The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-07-18
Maryland Affairs.

in Reisterstown, Baltimore county, on
Sunday.
The mountain regions of Washington
county are loaded with counterfeit silver
half dollars.
VIM. T. Devoe, farmer Of Hartford
county. shielded on Saturday He had
been sufferer from epilepsy from child
hood
Miss Aims, of Philadelphia, Pa, who
is visiting her uncle, Rev. c. IL. Vandyne,
in Pocomoke City, was taken suddenly IN
sane on Friday of last week while calling
upon some friends.
.Joseeh r. Moore, of Boston, Mass
was arrested at Highlandtown, Baltimore
county. on Sunday as a pickpoeket. lie
made confession, and stated that he had
been arrested 119 times.
Land owners in the 9TH district OF How
ard county have decided upon a valuation
of their land at SIS per acre. II that Is
the ratio throughout the county the tax
rate next year will be almost double
James Crook died of injuries received
from 4 club in the hands of Richard King,
in Prince George county, during
Fourth July frolic. The accused was
taken to Baltimore jail for safe keeping
Peter Kreigbaum, one of the oldest ma
tives of Allegany county, died IN Cumber-
land ON Sunday aged S3 years At the
time of his birth his father conducted
carding and pulling mill where Borden
shaft is now located.
Mrs. Mary Hambleton, relict OF Joseph
Hambleton. of Calvert, Cecil county, Will
celebrate his Goth birthday August l.
Mrs Hambleton, although confined to her
room from lameness, is otherwise IN good
health and looks forward to her coming
anniversary with pleasure.
The old paper mill building at the Della
mills has been remodeled and fitted up as
an adjunct of the wooden factory. Inn
proyed machinery and turning water
wheel have been added, and workmen are
now engaged in placing automatic sprlnk-
lers in each room as precautlon against
Are
Peter A. Kennedy, aged Y, of Balh-
more. died suddenly on Saturday evening"
while talking to his daughter. On the
same night Mrs. Barbara Bender, aged
68. was found dead in her bed, and on
Sunday. Mrs francesca Monallk, aged
90 years, while sitting on her porch
fell over dead.
LAWYER Charles T. Garitee was dis
barred on Saturday from practicing in the
United States courts of Maryland. The
disbarment of Mr.. Garitee was the result
of his conviction in pension cases and also
of his action in agreeing to be tired by
eleven Jurors and then claiming after con-
yiction that he should have been tried by
twelve Jurors Disbarment proceedings
are also pending against Mr.. Garitee in the
State courts and have been set for hearing
next October,
Mrs. Anna Reese widow Of the late
Rev. David Evans Reese a former presl-
dent of the Maryland Annual Conference,
Methodist Protestant Church, died at her
residence, in St. Michaels, Talbot county,
on Sunday She had been an invalid
many years She was Miss Reed, OF
Winchester, Va. Three daughters survive
her--Mrs Bantz, of ST. Louis; Mrs. Vir-
ginia Reese Phelps, of Newark. who is a
writer of some celebrity, and Miss Mary
Reese. of St. Michaels 5.
Henry Long, the pitcher for the Hag-
erstown Baseball Club, who had his right
arm cut off under the weels of freight
train Friday morning of last week, died at
Bellevue Hospital Saturday morning DIR,
w. II. Morrison amputated the stub OF
his arm to prevent hemorrhage of the
shoulder artery A letter from his moth
er in Chicago was handed to the sufferer,
but he expired before he could read it.
His body has been forwarded to his rela-
tives in Chicago Herman Long, his
brother, plays as short stop with the Bos-
tons, and was at St Louis when the acci-
dent occurred.
Two horses attached to wagon of the
Staten Island Bottling Works, driven by
Henry Wording, became unmanageabe Sat
urday and ran away from st. Paul and Null
berry streets, Baltimore. They dashed
down the steep hill on Mulberry street be-
tween st. Paul and Calvert and into a
show-window of the grocery store of j.
Harry Igo. The glass of the window was
demolished and the frame carried away.
The horses were unable to stop until almost
entirely within the store. The driver
Jumped as the animals struck the window
and escaped injury but the horses were
severely injured. A similar accident took
place short time ago to the store adjoin-
ing Igos.
Robert Isaac Morris, retired business
man, died early Sunday morning at his
home, in Cumberland, of complication
of diseases, aged 60 years. He was ma
tive of Winchester, Va, and came to
Cumberland 40 years ago. He was pas
senger engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad till the beginning of the war, and
had the honor to take the first engine over
the line from Cumberland upon the com
pletion of the extension to Wheeling. He
was engineman on the train which jumped
from the Cheat river bridge into the river
43 years age, killing many passengers.
He jumped over % foot embankment and
escaped with a broken leg He was twice
married, his second wife, who survives,
being a sister of ex- Mayor Jacob B. Hum
bird. He also leaves a son and daughter
BY his first wife,
FASHIONS AT SARATOGA.