The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-05-16
Maryland Affairs.

Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad earnings are slid u
have increased S, 600 day under the new manage
ment.
Rev Osborne Ingle, of Frederick, celebrated the
30th anniversary of his reetorship of All Saints
E Church on May Is.
B. Palmer Keating member of the Queen
Annes county bar, has been indicted on foul
charges of ENLIGHTENMENT.
Daniel Bngunier, near Hagerstown, was attacked
by bull and seriously hurt on Tuesday. Assistants
beat the bull off with pitchforks.
Negro men are becoming quite expert as pocket
boos snatchers in Baltimore. especially around the
markets and other crowded places.
newly-built row of houses in northwest 8alti-
more, was ordered to be taken down last week by
the inspector of buildings, as they were unsafe to
live in.
The Faust Shoe Manufacturing Company of Havre
de Grace have failed. 1t will be rearranged and it
will be started shortly under different management
Liabilities $4,000
Charles Anderson, colored, assistant mail
carrier between Aberdeen and Thomas Rum in
Hartford county has been arrested on the charge of
cutting open mail bags.
J. R. Blewett, of Wheeling West Virginia, nung
himself near Curtis Bay, just below Baltimore, on
Saturday. He left note saying he could not pro-
cure work and was starving.
John T. Lipps, aged 26 years, was fatally injured
! in Frederick, on Monday, by falling from tree
from when he was cutting branches in order to al
I low telephone wires to pass through.
| The store and dwelling of Nimrod Dutron, at
/; Pleasant Walk, Frederick county, was burned on
Saturday. Insurance $3.50 The fire was started in
the cellar by an incendary, the cellardoor lock
was broken off,
Francis E. Waters has purchased country home
on the Frederick road of about six acres, and was
the site of the old Paradise Hotel. The property
was purchased from Mr.. o. F. Bresee. surviving
trustee, for sl3.50O.
John A. Groves aged g. years, died near Chester
/ town on Tuesday He had been county commits
sioner twice was large land owner, the most ex-
iensiye peach-grower in Kent county, and an un-
swerving Democrat He leaves widow and seven
children.
Last year Isl city boarders spent an average OF
six weeks at the various boarding houses in st.
Miehaers and Bay Hundred, in Talbot county.
There were also several hundred of the "city
cousins who were guests of their rural relatives
in addition.
Baltimore had fine rain on Tuesday afternoon
and night. Considerable damage was done by rain,
wind and hail. In the eastern part Of the city the
rain fell in torrents and several houses struck
by lightning; many persons frightened by the
roar of the wind
Vim. Shorter II colored porter at the Hotel
DeAtley, opposite B. & o. depot, Baltimore, ar
rested on Sunday for indecent proposal to Mrs. c.
II. Davids, of Chicago, who had arrived a late
train with her husband and child. The husband
was absent at the time.
Commissions were issued Monday from the execu.
tive department to VIM. H. Kemp, Republican, and
J. f. Mcdaniel, Democrat, assessors for Talbot
county. They were the first to comply with the
request of the Governor to furnish necessary evil
dence that they possessed the property qualification
for the position required by the assessment law.
Mrs. Mary c. Dorsey died ON May g. at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Natalie Seton, at Cherry
Run, W. Va, of general debility, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Dorsey was a Miss Johnson before marriage
and member of one of the most distinguished
families of the State of Maryland, her grandfather
being Samuel Johnson the first governor of the
State. She was lady of great refinement and edu-
cation and in her earlier years she mingled with
the representative people Of the country. Two
children survive her, Mrs Seton, of Cherry Run,
and Mrs. Lewis J. Ramsburg, Baltimore The fun
] eral took place Monday in Frederick the home OF
her parents
On Monday the two parcels of ground, constitut-
ing the remainder of the country residence of the
late Charles J. Baker, on the Frederick road near
| Baltimore, were sold at public auction. The first
parcel offered consisting of D 52lOO acres pur-
chased by Bernard y. Baker, son of Charles J.
Baker, for S27,50O. 1t is improved by the 'Athol'
mansion which cost $4,000 also hothousesa and out
buildings, and fronts 25foot private road lead
ing from the Frederick turnpike to the old Freder-
| lex road. James p. Healy, and Frederick C. job,
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sisting ofs52 acres at 81 $50 acre. an aggregate
sum of s979S 1t fronts on the Frederick road $50
feet, with depth of 800 feet, and is improved by
dwelling, carriage houses, stables and lighthouses.
Amanda Orr, one of the most notorious characters
in Baltimore. and who, according to her state
ment, has been arrested 81 times, and served 16
terms in the House of Correction, has become an
inmate of the Florence Crittenton Mission and
Home, on South High street, and declared her in
tention to lead good life She says tina. during
the past 10 years she has not spent over two weeks
out of prison. She terror to the police of the
Eastern District and at all times would resist ar
rest forcibly, and it often required the combined
efforts of five or six patrolmen to take her to the
station-house. frequently at the hearings in her
case she has assaulted police officers with cuspdors
and every other article she could secure. She was
the mother of several children, all of whom are
dead
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to his Maryland home he bought the steamer
Urbana, and was the commander of it on the route
between Baltimore and ST. Michaels. Captain
Ridgaway was an ardent member of the Christian
Church. and often occupied the pulpit of the little
church near his home He also had strong
literary bent and his compositions in prose and
verse have at times been published in the weekly
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