and Jacksonville
Stove Company.