The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-09-25
Marv4and Affairs.

Maryland Affairs
Gainesville, Baltimore county, has a nat
ional bank with a capital Of $4,000.
Round Top cement works, near Hancock,
Washington county. were burned on Satnr-
day.
George W. Westwood, aged 95 years, died
at the Aged Home, Baltimore. on Saturday
night
Clarence Duva, farmer, aged 80 years,
died on Tuesday Of paralysis at Roxbury
Mills Howard county.
On September 30, at , a. M. snow fell in
Hagerstown, and ice formed At Oakland' the
mercury registering go
The wheat yield of Dorchester county viii
average % bushels per acre and the corn
crop is the largest ever raised.
James Lane, aged 102 years, died in
Chicago. on Thursday. He was native OF
Ireland and went TO Chicago IN 1885
James T. Shallcross. of Middletown, Della
ware, has sold $4,000 bushels OF apples this
year. His wheat averaged 80 bushels per
acre.
The residence of Mr.. Thomas Sullivan. an
historic structure near Van Bibher Station,
in Hartford county. was destroyed By fire on
'NHHudY HiSul. II was uull' ia 1H-l.
Miss Laveuia Shaffer, of Ilkton. Cecil
county. on Tuesday evening was knocked
down, choked and but for her cries would
have been assaulted bya negro man.
On Saturday the barn on the farm Of Col.
r. d. johnson, near Cumberland, together
with this years crop and utensils, was burned.
The barn cost 81, 500 and was not insured
William Howard, aged rs years, veteran
af IL nv
suicide at his residence in Baltimore on Tues
day by shooting Mental derangemees~s
given as the cause.
Hog cholera is prevalent in the lower part
of Washington county County Commissioner
Samuel S. Stouffer has lost 125 hogs from the
disease. l.. w. Pofenberger 40 and Ohio
BURNER large number.
William Smyth, aged IS years, died at the
| Confederate Home Pikesvile, on Saturday.
He entered the Confederate army May II,
1861. joining Capt Grandy's battery of light
artillery, and remained until the surrender.
Four white men escaped from the Baltimore
Jail on Monday by placing ladder against
the wall and jumping from the top TO the
ground. a distance of Is feet. The men were
captured in York, Pa, on Tuesday afternoon.
While baling hay with machine on Tues
day, on the farm Of Robert Pue, near Cooks
viNe Howard county, lot of wheat and rye
belonging to the tenant. II. NJ. Sage was
set on fire and destroyed Loss, $500; insur-
ance. 5000.
Josiah G. Stevens, 1853 West Cross street,
Baltimore. shot and seriously wounded his
| son. Robert J. Stevens on Tuesday. While
living on ii cot mt the Maryland University
Hospital Young Stevens was married to Miss
Emma J. Milbourne, who was the cause Of
his quarrel with his father.
John Matthew Walker aged IS years. died
in Baltimore on Saturday. During the admin
stration of Mayor Swami he was one of the
agents instrumental in securing Druid Hill
Park from the Rogers estate. Mr. Walker
was an active member of the orders of Odd
Fellows, Red Men and Masons a widow
| and ten children survive him.
Anton Laumann and Moses Gosnell. of
Ellcott City, died on Saturday, Mr. Gosnell
was for many years a carpenter and builder,
| employed by Gray's Manufacturing Company.
Mr.. Laumann died while sitting up in bed
/. from heart failure. He was born in Germany
and settled in Ellicott City when young man.
He was in the Goth year of his age and leaves
a widow and one son. Philip Laumann.
Z. P. Baldwin, late auditor for the Treasury
Department died at Atlantic City Monday
morning as tie result of an operation per
formed for appendicitis During the recent
national campaign Mr.. Baldwin was a silver
man of pronounced views, and it was at one
time rumored that he was to be displaced by
the Administration for his course in making
free-Silver speeches in Maryland and Virginia
His home was in Laurel.
The Governor has appointed the following
deputy game wardens Baltimore county.
Joseph Plummer, August Bouehe: Hartford
county Brinton F. Warner Joseph B. Hos
kins, Walter B. Packard. Charles z. Virgins,
D. ?. Hollingsworth; Frederick county, Chas.
E. Virgins, Charles H. Birely; Anne Arun-
del county, r. Fl. CLANCY; Carroll county.
Frank j. Devibiss; Worcester county. W. J.
Dennis; Washington county, Samuel Pennel.
Mrs Frances Hazlehurst jenkins died on
Sunday in Baltimore. after lingering illness.
She was the wife of Mr. Benjamin w. ,Jen-
kns, retired, of the late firm of Hugh Jen-
kins Co.. coffee importers. Mrs. Jenkins
was a Miss HaZlehurst and daughter of the
late Samuel Hazlehurst Her great-grand.
father. Mr.. Robert Purviance. was collector
of the port of Baltimore under President
George Washington. A husband and four
daughters survive her.
Prot. George c. Pearson has issued call
for convention of peach growers, to be held
in Hagerstown, for the purpose of devising
means to exterminate the yellows, which
threaten to destroy the peach industry through.
out the Blue Mountain belt and Washington
and adjoining counties. He says the peach
growing industry is in great peril If the vel
lows and San Jose scale are allowed to spread
he predicts that the industry will be ruined in
a few years.
The death of Miss Rachel Hooper, aged 20
years, at Sideling Hill, Washington county,
on Saturday, completes the history of rather
T. IL I
come extinct within six weeks, Miss Hooper's
aged brother having died on August ], and
her sister few days afterwards. After Mr.
Hoopers death over 81 900 were found IN the
house, hidden in old cans and coffee pots
Two years ago the Hoopers were subjected to
great torture by midnight marauders, who
secured considerable money
The Touring mills in Hagerstown owned by
David S. Boyer and operated by Boyer q
Heard were burned to the ground between
and o'clock Tuesday morning Not only
were the mills burned, but the elevators and
coal sheds in connection with the plant and
the adjoining stables Of w. l.. Wishard j. d. |
Wishard and Mrs. William T. Hamilton were
destroyed or damaged. The FIRE started in
the frame stable of w. l.. Wishard. in the
rear of Joshua d. Wises blacksmith shop.
A stiff breeze blew the flames from the stable
to the coal Sheds north Of the mills, over a
trestle track $50 feet long In short time
the coal sheds were consumed and the mills
were afire. For time it looked as though a
general conAagration was imminent Dwell
ing houses and outbuildings in the vicinity
were kept drenched with water. In the
elevator were 1000 bushels of wheat, 900
barrels of -four, 600 bushels of coru and lot
of feed About 600 tons of coal were part-
ally consumed. 1t is believed the stable was
set on fire by gang of burglars, as the cloth
ing store of Max Reuben was Quilted, the tools
to force an entrance being taken from near
by blacksmith shop. The loss on the mill
and contents was over S26, 900.
Next Tuesday, September
%, is Registration Day. If
Won did not rnoiStAr last wear.