The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-11-28
Maryland Affairs.

Rich discoveries of coal have been made in
Garrett county.
Frank H. Socket, aged &c years, the old
est member of the Annapolis Bar, died on
Sunday.
George Mash, aged 81 years, died at Ca
louisville, Baltimore county, on Saturday.
He was a native of Germany, but came to
this country over so years ago.
The farm Of William E. Shafer, near Har-
mony Grove, Frederick county, containing
to Zacharias Thomas at $66 per acre.
The extensive plant of the Chesapeake
Guano Company, in Baltimore, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Saturday morning
The loss is estimated at between 1000 and
$50, 000 Several fremen were seriously in
jured
Judge Morris, of the United States Court
in Baltimore, has signed an order authorizing
the receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road Company to deliver up to the Southern
Railway possession of the Strasburg and Har.
risonburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
William johnson, colored, aged IS years,
who shot and killed William Morgan, colored,
on July %, pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree in the Baltimore County Cir
cult Court, Monday morning, and was SEN
fenced by Judge Burke to 10 years in the
Maryland Penitentiary.
Diphtheria in its most violent form is now
prevailing in and around the village of Pow.
ellsville, Wicomico county. So violent is the
form that the victims live but short time
when attacked. The family of N. J. Davis,
who resided about half mile from the village,
has lost four children within the past few
days, and two others are lying dangerously
ill. There are several cases in the village of
Powellsville. The people are doing all in
their power to stop the spread of the disease
by quarantining the sick and closing the pub
lie schools.
At Hagerstown, on Tuesday, the Cearfoss
crate and basket factory. on the West End
improvement Companys addition, was burn
ed A large part of the building was of brick,
but it contained much highly inhammable
material, and several carloads of lumber
added intensely to the blaze. Loss over S10,-
900, and about 200 men thrown out of work.
The Western Maryland Railroad sand house
and several small tool houses were also burned.
In the factory were 10000 butter dishes and
5000 peach baskets and crates, all ready for
shipment, which were burned
DR.. Philip C. Williams, one of the Oldest
and most distinguished physicians in Balti-
more, died Saturday night. DIR. Williams
had been sick for about one year with Bright's
disease, and his death was not unexpected.
He was born in Winchester, Va, in 1928,
and was the son ofthe late Philip w. Williams,
a prominent lawyer of that place. When
quite young DIR. Williams entered the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and graduated there
in medicine with high honors. After gradu-
ating he came to Baltimore to practice medi-
cine, and in 1856 he married Miss Mary C..
Whitridge, the daughter of DR.. John Whit
ridge.
Dorchester county court wrestled with q
large number of local option cases the pres
ent term; only one conviction, however,
Judge Lloyd, just before adjourning court,
said that much Of the time Of the court had
been wasted in hearing local option cases,
and he felt constrained to express the opinion
that witnesses made one statement to the
grand jury and different one to the court.
He said the verdicts returned by the petit
juries in these cases met his approval, but that
he suspected that the witnesses had been tam
pered with, or had been wilfully guilty Of
false swearing; that hereafter he would require
in local option cases that notes &c made of
the testimony given in the grand jury room,
and that whenever there was a discrepancy
between such testimony and that afterwards
given by the same witnesses in open court he
would, upon the request of the states attor-
ney, issue bench warrant for the arrest of
such witnesses for perjury. The session has
been an unusually expensive one;