The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-04-16
Maryland Affairs.

Hagerstown's new sewerage system will
cost from $3.50, 900 to 100000.
Eighty five cents on the 500 is the tax rate
for Garrett county this year.
Miss Elizabeth Lee Hiss, aged % years,
died in Baltimore on Tuesday.
Denton, Caroline county, has Il boom. On
Saturday l02 building lots were Sold at 81.
253.
On Monday the barn on the Casey farm. in
Kent county, was burned, together with $50
bushels of corn and implements.
Thomas Price, colored, aged 81 years. Of
Kent county, committed suicide on Sunday
because he had TOO many wives.
Joseph Phipps, on the Hampton estate,
near Towson, Baltimore county, will make
speciality of Berkshire hogs and has buili a
$500 og-house.
Gottlieb Schneider, formerly of Howard
county, and who recently shot and killed a
man IN the klondlke, has written letter to
a friend, stating that he has been acquitted.
John Davis, who had been in the employ
of the old rolling mill at Mt. Savage, Allega-
ny county, since 1876. died on Monday. In
Strengthening rails he used Il 96 pound sledse.
Jacob Taylor's woods in the 18th district
of Baltimore county we're set on hre by some
hunters on Tuesday, and about 1000 acres
were burned over. Telephone and telegraph
poles were destroyed, and the electric road TO
Sparrow's Point was damaged.
George II. Moore, aged y years, died in
Caroline county Oh Saturday. lie had been
elected chief judge of the Orphans, Court for
FIVE terms and had been Register of Wills
also. He was said to have been the best teS-
t,,,, IN, ba In politirS he
Il Democrat.
AT Ellicott City, OH Monday, Joseph Amer
lea, colored, was convicted on Monday, by
jury of murder in the first degree for shooting
and killing Isaiah Nelson, colored, at Il cake
walk last December, near Glenwood, Howard
county, He has been sentenced to death by
hanging, though it may be changed to lmprlS-
onment for life.
Thomas Wallace Warfeld died at his resi-.
dence, in EaSton, on Saturday morning, Of
Bright's disease, aged sixty five years. He
was the eldest son of John Davidge Warfeld
and was born on the homestead of his ances-
tors, near Poplar Springs, Howard county.
He came from an old and prominent family.
which numbers in its connections many Of the
older families of Howard and Baltimore
counties.
Tuesday, Baltimore papers contained au-
merous assault and disorderly cases by ne
groes the day previous. One man threw his
wife out of third story window; another used
razor, and others were free in pistol -four
ishing. Snatchng of pocket books from la
dies while passing along the street is another
amusement INDUCED in by negro men. Two
work together; they jostle lady and when
her attention is withdrawn the book is taken.
In his charge to the Allegany grand jury,
on Monday, Judge Sloan called attention to
the statute prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and tobacco to minors under the age Of fit
teen years, and said ''Not many terms ago
4 certain young man was brought here upon
petition alleging insanity and the testimony
showed that his trouble came from the exces-
sive use of cigarettes. You will, therefore,
in your investigations, look into this matter,
as we'll as others.
Dir. William Henry DeCourcy, of Queen
Anne's county, who has given large share
of his attention for several years to the i'm
porting and rearing of Hereford cattle and
Shropshire Down sheep, recently received
from the state of Wyoming request for six
carloads of young COWS and heifers of his
stock. The doctor states that such large
order is beyond his present ability to fill.
While his stock has become famous for its
excellence and purity Of breed, the doctor
has never raised sufficient numbers to meet
SO extensive an order. He has devoted his
attention more towards the quality than the
quantity of his animals Six carloads of cat
tie would require rather large herd to meet
the demand, and that supply the doctor is
nprepared to meet Just at this time. For
that reason he was forced to decline the con-
tr, CT, Cheston- Upon-Wye, as the farm is
called, has been in the family since 1912, the
ancestors coming from ireland.
\ terrible windstorm struck W esternport,
AlIegany county, Satu rday evening, doing
much damage. A porch roof and half of the
root of l.. +. Shuts house was ripped off and
blown a long distance. A stable, several
outhouses and fencing belonging to Josiah
Singler were entirely demolished Part of
the roof on White, Gleesen L Co.'S foundry
was torn off, as also was part of the roof on
Robert Dayton's house, occupied by Louis
Holland. A large poplar tree was blown on
the house Of William Maloy, a large hole was
crushed in the house and half of the roof was
torn away. Maloy's little boy was in the coal
house under the tree, but was not hurt.
Fences, stables, eutbuildings, &C.. were up
set, crushed and blown away promiscuously
The rain which followed did considerable
damage to the roofess houses. Many valua-
bic fruit trees were torn up. No fatalities
occurred.