The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-12-04
MARYLAND Affairs.

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Anunusual number of accidents have occurred
n eunners this season. They are reported almost
! daily. fortunately there were no fatalities.
| ] NJ schiedtknecht, of Myersville Frederick
/ c,untr has cut and delivered 30 hickory logs To
! the railroad at Frederick for foreign shipments
( YIN PAYNE colored known as Jack, the Slasher,
WAS convicted in Baltimore Tuesday, for cutting
several girls and sentenced TO Jail for four years
/ The large frame barn on the farm of Mr. James
! F. Ingram near Pikesville, Baltimore county, was
burned Tuesday night, with most of its contents
! Traffic on the Cherry Run branch of the Western
! Maryland Railroad is increasing. Many trains are
So large thtt II requires two engines TO haul them
| to Shippenshurg.
sword presented by the State of Maryland TO
Lieut. Joseph Gross, of the United States ship Con
stituon in 1927 has been ntrusted to the Governor
! for Safe-keeping.
Joseph Coudcn's barn, PerryviIle, Cecil
county was set on fire u saturday night last and
completely destroyed together with 10 tons of hay,
, horses, cows &c.
Thomas Dixon rlrnell died in Snow Hill, Wor-
ce>ter county on sunday last, aged - years. He
had been register of wills since ISL He leaves
widow and perIl children.
ON Thursday night of last week four men were
arrested at Martinsburg, West Virginia. on whom
were found II lot OF goods stolen from liarSctt 4
90, of Frederick city, the night previous.
In Baltimore. Tuesday. George Shuczewski,
aged ~ years, fell into the cellar Of his new home
and was killed. He preparing the house for
his wife and children who had just arrived from
Germany.
4 brick residence Royal Oak Talbot county,
built by the Bannings before the Revolutionary
I'M Sunday ba Is Ina rely
escaping in their night clothes. Everything in the
building. including many valuable relics. was
burned
George W. SuttonS barn. near Perryvie. Cecil
county. was burned on Tuesday by incendary,
together with crops four horses two COWS. utensils
&c: loss over insurance 5000 Four harms and
several residences have been burned i'll that neigh
bOrhOol within II few months
While one of the largest crops of corn ever grown
in this state gathered this fall Yet there
grave fears as /" il, curing properly, owing /" the
frequent rains. ON the Eastern shore thousands of
bushels too green to lie shipped owing to the
cob being saturated with water
Across the line from Cumberland in West Viz
gina, there negro ball on saturday night
lust During the festivities fracts occurred IN
which several pistols and were used. one
man received five bullet wounds and may die
Many of those present were from Cumberland
James Thompson colorcd. shot and killed vii
liam Hyusun also coOre,l. on last saturday night
about twelve o'clock, near Melitota. Kent county
( Thompson, after doing the shooting, went 10 his
/ home a distance of about 100 yards. put the gun
with which he killed HynSon in his house. then
Chestcrtown. and gave himself up to sheriff
casey. There Il negro festival in progress and
there quarrel about II Young girl, not words
rnSIcd followed by the shooting
John Z. davidson died November - at his
home. Queenstown. Queen Annes county, of
inflammation of the stomach. after an illness of
about three weeks He ~ years of age and was
The SON of the late Dr. James Davidson, IL member
nf family prominent in the history of Queen
/ Anuc> county. widow and one daughter sur
vivc Ills wife was Miss Carter Weems, daughter
of Dr Wccms. of West River Mr.. DavdsOus
/ mother WAS Miss Paca. sister of the late VIM b.
Inca and granddaughter of VIM. Paci;. Il si%ner of
the Declaration of Independence.
WIN Belt aged - years buried at Tamldcn.
Baltimore. on Tuesday No hearsc or carriages
were Us IT. but Is %ranisohs acted as pail bearers.
II, was native of tn. fifth district of Baltimore
county: married VI Ss Mary Ann Moriuot i'll 1857. by
whom he har! nine children, eight now living. and
i'll 1871 moved to Woodbury. where he and his
descendants lived. The family are long lived
one sister. Mrs Culison. aged ~. and two broth
crs. aged 81 and - still living There were g.
grandchildren, Il of whom are still living. and y
,reat-=runichildren, ~ of whom are living.
Three of the four Poles arrested in Baltimore ON
November l. for making and passing counterfeit
SO silver certificates pleaded guilty i'll the United
states District Court on Monday, and the sentences
, imposed were Joseph WarsewiSki. ten years in
the Maryland pcnitcntiary and 500 fine; Martin
TurkinSki. eight years in the pcntentary and 500
fine and TurkmskiS wife Mrs. Katharine Turkin-
ski six months III Jail and 81 fine. Tho evidence
ia the hands of the police showed that the two men
made the counterrits and the tw" women passed
them iue of the cOuuterfcitS were found by the
police and nearly all had been passed on store
Keepers. \ tenth counterfeit was detected at the
sub-irca>ury
Mrs Caroline Norris aged 81 years, and her
grandson aged IL wears, found dead in the
ruins of the cabin in which they lived, near Pincy
Plains AllesIny county, on Tuesday. They had
been murdered. ami the cabin set OH fire. 1t is sup
posed the deed was committed last week, and that
the woman had money in the house as her BODY
was found lying on the stove. with her hands tied
behind her hack. Evidently the robbers roasted
her in order to make her tell where the money
>ccrctetl: the srandsons throat was cut. Mrs
Norris had loaned her money few days previous
and there none in the house. The location Is
in thinIy settled and wild part OF the county and
there Is very little communication between neigh
borS.
At IIagerStown on Monday afternoon the sheriff
of Washington county had to take charge of the
funeral of Polly Ainsworth, aged o! years She
lived with her brother George Julius, a man of &c
centric character. Julius locked the house and re-
fused to admit the people and undertaken. He said
the people were after robbing him. Sheriff Seibcrt
was sent for and compelled Julius to open up the
house and keep back seat while the Rev. DIR. J.
Spangler Kiefcr conducted short service. Julius
is of the eight men in Washington county who
voted for Lincoln III 1860. He demanded the APP
pointment of postmaster at IIagerstown from Pres
ident Lincoln but did not get it. This so incensed
him that he trailed the United States flag iii the
dust he rode up and down the streets of HaGers-
town. After this conduct he found living there
disagreeable and moved to Kansas, returning eight
years ago.
William 7. Winter retired carpenter of No. S26
North Carey street, Baltimore has cosy little yard
back of his residence in which grows peach tree
that has produced annual crops of luscious fruit for
number of years. Two yearsaso Mr.. Winter grew
weary of the conventional covering of the peaches,
and determined at least to produce peach minus
that Objectionable nap down. He began Il series
of experiments and that year produced peach
clothed in the ordinary raiment of the banana but,
not satisfied with the result of his startling assault
on nature, he has succeeded i'll producing crop,
which ripened in November that looks for all the
world Ikea tree full of apples. The skin of the
fruit is perfectly smooth and of Il dark red hue,
shading gradually into yellow that Mr. Winter
claims is a remnant of the banana skin. Next
year" said he, 81 will have orange skin on
Them The method employed by Mr.. Winter to
produce these startling results is profound secret
and he is preparing to copyright the scheme.
Grapevines, as well peach trees, tremble before
the skill of the xcarpenter and among the curious
things that thrive in his yard is vine of this sort
that bears at this time ripe grapes sweet
honey and unusually large half ripe grapes, bios
SONS and buds, which Mr.. Winter expects to ripen
by Christmas.
A Deadly Mixture.
MAPLEsvlLLE, ALA, Nov. 30.-Seven men