The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
Maryland Affairs.

Bank of Hagerstown stock sold this week
at $S4 per share, par SIS.
Baltimore county will build nine school
houses this year costing S25, 600.
The United States Cotton Duck Corpora
ton. capital $50, 600, 900, has absorbed all the
mills in this State.
Because Mrs. Kate Zeleny, widow, would
not marry him, Joseph Odvody, of Baltimore.
cut his throat Tuesday, causing almost instant
DEATH
During the six months ending March 81,
last, there were 447 births and 500 deaths re-
ported by the Health Commissioner of Balti-
more county.
William II. Carter, member of the Balti-
more bar, who pleaded guilty to the larceny
of S39. So on April %. 1900, and was sentenced
to two years in the Penitentiary, has been
pardoned.
The Maryland Can and Manufacturing Com :
pany, capital stock $751; 900; the Queen Negro
Head Stone Company, capital stock $1,000,
and the Atlantic Wireless Telegraph and Tel
ephone Company, capital stock SIS, 900, 600,
were Incorporated Monday in Baltimore.
The contracts for the work in connection
with the monument to be erected on the
Mount Royal Plaza by the Maryland Society
vi inc OOuS vi tuG ALl6FIcaD h6ROIuIfOH nave
been awarded, and the monument will be ded-
icated on Peggy Stewart day, October 10.
Samuel Newcomer, sentenced in 1898 at
Hagerstown to II years in the penitentiary for
tumbling down tombstones in Williamsport
Cemetery, has been pardoned by Governor
Smith. The petition for pardon was signed
by Judge Stake, States Attorney Wagaman,
Col Buchanan Schley, the jury which con-
vcted him and others. Newcomer is said to
be i'll with consumption.
At Mt. Zion, Montgomery county, fight
took place last Sunday between George White
and Edward Church, both negroes, about
Whites wife. a butcher knife was used, and
from the wounds received White died Monday
night. Notwithstanding his condition he took
the knife from Church and gave him an ugly
stab behind one of his ears. Church made,
no effort to escape and is now in Jail.
Thomas T. Greacen, who was well-known
in Baltimore county and throughout the State
as 'Senator" Greacen, and who had for many
years taken AN active part IN horse racing,
ended his life Monday by leaping from the
high bridge on Belvidere avenue which spans
the Northern Central railway at Cyburn Sta
ton. Greacen had been in poor health for
three months and had grown melancholy.
= Ira, aged Is years, son of Christian W.
Martin, of Hagerstown, was dragged to death
by COW Wednesday afternoon. The boy was
driving the COW to his home on East Church
street with cowchain fastened about his bod
He stumbled and fell. frightening the cow.
She ran, dragging the boy after her. The
lads head struck against the curling. There
was a hole in his head from which the brains
oozed.
Last Monday in Baltimore, the Supreme
Bench ordered that the name of Joseph B.
Mitchell, Jr, be stricken from the roll of at
torneys. The testimony adduced on the part
of the Bar Association, showed that Mitchell
collected upwards of $40 from client, in
order 10 pay certain court costs and exami-
ner's fees, but appropriated the money to his
own use, and also appropriated $46.50, col
lected by him for another client.