The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-01-08
MARYLAND Affairs.

The Elk mills, Cecil county, after being
idle for a number of years are to be started
Charles Long, Jr., was held up by three
negroes near Lynch's, Kent county, on Mon
day night and robbed.
Today, January 8, is the fifteenth anniyer-
sary of the conservation OF Rt. Rev. w lillah
Paret as Bishop of Maryland.
Wm l.. Thomas and Grason Bramble, trad
ing as the Thomas Paint Manufacturing Com
pany, Baltimore, have made an assignment.
John B. Thirston, aged Sc years, died IN
Hagerstown on Tuesday. He was one OF Ine
most prominent and enterprislng men OF lh"'
city.
The public school buildings of Anne Arun,
del county are to be insured in the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company OF Montgomery
county.
At Roland Park, near Baltimore, on "eS
day, the houses of J. 2. Stelnbach ana IL VI
Jackson were burned, and several otner resi- n
dences were damaged; loss &c., partially
insured.
At Havre de Grace, on Monday night, an
1s mouths old child of Richard Mccall acct
dentally pulled the cover from center table;
dragoing a coal oil lamp with it, The child
was burned to death.
Samuel HolIingsworth, aged II years, died
suddenly on Tuesday, in Elkton, Cecil co"n,
tv He was a son Of the late Col. Samuel
HoIliugsworth, we'll known colonial family
of the Eastern Shore,
On Saturday night the residence OF Am
brose Chanev. near Pratt, Alegany county.
was accidentally burned. Mr.. CLANCY and
wife. both 80 years old. barely escaped, and
were nearly frozen before neighbors could
furnish them clothing
]. Walter Carpenter of La Plata, Charles
county, died on Sunday, and on wednesday
one of his tobacco barns, with 10000 pounds
| Of tobacco, farming utensils, 200 barrels of
corn. &C., were burned. Loss, over insurance
$1,000; insured in the Montgomery county.
The National Loom fxers' Association, i'll
annual Convention at Boston have decided
to take no active steps, as national BODY,
in the case of a strike in New Bedford, but
that if the operatives there should strike the
association pledged itself to stand by them.
John A. Drake, aged 10 years. near Will
| Transport, Washington county, partially cut
down a tree, and seeing it would be caught by
some limbs on another tree climbed it to cut
them off He did so, when the tree he had
partially cut fell carrying him with 1t. crush
ing his life out.
Two valuable horses owned by Levi Cline,
a farmer of Wilson'S district, Washington
county. were the victims of a dastardly piece
of work on Sunday night. Some one DELHI
eratey cut the threat of one and mashed with
a club the head of the other horse. Both
horses will die.
The Western Maryland Railroad is bein 9
taxed to its fullest extent almost daily. run
ming trains from Cherry Run, W. Va, to
Shppensbnrg, Pa, pulled by three engines.
On Sundays the freight traffic is almost cease
less. trains running night and day to clear the
blockade formed during the week.
The Health Department Of Baltimore in
tends crusade against ''SmOkne, Il sub
stance intended to give elegance and age to
certain kinds of sausage, whose ingredients
are not always of bona fde meat. especially
ofthe genus porker A butcher Of the same
city has been fined for using an anine dye
for coloring dried beet.
Robert Barrick, aged G5 years, an eX-sher
if of Frederick county, died at his home on
Tuesday, near New Midway, Frederick coun-
ty of nervous prostration. He was wounded
in the leg in the late civil war. The pain
became so great recently that he went to Bal
timore and had his limb amputated. He
leaves Il widow and three children.
The barn on the farm of Melvin p. Wood,
near MonrOva, Frederick county, tenanted
by r. Lee Davis, together with six horses,
eight COWS and a number of hogs that were
confined in pen. were burned on Tuesday.
The wagon shed, several wagons, harness and
about $50 bushels of corn were also consumed.
There was an insurance of 1925 on the build
ing.
Mary Collins who was arrested at Brantly
Tabernacle Baltimore, Monday night by
Detective O'Donnell, charged with stealing
from Messrs. O'Neill & Co., North Charles
street, a coat, gloves and several feathers, was
committed for court at the Western Police
Station Tuesday morning. The accused
was identified by John B. Cain, shipping clerk
at O'Neiil's, as the woman who took the
goods. She obtained them, it is asserted, on
forged order from the Sister Superior of
the Emmitsburg Convent and Intercepted
them in the shipping department. A mum
Der of keys were found in her possession
She had also attempted to swinded severa.
cerovmen