The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-29
Maryland Affairs.

VIM. Brown, colored, Is IN Howard county
Jail for forging endorsements to note.
Alfred H. Harrison, aged 10 years, we'll
known farmer and shipbuilder ofSt Michael's,
Talbot county, is dead.
Stephen D. Kennedy, Maryland passenger
agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
died at Atlantic City Monday.
On Sunday morning the police Of Baltimore
arrested SO members of the Cumberland Club
for gaming and general disorderly conduct
Lightning struck the North Beach, Wor-
cester county, life saving station Monday do
ing considerable damage and stunning three
of the crew.
Warner T. Grimes, who was 80 years old
on the 9th instant, died on Sunday at his home
in Thurmont, Frederick county. He leaves
a large estate.
Theodore Knodle, bar-keeper in ]. X.
Sheppard's saloon, in Frederick, dropped
dead on Saturday night The shock was so
great to Mr.. Sheppard that few minutes
later he fell dead also.
Mrs. Catherine Leibold, aged so years, of
Hagerstown, on Saturday, while laborng
under mental alteration cut herself in the
left elbow. She failed TO reach the artery,
but bled so proflsely from her wounds that
she was FRUSTRATED and was found by her son
Lewis several hours afterwards lying on the
ground in secluded part of the yard. Her
condition is precarious
On Sunday while Mr. George A. Scraeler
was endeavOring 10 hoist one of the stained
glass windows in st. James Lutheran Chapel,
in Frederick, during the Sunday school ser
vices, the cord of the window broke and the
heavy sash came down on his hand. The
glass was shattered and the falling pieces
striking him on the head, inflicted number
of severe and painful cuts.
new barn, belonging to Mr.. Lepage Cron-
miller, of Laurel, Prince Georges county,
burned Sunday night by lightning. The
barn contained about $50 bushels of oats, two
horses, a number of carriages and wagons
and several sets of harness. Only the horses
were saved A straw rick was located near
the barn, and, after strenuous efforts. it was
saved. The loss is 800.
Charles Wade, son of Ed. Wade, division
superintendent of the Western Maryland Rail
road, eloped with Miss Gertie Clary, of
Smithburg, Washington county, ON Saturday,
niece of Louis A. R. Kohler, wealthy citi-
zen of Pen-Mar. Wade has wife and three
children living at Buena Vista Springs. He
and Miss Clary bought tickets to Baltimore,
but their present whereabouts is unknown.
Miss Clary is about eighteen.
For the first time in the history of Cecil
man stood at the whipping-post on Monday
and received ten lashes for wife-beating. The
man was John Boots, aged &c years, employ
ed as engineer at the Delbert Dry Dock, in
Chesapeake City. The punishment of whip
ping with cato mine tails was melted out to
him for brutally beating his wife, Mary Boots,
who is at present residing in Wilmington, Del.
Rev. William o. Grimm, of the Pennsyl-
vania United Brethren Conference, died Sun
day at the home of his mother, Mrs. j. S.
Grimm, at Rohrersville, Washington county,
of typhoid malaria. aged about 60 years. His
ministerial work covered period of 80 years
in many places. His last charge was near
Harrisburg. Since last spring he had been
incapacitated from duty by illness. He mar
ried Miss Martha Mullendere, of Washington
county, who survives with six children. He
was brother of Rev. John Wesley Grimm,
of Red Line, Pa, and Rev. Jacob L. Grimm,
of Woodsboro, Frederick county. He was
one of family of II children.
On Sunday afternoon so persons were in
jured by the overturniug of a car on the Fred
erick and Middletown Electric Railway, as it
ran away down Catoctin Mountain. The list
of those most severely injured is as follows:
Thomas L. Anderson, compound fracture of
left hip aud badly cut; is in a critical condition
and may not survive. Miss Annie Buckles,
about forty years old, badly injured internally,
cut and bruised and suffering from shock.
Mehrle Norris, left knee cut to the bone.
Frederick Heinlein, back injured. Charles
Schroedel, left leg cut below knee. Mrs.
Frank Brookey, cut and bruised on head and
body. William Filters baby, head cut. Mrs.
Lakin, badly bruised. William Hale, line
man, struck on head by sand-box, under
which he was caught. Rosa Eyler, ear cut,
left leg hurt. George Morgan, finger cut.
Charles Morgan, cut on leg. Emma Riddle
moser. elbow hurt.
Anne Arundel county commissioners have
Notified all the justices of the peace in that
county that they will not pay for the large
number of witnesses summoned. They say
You being a recent appointment, we prefer to
believe you have been innocently led into pill
ing up the cost against the county in these
cases by designing persons; but it must occur
to you that the summoning of fifteen or twenty
witnesses in The case Of disorderly conduct or
assault is an outrage upon the taxpayers of
the county. We hereby give you and all of
the justices of the peace Of the county notice
that, in the future, we will pay in no case
other than felony, or cases punished by con-
inement in the penitentiary, where over FIVE
witnesses have been summOnd. From 10 to
% witnesses are frequently summoned in the
most trihing cases and the commissioners say
they cannot keep down the expenses when
such charges are daily brought before them.
Horatio D. Parker. prominent lawyer of