The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-02
Maryland Affairs.

ont 5000 tons of coal daily from its Maryland
mines.
Brunswick, Frederick county, voted on
Monday against issuing bonds to build water
works.
At Princess Anns, Somerset county, on
Saturday, $4,000 quarts of strawberries were
canned.
Burglars are operating in Cecil county.
Several places were raided in Port Deposit
this week.
Six steamers sailed from Baltimore this
week for Europe carrying 2,297 cattle and
GOO sheep.
Benjamin F. Hoover has been committed
to Frederick Jail charged with attempting to
kill his wife.
Steamers coming to Baltimore from Rotter-
| dam will be stopped at the Capes, as there is
smallpox in that city.
William f. Starner, aged IS years, was
drowned at Alberton, Howard county, on
Sunday, while bathing.
The Western Maryland Railroad carried
1000 people to Penmar on Wednesday and
about 1900 to Gettysburg
In Talbot county the army worm has at
tackled the wheat. It's thought to be too far
advanced to suffer much.
Work has been suspended on the Chesa-
peake Beach Railroad and the hands and
teams discharged. No reason is given.
Killing irosts and ice occurred in Allegany
and Garrett counties on Monday night. Ice
formed over half an inch in thickness.
Never within the knowledge of the oldest
and best informed farmers of Kent county
has the blight to wheat been so extensive and
serious as it is now.
On the shore of j. H. Stokes, in Kent
county, over 5000 logs were landed by the
recent flood in the Susquehannah river The
timber came from Williamsport. Pa.
At Crislield over 5000, 900 soft crabs are
shipped between May LIST and October 3lst,
realizing over 100000, and thousands of gal
Ions of crab meat are sold at 81 20 per gallon.
Seventeen-yea locusts and cut-worms are
pests that are causing Anne Arundel farmers
much trouble. A farmer at West River
found as many as l25 cut.worms in one hill
Of corn.
On Monday two tobacco barns and 60
hogsheads of tobacco on the farm of Amos
Bowen, of Anne Arundel county, were struck
by lightning and burned. Loss 81 500, no
insurance.
J. T. Shallcross, of Kent county, has
shipped 80 barrels of gooseberries weighing
200 pounds, which were sold at Al cents
per pound. From acres he will realize over
GOO bushels.
James Amspacher, brakeman ofthe Penn.
sylvania Railroad, while attempted to place
a coupling pin, in Baltimore, on Tuesday
night, was caught between the bumpers and
crushed to DEATH
Frederick Lazarus johnson, cclored, was
convicted in Talbot county, on Wednesday
of an attempted felonious assault on a lady,
which the judge declared from the bench was
] nj he baf baA
ever come before him.
The army worm has made its appearance
in some of the wheat and corn fields of Som
erset county. Mr.. Ruch has had a field of
fifteen acres of corn destroyed by these pests.
They also passed through his wheat They
are destructive to tender grass Of all kinds.
Miss Susie, daughter of Hon. j. B. SLOT
tlemeyer, of Orleans, Allegany county, was
accidentally killed near Flinstone Wednes-
day evening by being thrown from cart into
the road under wagon, the wheels of which
passed over her head, crushing it to jelly.
By an almost unanimous vote the Conven-
ton of the Maryland Protestant Episcopal
Church have decided to divide the diocese.
There are 205 places of worship in the do
cese with 1877 clergymen. Number of con.
tirmations during the year 2,2S4; commun-
cants $4,000; increased offerings SSs,50O.
Queen Anne's county is complaining of
the cut worm. The worm has cat the corn
dreadfully, and, in some instances, whole
fields have been planted over. Thousands of
tomato plants have also been destroyed, of
which there is large acreage in the county
On Sunday an unusual thunder storm struck
Frostburg about y o'clock. The rain was
very heavy and continued for more than an
hour. A number of bridges on the county
roads, near Frostburg, were washed away.
Hail accompanied the storm, lasting half an
hour, and injured the fruit. Lightning struck
several places and slightly damaged one house.
William Warner, a tenant on the farm of
Benjamin Humphrey, near Benfeld Anne
Arundel county, had n horse, dog and two
hogs killed by lightning during the storm on
Saturday. 1t is coincidence that a man,
mule and two dogs fell victims to the electric
fluid on the same spot last summer; so il is
not safe to go on the old theory that lightning
never strikes the same place twice.
Thomas G. Hayes delivered an address to
the Sons of the American Revolution on
Monday night last, in Baltimore, in commem-
Grafton OF the part the Maryland troops took
in the battle at Jamaica Plains, Long Island,
N. Y. The Maryland troops were under COM
mand of Gems. Gist and Sterling. General
for their charge exclaimed: 'tGood God,
Worth Radcliffe. the two-year-old child of
George W. Radcliffe, an Ellicott City mer.
chant, drank quantity of laudanum on
Thursday Of last week, and the dose put the
little fellow to sleep for two days and nights.
Mrs. Radcliffe had been using the drug to
| apply with bandage to mashed finger of
another child, when Worth suddenly put the
vial to his mouth and drank. Emetics, which
were promptly administered, failed to relieve
the child and his condition was alarming.
Mrs. Lydia Roop, of near Lnganora, Fred
| erick county, widow OF the late Samuel Roop,
and mother of Mrs. Cephas NJ Thomas, near
Liberty, died on Monday, aged about 20 years.
! Mrs. Roop was held in much respect by a
large circle of friends. She was consistent
Christian lady and q member of the German
| Baptist church. Two daughters and one son
survive her, Mrs. Thomas and David and
Miss Clara Roop, both single and living at
home.
curious freak of lightning happened in
| Piney Neck, Kent county, on Saturday. The
lightning, in the form of ball of fire. came
obliquely from the clouds and when within n
short distance of the residence of Edward l..
Beck burst into a myriad of sparks A large
portion of it struck Mr.. Beck's house midway
the front and below the roof tearing the
! Misunderstanding otto the ground and damag-
ing the plastering. Near Crumpton lightning
made its way into the interior of a barn,
burned peach basket which stood in the
middle of the floor, but did no further damage.
John Harsey, of Baltimore, with two com
rades, arrived at West Chester, Pa, on Wed
nesday afternoon on bicycle trip to Phila-
delphia. While coming along a road in East
Goshen township, near that place, bull at
tackled Harsey and a chase ensued. The
animal finally caught him and tore his wheel
into pieces and fell on the rider in a ditch.
In the fall the bull broke his neck, dying in
stantly. Harsey was taken to West Chester
by his companions and after having his in
juries dressed was sent to his home in Balti-
more.
Medora A. Blizzard on Thursday filed a
bill for absolute divorce from Charles A.
Blizzard, on the ground of cruelty. 1t sets