The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-16
Maryland Affairs.

Wild fowl are unusually plentiful on the
bay and cOntributary streams.
John r. Gray, clerk of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, Baltimore, died suddenly at his
home, of heart disease. Wednesday night.
Rebecca Hornsten and Macmillan Blum.
of Baltimore, have been arrested on the charge
of administering paris green TO the family of
Adolph Eenemitski.
DIR. W. X. Carroll, Of Centrevillc, Queen
Anne's county, was acquitted of the killing of
Jesse Moulton, colored, a few months ago,
for attempting an entrance to his residence,
Mrs. Owen Dodson, of Kent county, was
burned to death by the upsetting Of a coal oil
lamp, last week, aud her husband also re-
ceived severe burns while trying to save her
life
John d. Carter a farmer aged fifty five
years, is in Jail at Chestertown, charged with
attempting felOnious assault on seven-year
old daughter Of Capt. Thomas P. Benny. of
Kent county.
John Henry Messner. who had been ar
rested on the charge Of numbering Ezekiel
Jolly, i'll Baltimore county, last week, has
made full confession. and charges three
others as accessories.
Samuel p. Angle is under arrest, charged
with attempting to kill Levi Cline, of Downs
Vile. Hit him in the head with a rock over
quarrel about fish pot at Wiliamsport,
Washington county
After nearly years idleness work was
started at furnace A at Sparrows Point and
100 men will be added to the payroll. In Il
few weeks furnace B will be fired and a SINH
lar number of men given work.
Granary thieves are at work in Washington
he, -, IL,
outhouses and fatal results many be expected
Several small postoffices and stores in villages
have been recently burglariZed in other coun-
ties.
Charles Schlaffer, an ex-member of the
Maryland Legislature and late candidate for
County Commissioner on the Democratic
ticket IN Baltimore county, was arrested i'll
Baltimore Wednesday charged with election
frauds.
Upon breaking open the safe Of Capt
Lange, who was murdered at his residence in
Gardenville. Baltimore county, on November
4, his will and about $1,000 in money were
found BY his will he leaves all his property
to the German Orphan Asylum. His estate
is valued at 100000
Henry Beasil a tenant on the farm of Hon
John B. Brown, in Queen Anne's county, was
attacked by vicious bull Wednesday, and
was seriously injured. His coIlarbone and
one rib were broken. and he is probably in
jured internally. Only recently he had LEG
broken by a fractions horse.
On Sunday the bark Priscilla landed at
Baltimore the Captain and his wife and
six of the crew Of the schooner Frances,
which was wrecked at sea October Dist
They were picked up on the both by the Nop-
wegian bark Enterprise in latitude 20 5S
north, longitude 1870 west, and afterwards
transferred to the Priscilla. The rescued
party had been without water or anything to
eat for seven days.
John A. Smith, of Reisterstown, Baltimore
county, who died in Jamaica October 81,
went to the island in June as superintendent
of the new railroad being constructed there.
He was in the employ of Smith Brothers, con-
tractors. Mr.. Smith was 81 years old. He
served in the Legislature from Baltimore
county in 1887, and had been superintendent
for Smith & Burns, of Baltimore, in railroad
work in the West and Northwest. j. G. Smith,
of Reisterstown, is his brother, and another
brother is in Jamaica.