The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-03-26
MARYLAND Affairs.

county.
George f. Young has been appointed post
master at Gettysburg, Pa.
On Tuesday stock of the Hagerstuwm Bank
sold AT $40 per share; par Sl5.
| Dennis NJ. Howser, of Rockville, is in Jail
on the charge of incest. He denies il.
! Montgomery county has lS2 criminal in
dictments to be tried at the present terra Of
court.
In parts of Great Britain, on Thursday,
snow and sleet fell and there was 1t severe
storm on the coast.
Thirty six vessels have been chartered To
load grain, &C., for foreign ports at Baltimore
! within the next month.
Prot. Thomas b. Long, well known edu-
! Gator OF Kent county. died in Gaiena on
Tuesday, aged IS years.
/ Mrs. Lucy Morris, co!ored, of Baltimore.
/ weighs 4S2 pounds and is at the Hopkins
| University under treatment for obesity.
| George P!ascher, alias George Miller, has
! been sentenced to the pcniientlary tor ~
! years for horse stealing, from Hartford county.
/ a three year-od child of John HallOwell.
/ oi Dorchester county. was accHicniil hnrhett
! 10 death by falling inru brush pIic on Tues
| day.
/ On the Wednesday the residence of II. l..
! Burk hart. near Altoona, Pa, was struck by
! lightning and burned, together with IFS con-
tents; the family barely escaped.
Herman Christner, OF Garrett county, being
despoldeut on account of i'll health and hnali,
cial troubles, on Thursday nearly cut his head
off with Il razor in the presence Of his daugh-
! ter.
On Sunday night the dwelling, two barns
| h.; ba Clark farm -
! near Elkton, Cecil county, were burned by
| an incendary. The dwelling was not occn-
! pied.
/ DR.. Andrew Woman, IL well known retired
| physician Of Frederick, died Monday after
/ noon from the effects of stroke OF paralysis,
which he sustained several weeks ago. lie
was 81 years of age.
On Tuesday night the barn of Wan. Glacier,
| near Shippensburg, Pa, together with -
! cattle, 4 horses, oubuildings, grain proven
| der was burned by an incendlary fire; loss
| over insurance $1,000.
The barn on the farm of Andrew Bowers,
near Frederick, was burned to the ground on
| Sunday, with all its contents except the live
stock, which was saved. Vernon Roderlck,
who was assisting to save the stable, was bad
ly burned about the face.
A petition has been in circulation in Snow
| Hill, Worcester county, for The last week Oh
more asking the mayor and council to pass a
| curfew ordinance. Almost every adult citi-
| zen of the town strongly indorseS II, but the
! BOYS are up in arms and are planning renge-
ance.
Thomas johnson, colored, was shot by
| Augustine Lee, colored, ON Sunday, neal
Westphalia, a station OH the Washington and
| Chesapeake Beach Railroad. Johnson was
the stable boss and reprimanded Lee for the
hard riding of one Of the horses when Lee
shot him. Lee is in the Prince George Jail.
On Thursday, while the parents were tenn
porarily absent, the eighteen months chlio
of Henry Wagner, at Eglon, Garrett county,
secured bottle of carbolic acid and poured
the contents down the throat and over the
face of the baby, aged four months, lying on
the bed The child died in two hours.
The Somerset county Herald Of the 22d
saws :-"Spring arrived in this county two
weeks ago. At present many peach and pear
trees are in bloom, and some strawberry
| patches are white with blossoms. Wheat and
| grass have come out wonderfully, and the
season is about two weeks ahead OF last year.
John Oliver, who shot and fatally wounded
his nece-wife, Kate Oliver, in Baltimore Oh
September last, was convicted of murder IN
the second decree. He was at once sentenced
by Judge Stockbridge to Is years in the pen
itentiary, the maximum penalty, ana shortly
| aflerward was taken to that institution.
Banaker Social Club is a negro organiZa
| ton in the western part of Baltimore. Nearly
| every Saturday night men and women gather
there. and the police have to frequently settle
/ their quarrels. Last Sunday morning light
took place between three men and two women,
and one of the men was killed by u blow oI
the head from chair.
! While driving along the county road neal
his home last Saturday night, Ebe West, o.
! Somerset county, was thrown from his wagon
and had his neck dislocated. 1t was turned
so that he could only look directly over his
right shoulder: Since that time until We'd
nesday he has not been able TO turn his head
without the whole body. when Dir. StraughR,
of Snow Hill, was called in and Strengthened
out the kink. The injury was both danger
Gus and painful.
By the steamer which arrived at Astoria
Oregon, on Monday from Dyea and Skagway
| Alaska, it was learned that Frank Clement
of Hillsboro, Oregon, was shot and killed al
sheep camp on the 14th instant, by GottlieG
Schneider, of Howard county. A lynching
was averted only by the prompt action of the
officers in getting the murderer out of the way.
He is now in Jail here. Clement lived several
hours but failed to give any account OF the
quarrel Gottlieb Schneider was Il resident
OF Howard county for over 10 years, living
part of the time on q leased farm near Mar
riottsvile, and subsequently on Il farm he
purchased near Guilford. He was considered
an industrious man, and was well thought OF
by his neighbors. He left last summer with
the avowed purpose of going te the klOndikt
gold regions. Since leaving, friends of hi:
in Howard county have received letters from
him. He left wife and two small children
who are now living at Guilford, Howard
| county.