The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-24
Maryland Affairs.

The MARYLAND Steel Company will COM
mence full operation about the LIST of Decem-
Der.
A number of prisoners were caught in the
act of trying to cut their way out of the Fred
erick jail ON Monday.
Richard Mulligan was shot by Daisy Mason
in Cumberland last week and died on Tues
day. The shooting occurred in house of i'll
rupte.
VIM. t. Shedin, general auditor Of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, died suddenly on
Saturday night at Mt. Washington, Baltimore
county.
In some of the Peninsula towns young ladies
are talking about forming anti-tobacco clubs,
allowing no one that uses the filthy weed to
embrace them.
John Q. A. Robson, Police Commissioner
of Baltimore, died last Saturday. Col. John
c. Legg, grain merchant, has been appoint
ed to succeed him.
John A. Tompllins, expert accountant, at
the suggestion of Governor Brown, is making
the usual examination into the financial con-
dition of the State treasury.
Wild ducks are not so numerous on the
Susquehanna flats this season. Gunners that
in former years killed from 100 to 125 day,
now cannot bag more than rs or 80.
The store of W. j. Dickey & Son, at Della,
Baltimore county, was broken into on Sunday
night. Finding no money in the drawer the
thieves left without taking anything at all.
At Harmony M. E. Church, Howard eoun,
ty, Monday afternoon, Miss Josephine Ward
Forsythe and Mr. William Lee Hammond
we're married by Rev. j. W. Beall, of Frost
burg.
A lamp exploded in the room OF Miss Mabel
Stocking in the house of John ?. Salisbury,
near Owings' Mills, on Wednesday night. In
attempting to put out the fire she was slightly
burned.
Charles Z. Ford has presented to Baltimore
a full length portrait of Edwin Booth as Ham
let. and w. w. Spence is going to present
Johns Hopkins Hospital statue of Christ at
the Divine Physician.
Society ~ in Baltimore, in announcing
weddings, is giving the list of articles receiv-
ed by the bride together with the names OF the
senders. Refined people do not advertise
such things to the public.
1t is stated in Cambridge that Congressman
elect W. Laird Henry is to be shortly married
to Mrs. Matte Henry, widow of the late
Daniel NJ Henry, Jr., and daughter OF the
late DR.. j. l.. Adkins, of Talbot county.
David Kershner, one of the oldest retired
farmers of Washington county, was found
dead in bed at the home of his son, Joseph D..
Kershner, Hagerstown, Saturday morning.
He died of heart disease, aged y years.
A fox and coon hunting club is being or
ganized in Howard county, with headquarters
at Ellicott City. s. J. MeKim, Edward Muir
ray, George Maclrubin, Herbert Simpson and
Iigon Thompson are the active organizers.
The motion for new trial in the case of
President Robert A. Dobbin, of the Howard
County School Board, who was recently con-
victed for getting money from the school
treasury illegally, will be argued at Eillcott
City today.
The cadets at the Naval Academy at An
napolis amused themselves few nights ago
by tying a half dozen cats together. They
were then tied on long rope and let down
from the fourth story to the first. A terrible
cat fight ensued.
Joseph Thomas, constable in Garrett
county, attempted to arrest W. ID. Hoyce,
near Deer Park, on Monday. Hoyce and his
wife and man named Whitaker beat the
constable, and later Hoyce got gun and shot
him in the leg.
Benjamin Diggs, colored, died in Hagers-
town on Friday night of last week from the
vious he was invited into n saloon and during
the night drank half gallon of whisky. He
became unconscious and paralysis followed.
The Christian Endeavor societies, which
have been in convention in Frederick city,
adjourned last Sunday, after electing Mr..
David Rice vice president and Miss Florence
Maysville secretary of the union. The next
convention will be held at Woodsboro' May,
1895.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church South,
in Frederick city, which has been recently
improved and beautifed, was reopened last
Sunday with special exercises. Rev. Dr. J.
T. Wightman, of Baltimore, preached in the
morning. Rev. A. p Bond, of Brunswick,
assisted in the services.
Samuel Hanson, aged and infm, was ac-
cidentally burned to death last week at the
house of his sister, Mrs. Thomas Miller, in
Charles county. Is is supposed that his cloth
ing took fire from lamp in his bedroom,
where he was found dead Friday morning
with all his clothes burned off.
The Democrats of Crisfeld held an election
last Saturday to decide upon postmaster for
the town. Edward Die received 800 votes,
w. f. Byrd 252 and Alexander Laird 40.
Die was declared the choice, and the reuslt
was certified to the President, Senator Gibson
and the Congressman from the district
Proctor Bowhay, proprietor of the Ameri-
can Hotel, Brunswick, Frederick county, died
Wednesday night from injuries received while
trying to board a freight train at Sandy Hook
to come home He was caught between the
cars and had his right leg badly crushed and
sustained other injuries. He was native of
Hancock, Nd, and about As years old. He
leaves wife and two little daughters.
VIM. Thompson Walters, the well-known
philanthopist and capitalist, died on Thurs
day at his residence in Baltimore, in his 10th
wear. His estate is valued of over SIS. 000,-
000 and his charity was noted, his gallery of
paintings, an account af which was given by
a SPECIAL letter in the ADVOCATE few weeks
ago, was thrown open to the public several
times year, realizing several thousand dol
lars for that purpose.
The annual meeting of the shareholders of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
was held in Baltimore on Monday. The an
nual report stated the gross earnings to have
been S22, 502, 1852; operating expenses, $l5,-
$50, $3.50, and net earnings, Sc, 941.973. The
gross earnings decreased IA. 16 per cent the
net earnings 1922 per cent. The old Board
of Directors were reelected, William /. Dix
on taking the place of Charles J. NJ. Gwynn,
deceased.
It is stated that the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Co. has purchased an additional
tract of land at Cumberland and will build a
roundhouse and machine shops on its proper
ty adjacent to that city. The Humbird Land
and Improvement Co. has just conveyed to
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. twenty
FIVE acres of land adjoining the new yard in
South Cumberland. This piece of ground re-
quires very little grading, and will be thrown
into the big yard within the next two months.
The company intend to go right ahead with
their Improvements, and will expend over
half million dollars, within the next year on
the erection of their buildings. An immense
roundhouse will be built, besides several ma
chimes shops for departmental work. 1t is
said that the Baltimore and Ohio Company
intend to make Cumberland the Altoona of
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