The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-07-15
MARYLAND Affairs.

the same day, in Baltimore, Mrs. Jane
Shearer, aged SO years, died.
A great difference is reported in the
wheat crop in Cecil county, one farmer re-
porting as low as four bushels to the acre,
and others range as high as thirty-one.
The Public School Savings Bank of
Talbot county has declared four per cent.
dividend for the benefit of its deposltors.
This is the second dividend since its ex-
istence.
VIM. Twilley, aged IS years, one OF
the best-known residents of Wlcomlco
county. died on the 9th instant. lie had
been sheriff and was prominent IN Demo
cratic politics.
A new worm is devastating tobacco
plants in Southern Maryland. One farmer
used 40, 900 plants before he could get a
stand of IS, 600 hills. Another lost over
40, 900 plants after being set.
Carey Chambers, colored, was shot on
Sunday night, in Baltimore, while resisting
arrest. A crowd jumped on the officer,
beat him and tried to take the prisoner
from him. and he did the shooting IN self
defense.
Following are some of the wheat yields
reported in Dorchester county q. ).
Martin. 3OJ bushels to the acre; James
Wallace, 273; NJ l.. Rosk, 30; Thomas
Vickers, 80; VIM. Radcliffe, 80; and ..
Greenwell, 81 bushels.
Tn Cecil county, last Saturday evening
the barn on the farm of John r. Evans,
near Port Deposit, was struck by lighting
and burned. together with this season :
crops, machinery, &c, The storm was
very severe.
A number of churches, residences and
barns were damaged by lightning IN Caro-
line county on the Sth instant, aud several
persons were severely stunned. In Talbot
county the corn was beaten down and
many fields flooded. In Kent county
much damage was done~
The syndicate, or company, which re
Gently purchased the plant Of the pulp mill
plant at Harper Ferry have on foot
scheme to generate electricity and trans
NIT the same to Charlestown Alartinsburs,
Frederick. Brunswick and other places Tor
light aud power purposes.
Armistead Taylor, colored, was con
yicted of murder in the first degree at
Frederick Thursday of last week for kill
inc Mrs. Dora Rosenstein in Montgomery
county. on May II last, and also for kill
ing officer Fritz in Georgetown, y. &,
some weeks later while trying to arrest
him. Chief Judge MeSherry sentenced
him to be hung.
Joseph Franklin Bateman, attorney a.
law. aged At, shot himself in the region OF
the heart Friday night Of last week IN
Easton, Talbot county, in his office
and died from lhe wound Mr.. Bate
man had been suffering for some days
and had been kept in his room with an
acute attack Of dysentery. II Is believed
that the physical trouble brought on nerv-
Gus depression, ending in temporary men
tai alteration. and that this led to an IRE
spons;5le suicide. Mr. Batemau was the
son of the late Col Henry Z. Bateman.
Miss G. Ewardine, daughter Of Judge
J. Parran Crane. Of St Mary's county,
on last Sunday morning, was robbed BY an
unknown man at Woodstock, Virginia,
where she is visiting. She had returned
from church and went to the backyard 70
procure some water. The pump Is sur
rounded by lattice work, and as she stepped
inside of it she was seized By a man who
wrenehed three rings from her hand.
One of the rings was an heirloom and
was highly priced She fought desper-
ately but the man succeeded in securing
the rings. but in his flight dropped the
heirloom and class ring. which were sub
sequently found Beyond a severe fright
the young lady was not injured.
Tim Bone shot at his brother-in-law,
Thomas jenkins, in the store of the latter.
in Frostburg, late last Saturday night
Jenkins struck the hand in which Bone
held the pistol, and the bullet went wild.
The assault was made on the alleged bad
treatment Of jenkins wife, who Is Bone 5
sister. An officer arrested Bone, who was
committed TO the lookup, from where he
will be committed to the Cumberland Jail
till October, when he viii be tried. Some
time after Bone was placed in the lock up
two shots were fired into the prison, the
bullets striking the bars Of his cell. len
kins was driven away from near the lock
ND. where he was making threats against
the life of Bone Sunday morning.
The Chestertown Kent county, Tran
script, in speaking of the recent wheat
crop in that county, gives the following re
ports Cornelius Haddaway, Of Quaker
Neck, got 40 bushels from bushels
seeding of Eclipse wheat His total crop
was 1900 bushels or about 400 bushels
more than he expected. Albert Price, on
the VIM. Knight farm, Is reported as hay
ing gotten an average of 32A bushels on
40 acres of corn ground. w Tilden
Brice threshed 800 bushels more than he
expected. Spencer Comegys got gen
eral average of 80 bushels per acre on his
corn ground and fallow seeding. DOC
William Cooper, living on the h. d. Hyn
son farm in Worten, is one Of the peculiar
" fortunate farmers of the county. He
raised j, 700 bushels Of wheat from l75
acres. and has an estimated crop Of 1000
packages of peaches on 500 trees.
Earl Shippers, the II year-old son Of
John H. Shippers, prominent merchant
of Chestertown, was instantly killed by
lightning last Saturday afternoon. Young
Shippers, with two companions, was bath
ing in Chester River, at the wharf Of the
Chester River Steamboat Company, Dis
tant thunder had been heard for some
time, but was in no way severe. The
Young bather had climbed to the top Of a
pile and had hands clasped ready for
dive, when he was struck and fell back on
the wharf dead His face was discolored
and his bathing suit was perforated by the
deadly current A man and four horses
standing less than twenty feet FROM the
pile on which the unfortunate young man
stood were but slightly affected. In about
two minutes after the first bolt another
came which was felt by fully twenty per
sons. The current followed the electric
light wires over great portion Of the
lower part of town before expanding its
force, converters were burned out and the