The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-21
Maryland Affairs.

Eggs sold in Washington county last week
at cents per dozen.
Howard county's tax rate will be II cents
on the 500 this year.
Disastrous forest fires are reported in Anne
Arundel and Caroline counties.
Col. D. C. Winebrenner, of Frederick, will
build several cottages at Indian Springs.
In St. Michaels, Talbot county, on Monday,
two buildings were burned, and several others
were injured by water.
Capt. John W. Granville, aged IS years,
wellknown citizen of Easton, died on the 18th
while on his knees at prayer.
Miss Mamie Gephart, Of Ohio, was fatally
burned at Cumberland, on Monday afternoon.
She was visiting her grandparents at the time.
Ernest J. Knabe, senior member of VIM.
Knabe 4 Co., piano manufacturers, died on
Tuesday in Baltimore. He had been in i'll
health for some time.
Rein Perry, colored, aged Go years, near
Rockville, Montgomery county, was bitten by
a rabid dog a few weeks ago, and on Sunday
he became raving maniac.
Charles A. Councilman, of Baltimore conn
ty, has planted 30 acres in potatoes and Jacob
D. Geist 40 acres. The early planted were
injured by the cold weather in March.
John and Catharine Bankert, of Baltimore,
cut arteries in each others wrist, and she bled
to death before found. Her husbands wound
was bandaged and he will probably recover.
The cause assigned was because they were
poor and had no work.
A fight took place on the Washington and
Chesapeake Beach Railroad, in Anne Arun-
del county, on Sunday and Foreman Howard
attempted to pacify the men when one of them
turned upon him so savagely that he was
compelled to shoot him.
The barn, courthouse and sheds on the farm
of John P. Bradshaw, near Hopewell, Somer-
set county, were destroyed by fire on Sunday
afternoon last. About IT'S bushels of corn,
wagon, farming utensisand other things were
burned with the houses. No insurance.
Some of the O'Shaughnessys who came to
this country, notably to Maryland, in the last
century transformed their name to Chauneey,
and twelve Maryland families Of Chauneeys
are descended from the twelve sons Of the
original 0'Shaughnessy.
Frederick johnson, a negro. attempted to
assault Mrs. Jenkins, lady of So years near
Kent Island, on Monday. He choked her
into insensibilily, and she is now in precari-
Gus condition. johnson was caught at Hart
ley, Delaware, on Tuesday, and he was taken
to the Easton Jail secretly.
Alfred S. Day, editor of the Aberdeen,
Hartford county, Enterprise and bookkeeper
for Baker & Morgan, at Aberdeen was ar
rested on Saturday by Sheriff Hughes and
lodged in Belair Jail upon writ sworn out
by c. w. Baker, charging Day with embez-
cling money from the firm of Baker Il Morgan.
Mr.. Day is married and has family in Balt-
more.
A letter from Belair, Hartford county, April
10, says james Heron died this morning,
of typhoid pneumonia, aged about IS years.
Mr.. Heron owned one of the first stores ever
built in Belair, when the town contained but
ten houses. He was also one of the first post
masters of the town. The large house on the
farm of John P. Derrickson, near Church
vile, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The
farm of Mrs. Kate kimmell, containing l25
acres of land, near Hartford Furnace, has been
sold TO T. A. CASSIDY, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for
$500.
The public school near Riverview, Anne
Arundel county, Miss Childs, teacher, caught
fire one day last week. The fire was discov-
cred by the pupils and was extinguished by
Messrs Tucker, Ridgeway and Marriott.
During the excitement the children removed
everything from the school. On the night
after the fire the school was entered by some
person or persons, who knocked the stove
over and bent the pipe out of shape and COM
mitted other depredations. This is the fifth
time the school has been entered and property
destroyed.
Albert Zolainsky, veteran of the Semi
mole and Mexican wars, was convicted in the
United States District Court of drawing two
pensions from the government, and was sen.
fenced to ten days in Jail and to pay fine of
81. The Indictment charged that a pension
of So month was granted him under the
name of Zoll as a Mexican war veteran August
10, 1887, and that on August 5, 1892, he ap.
piled for the Indian war pension under the
name of Zolainsky, making affidavit that he
was not then in receipt of pension from the
government.
Hon. Henry Z. Wootton, of the Howard
county bar, died at Ellicott City, on Friday
afternoon of last week, of Brights disease,
aged ffty.fve years. He vas taken i'll several
months ago, but for time his attack was not
considered serious. About two months ago,
however, his disease assumed a malignant
form, and he gradually failed. During his i'll
ness he was attended by Prof. Samuel Z.
Chew, of Baltimore; DIR. Edward Wootton, his
brother, of Montgomery county, and DIR. VIM:
E. Hodges, of Ellicott City. The deceased
was one of the most prominent lawyers OF
Maryland. As a compliment to his legal
attainments and to his integrity in handling
the many large trusts placed in his charge,
the late Judge Oliver Miller, of the Court of
Appeals, at his death, two years ago, left Mr..
Wootton his sole executor to settle up his
valuable estate. Mr.. Wootton was born in
Prince Georges county, but removed at an
early age, with his father, the late DIR. Turner
Wootton, to Montgomery county, near Rock
vile, where he spent his boyhood days. He
went from the public schools to Georgetown
College, from which he graduated with the
highest honors He afterwards took course
at Yale College, where he again distinguished
himself for brilliancy. After leaving the lat
ter college, he began the study OF law with
the late Judge Pearre, at Cumberland, but
was compelled to leave. owing TO III health,
before being admitted to the bar. He subse-
quently finished his studies in the office of
the late Thomas s. Alexander, Of Baltimore,
and settled at Elicott City, where he began
to rise in his profession. AT the
breaking out of the late war he went with
number of young Howard countians across
the Potomac and enlisted in the cause Of the
Southern Confederacy, being a member OF
the First Maryland Cavalry, in which he
served calamity until the surrender at Apo
mattox. The war over, he returned to Eli
colt City and resumed the practice OF law.
In the memorable presidential campaign OF
1860 he was an electoral candidate on the ticket
leaueu by Dtepucu n. DOuBiao. Ia ASN' -"
was elected States attorney of his adopted
county, to which position he was elected three
consecutive terms. In the gubernatorial con
test of 1875 between Governor John Lee Car
roll and the late Governor William L. Ham
ilton he was delegate to the nominating con
vention in the interest of the former and it
was due largely to his strong and unhinching
support, that Carrolls nomination was Sc
cured. Col. Woo,ton's will was filed on
Monday for probate in the Office of the regis.
ter of wills. In it James Mackubin is named
as sole executor. Requests amounting to
about $4,000 are made to the testators
brother, DR.. Edward Wootton, and wife and
his sister, Miss Eleanor Wootton. The prin
cipal portion of the estate, including valuable
in Ellicott City, is left absolutely to
Mrs. Wootton, the widow.