The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-01-18

Sheriff Murray has appointed William b.
Wilson, OF Manchester, deputy sheriff. Mr..
Wilson assumed duties on Monday.
Miss Lucretia Van Bibber, Mrs. Henry L
Wilson, Mrs. Clarence Seabrook and Mr. ]
Gore Mills, all of Westminster, are quite sick.
Delegate Charles ]. II. Ganter proposes to
Introduce bill extending the pharmaceutical
law IN force in Baltimore to all druggist in the
state.
Major J. I. II. Barnes has been elected
secretary and treasurer of the Western Mary
land railroad. He was deputy city collector
OF Baltimore since 1868, and filed the Office
with credit.
Philip German, Samuel Potter and John
Whalen,, Migrants and tramps, were arrested
ON Monday by Sheriff Murray and sent to the
House of Correction by Justice Moore for two
months.
DR.. John s. Matthias is treating child of Mr..
Vantossen, this city, with antitoxine The
child is extremely i'll with diphtheria and after
two hyperdermic injections showed signs Of
great Improvement.
The farm of Christian Gunter, containing
90 acres, near Cranberry postoffice, was sold
ON Thursday by DR.. ]. Howell Billingslea,
assignee of mortgage. 1t was purchased by
Ps-asASS AutSACoecosAOh pNc per acre.
Guy, son of Mr.. Alfred Barnes, near War.
ieldsburg, was thrown from horse on We'd
nesday, and received a compound fracture of
the right leg between the knee and ankle
Drs. Thomson and Billingslea rendered the
necessary aid.
The barn and stable on the farm of Mr.. Chas.
Welenovski, about two miles from this CITY,
caught fire on Wednesday night between I
and O'Clock and was totally destroyed. The
flames were visible in this city. Insured in
the Carroll County Company, for $500.
Capt. Whitfield Stansbury, of Hampstead
has been appointed messenger in the post
Office at the House of Representatives at
Washington, and will assume his duties about
the LIST of February. The position was se-
cured for him by Congressman Baker.
Professor G. W. Ward, professor of History
and Civics in Western Maryland College, win
deliver a lecture on Venezuela in the College
Auditorium this Saturday evening at 100,
to which any persons who may be inter
ested in the subject are cordially invited to
attend. No admission fee will be charged.
About month ago tramp applied to Mr..
Smith Snader, near New Windsor, for employ
ment. Mr.. Snader employed him and he
proved to be good hand. On Monday night
he disappeared, and Mr.. Snader's gold watch
and a coat and vest also. Mr.. Snader notified
officers of the larceny, but the man has not
been apprehended. The man gave his name
to Mr.. Snader as Charles Garrett.
Harry Starner, sixteen years of age, was
committed to St Mary's Industrial School by
Justice Moore on Thursday, on the charge,
made by his mother, of being incorrigible aad
beyond control. Starner had broken into q
trunk belonging TO his grandmother and
stolen therefrom $1,000. As the charge, if
pressed, would have sent him to Penitentiary,
it was thought best ON account of his youth
to withdraw the charge of larceny on con-
dition that he be sent to some reformatory
institution, in hope that he would be benefited
thereby.
In another column of this issue is an &C.
count ofgold mines in Buckingham county,
Va, for the working of which strong COM
pany has been formed. The Rosney proper
ty, owned by citizens of Westminster, lies
between two of these mines. Hon. Frank T.
Shaw is president of the company, DR.. ].
Howell Billingslea vice-president, Charles I.
Reifsnider secretary and attorney, and John
L. Reifsnider treasurer and general manager.
The other directors are John L. Reifsnider,
Jr., Just elected in the place of P. j. Bennett,
deceased. and John Fl. Walter, of Washing
ton. The directors own nearly all the stock
of the company. -...r
On Sunday afternoon about o clock smoke
was seen to issue from the store of John SENT
at Pleasant Valley. The inhabitants of the
village forced an entrance and discovered the
room full of smoke, proceeding from q smoul
dering fire under some shelving at door that
formerly led into the kitchen of the dwelling
part Of the bnilding, Water was procured
and the fire was soon ex6ngRished. Not
much damage resulted to the building, but
some to the stock of goods from smoke and
water. The dwelling part is occupied by
Peter Helwig, but he and family were absent
at the time of the fire. The property is owned
by Cornelius HULL of Beggs P. o. The
property was insured in the agency of Wilson
/ Goodwin for $1,000 and for $500 in the Car
roll County Company. tEa
At the meeting of the state COMMISSION on
the second hospital fer the insane at Annapo-
lis on Wednesday, all the members were pres
emit namely, Governor Lowndes, Comptroller
Smith, Treasurer Jones, John Fl. Mitchell, of
Charles; Edward Lloyd, of Talbot; John
Hubner, of Baltimore county; j. Oliver Wad-
low, of Carroll; W. II. Forsythe, of Howard;
J. E. Beasman, of Carroll. The commission
agreed to purchase Springfield, near Sykes
vile, from Ex-Governor Brown for 500, 900.
A majority of the commission had been con-
WINGED for some time that il was the proper
site for the institution, bpt did not think it
expedient to purchase while Governor Brown
was a member of the commission. j. 9.
Bowerman acted as secretary to the commits
sion, which adjourned subject to the call of
the Governor.