The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-09
Maryland Affairs.


Tooth anniversary this week.
During the month of May "a, 500 persons
were vaccinated in Baltimore.
Mrs. Frederick Cronise, ofLewstown Fred
erick county, is ninety. five years of age.
Abraham l.. Hess, of Baltimore, COM
mitted suicide on Saturday. No reason as.
signed.
Wheat harvest will begin in Somerset
county next week, and the indications are for
a large yield.
Smallpox has made its appearance among
the colored people in Anne Arundel county.
| Get vaccinated.
One night last week the safe of the COM
missioners of Calvert county was broken open
and robbed $3.50.
Reuben Showers saw mill at Sabillasville,
Frederick county. was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire on Thursday.
w. G. Stewart, of Pittsburg, Pa, has pur-
chased the farm of Robert W. Adams in
Somerset county for $4,000.
Nancy jackson, colored, is in the Talbot
county Jail for attempting to poison Mrs. r.
Robinson by placing laudanum in her tea.
Portions OF Kent county were visited by a
destructive thunder storm on Monday night.
Several buildings were burned by lightning.
Wednesday, June 9th, was the 5Oth ami
versary of YIN. C. A. in London, England,
and Jubilee services were held in all the
branches in Baltimore.
Maria McElderry, aged SO years, died in
Baltimore on Wednesday. She was q nurse
in the family of Col. John Henry Sothern, of
st. Mary's county for three generations.
David Cline, aged Is years, while working
for Henry Clipp, farmer of Frederick,
drank copiously of cold water on Monday
while overheated and died shortly afterwards.
Ex.Sheriff Plummer, of Kent county, has
built a smokehouse out of the material used
in the scaffold on which the four Hill MUIR
derers were executed. That house will not
be robbed.
Washington county tax rate is 70 cents on
the 500, cents higher than last year, and is
caused by increased appropriation to the
public schools and damage TO the roads by the
heavy rains.
VIM. Welsh, aged "a years, died in Balti-
more on The LIST instant. As a boy he moulded
bullets for the soldiers in the war of 1872
He Joined the Eutaw Street Methodist Epis-
copal Church in 1911.
+. W. Martin and Joseph Jamison,
negro, were arrested in York county, Pa,
charged with stealing horse and buggy from
J. d. c. Duncan on Thursday of last week.
The men are now in Towson Jail.
A free fight between colored people in
northwest Baltimore on Sunday resulted in
Oliver Smell being slashed across the throat
by razor in the hands of Bertha Frazier.
The wound while not fatal is serious.
A COW belonging to Dr. John A. Hawkins
and cow and some hogs on the farm Of Mr..
Amos. j. Day, Hartford county, were killed
by lightning on Wednesday. Mr.. Days
dwelling and his dairy were also injured.
Hagerstown, on the 18th and 18th instants,
will have the largest gathering Of fremen
ever seen in this state, and everybody will go
there. In addition to the state iremen over
so companies from other states will be pres
ent.
Rev. Theodore F. Beauehamp, of Smiths
Island, Somerset county, left there on May
18th, with his wife and child to visit relatives
on Deals Island, and since then nothing has
been seen or heard from any of the party at
their home.
Rev. Robert j. Rankin, aged 2s years, pas
tor of Lafayette Square Presbyterian Church,
Baltimore, died on Tuesday morning. His
death was the result of appendicitis, for
which a surgical operation was performed on
HIM on Monday.
On Tuesday the Haunted House. on the
lightning and burned. The house was built
120 years ago, and in the war of 1912 it
was occupied by the United States troops,
during the fight at North Point.
On Tuesday the stables of the New Central
Coal Company, at Homecoming, Allegany
county, together with $4,000 laths and other
lumber were burned by an inceudiary fire.
The night previous terrific thunder storm
visited the same town and caused great dam
age.
Sheriff Wegman, of Garrett county, went
into the cell occupied by Albert 0hover, on
Tuesday, to make some repairs TO cot.
While so engaged 0hover walked out and
turned the key, locking the sheriff in and
took to the woods. He was confined under
serious charge.
Jacob Mansfield, an employe of the Ellicott
City stone quarries, was discharged on Mon
day, and left for his home at Granite. He
said he would rather die than go home. His
body was found at Alberton on Wednesday.
He left note addressed to his wife, saying
that he intended to take his own life.
Judah Rosewald, aged SO years, died at
Glyndon, Baltimore county, on Tuesday. He
was a native of Bavaria, and came to Balti-
more in 1888, and was prominent in Hebrew
circles, being connected with almost every
Hebrew educational and charity organization.
John A. Geiglein, aged "a years, died the
same day. He was native of Bavaria, and
had resided in Baltimore since 1889.
Charles E. Garitee, pension attorney of
Baltimore, has instituted four suits for $780,
900 damages each in the Court of Common
Pleas-one against United States District
Attorney John L. Ensor, one against Mr..
Ensor and Jeremiah Connolly, special exam
liner of pensions, and two against Mr.. Ensor
and 4. E. Perley, special examiner of pen
sions. All the suits grow out of the charges
of violating the pension law made against Mr..
Gartee.
One Of the State police vessels poured
iusilade OF shot into fleet of % Grabbing
vessels on Saturday in Holland Strait. Sew
eral hundred shots were fired. The sails and
deck houses of the crabbers were riddled
with bullets, and three of them were so badly
crippled that they were unable to escape.
They were towed into Fishing Bay, where
they are held as hostages by the Dorchester
county authorities until the captains pay the
line assessed for "scraping' the bottom.
Gen. John Carroll has sold his estate.
known as 1.-The Caves, y located near Owings'
Mills, in the 4th district of Baltimore county,
TO Western syndicate for 100000. The
place contains about 1000 acres and en-
braces farming and woodland, most Of it
beautifully located for building sites. Gen.
Carroll retains the homestead and grounds
surrounding it, 1t has not been made public
what the syndicate proposes to do with the
property, but it is most likely it will be de.
veoped shortly.
Kent county is wellknown as being pro-
ductive section of the State, especially in small
fruits The growing of gooseberries is one OF
the principal occupations, and paying one.
j. I. ShallcFoss will raise fully GOO bushels
He shipped to Baltimore one day last week
$50 bushels, which sold at 4! cents per pound,
(S2.25 per hushel,) making $562 so for one
shipment Of the berries. Other growers in
the neighborhood will harvest from so to 800
bushels. L. j. Shallcross will have 800
bushels; R. A. Shallcross, 800 bushels; Mrs.
Matthews, a large crop, and Frank P. Coch-
ran, large crop. All the berries in Galena
and vicinity have been bought. After being
picked the gooseberres are run through an
ordinary wheat fan and thoroughly cleaned