The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-11-16
Maryland Affairs.


Malonee's school, Fifth district, Baltimore
county, is closed on account of scarlet fever
and sore throat.
Many swine are dying in northern Wash
ington county from disease resembling ty-
phoid fever.
A Baltimore syndicate has purchased for
SIC, ZOO, 900 all the electric railways and fran
chises of San Francisco.
Mrs. Joseph Lech diedin Allegany county
last Sunday, aged 81 years. She had been
married twice and leaves several children and
grandchildren and 100 great-grandchildren
A fire started in Catoctin mountain, near
Hamburg, last Sunday, and much valuable
timber was destroyed. On the same day
South mountain was in flames. Owing to the
protracted dry spell the leaves and under
brush burn like finder. Mountain fires in
November are something unusual
Judges Fowler and Burke, of Baltimore
county, have sustained the demurrers to the
pleas of the defendant in the suit of the Gettys-
burg Bank against Lewis M. Bacon for $500
on account Of stock alleged to have been sub
scribed by him to the capital stock OF the
United Milk Producers Association.
A large honey locust tree was recently cut
down in Cambridge, to make way for the
Uullulug vi u Ddpilol luz DoIho
crat and News says it has not borne any fruit
for several years-not since the Rev. Mr..
Blount, annoyed several years ago by small
boys getting the fruit, prayed that it should
never bear any more.
Fire which began on a wagon loaded with
fodder on the farm of Frank Davis, near
GAINESVILLE. Montgomery. county, set hre to
outbuildings near by. A stable and corn-
house were destroyed, including lot of corn,
so bushels of wheat, tons Of fertilizer and
a lot of fodder; also binder and number
of other farming implements. The loss is
$500. No insurance Caused by driver of
wagon smoking.
Rain has not fallen in Washington county
for six weeks and the ground is very dry and
the water supply short. Many wells and els
terms have gone dry Much of the late sown
wheat has not sprouted, and some that did
come up has suffered. The Potomac river is
so low that in many places persons can walk
from shore TO shore on the stones. fine
rain fell on last Tuesday.
At the Reformed Ministerial Association of
Frederick county Monday Rev. Anvil Conner,
of Adsristown, read paper on "The Rela-
ton of Church Members to Beneficiary and
Secret Societies. y The subject was discussed
and it was the sentiment that beneficiary and
secret organizations should be subordinate TO
the church and in no way interfere with its
growth and progress.
Edward Rogers, alias James Dempsey, the
self-confessed slayer of James Hoban, arrived
in Baltimore last Sunday morning in the
custody of Lieut.. Charles NJ. Cole, who went
to Erie, Pa, to bring him there. He killed
Hoban on the night of November "a, 1897.
In his confession he says he was followed day
ard night by man named Barney and
woman named Nellie. After the murder he
shipped as fireman on an ocean steamer,
and then he did not see the phantoms, but as
soon as he landed Barney and Nellie put in
their appearance.
The journal of the 18th annual convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Mary
land has been printed and is now being dis
tributed The statistics show that there are
10 non parochial clergymen and l15 priests,
6 deacons and one bishop. There are 100
places of worship, sittings for 1908 and
rectories for II. There are 10 licensed lay
readers; candidates for orders, 5; postulants,
10; bapiisms, 1855; confirmed, 1,22l; com
municants, 21,848; marriages, 497; burials,
972; Sunday-school teachers, 1,434; scholars,
$50; offerings, general, $l9, 768. IL; do
cesar, $26, 956.46; parochial, 1898, 486. 10;
total, 1896, 210. rs.