The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-04-20
Maryland Affairs.

Boat building is very active at Solomon's
Island, Calvert county.
HyattsyilIe water bonds have been sold and
work will begin at once.
Washington county has 118 saloons, 81 of
which are in Hagerstown.
Slingluff & Co., manufacturers of fertilizers,
Baltimore, have appointed receivers.
Brooklyn, Anne Arundel county, had q
Sc, 600 fire Tuesday night An engine from
Baltimore saved the village.
Many streams in Western Maryland were
out of their banks Saturday and Sunday owing
to the heavy and continuous rain.
A COW belonging to Frederick B. Williams,
of ST. Augustine, Cecil county, gave birth to
three calves recently, weighing about 40 pounds
each, and all are thrifty calves.
Snow fell last Saturday and Sunday in
Garrett county, covering the ground TO the
depth of several inches. At Davis, West
Virginia, the fall was is inches
Governor Smith has signed the death war;
rant of Wiley Kirk, colored, convicted of rape
at Sparrow's Point, Baltimore county, and
has named May 81 as the day of execution.
G. w. Allen, formerly trained nurse at
Providence Hospital Washington, d. c., is
under arrest in Charles county for robbing
was employed.
Frank McGarey, aged 35 years. a bunch
back, ofCumberland, was found dead Tues
day morning He had drank two Schooner
glasses full of whisky the night before ON a
wager. He was a native of Chicago.
Rudolph Mccullough, who will succeed to
the presidency of the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railroad, with headquarters at Chicago,
is native of Cecil county and son of the
late Hon. Hiram Mccullough, of the Elkton
bar
A young daughter of Mr.. Edward Bouner
of near Glen Morris, Baltimore county, while
playing in the public road, near her home,
last Tuesday, was run over by heavy farm
wagon, loaded with stone and received injuries
from which she died Wednesday.
Fish are scarce this season in the Eastern
Shore streams owing to the continuous east
and northeast winds, 1t is said fish follow the
wind. Several years ago the same result oc-
Cured on the Western Shore and in Southern
Maryland, owing to the prevailing winds
coming from the northwest,
Professor Henry A. Rowland, professor of
phyics at Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more, inventor of the famous spectrum graf
ings and of multiple telegraphy, and one of
the most noted scientists of the world, died of
diabetes at his late nome, In tnaC city, last
Tuesday. The secret of the spectrum gratings
will never be known, as he did not divulge it.
A new religious society has been formed in
several counties on the Eastern Shore known
as the Apostolic Holiness Union. They claim
to have attained in this life state of religious
perfection, and are firm in their Remuneration
Of everything of worldly nature. Some of
the adherents of the movement regard the use
of tobacco as one of the greatest of sins, and
argue that the biblical doom of drunkards is
to be also meted out to tobacco users.
A party of Chicago capitalists has purchas-
ed what is known as Mount Farview, tower
ing peak belonging to the North Mountains, a
range of the Alleghanies, few miles west of
Clear Spring, Washington county. Mrs. Louisa
Pullman Hank, of Chicago niece of the late
Geo. NJ. Pullman, is one of the syndicate.
She bought rs acres around Fairview of VIM
F. Cunningham, for $l5, 900, and 1919 acres,
including the summit of Mount Fairview, from
JOHN A. Miller, for $1,000. Thirty cottages
will be built at once, $3.50, 900 hotel erected
and trolley road three miles long, from
Cherry Run, on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
read, to Fairview, is contemplated.