The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-05-01
Maryland Affairs.

Maryland Affairs.
Mad dogs are becoming very plentiful in
Hartford county.
Walnut logs are being shipped from Fred
erick county to Germany.
Frederick 0ckes, aged 70, of Hilton, How
ard county, died on Saturday.
There was light fall of snow in parts of
Frederick county, on Tuesday. Snow fell IN
Hagerstown.
The personal estate of Gabriel d. Clark,
who died in Baltimore recently. amounted to
81, 3S5, 82925.
During April 1925. 255 bushels of corn and
1905 81 bushels of wheat we're shipped 10
foreign ports from Baltimore.
William P Maulsby, of Frederick, has ac-
cepted an invitation to have charge of the ex-
ercises at Antietam on Decoration Day.
The stable and eight houses on the farm Of
VIM Seward, near Cambridge, were burned
Sunday night while the family were at church.
1t is said that all the shops at Sparrows
Point, below Baltimore, will begin work on
Monday giving employment to about 1000
hands.
Uhlman Bros. stables at Salisbury, were
burned by incendarism on Saturday Several
of their buildings have been burned within the
past two years.
VIM. Messrssmith & Sons slaughter house
and several other buildings, on Pennsylvania
Avenue. Baltimore, were burned Thursday;
loss SO, 800 above insurance.
Joshua Leonard, one of the oldest Of Il
numerous and influential Talbot county family,
died suddenly at his residence, near Royal
Oak, on Tuesday, aged Ell hty years.
Henry Ward was convicted in Somerset
county, on Saturday, of burning the store of
w. E. Roach on November 8, last. and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for 10 years.
Speak easies are in operation IN Easton.
Twenty-Five arrests were mad this week AT
the last term of the Talbot county court several
persons were convicted and sent to the House
of Correction.
By the burning of the freight house at La
Plata, Charles county, on Saturday night, L
tons of fertilizer owned by Charles H. Cox
and other reight was destroyed. No insur-
anee; incendiarism
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Shaw, aged So years,
of Frederick, on Thursday, while suffering
from melancholia beat her brains out with
shoemaker's hammer. She leaves u husband
and several children.
Frederick wants the Maryland Division
League of American Wheelmen to meet in
that city July $40, and offers extraordinary
prizes. We hope the Division will accept
and stir the old bones in that town up.l
Prof Bird, principal of Morgan College,
coored, at Princess Anne, Somerset county,
died on Monday from kidney disease. He
was a native of Gettysburg, Pa. The school
was in a Aourishing condition, and had SO
pupils.
1t is proposed to extend the new Queen
Anne'S Railroad to Lewes, Delaware, and to
carry passengers from there to Cape May by
boat. The time to Cape May will be TO
hours from Baltimore; and large capital is be-
hind it.
Herring are more plentiful in the Susque-
hanna at Havre de Grace, Turkey Point, &c,
than they have been for years, and they are
selling at % cents per 100 Many times the
seines have to be scoOped in order to relieve
the pressure.
The high winds of Monday night assumed
cyclonic force a mile south of Leitersburg,
Washington county. The track of the storm
was very narrow and we'll defined. Fencing
was swept away, small buildings were over
turned and trees uprooted.
Fire broke out in the woods on Bacon hilI,
Cecil county. on Tuesday afternoon. Rail
road hands and farmers did their utmost to
prevent its spreading, but high wind pre-
vailed and they could do but little good 1t
was finally extinguished by shower.
John G. Norris, of Liberty district, Freder
lex county, died on Sunday, aged 81 years.
He leaves a wife and three children. He was
for many years a member ofthe NJ. E. Church.
He was a prominent Democratic politician
and had been magistrate for several years.
George H. Porter, aged Is, was bitten by
spider on Tuesday of last week while lying on
the grass at the base ball grounds in Baltimore.
The youth felt unwell that night and retired
early The next morning his lips were much
swollen, and blood poisoning followed: The
boy fingered in great agony until Monday
when death ensued.
John H. Hirshberger, Frederick baker,
has been awarded the contract to furnish be-
tween 5000 and 1000 pounds of bread per
day to the German Baptist annual meeting, to
lie held there in June. The contract also
covers between 80, 600 and $4,000 pies. The
bread is to be made up in the form of rolls
and of these there will be 100, 900.
Joseph Borkdall of near Leitersburg,
Washington county, was severely injured on
Saturday afternoon He kicked a pillow horse
in the side His foot caught in the trace loop
and the horse ran off. dragging Mr. Borkdall
until he was unconscious. His foot was freed
as the horse was abont to spring into the barn
door, lie is not expected to recover.
In Paris, France, on Monday, Miss Mary
Ellen, daughter of Ex-Governor John Lee
Carroll, of Maryland, was married at the
Church of St Pierre du Chillot to Herbert d.
Robbins, of New York, in the presence of
number of friends The United States Am
bassador Mr.. Eustis, and Perry Belmont
signed the register for TIA groom, and Thomas
Maitland and Royal Phelps Carroll signed for
the bride.
John Blanchard is in custody upon the
charge of attempting felonious assault upon
the seven-year daughter of 7. Howard
Hanway, farmer near Creswell, Hartford
county. Blanchard occasionally worked at
Hanway's He was there Tuesday, and at
tempted his crime during Mr.. Hanway's alb
sence. Mrs. Hanway caught him in the act,
and he begged not to be told en-. He went
away, but was later arrested and confessed
his crime
Although the board of control aud review
of Baltimore county and its clerks have not
fully made up the books from which the levy
is to be made tomorrow, it is stated by Mr..
Rittenhouse, a member of the board that the
basis has been increased by the new assess
ment about SIG, 100000. The old assessment
was S64, 347, 100, and the increase, it is stated,
would make the basis for the 1897 levy about
$50, 900, 600. If this be the case it is proba-
bic that the levy will not exceed so cents.
An explosion occurred in the underground
railway in London, Monday afternoon, as a
train was making its usual stop at Aldersgate
Station. number of persons were hurt, ten