The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-02-19
MARYLAND Affairs.

The town of Easton has on its books So, 500
uncollected taxes:
Mrs. Sarah Burke, aged 90 years, died ii
Baltimore on Sunday.
Miss Jane Peoples, aged 81 years, died IL
Port Deposit on the 18th instant.
The Chesapeake canal is being put in re-
pair, and the water will be turned in about
March |.
James |. Ground, of Bissell, Washington
county, has almanacs for every year from
1877 to 1898
Mrs. Elizabeth Marsh. an inmate OF the
Church Home, Baltimore. was 80 years old
on Monday last
Hog cholera is prevailing at Woodstock and
vicinity, Howard county. One farmer has
lost 30 from the disease.
Miss Margaret Hart, aged 81 years, died at
the residence of her nephew, DIR. Steiner,
in Frederick, from paralysis on Sunday.
The Maryland silk mill at Hagerstown, will
soon be enlarged, and the plant of Collinge,
Nolan 4 Co.. Paterson, n. j., will be re.
moved to HagerstOwn.
At Cumberland on Sunday Bishop Paret
confirmed AZ persons, and on the same day,
in Baltimore. Cardinal Gibbons confirmed
2O3 at St. Wenceslaus church.
Hold ups by negroes are becoming quite
frequent IN Baltimore and vicinity, and 1t Is
becoming unsafe to move about i'll the even
ings unless several are together.
The muddy condition of the roads and
sickness, in Baltimore county, materially IN
terfere with the attendance Of children upon
the public schools i'll the county.
The merchants of Elkton are greatly an
moved over the circulation of so many coun
terfeit silver dollars. The banks report a
large amount of this money in circulation.
VIM. b. Jones, died on Tuesday aged 50
years. He was president of the Broadway
Savings Bank, and for many years was prom
inent in East Baltimore business and social
circles.
Mrs. Elizabeth p, widow of the late Jacob
Minnick, died on the 9Th instant, in Hartford
county, in her goth year. She leaves chill
dren, SO grandchildren, 60great grandchildren
and great great grandchildren.
Rev. Adam Baker. who died last week in
Washington county, at Shady Grove, leaves
81 900 to the Antietam Dunkard Church, at
Shady Grove. and 81 600 to the Falling Spring
Dunkard Church.
The steamer Ericsson of the Baltimore and
Philadelphia line sunk in Delaware river
near Wilmington, Delaware, during the storm
ofWednesday. Passengers and crew, except
one man were rescued
ID. Henry RoutZahn. aged 81 years, il well
known farmer Of Mount Pleasant district,
Frederick county, died at his home on Friday
night of last week, from the effects of il stroke
of paralysis which he received on Sunda y
previous
VIM. Henry Stickney, who died in Chicago
l., % po1t lnin
born in 1909. He went West in early life
and was il resident of Carmi. Illinois, Cincin
natl, and of Chicago for over 80 years.
Good roads meetings have been held ii
several counties, recently, which it is hoped
will have good results. If properly drained,
and not used when the frost is coming out
they will remain good.
James Templetol aged 80 years, of vii
Transport died in Baltimore on Monday
night. Heswent to that city to visit hi
mother who has been i'll; leaving her he called
on friend and was scarcely in the house be
fore death ensued.
Fletcher Jennings, colored, an inmate o
Anne Arundel county Jail, was about to be
released on Tuesday, where he had been con.
hned tor sometime as slightly insane, when
he set upon the jailer, and but for timely as
sistance he would have killed him.
A block OF marble weighing 600 pounds
fell as it was being hoisted into place on the
courthouse in Baltimore on Saturday. II
crashed through to the basement and narrow
~ missed Arthur A. Thompson, a marble
cutter. In the engine-room it slightly de-
ranged some of the machinery.
Judge Staae. at Hagerstown, on Monday
was particularly severe upon the condition OF
the streets and alleys of that city, and ordered
the grand jury 10 thoroughly investigate them
and also to have removed all the old BALD
ings, stables. &C., which were nothing more
than fire traps.
The funeral ofSamuel Thompson who dice
ON Wednesday of last week in his 93d year,
and who was among the last Survivors OF Il
company of influential men who more than /;
century ago made Bethel Methodist Episcopal
Church noticeable centre of Cecil Method
ism. took place on Saturday afternoon and
was largely attended.
At TempleviIle, Queen Annes county, on
| Thursday of last week, VIM. A. Thomas,
colored. asked for IL settlement, and claimed
more than he received from his employer,
w. \. Clough. Thomas went to a wood pile
seized an axe and started to enforce payment.
Clough seized Il gun and stopped the negro
advance by firing magistrate sentenced
the negro to two months to the House OF
! Correction. .-.
Mrs. Josephine O. Donnell Lee, widow of
the late Thomas S. Lee, died in Baltimore OIL
Monday, aged IS years. Mrs. Lee was the
second daughter of Gen. Thomas O'Donnell
OF Baltimore, and was connected with prom,
iment families. Her sisters were Mrs Emily
Hillen, of Baltimore, and Mrs. Adrian Iselin,
of New York, who died Il few weeks ago
Her brothers were Messrs. Oliver and Column
bus O'Donnell, of Baltimore. She leaves
three sons, Charles O'Donnell Lee, DIR. VIM
Lee and Columbus O'Donnell Lee. Her
daughter, Miss Mary Lee, now dead, was the
wife of Harper Carroll, of Howard coun
ty, brother of ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll.
On Sunday last, about Il. ~. the barn
and crib on the farm of VIM. S. B. Preston
Hartford county, was burned. with 81 cattle,
horses and Il pair of mules. Of the cattle
II were milch COWS, all deep in the Jersey
blood. and number of them ll-bloods, the
herd being very valuable. Besides the ami
mails the barn contained farming implements
| hay fodder, grain and ground feed, harness,
&c. One hundred barrels of corn were lost
in the burning of the courthouse. The barn
was modern in all its appointments and was
fitted with stationary watering tanks. and ha(
running water in all its stables. The tota
loss will reach upward of $4,000. of whicl
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