The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-05
Maryland Affairs.

April was S0,OlU,Uoo.
aSweated" silver dollars are in circula-
ton and are easily deteched.
Homecoming, Allegany county, has voted
$50, 900 for water works.
Hagerstown Hebrews have purchased
lot for cemetery purposes.
An artesian well has been sunk 947 feet
at Crisfeld without finding water.
Daniel c. Goodwin, aged IS years, died
in Reisterstown on Sunday last.
Somerset farmers expect to commence
shipping strawberries on May 10.
The 17-year locusts are due in Maryland
and II other States in May and June.
Forest fires have done considerable dam
age in the mountains Of Washington county.
Five persons suffering from smallpox
are at the quarantine hospital, Baltimore.
Frederick county farmers are planting
an unusually large acreage of corn thit
year.
The miners of Western Maryland refus-
ed to strike, saying they were satisfied with
their wages.
Robert Wickes, of Greys Inn, Kent
county, lost pen of 40 hogs by being
poisoned.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
built coal pier in Philadelphia, Pa, that
cost SIS, 900.
Jacob n. Thomas, well-known citizen
of Montgomery county, has mysteriously
disappeared. No cause is assigned.
A walking delegate insists on the
Western Maryland miners striking. The
miners should make him walk Spanish y
Jonathan Shankie, near Frederick, com
mitted suicide on Monday, by shooting
himself in the left eye. Death was in-
Simultaneous.
Benjamin McGee, of Bentley Springs,
Baltimore county, died on Wednesday from
burns caused by the accidental breaking of
lamp.
+. f. Metzger's barn in the 18th district
of Baltimore county, was struck by light
ming on Saturday night and together with
its contents were destroyed.
Carsten Mende killed himself in Balti-
more on Thursday. He was a native OF
Bremen, Germany, but had resided in
Baltimore for number of years.
On Tuesday, proposals for S2,3331 100
of Baltimore city stock were opened. The
aggregate bids amount to nearly showing
that 100000, the stock is in demand.
The 38th annual National Convention Of
Heptosophs, or Order of Seven Wise Men,
was opened in Baltimore on Tuesday
Delegates were present from % States.
Thomas A. Cassidy, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has purchased the Kimmell property, stu
ated near Creswell, for $4,000. Mr.. Cas-
silly will make Hartford county his future
home.
St. Johns Catholic Church at Forest
Glen, Maryland, upon the site of which
Archbishop Carroll erected chapel in
IVA, was dedicated on Sunday by Car Ii
nal Gibbons.
Berlin, Worcester county, is to have
large repair shops for agricultural machn,
iery. No implements made, but the firm
will be able to handle anything needing re-
pairs on farm.
Mrs. Margaret Clarke, aged rs years.
died in Hancock, on Saturday. She was a
native of Gettysburg, Pa. Mrs. Mary
Cassidy, aged 81 years, died on Thursday
of last week, in the same town.
Jefferson j. Bandell, of Baltimore, took
carbolic acid on Monday, and death result
ed. Sarah Il. Bowers, aged 16 years, of
the same city, took laudanum. She had
no apparent reason for so doing.
On Sunday night, all the farm buildings
on the estate of John S. Cuttings near
Baltimore, were burned; also 5 horses, 10
COWS, valuable carriages and harness, a
large quantity of corn, oats, hay, etc.
A terrible thunder storm visited Mid
dletown, Frederick county, on Saturday
afternoon and night. The residence of S.
B. Cobentz and the barn, of Hezekiah
Dean were struck by lightning and consider
ably damaged.
A four year old boy of constable Hor-
ton G. Thompson, of Gaithersburg, was
accidentally burned to death on Saturday.
A child of Robert Cooper, of the same
place, ran a nail in his knee; the wound
produced lockjaw.
On Thursday the dwelling house and
buildings, on the farm of Patrick Sullivan,
near Iron Hill Station, Cecil county, were
burned with their contents, and MIR. Sui
Ivan and his wife narrowly escaped. In
cendiary; loss $4,000.
John B. Ramsay, president Of the Ma
tional Mechanics Bank, and James Sloan,
president of the Farmers and Merchants
National Bank, will be appointed finance
commissioners, of Baltimore, to succeed
Enoch Pratt and w w. Spence, resigned.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday, james L.
Wilcox and his wife, who were convicted
of cutting gold coins, were sentenced, the
husband to four years in the penitentiary
and to pay fine of $500, and the wife to
six months in Jail and to pay fine of $50
Gov Brown has appointed as the State
veterinary board for four years DR.. Robert
Ward, of Baltimore; DIR. VIM. III. Martenet,
of Baltimore DR.. +. H. Mackie, of Cecil
county; DIR. A. w. Clement, of Baltimore;
DIR. Thomas W. Spranklin, of Baltimore
Nicholas B., aged 20 years, son of Chief
Judge Reuben Dorsey, of the Howard
County Orphans Court, accidentally shat
tered his left arm with revolver which he
supposed to be unloaded on Monday. The
arm was amputated at the shoulder.
Fears are entertained that he will not re-
cover.
Recently, by direction of Fish Commits
sioner John S. Sudler, $50, 900 young shad
were placed in the Manokin river at Prin-