The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-27


Hugh Boyd, who was the engineer that ran the
special train which carried President Folks mes
sage from Baltimore to Philadelphia, died at Perry
willie, Cecil county. Monday morning, aged rs years,
William Kussmaul, son of Howard Kussmaul of
/ Frederick, while cut cunning Thursday with
several other boys, was shot in the neck by the
cidental discharge of eat rife, making an ugly
| flesh wound.
DIR. DE Wilton Snowden, leading citizen and
physician of Laurel, died on Wednesday night
aged 50 years. During the civil war he served in
the Southern army, in Dement'S Battery and in the
! Second Maryland Infantry
Charles Wilson, aged 40 years. IA yard conductor
Of the Western Maryland Railroad at Hilen Station,
was run over and horribly manged by a passenger
coach at Trent and Buren, streets, Baltimore, at
O'Clock Tuesday night. Both legs were crushed to
| pulp and his abdomen was injured
Andrew Harper, who has been in the employ of
A. j. stinchcomb, huckster in the market Annapo-
! lis and in whom Mr.. Stinchcomb placed every
! confidence disappeared saturday night, taking
about $50 of his employer money. Mr.. Stnchcomb
traced Harper TO Baltimore, where he was arrested
While going down the Chesapeake bay on the
steamer Chowan last Friday night, TO work on an
oyster boat, three white men and negro all from
Baltimore fell out about some whisky, and in an
instant the negro pulled out Il razor and slashed
the three white men severely. The negro is in Jail
in Princess Anne
Edward =. Aer the ex -p0Sofiee substitute clerk,
against whom five indictments for embezzling mail
matter recently quashed. and who has been
reindicted by the federal grand jury, has not been
found by deputy marshals charged with his arrest,
and some of them think he has left the city-Balti
more American.
While two young men of Centreville, William
Turpin and Edward Emory, were rabbit hunting
on saturday, they started rabbit, and in the ex-
element Emorys gun was discharged and part of
the contents entered the body of Turpin. The only
shot that did any damage two that struck
him about the head.
Mrs Gertie Smmonds, who is serving Il term of
is months in the Baltimore City Jail for completely
in the robbery of Prof L. B. Caggett last April, be-
ieves that she has fallen heir TO about $OC % and
Rev MIR. Strodenmeier, chaplain of the Prisoners
Aid society has interested himself sufficiently to
make inquiry into the matter
Dr. Clinton H. Wright druggist at No. 800 Warner
street Baltimore nitted suicide by cutting his
! throat with a razor, early Saturday morning. He
died late sa turday afternoon. According to the
statement of his mother Mrs. Ann Wright, who re-
sided with him. DR.. Wright had been in ill health
f'NAN'ASNNN
| was 40 years old
Joseph Galloway, colored aged fifteen years was
accidentally shot on Saturday by y. Brown, lad
| of about the same age, near Upper Marlboro Gal
loway was on his wagon hanling load of corn to
| his home when Brown overlook him. carrying in
! his arm a loaded gun. He asked for a ride, and
! while attempting 10 get into the wagon from the
! rear the gun was exploded and the entire load Of
| shot struck Galloway in the back of the neck.
| In Eliicott City last Friday night Eugenia Kirby,
aged II years daughter of Thomss Kirby, was acct
dentally shot and dangerously wounded by Dale
~t;royes aged years. The girls parents live next
door to the Groves family and had stepped in there
! only few minutes when Mr.. Groves and son came
in from hunting trip with their guns The little
boy took hold of one gun, and it was accidentally
discharged the load striking the girl in the fore
head.
The ive-Story building. Nos 81 and 3l9 North
| Howard street Baltimore, occupied by william IL.
| Scott popularity known Great Scott" took fire
in the basement on Monday afternoon, and burned
rapidly The building had stock of furniture,
carpets &c, amounting to over 100000. which was
lentifely consumed, and ROfhiag of the building
was left except the four walls. The flames were
carried to all five stories by the elevator shaft,
which acted as a chimney and the destruction was
IT,,
to save themselves. One woman, Mrs. Susan f.
Maxon was smothered to death. The loss on
stock was SlOOOOO and about 900 on the building
sudden death occurred near Hope Queen
Annes county, Sunday night under distressing cir
cumstanees Miss Maize Sullivan, daughter of the
late Samuel Sullivan once editor of the Chester
town Transcript, took strychnine instead of qui-
nine She frequently took quiniAe for a cold and
thought she was doing so Sunday night IL seems
the family had borrowed some strychnne from
neighber to kill fox that had been stealing their
poultry and the bottle had been put i'll a cupboard,
and il was mistaken for the quinine bottle. Soon
after she had taken it she discovered the mistake,
and sent fora doctor, but she died before he ar
rived She about % wears of age and lived with
her mother, Mrs. John Mason.
T. Sam Myers, young man who claimed to have
been a cartoonist OH the New York Recorder for
five years gave a chalk talk at the Y. NJ. {. A.,
Hagerstown, Thursday evening of last week. Later
in the night he became involved in difficulty, ana
the next day he hired horse and buggy from W.
G. Claggett for the avowed purpose of taking a
voung lady for a drive He said he would be back
in two hours but did not put in his appearance
that day or the next and has not been back since.
The horse was found tied to tree in the mountains
on Sunday night, near Mount Aetna, with the
buggy badly broken. He was heard of in Volts
Vile where he swindled q merchant out of fifty
dollars got drunk, painted the town red and cit
OUT
The Union Church, st Fair Play, Washington
county. was the scene Wednesday evening at ESQ
O'Clock of double wedding. Miss Anna NJ. Welty
and Miss Edith c. welty. sisters, daughters of Mr..
David Welty, of Fair Play, were married, respect
lively to Mr.. Norman E. Fahrney, son of Mr.. Jacob
. Fahrney and Mr. Norman C. Reichard son of Mr..
David Reichard The Rev. Victor Long performed
the ceremony The event was witnessed by a large
crowd of people. The brides were dressed alike,
each wearing a handsome gown of white silk,
trimmed with lace and ribbon, with gloves and
slippers to match Elch carried bouquets of white
chrysanthemums A reception, at which there
were more than 200 guests, followed the ceremony,
and then the bridesand grooms left for an extended
wedding tour.
The gold mines in the lower section of Mont
gomery county, between Watts and Cabin Johns
branches are being operated with success. The
mines in operation The Rust, Eagle, Maryland.
Brady and Ford. The Maryland mine, which has
been in operation about four months, is down 100
feet and drifed 500 feet way and go the other
There are about two thousand tons of ore OF the
dumps one hundred and ninety tons of which have
been tested and will run $40 per ton. Many miners
who have had much experience in the business,
some having been at it thirty years, say that
chunks of quartz which have been taken from the
Maryland mines which carry from S3t } to $500 of
free gold is something marvellous. Rocks have
been taken out of these mines weighing from 40 to
90 pounds heavily impregnated with gold
Some work is being done on the Washington and
Chesapeake Beach Railroad Green & Burroughs,
who contra cted for the grading have divided the
line into four sections. Mr.. H. 4. Burroughs di-
reefs operations on the first section of six or
seven miles from the District of Columbia in Prince
Georges county, and Mr. H. H. Green the next sec
ton of the same distance which ends in the centre
of the town of Upper Marlboro. Each of them has
several sub-contIactors on the work, 1t has been
stated that the line viii graded to Upper MARI
boro from the District of Columbia by January /.
A force of men is also at work at the terminus of
the line on Chesapeake Beach, where pier, begun
several years ago, is being completed. This pier
will extend into the bay 1900 feet 1t is stated by
the projectors of this enterprise that they propose
to hSve the entire road ready for operation by the
first of May next. Contracts have been made for
he ties, and solce have already been dcliseied.
the t;ls are contracted fs and q them have
been laid so it is rep0rte;, preparatory to placing
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