The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-07
Maryland Affairs.


Talbot county has an extraordinary yiel
of superior wheat.
George Reason, colored, aged 102 years
died in Cecil county last week.
A large number of counterfeit 25 cen
silver pieces are in circulation in Baltimore
Col Samuel N. Hyde, of Baltimor
county, has 400 acres in sweet corn. |
promises an abundant yield.
Marston Boughner, of Clarksburg, W
Va, candidate for admission to the Nava
Academy, was drowned while bathing nea
Annapolis on Saturday.
Most of the employees of the Cumberland
Steel and Tinplate Company have struck
for higher wages. The Independent Tin
plate Company has also closed down.
Among the items levied for in Mont
gomery county this year is the trial ant
hanging of Taylor and Brown, negroes, fol
the murder of Mr.. Rosenstein, last year
David Gossard, who is in his S0th year,
harvested last week on the Findlay farm
near Williamsport. He did the work o
two average men. He is the father of "a
children.
Tax rates in several counties have beer
made, viz Cecil, 80 cents, an increase
of 10 cents; Dorchester, S1,024; Queen
Anne's, SO, an increase of 3 cents; Caro-
line, s1124.
The Frederick County Historical Society
has come into possession of box made
from the wood of the ship on which Fran
ces Scott Key was prisoner during the
commandment of Fort McHenry.
On Friday night of last week the ferti-
lizer factory and warehouse of Griffith &
Boyd, in Canton, Baltimore county, was
burned, and the works of the Ellicott Ma
chine Company, in the rear. Loss 5000,
900.
Robert Morse, colored, has been released
from the penitentiary, having served three
weeks of a term of three years, it having
been discovered that he was innocent Of
the crime larceny of horse) of which
he had been convicted.
An interest marriage ceremony took
place at Leitersburg, Washington county,
last week, the bride, groom and clergyman
each being mutes. The bride was Miss
Alta May Lowman and the groom Mr..
John Kavanaugh, of Baltimore.
Buffalo county, Neb., boasts the largest
alfalfa field in the world. 1t is under the
management of H. d. Watson, and is
from one half to two miles wide and eight
miles or such matter long. 1t yields
three cuttings season, and the total yield
per acre for the three cuttings averages
close to eight tons.
Wheat threshing is in progress in Tai
bot county and almost everywhere the yield
is large, running from % to 80 bushels to
the acre, and in a few instances up to 40.
The quality is good and the grain is heavy,
running up in weight to 62 pounds and
over to the bushel. The Talbot cornields
are in Furnishing condition, and large
early potato crop is being gathered.
A large barn, stables and two corn houses
belonging to Frederick Brosenne, near
Oakland Mills, Howard county, were de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour Saturday
morning. Henry f. Brosenne, who tenants
the estate, was about to begin the work of
housing in the barn the fine wheat crop on
the farm, and it escaped by only day or
two. Partially insured in the Montgomery
Company. Altogether the losses amount
to about So. 500.
The l5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Will
liam Secord, of Hagerstown, early Friday
of last week, before the family was up,
hurried off to boarding house, where she
met lion tanner, known as John Morgan,
belonging to Noah Ark Circus. 1t is al
legged she had made arrangements to elope
with the lion-tamer and she was to be the
snake-charmer To avoid making bun
die of her clothes before she left her home
she put on all the underclothes she could
and then donned three dresses besides.
Her mother went to police headquarters,
and u policeman traced her to the boarding
house, where there was lively scene
The girl was persuaded to return with her
mother, and Morganhid in the lion cage.