The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-12-07
Maryland Affairs.

=, Mrs. Edith Hardy, aged 80 years died in Wash
ington county saturday.
Electric cars are now run from Towson to Cations
vile without change. This is great convenience
The Dillon estate, 81 acres, adjoining Hagers
town has been sold to Henry Hotzapfc for S13 ONO
2 st. Johns Lutheran Church. Hagerstowu wa,
100 years old on sunday. The event was approprf
ately celebrated, aud the repairs etc, paid for
Stevenson, Alexander * Co. one of the Oldest and
most prominent bootan shoe jobbers in Baltimore
made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors
on Tuesday.
, Mrs, Caroline Eisleldt aged 100 years. died in
Baltimore on November - She retained all her
faculties until about month ago She was a
native of Bavaria, and came 10 this country in 1873
The large warehouse belong to e. w Andrews.
situated ut Conowingo, Cecil county was burned
on saturday, together with lis contents which in
cinheu several thousand eases of canned goods GOO
bushels Of wheat and this years crop of hay oats
and corn.
The peach-growers in the Blue mountain belt
cleared large profits off of peaches last summer 4
Smithburg grower had fifty acres and cleared $40 .
600 another had ten acres and cleared 5000 an
other from fifteen acres cleared 81 900. while ono
| man realized ST. coo from thirty acres
| most peculiar accident occurred in Cumberland
| Monday which will result i'll the death of Jacob
Mathews. Mathews was engaged in boiling tar in
Il large IRON pot when the vessel exploded the CON
tents being thrown over the body of the vonng
| man, burning him so horribly that he cannot re-
| cover
| Vt Frostburg Allegany county, on Monday Ber-
nar Stern president of the First National Bank of
Frostburg and ono of the leading merchants Of the
town, died. He was elected county commissioner
on the Democratic tickets few years 20 by a larg.
majority. He was 80 years Ofage ana leaves wifn
and three children.
Bishop Alexander W. Wayman, senior bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church. of the
United States. and Eextto Fred Douglas the best
known colored man in the country, died suddenly
saturday morning at his home in Baltimore. aged
a years. He was native OF this State having been
born in Caroline county.
The cotton mills of the Pow haitian Construction
ana improvement Company. operated by NJ. Gam
brill Il Co, at Powhatan, Baltimore were burned |
Monday The loss is $50 09l insurance - Gla The
mills were built in 1910, and had orders recurring
them to be day and night until the close of the
year. large number of employees arc thrown ont
of work
Gerrit Smith, the distinguished organist and COM |
poser son of Gerrit II. Smith. of IEagerStown has !
been elected president the Manuscript Society of |
New York. a musical club of I.uoJ members COM |
posed OF the leading musicians of the city, The !
membership l. limited to that number vet il is now |
!liI. and many musicians clam oring TO get ill.,
Mr. smith is one Of the founders of the society It
IS said that until this society was formed il was
almost Impossible for an American composition 90
he played in public
Robert Jansen, aged 81 Years died at the Mary
land University Hospital Sunday morning from
injuries which he received by falling into II vat of
nitric acid. Jansen was employed ut the Monu-
mental Chemical Works At Fairfield near Brook
lyi Anne Arundel county At330 O'Clock in the
morning he mounted Il ladder to the top off vat to
run of some of the nitric acid in the tank He
slipped, lost his hold and fell into the acid Jams
sen was immersed in the acid. his face and body
being burned black. Although nearly crazcd by
pain he climbed out of the vatand managed to drag
himself about Il yard away. His screams for help
brought some fellow-workmen to his aid He was
ut once taken to the hospital in IL wagon. but died
Anew minutes after arriving there. He was native
of Guestrow, Mecklenburg where he leaves widow
and three children.
proposition to annex to Howard county the
portion of Baltimore county that borders the Pa
apSco river, between Marriottsvile and Relay is
being discussed and it is said to be likely that the
Legislature viii be asked to consider the matter and
pass an enabling act. To enlarge Howard county /
n the manner proposed would affect the first sec
md and perhaps the thirteenth election districts
ii baltimore county taking slice off the territory
contiguous to that county and aforling the resi-
tents OF that territory the advantages of nearby
ounty seat in Ellicott City, which is situated on
10Th sides of the river, marking the dividing line
ctween the two counties. Residents of Baltimore
ounty in that locality Inconvenience very
in getting to their county seat at Tow
on The constitution requires that the people liv-
l& i'll the district proposed to be transferred to
Toward must first consent to the change bva ma
)rty vote of the legal voters
Capt. Washington Robbins of Cambridge Dor |
hester county, master of the oyster pungy Coul-
ing on the floor of his boats cabin in St Georges
reek, St Mary'S county, in a dying condition The
lpthln head had been terribly beaten He said
Z had been attacked by two colored men, who
) posed the crew Of his boat, and that the attack
as made while he was asleep on Il locker i'll the
nm Monday night. After beating him into in =
visibility with handspikes or other blunt instru-
ents the men robbed him of between $50 and S2OO r
nd left him for dead taking the boats vawl and
Ding ashore. The two colOred men were arrested =
Hughesville. Charles county about 10 miles from
lie place where the assault was committed After l.
e assault they engaged Il colored boy to drive u
em III buggy to Mechanicsville st. Marys coun- =,
: ~ miles from ST. Georges, under the impression -
at they would be able to catch train there for -
fillmore or Washington. Finding that they could V
1t take Il train as they had expected they made i
cir way ten miles TO Hughesville on foot and "
lited there for a train building fire to keep ~
arm while waiting. Bowling & Brother keep Il
rs opened in the morning the men went in and y
ught complete new outfits of clothing spending
ont $40. They bought new suits, overcoats Shoes
Is, shirts ana necktieS, and even silk hundker-
leiS, Whlch they were wearing about their ncckS
the time they were arrested