The Democratic advocate., 1900-09-08
Maryland Affairs.

Baltimore county Jail has 40 persons con
fined in it tawaitiug trial.
1ncendiaries are at work in Cumberland,
two fires occurring on Monday night.
Extra police, during the recent strike in
the coal mines, cost Aleganycounty $500.
Hagerstown organ factory is to he enlarged
and the working force increased by $50 addi
tional hands.
AT Aberdeen, Hartford county, on Sunday,
the Whiting Novelty Works were burned.
Loss $4,000.
Willamsport and vicinity was so over
wbelmed with mosquitoes last week that life
was miserable.
NJ. P. Moore, of Frederick, is going to raise
Belgian hares for food. He has already i'm
ported a buck and two does.
Clifton Legget and Harry Guessford are in
Washington county Jail for stealing a copper
bathtub from Mrs. VIM. 4. Hamilton.
DIR. Richard Baker, aged Sc years, we'll
known physician of Washington county, died
suddenly, on August 81, while eating his din
ner.
On Saturday night last the barn and con
tents on the farm of Thomas Deford, near
rooklandviIle, Anne Arundel county, were
burned. Loss $1,000.
Mrs Susan Mccall, of Hagerstown, while
furnishing cat which had bitten chicken,
was bitten on the hand by the cat and is now
in critical condition.
Robert Morris, aged Is years, of near Wat
| erloo, Howard county, was eating peach on
| Friday night of last week, and was stung in
the throat by a bee. His throat swelled so
rapidly that he died from stranguation.
James Harper Gale, of Kent county, has
been notified that he was awarded the first
| premium for Indian corn at the Paris Expo
sition. Mr.. Gale received similar honor for
his wheat at the Worlds Fair at Chicago in
1898.
Edward Elmer Harm. of Unionville. Fred
erick county, died from consumption last
week. He was member vf the Frederick Bar
was elected to the Legislature in 1897, amp
served year in the commissary department
in Cuba.
Daniel Thomas was heavily fined in Balti.
more on Sunday, for brutality 10 his 16-
mouths-old child. While drunk he seized the
| child by the feet and threw it against fence,
and was about to repeat the act, when the
child was rescued.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shearer, a native of Scot
land, died at Gilmore, Allegany county, near
Homecoming, aged 81 years. She left four
sons, three daughters and 26 grandchildren,
81 great grandchildren and four great-gre
grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Caldwell, of Perry
ville Cecil county, recently celebrated the
62nd anniversary of their wedding. They are
the parents of 6 children, 80 grandchildren
aud % great grandchildren. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Caldwell are in their SD year.
Harvey Moxley, aged 81 years, of thf. Fourth
district of Howard county, was instantly killed
on Thursday of last week, while engaged in
threshing wheat on the farm Of Mr.. Frank
Burdett. at Long Corner. He was caught iii
the belling and hurled around the wheel of
the machine.
The Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad has filed
its answer to the suit of the State to compel
the payment of the Washington Branch divi-
dends. declaring that it had been deemed un-
wise and unsafe to distribute the earnings in
view of the fact that more than 81, ,000, 900
would soon be needed for new terminals and
the elimination of grade crossings in Wash
iugton.
A company with capital OF 100000 has
been incorporated 10 develop "Ihe Caves,
in the Green Spring Valley, Baltimore county.
The incorporators are Messrs. Wilbur +.
jackson, Edwin Warlield, Nelson Perrin, An
drew d. Jones, Summerfeld Baldwin, John
Gill, Jr., James II. Preston, and William
jackson, of Salisbury, Md. These, with Gen.
Joseph l.. Brent and II. Irvine Keyser, will
constitute the board Of directors. The prop
erty contains 1,6I7 acyes, about 5i7 acres
being in timber. A system of roads and drive
ways will he introduced through the property,
and the land VIII be cut up into % acre par
GELS.
A number Of Fulton county (Pa. and Al
legany county (Md. farmers have been made
the victims of several sharpers driving around
the country in a fine two-horse buggy, holding
themselves out as purchasing agents for a
large grain and elevator company in Chicago.
They are offering rs cents per bushel for
wheat, cash in advance, wheat to be delivered
when called for. The farmer is always paid
with check amounting to more than the bill
for the wheat. OF course, he gives them the
difference in cash. One farmer was caught
for S625. They took his check and had it
cashed Others have lost from S25 to 5000,
and other complaints are not in. The cheeks
are on the Metropolitan National Bank of
Chicago.
George Stafford, residing near Cumberland,
on Williams road, has made strange discov-
ery on his farm. Everything kept in little
cave on his farm has been kept so fresh and
cool that he decided there was cold spring
near the surface, so in June he started to dig
for it, but found the ground frozen so hard he
could only dig down a short distance. Last
week another attempt was made, and while
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of two or three inches, he found it impossible
to 90 further Mr.. Stafford is of the opinion
thai there is a lake of ice under the ground,
and he says the soil in that immediate neigh
borhood is of the gravel variety, and that the
ground is frozen until there are crevices in it,
out of which cold air rushes in great volume.
While James W. Manning and Miss Bertha
MeeEs were returning to their homes in Cum
berland on Thursday night of last week,
large negro stepped in front of the young man
and demanded his money. Manning gave
him all he had, So. The negro started TO go,
but suddenly turned and said to Miss Meeks
81 want you" Mr.. Manning struck at him
hu: the youth was no match for the me-
gro, who Immediately drew revolver and a
razor. During the scuffle the negro dropped
the revolver, but terribly slashed the boy with
the razor, one cash in his left side requiring
twelve stitches, and also nearly cut off his
thumb. Miss Meeks ran for assistance, but
the negro had left. She stated the negro had
passed her several times during the early part
of the evening.