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.

Hagerstown fair had So, 600 pay visit
ors, and the receipts will pay all indebted
ness and leave fine surplus.
Elkton, Cecil county, has 40 cases of
typhoid fever. Every effort is being made
to discover and root out its cause.
Charles p. Bevans is in Jail in Balti-
more for robbing persons at St. Alphon-
sus' Catholic Church during the centennial
Jubilee services.
Mumps, scarlet fever and diphtheria
are prevailing to such an extent in parts of
Baltimore county as to cause the closing
of some of the public schools.
Two safes were cracked at Frostburg
about 4 a. m. Monday. From one S255
was taken and from the other mileage
book on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Several summer residences were looted
near Rogers Station, Green Spring Val
ley, Baltimore county, last Saturday and
Sunday nights, and the goods taken away
in wagon.
Col Richard d. johnson died in Cum
berand last week. He was in his Slst
year, was born near Frederick, and had
been actively engaged in business in Cum
berland for over 81 years
McMurray's Packing Company plant
at Frederick is to be moved to Appleton,
Wisconsin. 1t is said corn can be pro-
cured at much lower price there, and the
shipping facilities are better.
The Susquehanna is lower than for
years, and Octoraro Creek, at Rowlands-
vile, Cecil county, is lower than it has
been for so years. Large focks of wild
ducks are coming down the river and going
to their feeding grounds on the flats below
Havre de Grace.
John f. Butler, colored, president Of
the Mckinley, Roosevelt and Schirm Col
ored Young Mems 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
onions Island, Calvert county, and brought
to Jail there as accessory to the murder Of
Captain Lttleton T. Condiff, which was
committed during the night of September
10, 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. In
addition to punishments already inflicted,
including so dement's and confne ment on
the Santee, he will not be allowed to re-
ceive 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
burg, Nd, where he was educated in an
academy conducted by James Mullen.
He was carpenter. In 1888 he 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 a church
and altar builder, and many Of the older
Catholic churches in Western Maryland
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