The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-06-06
Maryland Affairs.

county.
Allegany county school commissioners want s5s,-
400 for this year.
Maryland State Militia win encamp at Frederick
from July 1st TO 18th.
Henry Rowan. aged go years. died in Earlville,
Cecil county, last week
Denton, Caroline county, is to vote as to whether
the town shall have water works.
Joshua lowering, of Baltimore, was nominated by
reclamation by the Prohibitionists President on
Thursday of last week
The large sawmill, buildings lumber, &c, OF Levi
Wolf, at shookstown, Frederick county, were
| burned on "Wednesday.
VIM T. sutton, aged so years. while walking on
a street in Chestertown, Kent county, on Tuesday,
fell dead from paralysis.
| State Tax Commissioner Thomas j. Keating's
property in Queen Annes county, was sold ON
Tuesday, realizing 5000.
ON Monday the estate formerly owned by Chief
Justice Roger Brooke Tawney, in Frederick, was
sold to John Mehrling for 5000.
Worcester county telephone company is building
a line which will connect all the outlying towns
and villages with the county seat.
Nv. Bunting, aged 20 years, a farmer of Worces-
ter county. was stricken with paralysis saturday
night and is in a critical condition.
Edward Smith, of Howard county, was arrested
ON Monday for robbng the cash register of the
Railroad Hotel. at Gainesville. of ISL.
Owing to the drouth the strawberry crop of
Somerset county was only about one-half Theber-
ries however, have brought good prices.
j. Fletcher Price, superintendent of the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal, died last week. Thos.
Cleaver has been appointed as his successor.
n Of
county under indictment for ENLIGHTENMENT, has
had his trial removed to Dorchester county.
George Stats is in jail at Elkton charged with
shooting John Guy, coored, at Summit Bridge,
Delaware on May D. Guy died on Wednesday.
Washington eounty's tax rate will be rs cents on
the 500 this year increase of cents over last
year, owing to the reassessmeut and new election
law.
Mrs Margaret Cramer, aged Sc years, died in
williamsport, Washington county, on Wednesday
She was born in Germany and her family name was
| Crist
DR.. P. S Reynolds, aged 70 years, died on Sunday
night in Queen Annes county. He was a Democrat
| in politics. successful practitioner, and an enter
| prising citizen.
Basil Harvey an employe of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad, in Prince Georges county, was
bitten by a spider Sunday and now lies in pre-
carious condition.
Mrs Anna R. LETTERS the first woman to hold
office in Maryland, sworn in as State librarian
| on Monday Col. Luther II. Gadd the former in
| cumbent, having resigned.
The county tax rate for 1896 for Calvert county
81 10 ON each 500 of assessable property in which
provision is made for public school purposes and
the redemption of old county paper.
Mrs. Alice f. Bowdle. of Cambridge, Dorchester
county asks for a divorce from her husband, Chas.
E. Bowdle. A few years ago he was declared in
sane but was recently released as cured
The storms last week were unusually severe OIL
the Eastern Shore and in Delaware. especially in
the trucking sections Fruit was beaten from the
trees and berries beaten into the ground.
William Taylor died in Baltimore Sunday
afternoon aged 1O5 years and months. Mr.. Taylor
was born in Augusta county. Va. March 81, 1891
He leaves widow, his second wife. and five chill
| dren.
Marion T. Clarke, of Pocomoke Worcester county,
and brother of William f. Clarke of Baltimore,
died on Saturday morning after several weeks of
severe suffering from cancer of the stomach, aged
| 20 years.
Administrators and manufacturers of knock
out drops will be severely dealt with if they come
before the courts of this State 1t is bad enough to
rob man but to poison man in order to do so is
| worse crime.
Samuel T. Muir, of Somerset county while work
ing in his cornfield Tuesday, was taken with
cramps and told his son to go to the house for his
mother. The young man did so, and on returning
found his father dead.
number of Philadelphia and Baltimore capt.
alsts have purchased about ESQ acres of land near
a suburban town. Only houses of certain grade are
to be built and many safe guards will be made in
the corporation laws.
The elevator in Friedenwalds printing office,
Baltimore, fell on Wednesday morning. while TAX
| ing employees to the top floor. When about the
third floor the cable broke and the elevator rushed
to the cellar. Thirteen persons injured
fatally or severely. and two killed.
Residence of Stephenson Wilmington, at Marion
Somerset county, burned Friday night of
last week. Only the furniture of one room was
saved. Mrs W. is i'll from the shock, which, with
the fact that her and his nurse We're burned to
| death 20 years ago, has unnerved her.
| The barn cornshed. hay barracks and contiguous
outbuildings on the farm of John Linthcum, near
| Urbana. Frederick county, were destroyed by fire
| Friday night of last week. Three hundred bushels
of wheat in the barn and of the contents of the
other buildings were consumed. There was no
surance
The soft crab in the lower part of this state
is at its height and is paying each of the men
engaged in it from So to $40 per week. according to
their pertness. Fully 1000 boats are engaged in
| the work at Crisfeld and each boat is managed by
man and boy. The crabs are carefully packed
in ice and shipped to all the large cities and to
| Europe also.
Charles A. Councilman, potato-grower and farmer
in Worthington's Valley, says the acreage planted
in potatoes this season in Baltimore county is as
large as last year notwithstanding the low prices
obtained for last years crop. Mr.. Councilman says
the wheat and grass crops going to be short in
the county, and this has induced many of the
farmers to plant more potatoes than otherwise.
Robert Stevenson, of Messongo, Va, employed on
the steamer BERTHE E. Tull, came very near being
crushed to death Saturday afternoon at Snow Hill.
by getting one of his feet caught in the machinery
and having it horribly mashed. Captain Downing
saw the unfortunate man being slowly wound into
the big wheels and ordered the boat stopped which
barely done in time to save him froma horrify-
ing death.
tract of about 81 acres of land in the eastern
section of Baltimore has been purchased s65 900
by Messrs. William A. Fisher George H. Sergeant
and Charles D. Fisher. The property is between
Milton avenue, Potomac and McElderry streets and
the Philadelphia road 1t is intended TO grade and
pave streets and lay off the tract for building lots
Cars of the Monument street line of the Traction
Company go within short distance of the tract.
Z. C. Quackenbush, who arrived in Frederick on
a bicycle with party from Washington, d. c., on
Friday of last week, nan into the tollgate the
Baltimore pike that evening about two miles east
of that city while going at speed of about IS miles
an hour. He was violently thrown from his wheel
and sustained painful injuries about his head.
Owing to the darkness he was unable to see the
gate, and supposng that it was up did not slacken
speed as he neared that point.
David Stevenson, Wilson Nibletts and Burnley
Tapman, of Worcester county. narrowly escaped
being killed on Saturday night near Pocomoke
drawbridge. They were returning to their homes
together. when they were fired upon from ambush
by unknown parties Five successive shots were
fired at the three boys, taking effect in the back
ofTapmans right hand and making its way entire
| ly through the fieshy portion Of the member They
returned to Pocomoke Immediately affer the shoot
ing and reported the case to the authorities but no