The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-13
Maryland Affairs.

QleQ III Ilkluu, NSCH SouhtJj io'e VIVA
She leaves children, % grandchildren
and 26 great grandchildren.
Charles W. Galloway was shot and seri
ously wounded by John NJ. Resley in 8
dispute over details of railroad work in
Cumberland, on Friday of last week.
Ahandsome and costly memorial window,
designed by Tiffany, New York, is being
placed in the chancel of st. Johns Luth-
eran Church, Hagerstown, in memory %
the late John III. Kausler.
A Western Maryland Railroad box cal
was broken open in the Hagerstown yards
last Saturday and looted of clothing and
merchandise consigned to points along the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
While seated near the stove in Stevens
vile NJ. Z. Church, celluloid head-comb,
worn by Miss Nellie Price, caught fire,
and the flames communicated to her hair.
The fire was extinguished before the young
lady was seriously burned.
Alexander Warfeld, notorious negro
of the Seventh district, Cecil county, who
was arrested last week on the charge of
habitual disorderly conduct, and carrying
concealed weapons, has been taken to the
Honse of Correction to serve Is months.
There were four charges against him; but
he was not tried on the other two, which
were stealing and wife-beating. The car
rying of deadly weapons by negroes in that
county has become so common that the
magistrates are inficting the heaviest pen
atty on all those who are caught, in the
hope of breaking it up.
George Dawkins, colored, is in Calvert
county Jail charged with highway robbery
and assault upon Mr.. Samuel Turner, of
Wallville The attack was made upon
Mr.. Turner Tuesday night of last week
about nine o clock while walking from a
store near Wallville to his home. Mr..
Turner'S face was terribly cut and bruised
by severe blows that rendered him uncon,
scious, and on regaining consciousness, he
found he had sustained loss of SAT. so
in money he had received few moments
before at the store for the sale of an OK.
Dawkins, the alleged assailant of Mr.. Tur-
ner, is a bright mulatto of middle age.
An attempt was made early last Satur-
day morning to blow open the safe in the
office of Kemp's Mills, near Wiliamsport.
After robbing NJ L. Bells blacksmith
shop of sledge, jimmy, brace and bit,
chisels, punches, etc., the burglars visited
the mills, broke in the building through a
window and began boring hole in the
safe. They abandoned the drilling and
with the sledge knocked off the combina-
ton and lock, but could net get the dool
open. The desk drawers were ransacked
but nothing was taken. Only about ST.
was in the safe The robbers left behint
quantity of rock powder dangerously neal
hot coal stove and bundle of burlap
bags lying against the stove ready to break
into blaze.
B. f. Koon, miller at Eakle's Mills,
and respectable looking married man, is
in jail at Hagerstown, on the charge Of
selling seven bushels of stolen cloverseed
to John Gassman, merchant of that city.
Following the first sale, Koon attempted
to sell second lot of seed to Mr. Gass
man, but the latter refused to buy it.
Much cloverseed has been stolen from
the farmers in the vicinity of Hagerstowr
during the past several months, and the
officers have been at work on the case fol
some time. Fifteen bushels of seed were
stolen from Noah Mullendore, near Eakle' s
Mills, but this is said to have been dispos-
ed of at Greencastle, Pa. Koon formerly
lived in that neighborhood Since his ar
rest he has been identified by Mr. Gass
man as the man who sold him the seed.
A letter to the Baltimore American
from Cumberland, under date of January
Z, says Today at noon a number Of
United States regulars passed through
Cumberland, en- route from the Philippine:
to Washington. The men were under an
officer of the Hospital Corps, sergeant
Stewart Phares, and had in their charg,
twelve members of Uncle Sam S army who
had lost their reason while serving in tn,
Philippines The party included two NOR,
cases when they left San Francisco, bu
just outside that place one of the mel
jumped from the car window into stream
the train was crossing. As the train slow
ed up, in nearing st. Louis yesterday
another of the insane soldiers jumped out
Although someone was left behind to looI
both men up, nothing had been heard O
them when the train arrived here. TIL,
party came through without changing, il
a special car, arranged for them TIL
men will be placed in a hospital in Wash
ington.
Mrs. William H. Gootee, of 247 Yves
Preston street, Baltimore, has receive
under peculiar circumstances 1852 whicl
she lost on November 80, 1898 On tina
day she went to the Tax Office, takin
with her the package containing the none
which she intended to deposit in the bank
Soon after she missed the package. Sh
advertised her loss, offering a liberal re
ward, but never heard from the missin
money. Mrs. Gootee was surprised fe,
days ago when she received visit from
woman attired in mourning, who said tina
the money had been found by her husband
who she supposed had returned it to Mrs
Gootee, as had been her advice But
upon looking over his papers, after hi
death, she found that the money had no
been returned. Immediately she though
of making restitution. She paid the flu
amount of the loss in check and refuses
to receive any reward, her only stipulation
being that her name be not disclosed
OF the 10, 152 deaths in Baltimore las
year 2,3S8 were of colored persons an,
1854 of white. This is percentage o
30.61 for the colored and Ia. 30 for tn
white population. This proportion is large
ly at variance with the percentage of col
ored population in Baltimore The basi
used by the Health Department is whit
population of 541, 900 and colored pop
ulation of IS, 900, or percentage of onl