The Democratic advocate., 1897-09-18
Maryland Affairs.


Incendiaries and burglars operating on the
Eastern Shore. If they are caught there will be
"neck-tie parties
Thomas Janey's barn and contents in Green
Spring Valley, Baltimore county, was burned on
Friday of last week.
An unknown insect is killing the forest trees IN
the lower counties of the Eastern shore and in Sus
sex county Delaware.
A bug known as the harlequin is killing the cab
bage in Howard and Baltimore counties. Paris
green does not kill them.
Several large rattlesnakes have been killed in
Cumberland recently The crop is unusually large
in Alegany county this season.
Robert welch, aged 30, died at Tnppe, Talbot
county, on Sunday. James Redde, aged 81. died
in the same district on the same day
Miss Sarah A. Randall, who would have been lGi
years old on Wednesday, died at the Home for the
Aged of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Baltl-
more on Tuesday.
Laboring men are scarce the Eastern Shore
and Southern Maryland, owing to the opening oil
the oystor trade. Saving fodder and cutting on
corn is very much retarded
John Turner, a farmer, died Tuesday morning at
his late home, near Poplar Springs, Howard county,
of typhoid fever, aged about 81 years. He was the
son of the late John W. Turner
The wheat crop on the farms of the late William
McKenney, of Queen Annes county, is 1900 BUSH
els. The crop will be about the same, and the
entire proceeds are estimated at SlS0'0OO
Ina free fight at colored picnic near Elkridge
Landing, Howard county, on Tuesday night
Thomas Fields was shot through the bowels and
two other men were seriously wounded.
Dr. w W. Ward while handling his shotgun in
his house. at Alberton, Howard county, on satur-
day night. accidentally discharged the weapon,
and the load took effect in the breast of his wife
new route from Washington, D. C. to Point
Lookout has been located, $500 tons of steel rails
ordered ties bought, and contractor A. b. Linder-
man. of Philadelphia, Pa will commence work at
once.
Miss Agnes Beam, ofPikesville, Baltimore county,
who has been paralytic for 30 years and con-
fined to bed for the greater part of that time, has
recently recovered sufficiently to sit up in bed
without assistance.
Philip Barnes colored, was fatally stabbed in
Baltimore, on Sunday night, by Louis Day. also
coored, while returning together from church
service Barnes died at the Homeopathic Hospital
ON Mount street, and Day arrested.
Three white men were arrested in Oakland, Gar
rett county, Wednesday, on the charge OF having
attempted to commit a criminal assault on Letitia
Wilhelm, seventeen years old, living at Crellin,
near Oakland Threats of lynching are made.
Henny Adams, colored, residing near Linchester,
Caroline county is log years of age active, and in
good health. She was slave in Dorchester county
in her younger days, and her age is said to be
authenticated by record in Cambridge, the county
seat.
James H. Willis u well-known farmer and bust
ness man of Talbot county living near Oxford,
fell Sunday from the high porch at the residence OF
his son. J. McKenney Willis, and fractured a knee
cap. Mr. Willis is large man, weighing over 300
pounds.
VIM. Washington, colored, is under arrest at
Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges county on the
charge of shooting a colored girl named Susan
Diggs, Suitland. The girl is IN a dying con-
diton in Washington. The prisoner says the shoot
ing was an accident.
johnson Brothers barn, near Frostburg, Ale
gany county, was burned on Wednesday from
spontaneous combustion. They had just placed in
it 30 tons of new hay, which heated. Their resi-
dence narrowly escaped. The barn cost $1,000, and
the contents were valued at over 100, no insur-
| ance.
Many houses in Baltimore have been burglarized
during the past two weeks and after the most thor
ough investigation the police have reported mo
clue" On Thursday two white men and woman
were arrested in private boarding house with
full set of tools and about a wagonload of stolen
property.
The barn on the farm of Archibald Brown, near
Glenelg, Howard county, was burned on Thursday
of last week, together with a quantity of wheat,
some farming implements and all the hay on the
farm. The fire started from straw stack and
seems to have been of incendiary origin. Mr..
Brown carried only small insurance of 500 on the
barn.
certified copy of the will of the late Mrs. Agnes
L. Peigh of Washington, D. c., was filed on Thurs
day in the Orphans Court at Towson, Baltimore
county She bequeaths her entire estate, consisting
of 900 acres of land to her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Felka of the Eleventh district. Mos. of the
land belonging to the estate is located in West Vir
ginia.
Burglars broke into Samuel Emmerts hardware
store in Hagerstown early Sunday morning, in
full view of the street and while the gas was burn
ing brightly robbed the store of 35 reyolvers,
score or so of the best and lot of cutlery.
A man has been arrested charged with being one
of the burglars number of revolvers and razors
were found on him.
Samuel Maccubbin Valiant died on Tuesday, at
the home of James H. Sutton, Bozman, Talbot
county. He was Batimorean by birth. His
father Nicholas Valiant lived in Easton. He was
a brother of the late Rev. Theodore Valiant, sew
eral times president of the Maryland Methodist
Protestant Conference, and of William T. Valiant,
n merchant of Baltimore
The large barn and granary on the farm of ].
Ruff Street. Hartford county, was burned Tues
day evening with all of its contents, including 80
tons of hay 800 bushels of wheat, several tons of
fertilizer wagons harness, buggies and farm i'm
plements, and COWS and calves. Mr.. W. H.
Neeper who tenants the farm, will lose about
81, ,OOO There was no insurance the barn
contents.
In Frederick, on Monday Charles Wilson, col
ored. charged with assaultng and attempting to
rape Miss Jessie Jeans at her home, Catoctin,
two years ago, was tried, found guilty and SEN
fenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. There
were two other charges against him, one for lar
ceny and the other for assaultng with intent to
kill by shooting at the sheriff. He was taken to
Baltimore at once for fear of lynching.
Louis Howard and Edward Butler. colored, quar-
relied at razor social near Burnt Mills, in Mont
gomery county Saturday night. They went out
in the public road to settle the dispute. Butler, it
is charged, drew revolver and fired at Howard
without effect Howard then asked his adversary
whether he meant business and, upon receiving
an answer in the afi rmatve, whipped out revolver
and shot Butler through the stomach, who died
from the effects of the wound Sunday morning.
Mrs. Barbara A. Welty, widow of the late John
Welty, died suddenly on Saturday while sitting in
a chair at the old Welty homestead, two miles
north of Smithsburg, Washington county, aged
about 20 years She leaves no children John
Welty left at his death estate valued at SjOOO0,
which will now go to Tax Collector John Wety
Cable, who a nephew of the late John Welty, and
to John Welty Cables wife, who is niece of Mrs.
welty. John Wety prominent distiller and
tanner.
The citizens of WeSternport, Alegany county,
are getting alarmed about their water supply.
Many of the springs and wells are going dry, owing
to the drouth. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad in
that section is short of water at number of sta
tions west of Wesernport and the company expects
to be compelled shortly to haul water in tanks
from the Ohio river at Moundsville, in order to
supply its engines. The Potomac river water is so
bad and filthy and so full of acids that it cannot be
used for the engines
On Saturday, at Frederick, the Emmitsburg Rail-
road was Sold together with all its rolling stock,
stations and appurtenances for S29,5OO, to syndi
cate represented by James A. Elder, Dr. J. B. Braw
ner and VIM. A. Hines. The road connects with
the Western Maryland at Rocky Ridge and runs to
| Emmitsburg a distance of $40 miles member