The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-08-19
Maryland Affairs.


town, OF Wednesday, IN his 9th year.
Baltimore county fair will be held on Aug.
ust 20, 30, 81 and September l.
The foundation for new court house for
AlIegany county is being dug at Cnmber
land.
The drouth in Kent county has cut the
corn crop short one-half and almost ruined
the fruit crop.
Jacob Tome. the well known banker and
phianthopist of Port Deposit, Cecil county,
was SO years old on Saturday last.
An unknown women jumped in front OF
| Sparrow's Point train, in Baltimore, on We'd
nesday and she was literally ground up.
Truckers and fishermen on the Eastern
Shore are complaining because the rairel.i
and express companies have advanced the
freight raes.
Rev John Martin. aged 81 years, died in
! Port Deposit. Cecil county. on the lth instant.
IT,. had been actively engaged in Episco-
pal Church work all his life.
j On Wednesday hard work stopped the
spreading OF FIRE at Arlington, Baltimore
county. The fire started in small barn, in
the thickest settled part of the town.
Judge Frank Kreigh, of the Washington
! County Orphans Court, was thrown from
! buggy while driving to Willamsport Sunday
I The Democratic Central Committee of
Frederick county will meet in Frederick on
the 18th to arrange dates Tor primaries and
convention 10 nominate "a county ticket.
| Mrs. Alice Hammond, widow of the late
VIM A. Hammond, died in Elhcott City, on
| Wednesday. She was the daughter of the
late Judge Edwd Hammond and leaves three
/ children
Active preparations are being made for the
! Cecil county fair, mt Elktou, September ., q.
| : and g. The track has been put in excellent
! condition and the fencing and buildings have
received repairs.
| The Republicans of Anne Arundel county
/ will hold primaries August % and the county
convention August %. The Republicans will
/ probably not nominate a judicial ticket against
! Judges Roberts and Revell.
A fire started on High Knob of the Catoc
| tin Mountain, on Friday of las week, but was
| soon controlled. On Saturday fire broke out
again in three different places, and caused
much loss to timber and wood.
The Democracy of Dorchester on Tuesday
elected delegates to the first circuit Judicial
convention, and expressed the hope that the
! bench will be kept as now constituted, by the
/ nomination of Judges Page and Lloyd.
Ground was broken Tuesday morning for
"a handsome chapel for the St. James Luther
an congregation Of Frederick city, to be built
| on a lot on West Second street. formerly oc-
cupied by the mansion Of WIN. p. Maulsby,
Jr. The exercises were brief but interest
ing.
| F. William Dammann, aged rs years, died
/ in Baltimore on the 18th instant. He was II
I native of Bremen, Germany, but had been
( actively engaged in businessi in Baltimore since
/ 1886. On the same day, DIR. Charles Henry
| Pick, u native of Kistro, Germany, died, aged
/ so years.
The barn and outbuildings on the farm of
John Anderson, near Fair Hill, Cecil coun
ty, were destroyed by fire Monday afternoon,
/ together with the contents, including all this
| years crop of hay, grain and a lot of harness
and farming implements. The origin of the
/ fire is mystery.
Berlin, Worcester county, on Saturday had
IA $40, 200 fire. There was. also. Il fire at Ok
/ ford, Talbot county, on Sunday, by which
1 three handsome residences were burned.
/ The steamer Ida, by the use of her fire hose,
stopped further destruction.
! A sloop ran into and sank "a yawl boat in
/ Rock Creek Anne Arundel county, on Sun
day In the yawl were some Baltmoreans,
I u part of parto who had gone there on am
excursion. James B. johnson and Mrs.
John H. Schumann were drowned.
/ Smith, Hammond & Co., Baltimore grain
! merchants, are having loaded at Newport
News what is said to be the largest single
cargo of wheat ever sent away from an At
I lantic seaport. The cargo consists of 81 900
quarters, or 10000 bushels. 1t will go to
1 Antwerp on the steamship Netherby Hall and
the firm will receive gold in payment for the
produce.
Herman Missinch, German tramp, APP
parently 55 years of age, was lodged in the
/ Elkton Jail Monday morning on the charge
I of having burned the barn of Charles W. Sim.
pers, at North East, Sunday night. The fire
was discovered shortly after O'Clock and
Missinch noticed emerging from the
building, which, with its contents, including
hay and other provender, was destroyed.
! The Republicans of Kent county have
named August 10 for their primaries and
August - for the nominating convent on.
More than ordinary interest is felt in the
convention, as it is thought that fall ticket
will not be nominated, but that Capt. Joseph
Downey, the prohibition candidate, will be
indorsed for sheriff. Nominations will prob
ably be made for the Legislature, though it is
claimed by some prominent Republicans that
no ticket may be put in the field, and that
1 the Prohibition candidates may be Endorsed.
Prof NJ. A. Newell, who for long term
of years was principal Of the State Normal
| School, died early Monday morning at his
home, in HaVre de Grace, where he had lived
for the past two years. His death resulted
4 from an affection of the liver and heart,
which had confined him to his room for six
weeks His end was quiet and was without
/ pain. Prof. Newell was native of Belfast,
| Ireland, where he was born in 1924. He
4 held professorships in ireland and England in
several institutions of leaving in America,
| and was well-kn in educational circles.
/ The drouth in Hartford county is serious
| The corn and tomatoe crops will scarcely be
half the average, and the canning industry
as well as the farmers will suffer greatly.
| The pack in Hartford is much larger than IN
any other county, and the Gamers having
contracted to deliver certain amounts of corn
! and tomatoes, will have to go into the market
and buy at advanced figures to make good
their contracts. All canned goods will be
greatly higher next winter than formerly
| Pastures are burned and Drowned. and stock
is suffering, while corn has no ears at all in
some sections. Some parts Of Baltimore,
| Carroll, Frederick and Washington counties
are similar to the situation in Hartford. Ere
vent and copous rains can not repair the dam
age done.
A tournament took place on Tuesday at
Aker's Park, Howard county, near Morriotts-
vile. In the riding contest for the honors
there were ten entries, as follows: Ii. w.
| Crook. Frank GALLON, VIM. Digs, John Day,
Edgar Hobbs, Daniel Robinson, Charles
| Triestman, VIM. Shirley, Charles Potts, VIM.
| T. Dorsey The winner of the first prize,
saddle, was Vim. T. Dorsey, who crowned
Miss Florence Digs, as queen. II. W.
Crook won bride and crowned Miss Flor
ence Brown as first maid of honor. Miss
/ Edna Weller was crowned second maid by
\ Frank GALLON, aad Miss Bessie Cavey third
maid by VIM Shirley. The charge to the
knights was delivered by Martin F. Burke
I and the coronation address by Edward T.
Jones.
The disappearance of Jacob Frederick, who
was freight brakeman on the Western Mary
land Railroad, is matter of some mystery
at Hagerstown He rented house for
year, and later desired to move to Ship
pensburg, bat was required to make set
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