The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-03-07
Maryland Affairs.

Havre de Grace, Hartford county, wants a
S2s,000 public school building.
Simon P Saylor, aged SO years, died in
Woodsboro, Frederick county, on Saturday
last.
After a long struggle against the inevitable
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad passed into
the hands of receiver on Saturday last.
VIM. p Howard has been appointed clerk
TO the circuit court of Cecil county in place of
James Graham, deceased 1t is an excellent
selection.
James d. Mason Il Co.'S steam bakery, in
Baltimore, the largest bakery in the South,
has passed into the hands of the New York
Biscuit Company.
VIM. T. Beasant, aged so years, we'll
known business man of Frederick, died on
Saturday night last. He fought in the late
war on the Confederate side.
VIM. Alexander Hemp, aged IS years, of
near Petersyille, Frederick county, WAS ae-
cidentally thrown from load of fodder on
Friday OF last week, and died on Sunday from
injuries received.
The late William s. Head, Of Frederick
county, who died recently at Latrobe, Pa,
left a fortune of $500, 200. Among the be.
quests of his will was So, 900 10 institutions of
the Catholic Church.
Dattituuft pDiiCt nave stGGteucu Ill cdpLuT-
ing what they believe to be the chief of the
gang that have been bnrglarizng the city 1t
required n regular fight to subiue them as
they knew if convicted it means the peniten-
tiary for life.
The total number of garment workers now
on strike in Baltimore is estimated at over
5000. Twelve of the strikers who were on
Monday tout on committee inducing men
to quit work, were arrested at the instance
of the employers for disturbing the peace.
The large bank barn on the farm of DR..
Thomas Fl. Sappingtou, near West Falls,
Frederick county, was set on fire, it is sup
posed, by an incendiary, and completely de-
stroyed on Saturday. Six valuable horses
were burned to death, aud quantity of grain
and farming implements consumed. The loss
is estimated at 81, 600, partly insured.
Messrs. VIM. J. Dickey Il Sons are making
extensive Improvements to increase the pro-
duct of their cotton and wooden mills at DELLA
Forty-ive new kersey looms are to be added
to the equipment of that department, and the
building known as the paper mill on the firm $
property will be altered and adapted to that
use. When the improvements are completed
fully four hundred operatives will be EN-
ployed.
A hen belonging to Mrs. Edward Boswell,
at Della, Baltimore county, is remarkable for
its color-red, white and blue-and for its
having laid an egg of the same colors, has
again excited little curiosity in the vicinity.
Recently it produced a second egg, which
was unusually oblong in shape, it being three
and five-eighths inches in length and measur-
ing one and seven-eighths inches in diameter.
Around the center there was a raised ring.
The small end was speckeled like the egg of a
turkey. The hen and its peculiar products
are the curiosity of the neighborhood.
Mr.. John c. Bannon, whose illness was an
nounced in the ADVOCATE last week, died on
Saturday, in Annapolis. His mother and two of
his brothers were with him. Says the Annap-
oils correspondent of the Baltimore American:
The death of Mr.. Bannon was received by the
entire community with profound regret All
his virtues were generously rehearsed, his
kindness, his courage, his fidelity to his friends
and his unceasing devotion to his family
! One of his last acts was to send message to
Senator German, asking that, when he was
gone, to look after the interests of his family,
especially of his brother, Philip NJ. Bannon,
now a cadet in the navy.