The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-10-14
Maryland Affairs.

The Catoctin furnace property IN FRED
erick county has been purchased by the
Blue Mountain Iron and Steel Company,
of Baltimore.
! Monroe Heiskell, formerly of Baltl-
more, died in New York city, on Sunday
last. after long illness. He was fire
marshal of Baltimore in 1882.
Hagerstown Electric Light Company
has purchased the gas works and will run
both plants. There had been eonslder-
able competition be the two companies.
Some of the gas stock, par $50, sold as
high as $50 per share.
John Satterfeld, aged 50 years, died
in Easton. Talbot county on Saturday last.
Mr.. Satterfeld was one OF the founders o.
the Methodist Protestant Church III kas-
ton when it split off from the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and maintained his re
lat;ous TO that body as long as he hyed.
Some wears ago he sent this message to MS
friend. Rev. DIR. Lawrence Bates, at con
ference ssTell Brother Bates am still
a Methodist Protestant and a Democrat,
and the Doctor read the message to the
conference.
Captain McHenry, while working at the !.
new Wishard storage house, in course OF
erection. in Hagerstown, on Saturday last
was accidentally hoisted in the ar 70 the
third story, head downward, by his les
catching in a tub full Of bricks, which was
being drawn from the ground up to the
top of the building by a horse hitched to
pulIey. The tub turned while he hung IN
his perilous position in the air and spilled
the bricks over him. but his legs still Kept
fastened to the tub. A workman with
presence of mind stopped and backed the
horse. and Captain McHenry was saved
though he was greatly bruised.
John ]. Moan, 2s years old, was killed
Sunday at st. Helena, on the SParroT,s
Point branch Of the Northern Central kali-
wav. Baltimore county. Thomas Maley.
who is in custody at the Canton poiice
station. admits killing Moan by hitting hlm
on the back of the head with broken
railroad coupling pin. Both men we're
EMPLOYED by the Maryland Steel Company
at Snarrows Point. Maley was gate
Waterman at the marine department and
Moan had work in the same department
Moan boarded with Maley and was too
intimate with his wife.
A twenty-one-months old boy OF Mrs,
David Burns, $50 North Calvert street
Baltimore. was severely burned IN q mys-
terious manner during the Temporary ao-
senee Of its mother on Monday q last
week. The nature Of the wounds looSs
as ;f the child had been set upon a hot
stove. Two women who were at the house
Mt the time have been arrested. The child
was CRYING and ledger in the house heard
one of the women say If it does not stop
CRYING I'll give it something 70 cry Tor
Mrs JuIa Brannan and Miss Kate Brady,
the sisters, who were arrested Friday
night on the charge we're held for court.
Among the deaths last week in st. Mi
chaers, Talbot county, was that OF Mrs
Nicholas Banning. eolored, who died OIL
paralysis, aged 81 years She was the
daughter Of Peter Mitchell, most respect
able colored family, who, IN the old days.
belonged to the Hambletons, Of Perry
Cabin, who were United States naval
officers. and were trusted by their masters
and mistresses to an unlimited extent-a
trust that was never betrayed IN the
slightest degree BY any member Of the
Mitchell family Even when slaves their
credit was as good as anybody among
the merchants of st. Miehaels. The last
of the Perry Cabin Hambleton race, Pay
master John Needles Hambeton, enamel
pated them, and in his will, about 1862,
left them-that Is, all the Mitchells-
money enough to establish homes for
themselves. The one now dead had the
respect and confidence of the white people
on account of her quiet demeanor and
Christian life. She was niece Of the
late Frederick DOUGLASS, who always took
much interest IN the Mitchell people and
used to visit them.