The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-10-17
MARYLAND Affairs.

lncendia,y fires are becoming very frequent
on the Eastern Shore.
Baltimore county has 1904 registered
voters, Of which 2705 are colored.
w. W. Spence has presented to Johns
Hopkins Hospital a statue of ''The Divine
Healer 1t is magnificent piece of art.
Rev. DR.. Clever, of Baltimore, was elected
President Of the Potomas Synod Of the Re-
formed Church, at Altoona, Pa, this week.
Senator German made speech in Balti-
more, on Thursday night, favoring the cleo
tion of Bryan and Sewall. About 5000 peo-
pie were present.
George Matthews, accused of the murder of
James Irwin at Aliens Fresh last August,
escaped from the Charles county jail about 8
O'Clock Tuesday morning.
The second trial of Thomas r. Brown on
an indictment for the murder of Samuel Rash
ended on Wednesday and Brown has been
acquitted of the charge. The first trial took
place in Queen Anne's county, where the
crime was committed, and the jury failed to
agree upon verdict Then the case was re-
moved to Caroline county.
Rev. DR.. Franklin Wilson died on Wednes-
day morning at his home. DR.. Wilson was
the Oldest Baptist minister in Baltimore. he
was born in Baltimore December 8, 1922.
He was son of Thomas Wilson, of the old
| Hfm OF llOulaS wilson q OOnS. Ills uiOtucf
was Miss Mary Cruise, daughter of Thomas
Cruise, an Irish patriot, who came to America
to escape punishment by England for his
efforts for the freedom of Ireland.
Sheriff Thos NJ. Underwood took from the
Baltimore Jail Thursday morning James L.
Smith, colored, charged with the murder of
Miss Marguerite Drown, near Seat Pleasant,
Prince Georges county, on the evening of
July 2S. The prisoner was arraigned;pleade.di
guilty of the murder, but not of the assault. !"
The prisoner later withdrew the plea of
guilty, and was tried before jury. The jury
shortly after rendered a verdict of guilty of
murder
On Wednesday morning smash up &C.
Cured on the Northern Central Railway,
midway between Brightside and Hollins Sta
ton, and about seven miles from Baltimore.
Six men, all OF whom live in or around Park
ton, Baltimore county, were hurt. They are:
Eli Bull, ankle sprained; George Roach, in
iured on the legs and arms; William Talbot.
Slightly hurt in the back; Thaddeus Bull,
sprained ankle; Charles Frederick, slightly
injured internally; Benjamin Parker, injured
on the face and chest. The accident was
caused by car in a repair train jumping the
track
Mrs. Ellen Milholland died Tuesday night,
| in the seth year of her age. She has been
confined to her home by ill-health for the past
year and her death was due to general
breaking down of the system from old age.
She was born in Ireland and had lived in Bal
timore for Go years. Her husband, Arthur
Milholland, who died in 1881 at the age of
| 81 was also native OF Ireland. For more
than 40 years he was in the grocery business
| in Baltimore His widow has lived in the
house where she died for SO years. At the
lime of her death she was the oldest member
of St Vincent's Catholic Church, having been
enrolled as a parishioner within short time
after its establishment, in 1841.
Wednesday morning Frank L. Thomas was
found dead in his cell in the Cambridge Jail,
where he was held on the charge of shooting
and killing Ambrose A. Wilson at lakewood
on the both of last June shortly after day
break. Deputy Sheriff Simpson in passing
| Thomas cell, which was near the entrance,
noticed that he had taken the mattress and
covering from the bedstead and placed them
on the floor, where he lay entirely covered up
and apparently asleep. Simpson called out,
'Hello, Mr.. Thomas, you took low bed last
| night. He received no answer and passed
on. Shortly after he again called Thomas,
who had not moved, and upon uncovering his
head the officer found him rigid in death,
though neither the body nor bed covering
showed any signs of struggle or contortions.
| A note was found in which he said 81 got
the strychnine from Joe Henry at Newmarket
and brought it down with me when l came to
Cambridge. came the goth of June, 1896. -
The Boonsboro correspondent of the Hag-
erstown Globe, writes to that paper as follows,
under date of Saturday last:
''Some months ago reported remarkable
case that confounds physicians and cannot be
accounted for. 1t was that of Mrs. Brill. at
Benevola, who in her usual health, suddenly
assumed bright scarlet hue, changing in a
few days to light pink. The coloring sub
stance exuded through the pores of the skin,
and would yield to cloth, whipping off readily,
making the cloth as red as blood. She is
now undergoing second visitation of the
strange affection. The face, with the excep-
ton of the eyes, is a brilliant scarlet, while
other portions of the body is light pink. A
few days ago on the side of her left leg was a
perfectly shaped heart and on the other side
the outlines of man as perfect, as if drawn
with pencil, in bright scarlet. Her fist
attack made its appearance on Sunday. The
present one made its appearance last Sunday.