The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-28
For the Democratic Advocate.
Don't Sell the Railroad.

MIssRs. EDITORS .-.fhe assault Of Mr..
WIN. Keyser upon Mr.. ,Jno. NJ. Hood, and
upon the Western Maryland Railroad, of
which Mr.. Hood is President, before the
Commissioners at the City Hall, in Baltimore,
last Wednesday week, and Of which road he
had been director, but seldom ever attending
the meetings, except when most likely IN the
interests of some other corporation like the
West Virginia Central, it is said has shown
up his real character.
This Mr.. Keyser has tried before 10 lnlure
Baltimores material and political standing
when, in 1885, he was chairman of the mon
grel fusionists city committee to put Mayor
and Council in office opposed to the regular
Democratic party of this city and state. 1t
is likely that he hoped then to get his tongs
into the corporRtions of which the city is a
stockholder, and disguised at his failure then
has taken another tact now. His impudence
after his political misconduct then and his
neglect of official duties afterwards as a di.
rector of the W. NJ. r. R., in attending only
three meetings out of eleven of the directors,
is only equaled by his personal good looks,
style and greed for power and ducats.
Let countryman who has had some expe-
rience in Railroads, as you know, say simply
that no good citizen of this commonwealth.
uninhuenced by an outside consideration,
wonld for moment advocate the sale of the
Wesern Maryland Railroad at present. To
sell at any price that would be offered would
be to sacrifice millions of dollars now and
prospective To let the Keyser- Davis party
get il. in the way in which they are after it,
would be highway robbery. II is the only
road in the state in which Baltimore, at least
one half OF the state in population, has a
controlling interest, land our metropolis should
hold on 10 it for numerous material and bust
ness interests. Il is a key TO the lock OF
several would be monopoles and should not
be lost. coUSFRyNAN.
Thomas S. Ambrose, who was a clerk OF
the United States District Court for tbs
Southern District of Ohio in 1881, and fed
after being indicted for embezzlement, sur.
rendered to the United States marshal on
Monday at Cincinnati. He has been liv-
ing in Europe for the past twelve years with
his wife, and returned last week in disguise
to be at the bedside of his dying mother.
Ambrose was charged with making false en-
tries in the fee accounts, and there were sew
eral criminal indictments against him as well
as civil suits. His alleged peculations
amounted to about 100000. He was cap
tain of the old Cincinnati Zouaves. He gave
bond for SIS, 900 and was released for his ap-
pearance st the April term of court.
Eighty miners were killed and scores we're
injured in an explosion in the Fortsch
Schritt mine, near Dux, Austria Hungary,
on Tuesday, as the shifts were changing. A
cage full of miners bad been lowered half
way down the shaft when the ground trem-
bled, a loud rumbling report was heard, and
the cable attached to the cage gave such
lurch that the lowering machinery broke, a
rush of air and dust from the pits moaih,
the sounds Of crashing iimbers and the cries
Of the men in the cage gave warning to the
men above of the extent of the disaster.
Later accounts state that the number Of deaths
is over 1870.
Mexico has shipped to the United States
in the past year 500, 600 lizard skins.