The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-03-16
Maryland Affairs.

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Samuel A. Rowe has recovered from the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad =, 200 for personal
injuries caused by falling boulder from the
cut at Harper Ferry.
Thomas c. Slaughter. Of Queen Anne 5
county. has 10 ewes which have given birth To
80 lambs. all now living. Twelve had twins,
two triplets and FIVE singles.
Capt. Turner. of the oyster police steamer
McIane, on last week arrested p boats and
their crews for dredging on Eastern bay. II
being reserved for the tougers.
Clifton Park. in northeast Baltimore. has
been chosen as the SITE for the great Centen-
NAL Exposition IN 1897. Now let everyone
go To work in order 10 make it q succc-S.
Hartford county commissioners have iSsued
an order requesting the public 70 avoid heavy
hauling over the public roads m Hartford
county until they are in better condition.
Porf Deposit. Cecil county, sustained very
heavy damage from the breaking up Of the ice
on SATURDAY. and SUNDAY. Fears are enter
tanned of further damage should warm rain
come
The Baltimore and Ohio belt line tunnel at
Baltimore. which Is six miles long. cost the
railroad company s.. O00, eco. Electric motors
viii be used instead IF locomotive, after
April ].
Washington county has 62j miles ot public
roads and there IS much complaint because
the county commissioners would not open the
recent snow drifts. The commissioners say
that il would cost too much money and that
the citizens should open them.
Kent county expended about S5ooOin open
ing snowdrift-. Fer doing So there is oousid-
cradle difference Of opinion IS 70 the right 81
the county commissioners 10 eXpcnd the pnh-
lie money. while on the other hand they are
commended for their prompine>s-
Thomas A. Jones. who vas In the ,ecret
service ot the Confederacy IN southern Mary
land during the civil war. and who provided
Booth aud Hcruld with the means Of escaping
across the Potomac into Virginia. died AZ Ia
Plata Charies county, oH the 2d inst. sgcd
- ycars-
The Whiteiord Green Marble Company, IF
Cambria. Hartford county, Is making shipments
Of marble for the Carnegie building IN Pitts
burg. The deposits Of the marble are exien.
sive. and the stone is superior. u Is thought
the quarrying &c the stone vii heeone s.
leading industry of Hartford.
The five negroes who were recenJly found
guilty Of numbering constable Edward Carver.
Of Somerset county. have been sentenced 90
the peuitentiary a. follows John Handy
and George Holden IS years each; George
Parker. 10 wears; Leonard Conquest and
Alfred Conquest 5 years each.
Washington county farmer generally arr
beginning to feed wheat extensively O. hogs.
THIS manner Of disposition. if Is claimed.
raises the price Of the cereal Ia 81 per husheG
Charles smith, q near Ciearpriue, sold a
pen Of wheat fed pigs. SIX months old, that
averaged 20 pounds each IN weight, The
heaviest 2s5 pounds and the next heaviest -
pounds
Abram Mickey. a tsapper on the mountains
in the vicinity 81 Peumar, has captured thus
winter thirteen foxes. scyea Wlld cats. SIX
race0ous. eleven oposSums, five skunss and
twenty Eve muskrats. GRAY foxes, he reports.
arr on the increase. while the red fox Is tasi
being extermiuated The caIamouut. ~
mountain Hon, still exists. be sys. and Is
rather on tbs incrcase
A suit for 500 damages, which uss brought
by Rev Morton Bend. nf MiddieioWu. Fred
erick county. Hgaiuyt Thzddeus Hamcr. tbc
teacher If the night school ai Aiddlctuwu.
was tried before Justice Thomas Turner last
week. Mr. Bend hrough, the suit on Sc
count Of a whipping his daughter received
The magistrate rendered a Judgment for the
plaintiff for So and costs.
During the late blizzard Mr. Wesley Bell,
residing 3 miles ems, Of Frederick. missed Q
yearling heiier. Ten DAYS later. while opening
q snow blocked road. he saw a small hole
melted In the suuw Striking the drIti with
his shovel caused the drift to cave H.. and
there was the yearling alive lying on D. side.
with one horn OF nose frozen somewhat and
one ear shrivelled. The animal could NOT
stand. bug iu time took H0uFishmeut ia the
( form n milk. and in a few days eating
T hay, although i could not stand.
The funeral Of John RsmeIheber, who died
( Ia Annapolis SUNDAY. aged 50 years. tnos
( place on Tuesday morning from St Mary
Z Catholic Church and was largely attended.
I Ry special permission the remains were de-
( posted in the yauit at the college in the real
/ Of the church This Is distinction which
I has never been accorded 10 a layman. III,
. vault having been reserved exclusively for
/ the clergy. The exception was on account
Z Of Mr.. Hinelheber's active and faithful ser
vice To the church. Of which be WAS the oides
member.
4 Dr. Robert Ward. State veterinarian. ha.
/ been investigating a peculiar malady which
/ for some time past has been affecting cattl'
aud horses on the farm Of Charles ". Fergu
son. near Theodore. Cecil county. Early II
I December the horses showed signs of wha
,aouth q mule died from the disease aud ih,
FIRST Of this month two horses died and tn,
cats snd dogs around the place contracted Jh'
disease The cats were killed. Two othe
horses and two cows we're sick when DIR. War
went 70 the farm and made an examination
He pronounced the disease fungus catarrh an,
prescribed treatment which Is proving effec
tive He stated that the disease was conta
gious, and great precauti0n was taken 10 pro
vent It's spread. There are no other cases IL
the vicinity and the stock Of Mr. Ferguson i
recovering.
despatch from Cumberland. March !
I saws Theodore Gordon and John \ aste
both residents of this city, were arrested her
to-day, Charged with completely in the murde
Of Grant Zufall, Of Meyersdale, Pa. Iuial
was a railroad brakeman. He came TO thi
city December -, 1894, and disappeared ol
the night of December "a. No trace Of hin
( could be found until February q when hi
body was discovered protruding from the ic
in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Soutl
Cumberland At first 1t was believed he ha,
wandered down the railroad track and ha,
fallen into the canal. The pOst-mOrtem, how
ever. disclosed the fact that Zufall was no
drowned. and that his neck was broken an,
that he was dead before his body was place,
in the water. The theory of the prosecution
is that Zufall, Gordon and several Others wer
in the saloon kept BY waste, in an msavor
locality, on North Mechanic street, on Christ
mas eve; that row occurred during which
Mexican. travelling man from PittsburI
received serious cuts in the neck. Zufall wa
knocked down stairs, diving instantly from
dislocatiOn of the neck and for weeks durin
the cold spell his body was concealed il
Yaste's house and finally taken to the canal
where hole was cut in the ice large enougl
TO admit the body Certain ii is that the hoi
in which Zuiall's body was found was covere
with ice much thinner than that which sur
rounded it, and there was also evidence tina
the cake cut from the hole had been shove
under the ice. Other arrests will follow, an
it is believed the authorities have the clu
that viii unravel the mystery. On the ST