The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-02
Maryland Affairs.

shlpped ~ Dusnels OF new Wneat 10 Daltl-
more on Saturday.
Wheat harvest ended in Queen Anne S
county last week, and is fully one-third
short. Timothy is also short.
Mrs. Annie McGee and her five months
old child were burned to death in Balti-
more on Friday night of last week by the
use of a gasoline stove.
The basket factory at Northeast, Cecil
county, has received orders from the Gov
eminent for an immense number of coal
baskets.
\ vapor oil stove nearly caused a serious
fire in Chestertown, Kent county, on Sat
urday The efficient volunteer fire com
pany soon had the fire under control
Diphtheria broke out in the Washing
ton County Orphans Home. Eleven
children were very i'll with the disease, but
ALL save one, are now recovering rapidly
The mammoth turkey that created such
a sensation during the Christmas holidays
died last week in Homecoming of cholera.
1t weighed few days before its death
Al pounds.
Daniel AMMAN, Jr., of Cumberland, was
fatally injured by being thrown from a
horse on Sunday evening. The saddle
turned and he was dragged several hun
bred yards before the horse could be
stopped.
James Canoe, residing few miles east
of Cumberland, was in that city last week
for the first time since the Civil War. He
has a family of ten children. He is only
about middle age. He says he has never
had an occasion to come to town before.
The wheat harvest in Caroline county is
the lightest for many years. The kernel
is much shriveled, and must make flour Of
inferior quality. For some unaccountable
cause the straw of the wheat died several
days before the time of maturity
The Jesuit Fathers who for more than
200 years past have had charge Of the
Bohemia Manor Mission, in Cecil county,
have reliquished it, and the mission, with
that at Middletown, Del. has been placed
in the charge of Rev. John 4. DAILY, OF
Delaware City.
DR. II q. Radcliffe, Of Libertytown,
exhibited stock of alder with a growth
making perfect imitation Of snake,
with the exception Of the head where 1t
united with the stalk. The formation Of
the body and tail could not be distinguished
by sight from that of real snake.
Rudolph Herr Of the Clear Spring dis
trict, Washington county, who has assisted
in every wheat harvesting for the past sixty
years, was again in the field last week.
Notwithstanding his advanced age Of %
years he Graded for over an hour with as
much sprightliness as many Of the younger
harvesters.
Henry Bailey, colored, was killed by
Henry Goodrich, on Sunday, near the At
lantic Gardens, in Anne Arundel county,
Goodrich is in Jail. The two men were on
friendly terms, and engaged in boxing
and wrestling match, the negro getting the
better of Goodrich, which so enraged him
that he drew a revolver and shot Bailey.
On Saturday afternoon the barn on the
farm Of Kennedy Butler, tenanted by
Hiram Ahalt, on the outskirts of Fred
erick, was struck by lightning and burned
together with corn crib and wagon shed.
In the barn were all the implements, har-
ness, 80 barrels of old corn, 40 tons of
new hay. Loss So, 900; insurance 81, 800.
Harry Bloom, of Hagerstown, on Sat
urday, while assisting in hauling hay on
his farm near Big Pool, was buried be-
meath load of hay on top of which he
was riding and which upset He was
rescued from his perilous and uncomfor-
table position by four men who were along
with the team. He suffered terribly from
the heat and the pressure of hay on top of
him, and came near sufocating.
Thirteen members of band Of alleged
chicken thieves who have been operating
on the borders of Washington and Fred
erick counties for two OF three years, were
arrested by the sheriff of Frederick county
and lodged in the Frederick jail on Friday
Of last week. The plan of the gang was
to make raids on the memories at mid
night and then go to Hagerstown or Fred
erick and dispose of the chickens to buck
sters at low prices.
Bert Seymour, postmaster at Trappe,
Talbot county, is missing, He disappeared
about two weeks ago. The last that
seems to be known of him is that he was on
one Of the Baltimore steamers, a night boat
from Trappe, and took stateroom at a
late hour of the night. He was not in the
room next morning and cannot be found
He left behind him wife and children
His father, ex-Sheriff w. L. II. Seymour,
has taken charge Of the postoffice
Enoch D. Tagart, aged 81 years, died
Sunday morning at his home, in Baltimore.
He was born in Kennett Square, Pa. He
came to Maryland in 1913, and until the
breaking out of the war was manager and
superintendent for Daniel Lord, who had
extensive farms in Cecil county, and owned
the Elk cotton mills. Mr.. Tagart was of
Quaker descent, and man of sterling in
tegrity. He married Miss Laura Crouch,
who: with one daughter, Miss Jennie Ia
CART, survives him.
The Baltimore Storage and Lighterage
Company, operating the Atlantic Transport
Line, have sold to the United States Gov
ernment seven vessels for $4,000, 900.
The vessels are to be used as transport and
supply ships. They are the Mohawk,
Mobile, Massachusetts, Manitoba, Minnee
waska, Michigan and Mississippi. TIL
Government also purchased the OLDHAM, of
the Netherlands American Steam Naviga-
ton Company, and large steamer, the
name of which was withheld, for the Philip
pines expedition.
The beginning of the project for rebuild
ing the Naval Academy, at Annapolis,
under the plans proposed by the Matthews
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