The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-09
Maryland Affairs.

Scarlet fever has closed the public school
at Aberdeen, Hartford county.
Somerset county has lost over $4,000 worth
of horses by the unknown disease.
A bank is to be established by citizens of
Reisterstown and Glyndon, Baltimore county.
On Saturday nigh the shirt factory at Cam
bridge, Dorchester county, was burned; loss
$4,000.
| The slaughterhouse and several small build
ings, at Williamsport, owned by A. j. Mondy,
were burned on Thursday.
Dr. Andrew Jackson Spalding, one of the
hest known physicians in Southern Maryland,
died in Leonardtown on Tuesday, in his 72d
/ year.
Miss Laura j. Burrier, of Mt Pleasant dis
trict, Frederick county, was feloniously as
saulted by an unknown white man on Septem-
| Der %.
On Monday the hay barrack on the farm of
| County Commissioner B. F. Hess, of Howard
county, with so tons of hay and many uten-
! sis, was burned.
Owing to i'll health W. II. Norris has re-
signed az cashier of Western National Bank
! of Baltimore, and VIM. Marriott has been
elected TO fill his place.
| l.. Sidney McGrath sued the commission
ers of Worcester county and recovered $1,000
for injuries received by passing over bridge
that fell while he was driving over it.
Diphtheria is prevailing in the seventh dis
| trict of Baltimore county. Churches and
schools will be closed until the disease abates.
| Typhoid fever is epidemic in several dis
tricts.
George and Gardner Piper. brothers, are
lodged in the Frederick city Jail, charged with
the murder of Elijah Addison, an old colored
man, whose body was found in stone quarry,
near Brunswick, on Wednesday.
Captain Frederick Chatard, an old resident
of ST. Louis and the oldest surviving. officer
of the Confederate Navy, died in St. Louis on
Monday, aged 80 years. He entered the
| United States Navy in 1924. He was brother
of the late DIR. Chatard of Baltimore, and was
related to the Van Bibbers of that city.
Frederick county public schools cost last
year $78, $50. SO. The report shows the en-
rollment of 4,S0l white male and 4, $50 white
female pupils, the colored males numbering
| SOC, and females 687. The total number of
white and colored teachers in the county is
240 and there are ia public school buildings,
Of which l6l are owned by the county, the
others being leased.
William Timmons, whose wife left him on
account of ill-treatment, visited her at her
fathers home, Thursday afternoon, near Ed
nor Postofice, Montgomery county, aud, fail
ing to induce her to return to him, ne shot
her father, William Hinton, killing him. and
afterwards shot his own wife, who will prob
ably die from the wound. He also shot the
wife of John Hinton, and fed.
Major William B. Matthews died Sunday
morning at his home, in the fourth district of
Charles county, from paralysis, in his 10th
year. Major Matthews was son of the late
General John Matthews, and was one of the
largest land owners in Charles county. Six
children survive him. The eldest is the wife
of Rev. Kinleck Nelson, bishop of Georgia;
the others are Mrs. W. B. S. Chapman, Mrs.
Perry Wilmer, Miss Mamie Matthews and
Messrs. John, Frank and VIM. R. Matthews,
Jr.
ST. Mary's Industrial School, near Balti-
timore, has sold $50 bushels of wheat, the
product of twelve acres of the farm, at S1.06
bushel. This is the highest price paid for
wheat this year in the Baltimore market.
The wheat grown by ST. Mary's Industrial
School is noted as the choicest seed, and each
year brings a very substantial advance upon
the ruling rates st. Mary's Industrial School
will have "a acres under wheat cultivation for
next year. Much of this land two years ago
was brush and scrub.