The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-11
Maryland Affairs.

Anne's counties Is selling at from 9Zu 10 @oz.-
so per acre.
/ Trustin Pippin, aged 81 years, well known
| farmer of Caroline county, was killed by a
| kick from vicious colt on the Sd instant.
James Grant, aged IS years, died at Alpha,
| Howard county, on the Sd instant, from old
age, at the residence of his son-in law, Albert
Fl. Hobbs.
Morris 4 Co.'S shirt factory, Baltimore, was
burned Thursday morning; loss about $50, OO0,
and at night Swindel's glassworks were burn
ed, loss $45,O Goo
At Hagerstown, ON Friday night OF last
week, the silk mills were burned. Loss about
SIS. 900. The mills we're a branch of the
factory at Paterson, N. J.
/ Maryland will be largely represented at the
annual meeting of the German Baptists at
| Lincoln, Nebraska. Many will go by the way
of Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
Harry East, aged IA years, SOP Rose street,
Baltimore, on Tuesday was fatally burned IN
/ a fire which destroyed the fireworks factory of
Mr.. Eugene dec. Bond, on the Philadelphia
| road
High schools are becoming too expensive
/ luxuries in some of the counties, outside OF
the county seat, and are being closed. The
Howard county school board has closed the
one at Lisbon.
Thomas Webb, probably the oldest Odd
Fellow in the state, died OF old age, near
1 Della, Baltimore county, Wednesday. His
| wife, aged "a years survives him. They were
married over go years ago.
Joseph B. Mitchell, Jr., an attorney of Bal
timore. will be arraigned before the Supreme
Bench next Monday on disbarment proceed
ings instituted against him by the bar associa-
! ton for alleged unprofessional conduct.
Mrs. Maude MandavilIe was found dead
Monday morning lying on the floor of her
bedroom in the Baldwin House, Hagersown,
| of which she was proprielress. She was 60
wears old. Her death was due TO natural
causes.
Mr.. Peter s. Flynn, chief clerk at the Car
| rolton Hotel, has been appointed manager
of the Blue Mountain House, on the Western
| MARYLAND Railroad. just west of Pen Mar, TO
| iii The vacancy ca used by the death of Col.
James p. Shannon.
Elite ", aged ID years, daughter of Samuel
Boon, of Oar, Baltimore county, while on her
way to school WAS assaulted Thursday III a
| lonely spot on the Oar road. Andrew Reh,
about Is years old, is in the Jail at Towson,
charged with the otfense.
Sallie Shippers, aged II, and Thomas Siinp-
ers, aged years, were sentenced by Judge
| Stump at Elkton to the House of Refuge until
they become q years old. The children were
| charged with the murder ola brother, who
was shot by the boy prisoner at the instance OF
the sister.
Harrisburg, Baltimore and New York cap
talisls are going to start another improvement
bcom in Baltimore and vicinity. 1t will be
known us the Airing Brook Company, with a
capital of 81, $50, 600. The land secured is
| the Hamilton Easter estate, on the Windsor
! Mill road, and other lands to Arlinflon and
| Walbrook.
Daniel Johnson one of the oldest colored
men in Kent county was burned to death on
| The I'd instant at the home farm of Mrs. Jump,
! in Still Pond. He was carrying lamp, and
| from feebleness let it fall, when it exploited.
| burning him almost to crisp. He was 80
years old and had been a servant in the Jump
family for long number OF years.
Edward Malaieu, for many years promi
| nent in local temperance circles, died OF
pneumonia at his home, ON the Sd instant, IN
Walbrook. He was born in Reistersiown,
and went To Baltimore at an early age. de
was a member of Eutaw Place Methodist
Episcopal Church. He leaves widow, Mrs.
Sarah Mallalieu, three daughters and two
| sons.
Ernest Gerstenberg's residence and all his
buildings at Saitland, Prince Georges coun-
ty. was burned Thursday. Loss $40, 900;
small insurance. The house was totally ruined,
| together with windmill, so incubators, so
brooders, 1900 chickens, 400 ducks and a
number of small lighthouses. All the furnish
! ings. even to the carpets and curtains, were
saved.
For some time past there has been trouble
over the management of the Female House of
Refuge in Baltimore The Board of Visitors
to the Jail have issued singing rebuke on
the shocking condition of affairs at the in
stitution, which was first brought to the public
notice by the grand jury of the last September
term. The report of the jury was sustained
in all its features, and the Jail Board orders
sweeping changes, with the recommended re
moval of The superintendent.
The Liberty Copper Mining and Milling
| Company is erecting at its mines near Woods
boro, Frederick county, a building 35x40
feet, to be so feet high, and which will be
equipped with machinery for the concentra-
lion of the metal from 100 tons of ore daily.
The establishment of this plant, with full
equipment of dry process machinery, is the
result of two years experience of Mr.. A. j..
Ayers in operating a small wet process plant
at the mines, which convinced him that a
large plant could be operated prohtably.
Wednesday was a great day among the
Catholics of Baltimore. Sebastian Cardinal,
Mariineli received from the hands of Cardi-
nal Gibbons at the Cathedral the red biretta OF
the cardinalate Imposing pomp and cere-
monia marked the occasion, after the man
ner ofthe Roman Catholic Church. A large
and representative gathering witnessed the
ceremony, while the sanctuary oil the Caihe-
dra was filled with members of the American
hierarchy, together with several hundred other
churehmen of various orders and grades.
Two men boldly entered the Maryland Fire
Insurance Company's building Baltimore,
about p. M, last Tuesday, while the
ianitor was sweeping out the front door en-
trance, aud, forcing an entry into the offices
of the Equitable Building and Loan Associa-
lion, ransacked the rooms and evidently en-
deavored to open the safe, which contained
! $50, 900 worth of bonds and several hundred
dollars in currency. Janitor Louis F. thinner
had desperate struggle with one of the bar
glars, who turned out TO be William Mccain,
alias 'BIinkey" Mccain. IA noted offender.
While returning from Bladensburg to Wash
ington, D. c.. on the night of the Sd instant,
Charles E. Turin was held up by two tramps,
one of whom seized his horse. Mr.. Turin
struck the horse with the whip and it started
at rapid rate knocking the tramp down.
After jogging along for short distance Mr..
| Turin found the men were following him.
| He pull the horse down to walk so the men
could overtake him, and when within close
range he fred at them. One dropped and
the other ran. Mr.. Turin went to the fallen
man and was about to assist him when he
arose and took to his heels. Mr.. Turin said
he rather enjoyed the sport.
Martin Mailman, aged GA years, died on
| Thursday night of last week, in Baltimore, of a
complication of diseases. Mr.. Mailman was
a native of Lexington county, S. c. He en-
listed in the Confederate Army in Carolina
regiment, under General Beauregard, anu
served all through the Civil War. receiving a
wound. In 1869 he married Miss Annie
Gardner, at Columbia, S. c., and had resided
in Baltimore for 35 years. Mr.. Mailman was
employed by the Northern Central Railroad
for IA years, then resigned, and for nine years
past was park officer at Druid Hill Park, miss
ing his first day from duty there last winter. He
leaves a widow, four sons and one daughter
He was "A member of the Third English Luth-
eran Church.
The display of the mineral resources OF
Maryland at the Pan-American Exposition Is
a splendid one, and does credit to the State.
The display is in charge of DIR. VIM. Bullock
Clark, State Geologist Professor Clark has
secured complete collection of the mineral
resources of the State and has arranged the
exhibit in systematic order, showing material