The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-12-05
Maryland Affairs.

James Sheldon, aged SO years, of st. Mi
chaels, Talbot county, is dead.
Frederick county is overrun by tramps.
Fights are numerous between them, and many
arrests have been made.
The strawberry plants of j. A. VI. Denny,
of Royal Oak, Talbot county, were in full
bloom when the recent snow fell.
Mrs. Elizabeth A Belt died suddenly in
Baltimore, on Tueday. She was the widow
of Trueman Belt, aud was in her S7th year.
She was the mother of nine children, seven
of whom are living.
Thomas Philpot, aged Sc years. died near
Phoenix, Baltimore county, Sunday afternoon.
He was prominent in political and social cir
cles, and died on the property owned by his
revolutionary ancestors.
Col. Herman Stump, of Hartford county, o..
S. Commissioner of Immigration, who has
been abroad studying the the immigration
question, arrived in New York on Saturday
on the steamship St. Paul.
AT Woodbury., Baltimore. on Tuesday,
eight boys were bitten by large st. Bernard
dog, supposed to be suffering from rabies.
Five of them have been taken to the Pasteur
institute, New York, for treatment.
Rev. George Beranek, Redemptorist
father, aged 80 years, died Tuesday at the
Redemptorist Home, Baltimore. He was
very intirm from old age, of which he died.
He was born in Mehren, Austria, and came
to Baltimore in 1913.
James D. Stansbury, senior member of the
real estate firm of Stansbury Hume, 1876
South Broadway, Baltimore, has been miss
ing from the city since November 20. On
that dale he left his boarding house, went to
his office, transacted some business and then
disappeared. Mr.. Joseph NJ. Hume, his
partner, was not present when he left the
office.
There is trouble in the Fourth Baptist
Church, Baltimore, and the right hand offel-
lowship'' has been refused VIM. E. Mason.
who has filled every position in the church:
The pastor, Rev. o. F. Gregory, has had
charge for over II years, and Mr.. Mason
have had some disagreement. Members are
divided, and perhaps the court will have to
decide upon the merits of the case.
Rev. Henry Mann, pastor of Wesley Me-
moral NJ. Z. Church, Prince Fredericktown,
Calvert county, strongly condemned secret
orders in a sermon preached Sunday morning
to Public Spirit Council No. l54, Junior
Order United American Mechanics. The
minister consented to receive the order, and
the congregation expected patriotic dis
course, but they got the reverse. He started
off condemnatory of lodges generally by say
ing they are in many instances hindrance to
the growth of the church and destroyer of
domestic happiness. He said he was mem
Der of lodge at one time, and inferred that
its ritual was so incompatible with his ideas
of right that he was not long in getting eut OF
it. He said he could not approve the Junior
ORDERS demand that the Bible be read in the
public schools; that he didn't believe in fore
ing the Bible down anybodys throat. and as
10 the restriction of pauper immigration. Con
gress has given us enough of that already.
Both the Junior Order and the Masons have
large memberships here, and the sermon has
created sensation. Rev. Mr.. Mann is a
native of England.
The removed case from Baltimore county
of Lawrence Frank Kehoe against the West
ern Maryland Railroad Company, which was
begun in the Hartford county court on We'd
nesdav of last week, closed on Tuesday the
jury bringing in verdict in favor of the PLAIN
| tiff for 81 600 Mr. Kehoe was crossing the
railroad track at Howardville Station when
he was struck by train and thrown out, in
| Turing his foot'to such an extent as made am
! putation necessary. The case was tried IN
Bal timore county, and the jury there awarded
Mr.. kehoe verdict for $4,000. The case
was reviewed by the Court of Appeals and
the railroad company granted new trial.
Randolph Barton, Jr., Redmond c. Stewart
Col D. Il. Mcintosh and S. A. Williams APP
peared for Mr.. Kehoe, and Col. Marshall
Bohn Slingluff. William L. Marbury and
William H. Harlan appeared for the railroad
company. The Western Maryland counse
said: 1.-THE verdict is not surprising in view
of the instructions given by the court These
instructions are considered clearly erroneous
by us, and we are confident of reversing them
on appeal.