The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
MARYLAND Affairs.
Truck farmers in Montgomery eotinty are
heavy losers owing to the drought


norris from 80 to 32 bushels of wheat per
acre.
Edward j. Hudson, baker Of Freder-
lex CITY. has been held in $500 bail Tor
court. charged with wife beating
Incendiaries are at work in Hagerstown.
On Sunday stable was burned, which had
been fired several times previously.
Mrs. VIM. Buck, of Fremont avenue,
Baltimore, was burned to death on Mon
day by the explosion OF gasoline stove
The wheat crop in Baltimore county as
far as threshed is yielding only from to
II bushels per acre, in some cases hardly
paying for the threshing.
An insect called the wheelbug has ap-
peared in Cavetown, Washington county,
peach orchards. 1t feeds on caterpillars,
plant lice, ETC., and is a great friend to
peach raisers.
w. j. Hayes & Son, of Boston, have
taken the S37, 900 Anne Arundel public
school bonds at $110.65. A number OF
brokers offered from S1O9 to $112.50 for
part of the loan, but the Boston firm paid
the above sum for the bonds, which run
for 10, Is and 90 years.
Seven large stacks of wheat and the hay
from 20 acres of land was burned by an
incendiary on the farm of Norman T.
South, in Washington county, on Thurs
day of last week. Rain the night previous
prevented the burning of the buildings.
A trail of hay saturated with coal oil, led
from stack to stack.
John Partridge, aged SO years, died in
Elkton, Cecil county, on Friday OF last
week. after Il short illness. He was
native of Baltimore and was related to the
Hollingsworth and Gilpin families, and was
grandson of COL Henry Hollingsworth
of Revolutionary fame He was man OF
affairs and was actively engaged in business
until his last sickness.
The June drop that affects peach trees
is over, and has left the trees in Delaware
and the Eastern Shore in very bad con-
dition. The drop was the longest ever
known, and it has caused an almost total
failure of the crop. The estimate few
weeks ago was over $50, 900 baskets for
the peninsula. |. n. Mills, special agent
of the Delaware Railroad, has just com
pleted trip through the peninsula, IN
specting the orchards, and states there will
not be so, 600 baskets Of peaches sent from
the peninsula this year.
j. Hough Cottman, Jr., Of Baltimore,
who was found early Friday morning Of
last week, in semi unconscious condition
along the Reistertown road, near Garrison
Station, on the Green Spring Branch of
the Northern Central Road, and short
distance from the Baltimore and Northern
Electric Railway, died early Saturday
morning at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
His skull was fractured and his face was
bleeding. Mr. Cottman was one of the
most popular men in the younger social set,
and his death from mysterious violence was
quite shock to his numerous friends
Sampson Harmon, the original of the
leading character in George Alfred Town
sends novel, 1.-The Entailed Hat, died
near Snow Hill on Saturday. He claimed
to be 119 years old, and the oldest inhab
itants of Worcester agree that he was over
a1OO. Sampson had an iron constitution
He was swift of foot and delighted to run
down rabbits until he was so years old
He could outrun most dogs, and many
years ago led pack of hounds in a deer
chase. His bed was Il cot with a wide
board for the bottom, and it is said that he
used It so often as reclining place that
his entire figure was worn in it so as to be
visible
Robert A. Warren, prominent Cecil
county farmer, was instantly killed on the
public road leading into Earleville, on the
18th instant, by falling into the gearing of
a traction engine. He was in charge of
the engine, which was proceeding slowly
along the road, and was placing coal in the
fire box, when his clothing was caught in
one of the wheels, which in revolving car
ried him in its grasp until he was forced
between the large wheel and the cog wheel.
Before the engine could be slowed down
his skull was crushed and almost every
bone in his body broken, including both
legs. He was 40 years of age and resided
at Earleville with his wife and one child
While descending what is known as the
Tollgate Hill, near Hancock, Washington
county, with the four team of j.
Taliaferro Bridges with a load of crossties
the rubber broke, causing the horses to
scare and take to wild flight down the steep
declivity. Patrick Williams, colored, the
driver, was standing on the rubber block
and was hurled from the wagon, which
passed over him, breaking his leg in two
places, the bone protruding through the
flesh Several of his toes were cut off by
the edge Of a crosstie. His fve-year old
son was seated on the top of the wagon,
which overturned twice, but the boy es-
capped without scratch. The horses were
considerably cut and bruised.
Joshua Miller, aged II years, was muir
dered in his residence in Northeast, Cecil
county, on Wednesday night of last week
He was bachelor, and was a sober and
Industrious man. and was supposed to have
accumulated large sum of money. Not
making his appearance on Thursday or
Friday some of his neighbors forced the
door open and found him dead in bed, and
a Ratchet lying on the floor. His head
was found to be terribly hacked, and his
skull crushed. George P. Hardgraves, a
notorious character, was arrested and is in
Jail on suspicion. On Thursday Hard
graves paid several bills and was seen with
a roll of notes, something unusual for him
to have.
The roundup Farmers Institute, here
tofore announced in these columns, will be
held at the Maryland Agricultural College
August oath, 18th and Goth. 1t is hoped
to make this the largest gathering of rep
resentative farmers that has ever assembled
in Maryland to inform themselves what our