The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-10
Maryland Affairs.

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known Baltimore auctioneer, died ON Satur-
day.
J. Alfred Osborne, well-known resident
of Prince Georges county, died on Sunday
night last.
The canned goods packers of the Atlantic
States will hold convention in Baltimore IN
December.
The Misses Sutro, daughters of Otto Sutro,
of Baltimore, made a successful musical debut
in New York ON Thursday.
Hon. John W. Crisfeld, of Princess Anne,
is one of the oldest practicing attorneys in the
United States, being sc years of age.
Hotel Stafford, u stories high, was opened
in Baltimore on Monday II is located on
Washington Place near Madison street.
Harry X. Carmack, for many years lead
ing business man of Frederick, died Thursday
morning after long Illness, aged As years.
James L. Pierce and Irving G. DeGrange,
of Baltimore, were among the six men killed
in the collision OF trains Wednesday, near
lockwood, ON the Pittsburg and Western
Railroad.
Edwin Hyatt, President Of the Sherwood
Distillery Company, dropped dead in his
office, in Baltimore, on Tuesday. He was
60 years old.
Samuel Caldwell, of Kent county, fired at
some crows, and the result was the wads set
fire to several ricks of straw, which were en-
tirely consumed.
John Krebs. one ofthe oldest and best known
German citizens of Frederick, died Thursday
night, in his 10Th year He was born in Hesse-
Darmstadt, Germany.
On Sunday night, George Klinger, while
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ton, Allegany county, accidentally shot Geo.
Wangerman, aged ID years. The boy died in
a few minutes.
A two-year-old son of John Reed, of Galena,
Kent county, was accidentally drowned in a
slop barrel on Saturday. He was missed and
a stool was found against the barrel, and ii is
supposed the child climbed up, lost its balance
and fell in.
Thomas Blaney, a farmer of Howard county,
is critically i'll from the effects of kick on the
head by colt on Monday last. Mr.. Blaney
was arranging the harness on the animal, when
it suddenly wheeled upon him, and began
kicking. One of the blows struck him on the
forehead, producing bad fracture.
The President has directed that Chaplain
Henry B. PIummer, colored Maryland
preacher, who was appointed July /, 1884, be
dismissed in disgrace from the army. Plum
mer was tried by court-martial recently for
getting drunk with enlisted men, TO the sean
dial of the service, and for other offences.
Lettie Mundel, colored, living on the farm
of Mr.. H. Turner Rowe, near Pisgah, is i'll
with smallpox. She came To her friends in
Charles county after being in contact with a
small -pox patient in Washington. DR.. r. X.
Compton has visited the patient and pro-
nounced ii well defined case of smallpox.
The dwelling of Benson Z. d. Bond, clerk
to the county commissioners, near st. Leon
ards. Calvert county was burned Tuesday
incoming. The fire originated from sparks
falling on the roof from a chimney. The
house was insured in the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, of Montgomery county, for 81, 500.
In Calvert county the judges called especial
attention to the new law relating to perjury,
which allows members of the grand jury to
testify against witnesses whose statements in
trials in court are opposite to what they were
before the grand jury; 10 the abortion law,
ENLIGHTENMENT by public officers, local option
law and gate law.
The barn on the farm tenanted by j. Thos.
Herbert, Charles county, was destroyed by
fire ON Tuesday, together with its contents,
consisting of large crop of tobacco, proven
der and corn. The fire was started by the
little son of Mr.. Herbert, who made a fire near
the barn, where he was playing. There was
no insurance on either barn or contents.
Harry Carroll, a young man residing near
Glenelg Howard county, met with a severe
cunning accident Wednesday. In climbing
over fence he attempted to place the breech
of his gun on the ground, his left hand grasp
ing it over the muzzle. The gun was dis
charged, the charge passing through his hand,
completely tearing off two fingers and the
thumb.
Salisbury postofiice was robbed by profess
sional burglars on Monday night, and the safe
blown open by dynamite fuse. They Sc
cured 3d. 800 in stamps and about S75 in
money. together with FIVE registered letters,
the contents of which are unknown, but sup
posed to contain considerable money. The
burglars left sledge hammer, a crowbar, sey-
era chisels and a brace and half dozen bits on
the floor of the Office.
On Monday, in the Queen Annes county
court. Robert Whaley, of Church Hill, was
tried for violation of the Sabbath laws. He
is an Adventist, and claims that his Bible and
creed permit him to work on Sunday, but for
bid manual labor on Saturday He appeared
in his own defense and Mr.. Hopper for the
State. Judge Robinson stated that there was
no law to compel man to work on Saturday,
but that unnecessary labor on Sunday is an
ofiense against our statutes and imposeda fine
and costs in each of two cases against Whaley
and ordered him committed until paid.
Between A and 5 o'clock Tuesday morning
the residence occupied by Mrs. Julia Wright
and her aged sisters, Misses Elizabeth and
Catharine Dunn, ON Green street, Annapolis,
was burned. The house next door, owned by
Mrs. Bush, widow of Capt Henry Bush, soon
caught, and both houses were partly consumed.
Mrs. Julia Wright, who was sleeping in the
back room in the second story, persisted in the
flames. She is supposed TO have set lire to
some clothing in the room with lighted can
de- 1t is said she usually left candle burn
ing on retiring. She was seventy-tw years
old and supported herself and sisters by selling
flowers Her two aged sisters were rescued
by neighbors, but the room in which Mrs.
Wright slept and in which the fire originated
could not be entered owing to the dense smoke
and flames.
The funeral of Miss Hattie T. Miller, daught-
err of Mr. Benjamin H. Miller, of Sandy Spring,
took place Wednesday at the Friends Meet
ing-house, Sandy Spring, the interment being
in the Friends burying grounds. The funeral
was the largest held in the county for years,
being attended by about five hundred people.
Miss Miller was to have been married last
June to Professor William Hull, of Swarth-
more College. About two weeks before the
wedding was to have occurred, Miss Miller
was taken i'll with the measles. This disease
left her with a lingering fever, which ultimate
" caused her DEATH She was taken to Wer-
nersyille, Pa, for treatment, and was brought
home in August apparently much improved.
She was president Of the Band of Hope, at
Ashton, and prominent teacher in the First
Day school.
Sixteen years ago Mrs. Cornelia Bowers, Of
Funkstown, Washington county, thought her
grandson, Albertus Bowers, was threatened
with cholera. Becoming alarmed at the symp-
toms, she wrote letter to her hrother-in-law
Mr., Hiram Bowers, residing at Wales, 0gle
county, ILL.,, asking him 10 send her imme-
diately receipt that she knew he had in his
possession for celebrated cholera mixture.
For some unexplained reason, the letter never
reached its destination. Saturday last, Alice
Dnsang, granddaughter of Mrs. Bowers,
and who is an employe of Antietam paper
mills, Hagerstown, while sorting the contents
of some pouches that had been received from
the dead letter office, Washington, opened a
letter and found that it bore the signature Of
her grandmother. She took the letter home
and it proved to be the identical one written
sixteen years ago under the circumstances re-