The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-12-22
Maryland Anairs.


Joseph Smith died near Pikesyille, Baltimore
county, on Friday oflast week, aged 50 years.
Rev. Carlton D. Harris, of Baltimore, was married
on Wednesday to Miss Kate Aleen Norris, of Easton
Dr. Luke NJ shipley has been elected school ex-
aminer of Howard comfy by the new school board
Robert Bridges, of Hancock, has purchased the
j. c. Dayhoff lumber factory in Hagerseown, for
$500.
George Brent is in jail at Upper Marlboro charged
with fatally stabbing Louis Blackstone. Both are
colored
The barn ofPeter H. Guy, St. Clements Bay neigh
borhood, St. Mary's county, was burned last satur-
day night
Receipts of the Hagerstown Fair in October were
sl62s or slS5s less than the expenses according to
a report just made.
The Frederick Gun Club is perfeeting arrange
ments to COLOMBO large number of partridges in
Frederick county.
A public meeting will be held at Frederick short
ly to make arrangements for the celebration of the
city's sesqui-centennial.
James Montgomery colored aged so years was
found dead at Towson, Baltimore county, Sunday
morning. He barber.
The Postofice Department has allowed more for
postofiee on the Eastern Shore.
Pawnee Bill, who has recently arrived in this
country from Holland, is in Frederick making ar
rangements to winter his stock
Harry Richards, young man of Rising Sun, is in
critical condition. as the result of injuries while
playing in recent football game.
The new school commissioners of Howard county,
appointed by Governor Brown, are not satisfactory
TO some of the citizens of the county
The grand jury of Baltimore county wasdiseharg-
ed last week. They investigated 80 cases, examined
9s witnesses and made Is indictments.
Daniel NJ Murray, antiGorman has announced
himself candidate for the Democratic nomination
for state senator in Howard county.
The estate of Henry A. Palmer in Queen Anne's
county consisting of $50 acres, divided into three
farms, was sold on Tuesday for sls,G765O cash
An owl measuring four feet across the wings and
weighing six pounds was killed near Boyds, Mont
gomery county, last Saturday by Roscoe Delawder.
Jury at Hagerstown has returned verdict of
500 in the breach-ofpromise case of Miss F. NJ.
Stockslayer of Benevola against D. T. Thomas OF
Beaver Creek.
The Baltimore grand jury has undertaken a
thorough investigation of charges that policy play
ing and gambling houses in that city are under
police protection.
doc Slater has closed his gambling den on South
Calvert street, Baltimore, until after the wave OF
virtue has passed by. 1t has been noted gaming
resort for years
John C. Bannon school Examiner, of Annapolis,
has been appointed Clerk of the Court in Anne
Arundel county, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Major HARDWOOD.
Tamps are supposed TO have caused a fire last
Sunday which destroyed the large canning house OF
W. C. Bavington, near Belair. over 5000 cases OF
this years pack of tomatoes were burned.
Suit is about to be brought at Hagerstown on the
bond of the late Thomas Taggart treasurer of the
defnnct Washington County Savings Institution
The suit will be in behalf of the receivers.
Hagerstown firemen are dissatisfied with the new
fire alarm system recently provided by the City
Council They claim the city was overcharged,
while the boxes are not sufficient in number
James Watson, Theodore Adams and John T.
Graham, three Baltimoreans, tried to kill them
selves this week, but are recovering. Watson cut
his throat and the other two took laudanum.
Secret service agents have discovered that a
woman in Toledo, o., is drawing pension illegally
as the widow of George Lease of Frederick, whose
real wife resides there and is endeavoring to secure
a pension.
Miss Edith Motter, daughter Samuel Motter,
founder of the diminishing Chronicle, was married
to Mr. Arthur NJ. Lamb, of Baltimore on Wednes-
day The ceremony took place at the residence of
the brides mother, Baltimore.
Secretary Harry C. Keefer, OF the Frederick coun-
ty Agricultural Society says the fair last fall not
only paid expenses, but cleared a handsome
amount. He declines to give figures until all the
rettIrrs of the railrnad cOmpanieS are in.
four horse wagon of John Summers, near
snookstown, Frederick county, was run into on
Thursday morning by B. & o. railroad train at
Frederick City Lime Works. The wagon was de-
molished and George McKensie, who was in it, was
considerably hurt
proposition has been submitted to the Balti-
more Centennial Association by Baltimore firm
to erect tower 500 feet high on the EXPOSE
ton grounds The base of the proposed tower
is to cover one and half acres and to be fitted up
as an amphitheatre for athletic games.
Robert Ecker, who was indicted for forging the
names of number of people of Frederick county to
notes and who escaped TO the West, where, it is
charged, he also committed forgeries in several
States has been sentenced by the at Frederick
to five years in the Maryland Penitentiary.
Jesse Coxey son of the leader of the late indus
trial movement, is now student of St. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, and is preparing for the Naval
Academy, to which he has disappointment. Young
Coxey is IS and, it will be remembered was fire.
quently left in charge of the army during the alb
sence of his father.
Two masked men robbed Mount Wilson Station,
on the Western Maryland road, Sunday night about
$50 o'clock Mrs. Wainwright, wife of the station
agent. was in charge with her mother and child.
nd
hand over the small amount of money in the place.
Mr.. Wainwright had gone to Baltimore and return
ed about 10 O'Clock
William Fazard, a machinist of Elizabethport,
New Jersey, while walking from Washington to
Baltimore, was attacked about 40 O'Clock Monday
morning by burly negro near Elkridge The ne
gro knocked him down and demanded money at
the same hacking his neck with dull knife
Fazard called loudly for assistance and fought des
perately, and finally the negro nan.
Eight prisoners who had been committed TO the
House of Correction for two months for stealing
rides on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains, es-
capped from the station-house st. Denis Baltimore
county early Sunday morning. The guard in
charge of the lookup was preparing to give the
men their breakfast and left the cell-dOor open
while he went away for a moment.
Inc SuSquehanih RIVER Eleculc COinpduy was
Incorporated in Baltimore on Wednesday. II is
proposed to dam the river near Conowingo, and to
distribute electric power to Baltimore, Phila-
depha and intermediate points 1t is said that the
Westinghouse Electric people are behind the pro
iect, and that the capital of the company will be
increased to several millions of dollars when pre-
liminaries have been arranged
Proceedings de lunatico inquirendo were had be-
fore Sheriff Flower of Howard county at Ellcott
City on Monday in the case of John Lee Carroll Jr,
son of Ex-Governor John Lee Carroll. The yonng
man was adjudged insane, and trustee will be APP
pointed for his estate he inherited large fortune
from his maternal grandfather, the late Royal
Phelps of New York Mr.. Carroll has been men
tally weak for some time.
James Bond, clerk of the Superior Court, Balti-
more, received from Annapolis on Tuesday the COM
missions of 10 special policemen for the Western
Maryland Railroad Company. The policemen we've
appointed by the Governor under the act of 1880
chapter 460 for protecting the companys property.
Their names are F. NJ. Letter Martin Stitzel, Geo.
Buckingham, Henry NJ Mowry, Harry Ritterbush,
Ernest F. McCardell, Thomas C. Biddle, VIM S.
wintrode, Charles southgate, E L. siegman A. D.
Long. =. c. Metz, Jesse Sell, Vim. Gulben, Oscar II.
Briteher, Ambrose wetzel, Harry E. Ford, George
L. Spangler and Rufus C. Sheads.
J. Alfred Fleming, farmer, near Frederick, died