The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-08-05
Maryland Affairs.

an advance. IL Is 10 De Hopeu lndl SlIlhe
may be averted.
Charles W. Street, of Delight, Balti-
more county, has made crop of wheat
averaging forty-tw bushels to the acre.
A Philadelphia, Pa, sign painter,
named Wilson, died at Paramount, Som
erset county, Monday from drinking pare
goric and other drugs.
Mrs. Anna Horine's barn and contents,
near jefferson, Frederick county, was
burned Sunday night. Fortunately the
live stock were at pasture,
Frank B. Mayer, the celebrated artist
died in Annapolis, on the 28th ultimo.
He was one of the most prominent land
scape and figure painters of this day. He
was ~ years old and was equally as noted
in Europe as in this country.
The st. James Hotel. Charles and Cen
streets, Baltimore, was much damaged
bykre early Sunday morning. The hotel
has been closed for the past two weeks
undergoing repairs caused by fire on July
8. The building was in the care OF VIM.
Waldman, Waterman. 1t Is not known
how the fire originated.
+. B. Kirkwood, secretary of the Mary
land State Game and Fish Protective As
ISOLATION says he is now assured, from his
correspondence, that there will be as
many partridges in Maryland this year as
there were two years ago There has been
an absence of cold rain and other causes to
kill off the young birds.
Farmers along the Northern Central
Railway, north of Lutherville, are being
greatly ANNOYED by the depredations Of a
gang of young thieves from Woodberry
who come up on the freight traias and
steal their chickens, new potatoes corn
and other vegetables. One of the gang
was arrested, and is now in jail at Towson.
In Baltimore on Sunday Rev. A. b.
Calls. pastor of Macedonia Colored Baptist
Church, Saratoga and Vincent streets, in
his sermon said The four men who
we're hanged Friday had fair and impair
tial trial. and, therefore, ought to have
paid the penalty. | commend the judge
and Governor for their faithfulness to law
and evidence. Several other eolored
ministers used simular language.
George W. Hill, a grocer Of Baltimore,
packed valise on Saturday afternoon last,
gave the keys of the store to his clerk and
said he was going to visit his family who
are at Monrovia. Frederick county. As
he did not arrive his wife and children re
Turned TO Baltimore Monday and found the
house locked. The door was forced open
and Mr.. Hill was found dead on the floor.
He had died from heart disease
A moving machine to cut the thick
grass in the bottom of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal. Is in operation in the vicinity
of Big Pool. near Williamsport The
grass was so thick that ! boats. unable
to pass, were tied up in one day. Shears
used in cutting the grass are operated BY
steam and are placed on the front Of a
boat in such a manner that the grass on
the sides or bottom of the canal can be
cut. A scow containing the machinery Is
drawn by mules.
Mrs. Mary c. H., wife Of Robinson ".
Gator, senior member of the firm OF Arm
strong. Gator 4 Co, died Saturday after
noon at her summer home, on Gator ave
nue. and the old York road, Northern An
mex, Baltimore, Of heart failure. She had
been in iIl-health for about seven months
past, having been taken Ill in New York on
December I last. Mrs Gator was born in
Dorchester county, Md, in December,
1928, and was daughter of the late
jeremiah and Nancy l.. Pattison, Of Dor
chester county. She was a member Of
Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church.
Samuel johnson the negro who Is in
Hagerstown jail on the charge Of assault
ing Emma Keerfoot, aged / years, has
been positively identified by her John
son and six Others were passed before the
child and she pointed him out and des-
cribed his clothing so accurately that there
can scarcely be any doubt of his guilt
Fully 400 persons surrounded the jail at the
time, and Thomas F. Keerfoot, her father,
made an appeal for them to let the law
take its course. An account Of the crime
was published in The ADVOCATE last
week. For fear of lynching johnson was
taken to Baltimore city jail Saturday.
Mrs. Narcissa Post Yoe. widow Of Ben
lamin F. Yoe, died Saturday night at the
home of her daughter law, Mrs. Ben}a-
min r. zoe, Baltimore. Mrs. zoe was
in her Cpd year, and had been an invalid
for long while She was daughter Of
the late Capt. Thomas Post, who was dis
tinguished for gallantry during the War Of
1912. Mrs. zoe was born in Hagers-
town, Md, but for the last 90 years had
been resident of Baltimore She was
for many years member Of the Central
Presbyterian Church. Her daughter in
law and granddaughter are her nearest
living relatives, her two children beng
dead.
Mrs. Margaret MOrgret, who died
Thursday of last week, at the home Of heI
stepdaughter, Mrs Thomas r. Palmer,
near Needmore, ten miles north of Han
cock; was IN her hundreth year, hel
exact age being 80 years II months anc
10 days. She was the widow Of Jot
Morgret. one of the pioneer settlers Of that
section. Isaac Morgret, retired business
man of Hancock, is stepson Mrs
Morgret life was one remarkably free
from ills She was sick only about week
She was as agile as young woman anc
could eat heartily Her senses were un
dimmed right up until the time Of he
demise.
July % was truly hangman's day il
Baltimore. Joseph Bryan, Cornelius Gard
ner, Charles James, and John Myers al
colored, condemned and sentenced to death
we're hung in the jail yard. Bryan. james
and Myers paid the debt speedily. Then
necks were broken, and none of these gave
sign of life after the crash of the falling
drop that was the death knell Gardner
who planned and took the initiative in the
assault on the victim of the trio, by what
seem retributiye justice, writhed in an
unnamable agnony that turned spectator,
sick from the scene. Five minutes Of
this, and death took pity. Lids slowly
closed over the eyeballs that, it seemed,
would leave their sockets, The l3year-