The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-09
Maryland Affairs.

Washington county court seems to be doing
n landofice business in the granting OF Ill
vorces
George Watts, aged % years, was drowned
while bathing in the Monocacy near Ceres
vile, Frederick county, on Monday. he
leaves wife and two children.
Mary Adams, aged nine, colored, daughter
of Ida Beamer, of Hagerstown, was fatally,
burned Monday afternoon. She attempted
to light firecracker and her dress caught.
collision between two freight trains oc-
Cured at Smithsburg, on the Western mary
land Railroad, Tuesday afternoon. Engineer
John Garner. of Hagerstown, OF the east
bound train, was hurt about the head.
Major Philip H. Ellis, who was in command
| of the Thirteenth United States Infantry, and
who was wounded in the battle before Sanu-
90 last week, is a native of Cecil county, being
q son of the late Francis Asbury Ellis: Dr;
| Charles NJ. Ellis, of Elkton, is brother Oh
Major Ellis.
Calhoun B. Ray, who is charged with n, at
tempting to burn the Baltimore ana on!9
station at Ellicott City, and who IS also salu
| IN have made an alleged confession III the
lyncLing of Jacob Henson, colored, three
wears ago. is in jail Detective Mlchael
| Reardon, of the Baltimore and ONO secret
service, apprehended Ray Monday at Mar
tinsburg, W. Va
On Tuesday sparks from a passing locomo-
tive set fire to 2O-acre field OF wheat on the
farm of Luther Rhodes, near Clear Spring
Washington county, and the whole field was
swant by the flames, entailing loss of several
hundred dollars. A 30-acre field OF wheat
owned by Frank W. Mish was also burned.
! Two hundred shocks of wheat on Victor Mel,
kinks farm. near Wiliamsport, was destroyed
by fire.
William Gallinger and Gus Doughty, both
| of Leicester, Howard county, have been ar
rested charged with assauting Joseph Cavey
and seriously cutting him on Saturday night
last. Gallinger and Doughty and other men,
If is said. encountered Cavey and his brother,
William Cavey, who sought to protect Wll-
liam Keith in an assault by them. Joseph
Cavey. who received moro than twenty gashes
with a knife, is in serious condition.
Sparks from passing engine set fire to
wheat fields on the farm OF COL Charles +.
Trail, at Frederick Junction, on Monday,
destroying 800 shocks ofwheat, 20 ions OF hay
and l29 panels of fence. Sparks from the
same engine lgnited several shocks on the
farm of Col. George Clines, which spread
RAPIDLY. destroying 239 shocks and l49 panels
of fence. On Saturday afternoon last sparks
from passing engine destroyed about ten
acres of wheat and quantity Of fencing on
the farm of Bruce Ogle, in the same neigh
borhood.
Crops of all kinds in Frederick county have
been greatly injured by the long drouth. The
brief rain of Monday gave little relief.
The corn. which few weeks ago promised II
fine crop, is drying up. Harvesting is over
and the wheat is found to be even worse than
was thought before it was cut. The damage
done by the fly was great, destroying IN some
sections as much as half the crop, besides
damaging the quality of the wheat left.
| Threshing is now going on, but very little
wheat has been sold.
Much damage was done in Cecil county by
the storm on Monday. In some parts of the
county the roads were badly washed and sew
eral bridges were washed away. The barn OF
Aaron j. Kitchener, near Colora, was struck
by lightning, but only slightly damaged. In
the first district lightning killed Miss Belle
Etherington, of Baltimore, and four head OF
horses. Miss Etherington is a sister of VIM.
T. Etherington. She was sitting by an open
window sewing and with her in the room were
three or four children. The lightning struck
a nearby tree and, glancing off, struck Miss
Etherington, killing her almost instantly.
The children were not injured.
State Senator William B. Clagett, of Prince
George county, mas Deen appointed TIC
Maryland member of the Democratic Con
gressiOnal Campaign Committee. This com
mittee is composed of Senators and Repre-
sentatives, but in cases where State has no
Democrat in the National Legislature re-
preventative man is chosen from the State SO
situated Senator German, the only Demo.
crat in either House from Maryland, is a
member ofthe National Committee. Senator
Clagett is one of the best known Democrats
in Sounthen Maryland and was elected in
1897 to the State Senate. He lives near Up,
per Marlboro,
At Cumberland, Mortimer, aged 10, roller
in the Cumberland Tin-Plate Mill, and son OF
Martin O'Laughling, committed suicide in a
clump of shrubbery near the mill late Monday
night by shooting himself through the right
breast George H. Weibel, ayoung compan-
ion, who was present. said that O'Laughlir
told him, II love you" at the same time
drawing revolver, which he placed against
his forehead Weibel told him not to do that
when he placed the weapon against his right
breast and fired, ran about twenty feet and fell
dead. O'Laughlin is said to have made 81 q
day in the mill, being an expert. The loss OF
all his money in some game, it is stated
caused him TO become respondent.