The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-04-15
Maryland Affairs.

Oil and gasline stoves are already get
ting in their work.
Mary Feathers, aged 81 years, died IN
Baltimore on the 18th instant.
Sneak thieves are at work in Hagers-
town. and several residences have been
looted
Sophia Weinstein, aged years, was
accidently burned to death in Baltimore
on Monday.
Cecil county agricultural society has
been reorganized and DIR. Charles NJ. Ellis
elected president.
Smallpox seems to be on the increase in
Baltimore, and the health authorities have
ordered thorough vaccination.
Judge Sloan will not discharge the Gar
rett county grand jury, intending to hold
it until the next term.
The first Goldfish ever caught in Mary
land waters was taken in Tangler sound
last week. 1t weighed Il pounds.
While sitting at the breakfast table with
his family, Jacob Ridenour, near Hagers-
town, aged IS years, died suddenly Sun
day.
After being closed for six year 5 the
Mccullough iron works, at Northeast,
Cecil county, have started with full force
of hands. The Kaolin works near the
same place are working night and day.
VIM. Dovel, of Hagerstown, while re-
turning from visit to friend on Sunday
night, was ''held up by three masked
men. one of whom said 'Will, don be
scared, we only want your dough, and
then relieved him of s37. 80.
The AIegany Orchard Company, who
have extensive orchards near the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, between Cum
berland and Paw Paw, have nearly all
their trees killed by the frost, the total
loss estimated at nearly $50, GOO.
Washington Bonifant, aged 80 years,
died near Sligo, Montgomery county, on
Saturday last from paralysis. He was
United States Marshal for the State for
several years, being first appointed BY
President Lincoln.
A big sale of timber land has been made
in Garrett county to Joseph ). Bayard, Of
Harrisburg, Pa The tract Is known a.
Cheviot Dale, containing ), 900 acres, near
the town of Bittinger. The price was
S22, 900. The purchaser viii erect a
large lumber plant and narrow gauge
road will connect it with the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad
The following persons made application
for the benefit of the bankrupt law -
Samuel S. Slime, farmer OF Rohrersville,
Washington county. Liabilities $500 and
assets $50. Walter R. Kendall, farmer
near Rock Hall, Kent county. Liabilities
are 81 ,236. a and assets nothing. /.
Henry Hall, farmer and oyster planter
Of Marion Station, Somerset county Ii
abilities SO. 7SS OF and no assets.
The muskrat season in Dorchester closed
April /. 1t is estimated that more than
$50, 900 muskrat hides have been sold,
which. with the meat, would make the
muskrat catch Of Dorchester worth over
$50, 600 to the people Of that county.
jesse B. Wall, of Bestpitch Ferry, re
ceived Sc. 500 for the hides sold by him.
Ed. Wiley, Sam Smith and Lee Seward
of Bucktown, have also sold a considerable
number.
Mrs. Annie f. r. Bennett, widow Of
the late George Bennett. merchant, and
largely interested in the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal, of Chesapeake City, Ceeil
county, died Sunday morning at her home
after prolonged illness, aged 6S years.
She suffered a paralytie stroke three years
ago and had been in poor health ever since
Her death was not unexpected She was
daughter of the late Noble Biddle and a
sister to Noble T Biddle, Of San Jose, Cal.
Philip H. Jones, president of the Cal
vert county commissioners. brought to
Prince Frederick on the 9TH instant parts
of the yertebra Of a whale, which he Sc
cured from an excavation on the line Of the
Chesapeake Beach Railroad through his
farm. in the third district Of Calvert coun-
ty 1t is a section of complete yertebra
eight feet long Of monster Of the deep
taken from the earth forty feet below the
surface The joint Is three inches in
length and two and half in diameter aud
is in an excellent state Of preservation
Geological students could doubtless find
much of interest along the entire line of
the railroad through Calvert county. The
excavations have brought 10 view extensive
vertebra and molluscan fossils, whale :
bones, sharks teeth and bivalves, splen-
didy preserved in many instances. Much
of the remains has, however, developed
into mari, which is used as a fertilizer,
proving an excellent renoyator of worn-out
soil.
John Henry Cramer aged 81 years, a
retired farmer. Of Walkersville. Frederick
county, went away from his home on Thurs
day morning of last week and as yet moth
ing has been heard from him After eat
ing breakfast he walked to the PenUyl-
vania depot at Walkersville and purchased
ticket for Bruceville In Bruceyille be
bought another ticket over the same road
for Harrisburg, Pa. He left the car at
York, Pa. to make connections for Har-
risburg, but since then there has been no
trace of him. His son, Harry NJ Camer,
went in search Of him Thursday evening
He returned Monday, after travelling
through several cities in Pennsylvania
without obtaining any clue to his where
abouts Mr.. Cramer has been a great
sufferer from rheumatic troubles for seve-
raj years, and it is said that he sustained
partial stroke of paralysis some months
ago. He owns large farm in Mt. Plea
SAINT district and property in Walkersyille
He retired from active work about ten
years ago and no cause can be assigned for
his disappearance.
The entire property of the Susquehanna
Water Power and Paper Company, sit
uated near Berkley Hartford county, has
been sold for 1926, 500 The purchasers
were Messrs Fl. H. Haines, president Of
the Rising Sun National Bank of Cecil
county; j. Murray Welsh, who has Of
late leased and run the property and Sam
uel Mason, of Philadelphia, brother-in-law
of j. c. Smith, manager of the property
for quite a time, and who will continue in
his present position. The purchasers will
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