The Democratic advocate., 1897-12-18
Maryland Affairs.

The Prohibition Camp-Meeting Association OF
Baltimore City on saturday made an assignment.
Bya vote of 476 to go Annapolis on Monday re-
fused TO issue $50 900 improvement bonds.
An unusual number of counterfeit $40, - and -
silver certificates are in circulation in Baltimore
The Maryland steel Company has received
large order for steel rails from Tampieo. Mexico.
Frederick city and county is oyerrun by tramps
and they are frightening men, women ana emil
dren.
James f. Tate Il prominent and well-known bus
iness man of Ba atimore died on Saturday last aged
e. years.
The Claremont aiattoir has been sold 10 Il com
,nittee reprcscntmg Philadelphia syndicate for
sl@0,No0.
Several farms were sold in HagerstOwn last week
at from >l2Oj TO $50 per acre: mountain land fi"m
81 % To Sl3 per acre.
Miss Henrietta F. Hague has been appointed as
deputy clerk by the recently elected clerk of the
circuit court of Crcii county.
Nearly every country store in Western Maryland
has been tapped this fall, especially where the
towns are not lighted at night
John A. Kretzcr siationmaster of the Western
MARYLAND Railroad at McDono9h. died of heart
failure on Wednesday, aged a years
f. A. CIemdemn x Bro. phosphate manufacturers
of olora Cecil county. Thursday made an assign
mcuI for the benefit of their creditors.
charles H. smith ex-clerk of the county com
mi>>loucrS Of Cecil has entered suit against John
: settle of Leeds, for $4,000 for false arrest.
VIM. Bnwley. coored aged ~ years is wanted
in Dorchester county on the charge of numbering
his >i>rr.in-law with an on sunday night.
Augustus Copenhaver and wife, of Baltimore.
/ celebrated their golden wedding on Wednesday.
All their children and grandchildren dncd with
them.
Sharpsburg Wicomico county, has lost three old
residents recently, viz:-Eli Robinson, aged 81
wears: Thomas Robinson. sS: Mrs. Elizabeth Phil
lips. ~.
clinton Wye colored was convicted on Monday
i'll the Circuit Court at Tnwson Of burning the barn
of Thomas Thompson in the Fifth district of Bal
timorc county.
The social Hall of Rock Hill College, near Eli
. colt City. was burned on Thursday OF last week
Bv the efforts OF the stu,leHtS and citizens the main
buildings saved.
The recent heavy rains in Howard county are
having a damaging effect on corn which has moi
vet been housed. Quantities of husked corn cann"
he htuird from the fields. owing To the mud.
samuel Darby aged - years, died in IiarnrsvilIc
Montgomery county on sunday He was Judge
of the Orphans Court for Nv" terms. and Il direci"
in the bank AT Rockville. lie leaves tw" sons.
Washington county growers have shipped :n.mH
barrels of apples this They sold for $l.:h
per barrel in the orchard. There areas many NOR
To he shipped which will command from - Ia -!
r"r hlrrcll.
ON Wednesday morning the store of VIM :. Ray
a Pearl. Frederick county, WAS robbed of >ioh il
cash AMI $40 in goods There were several person
engaged in the robbery several sized footprints
were left in the mud
The Frrnkin High school at RciSterStown. Balti
more county which had to close several weeks Il g
ON account of the prevalence of diphthera in th
ncighborhond. has resumed work with the same
number of pupils il had before closing.
\ verdict was rendered against the County Com
mis>ioncrS of Washington county, on Tuesday, il
the damage suit of Charles ID. Grove. injured i'll
collapse of bridge over Little T"notowav Creek
The jury assessed damages at $1,000: motion for
trial filed.
\ receiver was appointed in Baltimore on Satur
day for the Columbia and Maryland Railway Com
imny. the Boulevard Line pending the determine
tion of Il suit for the foreclosure of the first mort
gage securing 5000 bonds of $1,000 each. \ reor=an
izato, of the company is under way
Charles Williams colorcd. who rciehse'
from the pcntentiary THANKSGIVING Day aftc
serving live years for larceny. was committed TO
the action of the grand jury on the 10Th instant h:
Magistrate Bircr of Frederick, to answer the charg
of stealing Il lap robe from G. \. Castles store.
Nearly 5000 loads of freight were handled on tht
second division of the Baltimore and Ohio the l"'s
week This is ii big record. ON the average. daily
:iOO loads Of freight received from the Cumbel
land and Pennsylvania Railroad and l25 leads from
the West Virginia Central Railroad at Cumberland
The lengthy contest of Robert W. Clark, Jr.. col
orcd for admiSs ION to the Maryland school OF Ar
and Design baltimore. has been decided agains
him. 1t was IL vigorous fight to break down tn
/ color line ut the institution. Judge Ritchr dis
missed the petition for mandamns for Clark : ad
mission and found against Clark on every point
declaring that Clark could not ask for such manda
mus under the Constitution of the United states q
under the contract of the city with the institute
The ease will hc taken To the Court of Appeals, an
may reach the United states supreme Court, as
question of Interpretation of the constitution "
/ the United states is involved.
4 correspondent of the Benton. Caroline county
Journal writes The two prize hogs of Queer
Anne'< county have been killed and weighed II
Sudlersyille The hog raised by Miss Kathtrin
| Rndclitf weighed SD pounds, and the one dressed
| bv j. f. George weighed 7l0I. pounds The priH
| of $40 gold piece. awarded by the Town Council
was granted 10 Miss Radclitf. NJ. F. Allaband
/ superintendent of the poor killed Ii hogs Whlcl
weighed lost pounds. Howard Towers. of Fowlin:
Creek on Monday killed hog which weighed
59SiI pounds. Alexander Mason, who lives nea
Longs school house on the same day slaughtered
one which dressed jl7 pounds.
Mrs Maria Barton Key died on the 10th inStan
at the of the sisters of Bon Sec0ur, Baltl
more. from infirmites caused by old age. She wa
a daughter of Nicholas Sewal of Cedar Point, II
Mary's county The homestead where she wa
born in 1871 was first obtained by the Sewalls il
1876 when il was patented to Nicholas Sewall
step-son of Charles. third Lord Baltimore. In lSS
she was married to Philip Barton Key IL kinsmai
of Francis Scott Key, author of ''The Star-Span&le'
Banner" Her husband at that time lived IL
Georgetown. u. c. He was son of Philip Bartol
Kew. who represented Maryland in Congress from
1907 to 1873.
David kifer Il Republican member of the B"ar'
of County Commissioners from Aegany county
has forwarded his resignation to GOV. Lowndes
The reasons moving Mr.. kiter To send his resgna
tion to the Governor are not known, but ii is pre-
sumed that they grew out of the failure of Clerl
Miller to be reelected at the organization OF I'M
new Beard last week. At that time Mr. Killer wa
called into the vault of the Commissioners Office
by Mr. Miller it is said, and when Mr.. Kiter cam'
out to take his place on the bench he was pale ant
i'll trepiation stating that he had been Threatened
with the law 1t is known that Mr. Miller is pre-
pairing charges against Mr.. Kifer. Mr.. kifer is
hold-over member, his time expiring two year
hence.
Trainmen from Cherry Run, Western Maryland
Railroad, report daring robbery which occurred
Tuesday night at the home of an old German livin:
| -, .l,- Sir Inh
bers broke i'll the door of the house and attacked
the old man and his son, brutally beating both
They next built fire the floor to torture the oc
cupants to make them disclose where they KEEP
their money The robbers secured about so, an'
made good their escape. The young man was abi
to walk to the railroad station, where he reported
the robbery He presented distressing appear
ance His head was badly injured by the blow
the robbers administered, and was covered VIII
blood. The old man was also badly wounded, anC
is in critical condition. No clue could be foun'
to robbers and iS believed that they BOARDED