The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-02-03
Maryland Affairs.

bnrg, Montgomery county, Nd. Monday.
The McCollister farm, in Queen Anne's
county, containing $40 acres, has been sold
at public sale for So, $50.
Several farms have changed owners in
Washington county, this wee, at prices rang
ing from $50 to $50 per acre.
Two telephone companies are preparing to
enter Elkton, and rate war is regarded as a
probability when both lines are completed.
William S. Keech, one of the best known
lawyers in Maryland, died of paralysis, at his
late home, Towson, Thursday, aged 81 years.
Receivers were appointed Tuesday in Bal
timore for Archibald McElmoyle; Joshua D.
Taylor & Co. and the Atlantic Furniture
Company.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, widow of Kinsey
f. Thomas, died in Kent county, January 81.
She would have been SO years old on Febru-
airy 8.
The body of an unknown German, presum
ably victim of a foul crime, was found in an
express box at Sioux City, Iowa, having been
shipped to that city from Baltimore.
An effort to have he annual appropriation
of the Frederick College at that city divert to
the Frederick public schools is being vigor-
ously fought by the friends of the school.
Quantities of dead fish of the sea croaker
kind are being washed ashore ON Talbot.
Queen Anne's and Dorcester bay and river
shores, circumstance due, it is believed, to
the extreme cold.
A wild boar, weighing LOO pounds, was
killed on Saturday last by Andrew Slaughter
in He'll Point Marsh, Caroline county The
animal had been a terror to farmers aud hun
tiers for years. His tusks were six inches
long outside the bps
Michael McHGgh, of Cumberland, was iu-
stantly killed in a freight wreck on the Balt-
more and Ohio Railroad at Oakland Wednes-
day. Six cars were derailed, and the work
of destruction was completed when the mass
of wreckage caught fire.
Frank o. Singer, Jr., Baltimore county,
formerly well known as builder, applied for
the benefit Of the bankruptcy law Tuesday in
the United States District Court. The sched-
ues state that he has liabilities of $I51, 951. 46
and no assets
The Roxbury Distillery, near Hagerstown,
was destroyed by FIRE Tuesday morning, with
damage to stock and buildings of about Sl5,-
900. Adjoining bonded warehouses, con
tanning whiskey valued at $500, 900, narrowly
escaped similar fate.
Walter Chapman, colored, aged about 25
years. is in Charles county Jail, charged with
an attempt to kill his brother, John Chap
man, near Pisgah, same county, on Saturday
ulgut JOuu was IOuDu WIN q bullet wound
in his left breast just above the heart. The
prisoner claims that the shooting was acct
dental
William Z. Rowe, of Chapel district Tai
bot county, has u COWS. which, during last
year, produced 5000 pounds of butter. He
sold 600 pounds at 20 cents per pound, and
5000 pounds at 25 cents, making a total of
$3.50 for butter alone. The milk which was
fed to the hogs brought enough TO pay all the
r.f tla.
in for good measure leaves an average profit
from each COW of $3.50.
As Baltimore and Ohio freight train was
passing near Pawpaw, 25 miles east of Cam
berland, early Tuesday morning, Engineman
Gibbon Kile noticed house in flames He
quickly stopped his train, and, after sending
out hagmen, with the assistance of his fireman
he kicked in the door aud aroused the sleep
ing inmates, five members of the family of
George Shenk. Two were carried out uncon-
scious. The timely aid alone saved all from
being suffocated or burned.
Frank Swach, of Lonacosing, was found
on the sidewalk in an unconscious condition
by policeman, on Tuesday morning Be
was in front of saloon from which he had
been elected. When examined, Swach wa.
found to be suffering from a fractured skull
and conclusion of the brain. Mr.. Swach i:
married man, aged about 40 years and ha.
several children. Bartender Eichhnrn. o.
the saloon, has been held in $1,000 hail
charged with assault with intent to murder.
Horace Slingluff and Henry v. d. Johns
Of NJ, copartners, trading as Slingluff, John
4 Co.. wholesale boot and shoe dealers, 2;
Hopkins Place, Baltimore, made application
Tuesday for the administration of their co
partnerships and individual properties uude
the provisions of the national bankruptcy act
Their liabilities are said to be $3.50. ZIG. g
and assets not pledged to secure creditors
$87,s1e.59 The total amount of indebted
ness secured or partially secured by deposi
of collateral is said TO be SAT, 0s0.
Conrad SchiIling, an aged German either
Of Cumberland, returned to his home Tues
day about noon in very exhausted ant
almost frozen condition. At ten o'clock tn,
morning before he walked over to Rose Hill
and later descended the sides of the large cav
witty made in the hill by iunneling for cemen
rock. Going down in the mine he lost hi
way, and wandered about for quite time
Finding an old log, Mr.. Shilling lay dow
and slept until Monday morning, when. oil
awakening, he saw ray of light off in tn,
distance, which he followed, and finally go
out of the mine.
Mrs. Louisa Jane Dennis. widow of job,
y. Dennis, died on Tuesday at Beverley
Worcester county, in the slst year of her age
Her death was not unexpected, as in Decem
Der she was attacked with double pneumon;,
and never wholly recovered from its effects
She was the last wife of John q. Dennis, whs
died in 1851, and who was the father BY
former marriage Of United States Senate
George r. Dennis and Mr. James q. Dennis
Of Princess Anne. and was herself the mofhe
Of the late Samuel K. Dennis, Senator from
Worcester, aud Mrs. Page, wife of Judg,
Henry Page, Of the Court Of Appeals. Mrs