The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-07-28
Maryland Affairs.

lied over $136 per acre this season.
Lydia Gallaher, aged 81 years, died in Lib.
erty, Frederick county, on Tuesday.
Several barns were struck by lightning on
Saturday afternoon and with their contents
were burned.
The State Fair will be held in conjunction
with the Baltimore County Fair, at Timoni-
um, on August 1881.
The gross earnings of the Western Mary.
land Railroad Company in June, 1894, were
1866 more than in June, 1898.
Negro chicken thieves are at work in Anne
Arundel county. Several have been caught
with poultry in their possession
o. Desselberger, of Russia, is in Dorches.
ter county. making arrangements for the To-
cation of European eolonists there.
Grain threshing has been finished in Queen
Anne's county. The yield is about an aver
age but the grain is of fine quality.
The rain on Saturday, Sunday and Monday
was universal throughout the State and an
immense amount of good has been done by it.
Joshua Young, aged go years, died on the
10Th instant, in Howard county. He leaves
a widow aged So, and two sons and five
daughters.
In Montgomery county the average yield
of wheat is twenty bushels per acre. In Sandy
Spring and Gaithersburg districts, many av-
eraged 30 to 40 bushels.
A violent storm passed over the lower part
of Calvert county on Saturday afternoon. j.
I. Ballinger's tobacco barn was blown down
and the loss is over $500.
Henry Carroll and Joseph Clark were com
mitted to the House of Correction by Justice
Fite, of Harvard county, for maliciousy dam
aging Joshua B. Days corn crop.
Thieves broke open a safe in j. Armstrong
& CO. IS foundry ut Perryville, Md, and de-
stoyed number of valuable papers. They
obtained but two cents in money.
1t is stated that over 500 dogs. have been
killed in Howard county since the maddog
scare. If the number had been 5000, the
county would be that much better off.
The barns of Mrs. Chandler, of Bethesda,
and Jonathan Barnesley, of Olney, Mont
gomery county, were struck by lightning on
Monday, and with their contents destroyed.
Frank Gresshof, aged 90 years, was killed
by coming in contact with electric light wires
in the roof garden of the Howard Auditorium
Ice Palace, Baltimore, on Wednesday night.
At Laurel, Prince Georges county, Miss
Ida Grace Travers, of Salisbury, died on
Tuesday night from nervous prostration
brought on by excessive dancing few days
previous.
An interstate telephone and telegraph
company has been chartered in Frederick
capital stock $4,000. A similar one has
been chartered in Hagerstown and Cumber-
land capital $4,000.
On Tuesday two Baltimore 4 Ohio freight
trains we're wrecked near Hancock, Wash.
ington county, by broken rail. Flour, cot
ton, shelled corn, coal oil, molasses, &C.,
we're very much mixed.
Corn and tobacco will be failure in South,
ern Maryland, scarcely any rain having fallen
since May l. In Anne Arundel and Calvert
counties wells and streams have dried up,
and water is sparingly used.
C. A. Bowling's residence, near Byantown,
Charles county, was recently burned, caused
by defective hue. Insured in the Mont
gomery County Company for $780, The
family escaped in their night clothing
A northern syndicate are making arrange
ments to boom Ocean City, Maryland's sea
side resort Two mammoth hotels are to be
built about two miles apart and are to be
connected by an electric railroad, and the
beach is to be lighted by electricity.
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individual deposits in the five national banks
of Frederick aggregated $l,S85, 2OS.10, Of
which the Citizens Bank has 81, 1926, 004. 81
In addition, the two savings institutions have
on individual deposit over 500, 900.
The Southern Methodists of Germantown,
Montgomery county, have secured lot and
are making ready for building church there.
At Randolph the Presbyterians have appoint
ed Samuel Redshaw, Hillary Ofutt and
Elias keiser building committee to super
intend the construction of church in thai
town.
On Tuesday Walter Rhine, of Pine Or
chard, Howard county, while moving hay OF
the farm of Joseph D. Mcclure, was kicked
by a horse and came near losing his life by
falling in front of the knives. Fortunately
the wheel, which passed over his body,
raised the cutting bar, and in that way he
escaped.
The barn on the farm of Mrs. Phoebe
Feiser, near Woodsboro', Frederick county,
was on Saturday morning struck by lightning
and burned, together with its contents oil
], 900 bushels of wheat, hay, &c. The loss
will amount to about $4,000 partly covered
by insurance in the Sandy Springs Insurance
Company of Montgomery county.
Joseph Cohen, aged l6 years, of Baltimore,
on Tuesday, placed himself before moving
Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore
train at Back River Station, and then shot
himself through the head. The ball entered
the brain, and the train almost severed the
head from the body. Death was instantane'
GUS. No cause is assigned for the deed.
Miss Maud R. Grammer, only daughter Of
Rev. DR.. Julius E. Grammer, rector OF
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Balti-
more, died suddenly of heart trouble Tues
day at the Mountain House, Blue Ridge Sum
init, Franklin county, Pa. She had just gone
from the breakfast table to her room when
she was stricken with the fatal attack.
The barn and stable of R. Edward Sell
man, near Dickerson Station, Montgomery
county, were destroyed by fire, with lot OF
hay, oats, agricultural implements and other
articles on Tuesday. Efforts to confine the
flames to these buildings proved futile. The
intense heat fred the dairy building near by,
which was also consumed. Loss $1,000 in
surance 5000.
A fatal disease has attacked the hogs Of
William T. Mccullough and s. j. Ward 4
Bro, of Mechanics Valley, Cecil county, and
some fifteen or twenty have died within the
past few days. The only symptom shown is the
loss of all use Of their hind quarters and theiI
refusal to eat. Death follows IN eacn case ~
about ten days. One of the hogs was opened
and it was found that both lungs and intes-
tines were very much diseased and inhamed.
The disease is to be investigated by the local
board of health. 1t is said to be cholera.
Otto Sursdorf was arrested in Baltimore
for robbiug the money drawer at Curtis Bay,
on July Ii. Upon examination of his record
book Marshal Frey discovered that. Otto was
a first class all around scoundrel, and though
only % years old had record that would
make some double his age blush for being SC
far behind. Sursdorf and two others on Dc
tober last, held up the cashier of the Radi-
ator Company of Buffalo, N. Y, and after
beating him robbed him of over $1700. They
were convicted and sentenced to 20 years
but escaped the night before being taken to
prison.
The encampment at Wrigh's woods, or
the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad
began Thursday. The ministers appointed BY
the president Of the conference, Rev. J. D
Kinzer, D. D., are: Rev. I. II. Lewis, Pres
ident of Western Maryland Colleges Rev. F.
7. Tagg, editor of the Methodist Protestant
Rev. ]. w. Gray, of Baltimore; Rev. d. w
Austine, of Cambridge; Rev. r. s. William
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