The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-09
Maryland Affairs.

Corn Is selling III Frederick county as low
as 81 per barrel.
St. James Hall, Baltimore, was ruined by
fire and water Wednesday morning.
Potatoes are selling in parts of Baltimore
county at from Is to Is cents per bushel.
Elias Coblentz, aged "a, of Middletown,
Frederick county, died suddenly on Saturday.
Scarlet fever is so much of a scourge in
| parts of Kent county that schools and churches
have been closed.
Owing to low water in the Potomac river,
| the street cars are not run and electric lights
are not burning in Cumberland
| Carroll Park livery stables, Baltimore with
mules and horses, carriages, wagons, har
ness &C., were burned Wednesday night.
Carson w. Harris. of Kent county, has
| shipped over $4,000 baskets, of Keifer pears
this year which Melted him 81 per basket.
Samuel Stouffer, of Keedysville, Washington
county, shipped over 1000 pounds of dried
sweet corn to the city markets this season.
Nicholas Grimmel, aged Is years, of Balti-
more, had his right arm torn from its socket
on Monday. The arm will have to be ampu-
tated.
Towson. Baltimore county, has had several
| incendiary fires recently, and the citizens are
| becoming uneasy on account Of their fire.
| quency.
The sheriff of Kent county was arrested by
the coroner on Saturday under charge OF
malfeasance. He had been indicted by the
| grand jurg.
| VIM. Low. aged 80 years, committed
suicide near Edgemont. Washington county,
| Oh Monday. He had been Respondent for a
long time.
Paul J. Cloves, aged about 50 years, an
employee of the Antietam Paper Mills, near
| Hagerstown, dropped dead while working at
the factory Monday afternoon.
| Francis NJ. Shipley's barn at Glenelg,
| Howard county, was burned last week. Farm
| ing Implements 25 barrels of corn and hogs
were also burned. Some insurance.
George Barnes, aged 10 years, timer,
while at work on the smokestack of the City
College. Baltimore, on Tuesday, fell l25 feet
and was instantly killed.
| r. D. johnson, Jr. has been arrested in
Cumberland charged with the murder Of
Grant Zutall, on December "a, last. John
| sons family is one of the best and most prom
inent in that city.
Mrs. Salie Jones, who resided near Cam
bridge, died on Sunday, aged 90 years. She
was an aunt of John Z. Hurst, late candidate
for Governor, and was the oldest resident OF
| Dorchester county.
William Stevenson, a farmer, 80 years old,
at Costen, Somerset county, was shot through
the head at the polls while trying to vote
| Tuesday, by Samuel Dickerson. colored.
Stevenson was fatally injured.
Thomas C. Ward, of near Benedict, st.
| Marv's county, will be 102 years old on No
vember 25. He reads without glasses. Jas.
Walsh, of Frostburg, Allegany county, is 101
years old. His father lived to be 40.
South mountain is on fire; over 5000 acres
have been burned over. Much game of all
kinds has been destroyed. The State author
tiles will be asked to pass extreme laws to
punish those who set fire to the woods
While Dave Thorp. of Frostburg, was at
work Saturday morning in the Eckhart mine
he was killed in his room by crosspiece Of
timber falling and breaking his neck. He
was thirty-seven years of age and leaves a
widow and seven small children.
Two barns and a granary on the farm OF
James Z. Moss, at Hackett's Point, Anne
Arundel county, were burned Monday. All
the grain. feed. several horses, a colt, eight
COWS, yoke of oxen and pen of hogs were
also burned. Insurance $500; incendiariSm.
John S. Biddison, a well-known resident OF
Baltimore county, died Wednesday at his
| home. Gardenville. Baltimore county, in the
85th year of his age. He was the son of the
late Abraham and Susannah B. Biddison, and
was born on the place where he died. he
had been prominent in religious and political
| circles for number of years.
Captain Frederick Lang and his wife were
found dead in bed at their home in Garden
Vile, suburb of Baltimore, on Tuesday.
Their skulls had been crushed and the house
ransacked. 1t is supposed that robbery was
the incentive for the double murder Captain
Lang was interested in the oyster trade, and
owned Il number Of vessels. He was about
so years of age
At Port Deposit, on Wednesday of last
week, the Susquehanna river was lower than
it has been since 1903. In many places there
is but little water running. and it looks almost
| impossible for even fish, and looks as if II
could never be used for floating timber and
lumber down to navigation. The supply OF
water is so small from the springs that but
little can be given the Jacob Tome Institute,
and many of the farmers are hauling then
water fora long distance for culinary purposes,
and driving their cattle to runs to water them.
Recently a wedding took place at Maple
vile. Washington county, Md, ut which a
woman performed the marriage ceremony,
being the first of It's kind in the history of the
county. The woman was Rev. Miss Laura
Z. n. Grosnickel, an ordained minister oil
the German Baptist Brethren of Dunkard
Church. The bride was Miss Rosie New.
conner. and the groom was Mr.. James r.
Keadle. Miss Fannie Cross was bridesmaid
and Mr. John Dube the best man. The
wedding was largely attended and attracted
widespread notice for its novelty. After the
wedding was over number Of prominent
lawyers said the marriage was void, as the
laws of Maryland did not permit women &c
perform marriages, States Attorney Charles
A. Little, however, put the newly welded
couple at rest by declaring that the marriage
was valid.
A great strike is on by the employees of the
Great Northern Railroad by order of the
| American Railway Tnion Several engine.