The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-06
Maryland Affairs.

Judge Eli Scott, aged 81 years, of the Or
phans' Court, Baltimore county, died near
Gainesville on Tuesday. He was Republi-
can.
Charles g. Bangs, of North Washington
street, Baltimore, committed suicide on Tues
day by shooting, owing TO i'll health. lie
leaves a wife.
Thomas B. Schal, President of the Schall
Oyster and Fruit Packing Company, of Can
ton, in Baltimore. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the right temple, in his office,
on Wednesday.
Henry Miller, cOored. a laborer, was
scalded to death by the bursting of a boiler
tube in the machine rooms of VIM. II. Cough,
Baltimore, on Monday He was faithful
worker and liked by all.
Frederick Morgenroth, No. sos South
Wolfe street. Baltimore, was stricken by
paralysis while seated on hearse in front OF
Calvert Station waiting for funeral party on
Monday He was taken to the City Hospital.
where he died within a few minutes.
John Shoemaker who had been an inmate
of the Cecil county almshouse for more than
so years, died at the age of 81 years on Sun
day last He was native of Pennsylvania,
and came TO Cecil county when young man.
He was employed by the Coudon family, near
Perryyille, and was buried in the ElktOn Gem
etery.
Goldsborough s. Griffith the well known
Baltimore philanthropist, was 80 years old on
the 4th instant. He is, probably, the widest
known man in this country and Europe for
his good works, he having visited England
and the Continent several times in search OF
information looking to prison and retormatory
institutions.
One of the five camels in the herd at Druid
Hill Park Baltimore, has been sold to Zoo
logical Garden, Philadelphia. Captain Cas-
sell stated that the reasons for the sale were
that the herd is increasing, thing not con-
templated by the managers, and also because
the camel that was sold had displayed dis
position too wild to make its retention at the
park desirable.
Susan Hartman, aged 55 years, died on
Monday at the Washington county almshouse,
of injuries received from burns. She was
weak minded and was allowed to go around
the almshoase While making a fire in the
washhouse her clothes caught and she was
enveloped in flames. John Sneckenberger
one of the keepers, threw "A blanket over the
woman, but it was too late. She died In
agony six hours afterward.
Oscar Brown, colored, was found lying be
fore the door of his home at Lansdowne, Bal
timore county, on Sunday his skull crushed
in with an axe He still held the strings OF
his banjo in his lifeless grasp, showing that
death was instantaneous. Charles Williams
and John Jones, colored, who boarded with
Brown, have disappeared. The murdered
mans pockets were rifled, and robbery IS be-
leved TO have been the motive.
In Cumberland, on Sunday night, Rev. NJ.
f. B. Rice, pastor of the NJ. +. Church,
startled his congregation by declaring that the
Prohibition party was a stumbling block and
a hindrance in the effort to destroy the liquor
traffic. He stated that the best way to accom-
plish that purpose was to vote for the best
men on the other tickets Prominent Prohi
bitionists present at once arose and joined
issue then and there with the pastor The
discussions were friendly, but exceedingly
warm at times.
Edward Cavey. of Avalon, Baltimore coun-
| ty. a member of Thistle Cornet Band, met
with a fatal accident on the railroad Saturday
night The band was engaged there at
political meeting There being no passenger
train to take him home that night, he jumped
upon freight train. 1t is supposed that as
he attempted to alight his foot caught in the
| iron step in such a manner that he could not
| extricate himself and was dragged over the
crossties. His head and back were badly
lacerated. He was discovered while yet alive
by the trainmen of freight coming west Sun
! day morning and lived until Monday. he
was about 25 years of age, and was employed
as a trackman on the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad.
Moses Wiesenfeld, aged II years, son of
David Wiesenfeld, secretary of Baltimore
Lodge of Elks fell through skylight at the
Howard Auditorium Music Hall Saturday
during the matinee performance, and received
injuries from which he died shortly afterward.
The lad, in company with several companions,
went to the Auditorium to witness the per
formance, and during the intermission be-
tween the second and third acts, went up on
the roof garden. At one end of the garden is
stand, which spans the centre part of the
roof and is protected from it by double rail.
Young Wiesenfeld, it is said by his compan-
ions, Jumped over this rail and landed upon
one Of the skylights, which is made of heavy
glass. The glass gave away with his weight
and he fell to the orchestra, thirty-ive feet
below. His head struck an upright piano and
his body bounded from that nearly to the other
end of the orchestra.