The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-04-25


wayneshoro. Pa, is shipping bricks to Hagers-
town
Forest fires are raging near Penmar and High
field
Garrett county tax rate this year will be sliO on
the slO0
Poeomoke City. Somerset county is building
$4,000 ice mandatory.
Mrs. Jean Love, of Homecoming, Allegany county,
died last week aged "a years
The farmhouse of Charles Pyle, near Rising sun.
Cecil county, was burned on Sunday.
Traffic on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is
larger this season than for several years past
Burglars are at work among the stores in the
small villages and towns throughout the State
Gov Lowndes has named June 25 as the day for
the execution of James H. Truss, of Cecil county.
the Emmitsburg Railroad vice VIM H. Biggs, re-
signed.
j. NJ Slower, of Edgemont, has sold his fine peach
farm TO Samuel b. Loose of Hagerstown, for sS3-5O
per acre.
Mrs Barbara, aged 50 years, wife of Joseph A.
skinner. and John Ranels. aged rs years. died in
Hagerstown on Monday.
F. " Nusbaum, well-known farmer of MI.
on Tuesday of last week
Ernest Dean, prominent young man of Har-
mony, Caroline county, was drowned while fishing
in the Choptank river. on Saturday
Charles T. X. Young, living near Middletown,
Frederick county, had part of his right arm torn off
while saving shingles on Saturday.
Near EIkton, on Saturday last, Andrew Rasmussen
an employee of the Philadelphia Wilmington and
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Michael Radzgszowski, of 1913 Canton avenue
Baltimore county. had his hands badly torn while
examining dynamite cartridge on Sunday.
ON Monday night. in Pocomoke City, fight took
place between two colored women over Rev. Geo.
Marshall. each claiming him as her husband.
A large fire has been burning OH Catoctin Noun
tain in the vicinity of White Rock, five miles
northwest of Frederick for several days and nights
Littleton t Parker, 81 years old, wealthy
farmer, died suddenly at his home, in Somerset
county, Saturday morning from neuralgia of the
heart.
John Frazier u negro is in Frederick jail for as
saulting 7-year-old daughter of John Padgett of
Adamstown Her clothing was torn from her in
the scuf1e.
Henry Parke Curtis Wilson, Jr., president of the
Bryan Manufacturing Company, Baltimore, was
accidentally drowned on Saturday while boating in
Back river near Miller's Island.
Elias Wolf, dry goods merchant of Hanover.
Pa was robbed ofs25O and check for s24OO Tuesday
afternoon in negro den in Baltimore. Sadie
Parker, colored is accused of the theft.
On Thursday of last week fire burned over 100
acres about three miles from Annapolis on the
farms of Judge Revell and others. The fire is sup
posed to have started by the shooting of q gun on
the place
Between II and / O'Clock Tuesday night the resi-
dence of Joseph Favour, in Hartford county, was
struck by lightning and burned. The family barely
escaped Nothing saved. Loss over $1,000; in
suranee 5000.
Mt. St Mary's Orphan Asylum. at Emmitsburg
Frederick county, comes into bequest by the will
of the Rev. Dr. J. j. Doherty, who died on April eth
at Honesdale Pa. where he had been for 81 years
pastor of st. Johns Catholic Church.
The Kent News of last week says The Spring of
1875 was remarkable for its ''cold snaps" On the
18th of April John Brice walked across Connelly's
mill pond on the ice And in that year Kent had
one of the largest peach crops ever grown.
Mrs H T. Rawlings, of North Keys Prince
Georges county has two chickens that are curiosi-
ties One lisa week old and has four well-developed
legs and feet, and Is doing well. The other is a
year old and stands and walks erect like man.
Willie Plank aged IA years, was instantly killed
Monday morning in Hoffman mine. near Eckhart,
Allegany county. He was working with his father.
William Plank. and elder brother, when slip in
the roof fell, striking young Plank the head
sulting in his death.
Talbot county commissioners have offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the
murderer of Garrison Perkins, colored. He disap-
peared last December, and his dead body was found
on Friday of last week in Kings creek. The skull
crushed and there were cuts and bruises on his
body.
The barn of William c. Burke, near Annapolis,
was burned on Wednesday night of last week.
Burke did not discover the fire until 1t was well
under way. He lost six hogsheads of tobacco, one
horse four cows and lot of farming implements.
The loss amounts to 81 500: insurance half that
| amount.
DR.. ]. Pembroke Thoms herd of Jersey cattle, at
Catonsville Baltimore county. have been killed by
order of the State Veterinarian who said they were
suffering from tuberculosis. There were 2S head
originally in the herd, nine of which were killed
several weeks ago and the stables thoroughly dsin-
| fected
Sister Mary Simeon celebrated her golden jubilee
at the Visitation Convent in Frederick last week
Sister Mary Loretta Hunter mother superior of the
convent, and for ffty-six years member of the
order was stricken with paralysis, affecting her
right side, few days ago. and is very ILL., She is
rs years old.
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