The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-11-03
Next Tuesday is election
day. Make your mark oppO-
site the cut of Jackson and
Liberty and the Hickory tree.
Maryland Affairs

EagenStown fair had - otio pay visit
ors, aud the receipts viii pay al indebted
n.-s and leave fine surplus.
Elkton. Cecil county, ha, 30 Eases ii
typhoid fever Every effort l. being made
10 discover and rpoi ous H. cau-e.
Charles Z. Bevans Is ia Jail in Balti
more for robbing pehsoas al -. Alph"n
sus Catholic Church duriag the centennial
jubilee services
NUNS. scarlet fever and lipbtheria
are prevailing to such an exteat ia parts 81
Baltimore county a. tn eanse the ols~ins
Of some IL the puhlic schools.
Two SAFES were cracked At Frostburs
about 1 a. m. Monday. From one s255
was taken and from the other mileage
book on the Baltimore 4 Ohin Railroad
Several summer residences were lotei
near Rogers Station. Green Spring Val
lev. Baltimore county. last Saturday and
Sunday mighty, and the goods taken away
in a wagon,
Col Richard D. johnson died in Cum
Lerland last week He was in his SIS,
year. was bora near Frederiek, ani had
been actively engaged in business in Cum
berland for over Gl years.
McMurrays Packing Company plant
at Frederick is Ia be moved 10 Appleton,
Wisconsin. IL is said corn can be- pro-
cured at a much lower price there, and the
shipping facilities are better.
The Susstuehauna Is lower than for
years, aud Oetoraro Greek, al RowIands-
vile. Cecil county, Is lower than il has
been for 80 years Large foeks Of Wild
ducks are coming down the river aud going
to their feeding grounds on the fats below
Havre de Grace.
John T Butler, colored, president Of
the Mckinley, Roosevelt and Sehirm Cod
ored Young Men $ Republican Club Of the
Fourth precinct Of theTwenty second ward
Baltimore, Is locked up, charged with the
murder of his wife, Lavinia Butler, colored,
ON last Saturday night.
Harris Condiff has been arrested at Sol
ONION Island, Calvert county, and brought
to jail there as accessory to the murder OF
| Captain Littleton T. Condiff, which was
committed during the night of September
| IL. and for which crime Mrs. Bessie J
Condiff. his wife, is charged, and Is now
in the Baltimore City Jail awaiting trial
at the November term of the Circuit Court.
The sentence Of Cadet Merlyn G. Cook
| of Kansas, first classman at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, charged with having
been present at a hazing and with having
failed TO suppress or report the proceeding,
has been received at the Academy la
addition to punishments already inflicted,
including 30 dement's and confinement on
the Santee, he will not be allowed to re
eeive his diploma with the other members
Of his class in June.
Word was received at Cumberland on
Monday of the death at Loretto, Cambria
county, Pa, Of Joseph Null, at the age
Of 90 years He was native Of kmmlts-
burg, Md, where he was educated in an
academy conducted by james Mullen.
He was a carpenter. In 1888 be settled
in Cumberland and about 1888 he built
the first Catholic Church in Cumberland.
He also built the first German church in
Cumberland. He was noted as church
and altar builder, and many Of the older
Catholic churches in Western Maryland
and Southern Pennsylvania were con
structed by him. He knew well Andrew
jackson, James Knox Polk, William
Henry Harrison and Henry Clay, and
had most vivid recollection Of the thir-
ties and forties.