The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-12-15
Maryland Affairs.

David Ohler, farmer of Emmitsburg dis
trict, Frederick county, died last Saturday
night, aged SO years.
Smallpox is prevailing in the lower part OF
Prince Georges county. len new cases
were reported last Saturday.
Receivers have been appointed for Isaac
Robinson fruit and vegetable packer and
manufacturer of fertilizer, Baltimore.
Last Saturday morning fire starting in the
Baltimore Bargain House, on Baltimore street
near Howard, caused loss of $3.50, 900.
Ormond Hammond has purchased 600 acres
of land in Talbot county that will be made into
model stock and grain farm. The farm is
located near Royal Oak.
The horse owned by Henry Bloyer, mail
carrier from Reiffs to Hagerstown, died last
week. In twelve years the horse travelled
SO, 600 miles, at the rate OF IS miles day, in
round trips, hauling his aged master and the
mail.
The Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
Railway Company has contracted with the
Delaware Construction Company, of Whining
ton, to remove 25, 900 cubic yards of material
from the harbor of Claiborne, at cost of
about $1,000.
John Mort broke his spinal cord by falling
his way home from diminishing, and died on
Sunday. He was 40 years old. A wife aud
six children survive.
Robert Goldsborough Keene, aged 60 years,
"A well known Baltimore lawyer, died last Sat
urday. He was of English ancestry and was
related to Sir Edmund Keene, Bishop OF Ely.
During the civil war he saw active service IN
the Confederate army, and was in Antietam
and Gettysburg engagements.
The neighborhood of Hereford, Seventh
district, Baltimore county, and My Lady's
Manor. Tenth district, are being visited by
thieves who take poultry, harness and any
thing else that they come across. The people
in the localities named are getting worked up
on the subject, and the thieves, if caught, VIII
not have very pleasant experience.
The large pumping station at Chesapeake
City, on the line of the Chesapeake and Del
aware canal, Cecil county, caught lire at a
late hour on Friday night OF last week, and
the pumping station was destroyed, both en-
CINE rooms being burned out, and consider
;l5e damage was done to the water wheel.
Loss over insurance Sl7 1000.
John Thurman, 20 years old, whose home
is near Hoffman's Mills, Baltimore county,
met with a frightful accident Sunday on the
farm of Henry Shearer, near Hanover, Pa,
where he is employed. While showing
double barreled shotgun to several visitors at
the farm, he discharged one barrel of the gun,
when the other barrel bursted, the heavy
charge ofpowder and shot tearing of his lett
hand.
Mrs. Meyer, aged IA years, who made her
home with a married daughter on the South
Branch of the Potomac, in Cumberland, while
engaged in cleaning up room on FRIDAY OF
last week hit shotgun that was lying ON
Il table with the broom handle, knocking the
hammer against Il stone jar with such force as
to cause the weapon 10 be discharged, the
entire load passing through the woman's hip,
infictng IA CHASTITY wound. The leg was am
putated at the hip but death ensued few
hours later.
During Il gale which blew over Luke, ALE.
galIy county. last Saturday night, nearly all
of the brick walls of the building now being
erected for the Maryland Automobile Manu-
featuring Company, by John W. George, con-
tractor, of Cum berland, were blown down.
The building was ready for the carpenters,
the brick work being about completed. The
loss is fully covered by tornado policy, beisg
probably the first of the kind ever taken out
in Allegany county. The dimensions of the
building are 200 by 70 feet, one story high.
and the walls were eight inches thick. Only
few patches were left standing.