The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-23
Maryland Affairs.

Wheat harvest began in Howard county on
Tuesday.
In Baltimore there were 2s2 deaths last
week, III OF whom were under FIVE years oil
age.
The Fourth Regiment has returned to Bal
timore from the coal mines. The 9Th is still
on guard.
The first Maryland wheat was received
from Dorchester county on Wednesday and
sold for 90 cents.
A barn and several tons of hay on the farm
Of Columbus Davis, in Howard county, was
burned on Tuesday.
Henry Simon and Alfred Cohen, of New
York, were arrested in Baltimore on the
charge of passing forged checks.
Frederick Sellman's barn, in Montgomery
county, was burned on Wednesday night. All
the horses. except one, were rescued.
Chas. w. Ross, of Frederick, as trustee,
sold TO Samuel G. Thomas and Alice T..
Anderson, a farm Of l47 acres for $l5,277.
At the weekly sale of horses in Baltimore,
on Thursday, driving horses brought from
$40 to $40 and draft horses from $40 to 500.
Mrs. Mary Smith, aged So years, was suf-
located by escaping gas on Saturday, at the
home of her son-in-law. John McColgan, Bal
timore.
Mrs Lizzie Moore, of Baltimore, widow,
aged % years, was drowned on Sunday in
Bear creek, Baltimore county, by the capsiz-
ing Of a boat.
Daniel M. Grumbine, keeper of the toll
gate between Frederick and Middletown, on
Friday of last week completed so years of
service at the gate.
Rev. Samuel II. Wilmer, aged Go years, a
well. known Hebrew Rabbi of Baltimore, died
on Tuesday from the effects Of the grip which
he had three years ago.
A genuine sea turtle, 32x5 feet, was cap
tured ashore on the Magothy river, Anne
Arundel county, on Saturday. On its back
was a tinplate marked IA
Hartford county taxes are SO cents on the
500, an increase of cents over last year
owing to the great damage done to roads and
bridges by the heavy rains this year.
The Populist party is growing to large d.
mansions in Montgomery and Washington
counties and will nominate a candidate for
Congress in the Sixth district.
On Monday the shops of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Mt. Clare, Baltimore, were
closed, throwing 1000 men out Unemployment.
1t was caused by the coal miners strike.
Antonio Brokus, Pole, is under arrest in
Anne Arundel county, for causing the death
of an unknown German, during fight while
returning from Baltimore on Saturday night.
Kinsey Hance, farmer, aged IA years, of
Buena Vista, Calvert county, was found
hanging in a barn early Saturday morning.
He was supposed to have been mentally de-
ranged.
In Baltimore, on Wednesday, wheat sold
for COL cents and oats for 81 cents per bushel.
Wheat sold for cent pound and oats for
about II cents, oats selling for so per cent.
more than wheat.
The Chesapeake House. on East Pratt
street. Baltimore, has been torn down. 1t
was erected 85 years ago, and had been &C.
cupied by the family of Alexander Bulack
for the last so years.
On Thursday the steamer Templemore
sailed from Baltimore for Liverpool with
l ,l63 cattle. 1t was the largest number ever
carried by a steamer at one time. The total
number shipped to Europe this week from
Baltimore is 2, l04 head.
Mrs. Rosabel Early aud Eliza Jane Funk,
of Lewistown, Frederick county, were arrest
ed by deputy sheriff Shook and brought to
Frederick city, on Saturday, charged with
assaulting Thomas Marshall with rotten eggs.
They were bailed for court.
Mary Z. Woodward, native of Maryland,
died recently in New York city. By her will
she leaves $1,000 in trust to st. Stephen S
church, Anne Arundel county; $4,000 to st.
Thomas church, Baltimore, and TO the Old
Women's Home, Baltimore, $500.
Mrs. Caroline, widow of Richard Sewell, who
died on June IL, bequeathed to the Baltimore
Annual Conference of the Methodist Episco-
Il IN III fntn
estant Infirmary 81 900 and to the Woman
Missionary Society ofthe Methodist Episcopal
Church South 81, 1000.
At Cumberland, on Sunday. c. h. More
land, aged Is years. was killed while swim
ming in the Potomac river. He Owed into
the water from the river bank and struck
against one of his companions. WIDOWS al
ready under the water, and in some unac-
countable way broke his own neck.
John Il. Keene, ST., died on Sunday at his
home. Lauravile, Baltimore county. Mr..
-Keene was born in Talbot county, Nd,
December u, 1906. He removed in early
life to Lauravile, which had since been his
home. He was the only son Of DR.. Samuel
Young Keene, surgeon in the revolutionary
army.
Policemen Michael j. Neary and James T..
Dunn, of the Central District, Baltimore were
killed by passenger train Wednesday even
ing on the Northern Central Railway at the
Chase street bridge Each of them had a
prisoner at the time, having arrested two boys
for swimming in Jones' Falls. Neary leaves
a wife and thirteen children, and Dunn wife
and one child.
Within the past week Washington county
has suffered severely from cloud bursts.
Wheat, oats, rye and grass have been beaten
down and covered with mud, potatoes washed
from the ground, and roads and bridges
greatly damaged. A cyclone struck Frost
burg on Monday afternoon. 1t lasted only
ten minutes but several houses were unrooted
and much loss was sustained by the great fall
of water.
Thomas Addison Berry, aged 81, of Bruins
wick, Frederick county, was struck by light
ming, near Frederick, on Monday afternoon
and instantly killed. The bolt entered his
head, burned his flesh in number of places,
tore his clothing to tatters and threw his
shoes fully so feet from where the body lay.
He leaves wife and two children. Several
other persons were rendered insensible by
severe shocks.
Miss Emma H. Marine, of 1914 West Fay
cite street, Baltimore, who took poison by
accident while visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert
NJ. Moore, of Kensington, Montgomery coun'
ty, died early Tuesday morning last. Miss
Marine was taken with chill last Wednesday
night and arose in the dark and took what
she supposed to be dose of liquor, but which
proved to be mixture of alcohol and corro'
sive sublimate.
Franklin B. Welty, aged GA years, died
suddenly of paralysis at his home, in Emmits
burg, Saturday. He had just returned from
Baltimore, where he had been on visit to
Collector Shaw to obtain position as an APP
praiser. which he occupied during Mr.. Cleye
lands former administration. He had lately
given his attention to peach culture. A
widow and six children survive him. Mrs.
Frame, aged SO years, widow of the late Rich
ard Frame, died on Sunday, at the same
peace.
Jeremiah Yellott. well-known farmer Of
Baltimore county, died Wednesday morning
at his residence, in Dulaney's Valley, Tenth
district, in the s4th year of his age. He was a
native Hartford county. Mr.. Yellott was the
brother of ex.Judge George Yellott, Of Tow.
son, and an uncle of Major John |. Yellott
and George W. Yelott. His wife was Miss
Elizabeth Ftzhugh. daughter of Daniel Du-
laney Fitzhugh. Four daughters and two