The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-01-21
Maryland A fairs.

Ex-Sherih Charles H. Holmes, of Bal
timore county, died on Sunday, aged 60
years.
Truckers on the Eastern Shore have
contracted for tomatoes this year at from
$3.50 to 81 per ton.
A New York party has bought the
Liberty, Frederick county, copper mines
and have begun work.
1t is said that about two-thirds of the
Maryland coal has been mined. Fully
1000 men are employed in the mines.
Nicholas Bosley Merryman, hay and
feed merchant, Baltimore, died on Mon
day, aged 40 years. He was native Of
Cockeysville.
By extending the present electric road
eight miles Frederick and Hagerstown can
be connected. Douglass Bros, of Millers
town, Pa, will commence work as soon as
possible on the extension.
Diphtheria has broken out among the
scholars of the public school at St. Denis.
Baltimore county There have been 10
cases and 4 deaths out of total attendance
of so. The school has been closed.
Major Bratten, colored, is in Worcester
county jail for attempting TO assault Miss
SalEe E. Parsons, aged 10 She fought
desperately and screamed, attracting help.
Bratten confessed and said he was glad to
be in jail.
James Franklin Abel, aged a. years.
died in Leonardtown on Saturday last. He
was the father of Enoch B. Abel, clerk
of the circuit court of St Mary's county
was active in church and county affairs and
leaves large estate.
Rev. Henry p F. King retired NJ. p.
clergyman, was buried at Beltsville, Prince
Georges county, on Saturday. He en-
tered the West Virginia conference in
1852; leaves a widow aged so. who i ILL.,
and several children.
Mary Jane Sic, one of the SIX members
of the coiored kiah family made i'll in
Cambridge, Dorchester county, last week.
by eating poisoned oyster fritters, died, and
Martha Bailey, colored, has been arrested
10 Baltimore on suspicion.
Clarence Sterne, of Williamsport, com
mitted suicide at Topeka, Kansas, last
week. He had been i'll from the grip for
several weeks, became respondent and
killed himself with pistol in the residence
of his sister who he was visiting.
Eugene Higgins, 4 well-known Demo
cratic politician of Baltimore, died on the
18th instant, aged 81 years. He Wa a
friend to all, had no enemies, aud Of late
years was an earnest member Of the Cath
ole church His reputation as an organ
izer was national.
The Stiekney Iron Company, Of Bait
more, has been ordered to close their tin
plate mill by the trust. They put out
Is, 900 boxes weekly, at So 90 per box,
paid So, 900 in wages per month, and l2o
skilled mechanics were employed, who are
now without work.
Miss Anna Mary Hoke Sehley. aged -
years, daughter of the late Col William
Louis Schley, of Baltimore, and second
cousin of Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley. of the United States Navy, com
mitted suicide while mentally deranged
Sunday BY shooting herself at her home,
III West Saratoga street.
On Saturday last, during the severe wind
storm. W. A. Smith, Of Piedmont, W
Va, Baltimore and Ohio brakeman, was
blown from his train with car roof, which
was torn off by the wind, at Evetts creek
near Cumberland The train was running
30 miles an hour Smith fen about 40
feet, with the car roof on him. His in
juries are fatal.
George Chevalier, aged 81 years, while
engaged in painting Corinthian column at
the country residence Of Col Calvin r
Mutt, near Frederick city, fell from the
scaffolding ON Monday and broke his back
He fell about 80 feet The tenth and
eleventh dorsal vertebrae were broken aud
he was paralyzed from the hips down
The physicians entertain but slight hopes
of his recovery. He lives at Gainesville,
v Y, and has an invalid wife and three
children there.