The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-03
Maryland Affairs.

Rising Sun postoffice, in Cecil county,
was robbed early Saturday morning of $500
in cash and stamps.
Three negro men are in Montgomery
county jail charged with stealing copper
wire from the Capital Traction Company.
Owen B. Burton, a we'll farmer
of the 18th district of Baltimore county,
died on Saturday last. He leaves widow
and seven children.
The residence of LIE Roy Livingston, at
Laurel, was burned Sunday afternoon.
Laurel has no water works, and the town
is without protection.
Daniel Ward died Saturday morning in
Sharpsburg, Washington county, aged So
years. He was a successful farmer and
the oldest teamster on the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal
On Sunday M. H. Wagner, cattle
drover, lost his life in collision of fast
freight trains on a siding at Yough, on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in which IL
cars and engines were smashed and "a
number of cattle were killed and wounded.
Brother Alexius, provincial of the Xave
rian Brothers in the United States, died
about noon on Saturday at Mount ST. Jo-
seph's College, Frederick road, near IT.
vington, of pneumonia, after few days
illness. Brother Alexius, known in the
world as John Baptist Van der Wee, is
4 he Hpa in 40
order. He was man of strong intellect
uality. consummate tact and rare business
acumen. His only surviving relative is
Monsignor Van der Wee, of Refusal, Hol
land, who some years ago celebrated his
golden jubilee as priest. Brother Alex
ius was born at Antwerp, Belgium, on
February 20, 1924.
Charles Wesley Wiley, one of the old
est and most prosperous farmers in Talbot
county, died suddenly last Sunday after
noon of dropsy, at his home, in Church
Neck, about p miles from st. Michaels,
aged SO years Mr.. Wiley, who was
we'll known throughout the county, was
one of the pioneer farmers of that section,
and at his death, owned several very val
liable farms in that neighborhood. The
deceased was twice married. His first
wife was a Miss Susanna Sewell, and nine
children survive them, most of whom re-
side in Baltimore. At the time of his
second marriage he was "A, and his bride
Miss Julia Goodwin, of Bayside-was only
% years of age. She and four small
children survive.
Joseph E. Bruchey, aged 81 years, of
Braddock, Frederick county, was found
frozen to death in small stream on the
place of Hezekiah Young, along the Ma
tional pike, near Frederick City about s
o clock last Sunday morning. AS his nose
and right shoulder blade were broken it
was at first generally believed that he had
met foul play and had been thrown into
the stream. The stream contained only
about s inches of water. He was found
with his face down in the ice and his back
and one foot projecting out, frozen stiff.
He evidently fell in before the water
started to freeze Saturday night, as the
ice was about two to three inches thick all
around him and it had to be broken with
picks and fence rails before he could be
gotten out The depression in the bed of
the stream from his face, hands and feet
clearly showed that he had made efforts to
extricate himself Bruchey, who had one
of the finest homes in Braddock lived with
his daughter and was accustomed to go on
periodical sprees. He was member of
the Grand Army and drew pension. 1t
was testified that he was in Frederick Sat
urday and after imbibing very freely was
put on the 4. 30 train of the Frederick and
Middletown trolley road and sent home.
He was seen to get off at his home station
at 5 o clock, and this was the last seen of
him alive