The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-06-08
MARYLAND Affairs.

Scranton, Pa, capitalists are going to
start builders supplies mandatory in
Hagerstown.
Mrs. Catharine Long, aged 81 years,
died May "a, at her home at Chestnut
Ridge, Baltimore county.
The annual meeting Of the Maryland
State Teachers Association win be held at
the Blue Mountain House, Penmar, July
/, 2 and 3.
Miss Carrie Smith, aged s years, was
assaulted by white man at her home,
near the village of Pleasant Walk, Mid
dletown Valley, Frederick county, last week.
Dr. II. ]. Cosens, veterinary inspector
of Washington county, has caused to be
killed six cows diseased with lumpjaw "a
bone affection and nine with tuberculo-
sis. Several ill-kept diaries were ordered
cleaned up.
Hugh NJ Browne, colored, graduate
of Princeton Theological Seminary and ed
ucator OF wide experience, has been APP
pointed principal of the Baltimore Colored
High School and Polytechnic School by
the School Board
In Kent county the State census emu
merators find the population to be II, 1872,
or 900 less than the Government census,
thus depriving that county Of an extra
member in the Legislature, which Mr..
Mudd was anxious to have.
George II. Dunn, colored, died at the
Baltimore Jail, May 81, after few hours
incarceration on the charge of being sus-
picious character He was suffering from
stab wound, said to have been inflicted
by John Stewart, also colored.
In Howard county last Saturday, while
shooting at crows, Resin T. Driver acci-
dentally shot his little girl. The girl, aged
5 years, lost ar eye by the shot. The
children were playing and. ran suddenly
into range just as the gun Was fired.
Thomas Deford, aged SO years, died
suddenly last Sunday from congestion Of
the lungs. He was large tanner and
wholesale dealer in leather, director in
the National Mechanics Bank, and closely
allied with other financial institutions in
Baltimore.
From Wednesday May %, including
Tuesday afternoon of last week, 81 inches
of rain fell in Middletown, Frederick coun-
ty. Tanner branch, which runs through
the town overfowed its banks, and some
portions of the town were flooded, while
the fields adjacent were covered with water.
Miss Angelina Kidd, rs years old, died
Sunday at the Aged Women Home, Bal
timore, where she had lived three menths.
Her previous home was at Colora, Cecil
county She is survived by a sister, Miss
Eugenia Kidd, of Creswell, and brother,
Summerfield Kidd, of Pennington, Cecil
county
Mrs. Clarissa Hall, widow of Alfred
Hail. died Saturday night of the infrmi-
ties of age at her home, 2247 Eutaw
Place, Baltimore She was native Of
Baltimore and was SO years old. Mrs
Hall was one of the oldest members of the
Belt Parrish families of Baltimore county.
A daughter and several grandchildren sur
vive her.
One of the enumerators of Queen Anne s
county in his rounds came across two names
that will likely take the cake for length,
namely: Emily Henrietta Matilda Mary
Susan Elizabeth Margaret Rowena Clara
Catherine Maria Frampton Lucas, and John
Charles Henry Denny William Nicholas
Hayward Bell Frampton. Both parties
are colored
Governor Smith has COMMITTED the SEN
tence of Matthew Cheers, convicted of the
murder Of Solomon Roberts, of Queen
Anne county, and sentenced to have been
executed on Friday, May 81, at Centre
vile, to Imprisonment in the Penitentiary
for life The entire jury that convicted
Cheers and many others petitioned the
Governor to pardon the condemned man.
Professor Ira Remsen, who has filed the
chair of chemistry at the Johns Hopkins
University since it opened, in 1876, has
been elected president, to succeed DR..
Daniel c. Gilman. Prof. R. W. Wood,
of the University of Wisconsin, was elected
professor of experimental chemistry, sue
ceeding the late Professor Rowland, and
Gen. John Gill was elected member Of
the board of trustees.
Winslow Jones, former Delegate to the
Maryland Legislature, was beaten and left
for dead at his home near Portland, Anne
Arundel county, last Monday by man to
whom he had given assistance, and after
wards employment on his farm. The man
gave his name as William Nelson, and if
caught he will surely be lynched Mr.
Jones is 6S years old, and gave an accu-
rate description of his assailant.
G. P. Miller, president of the Alleghe-
ny Orchard Company, Berkeley, Morgan
and Hampshire counties, w. Va, with
offices in Cumberland, which has over L
500 acres of land in orchards, states that
if there is no frost or severe storms during
June the fruit crop will be the largest that
has been seen in so years. This state
ment is also made by the managers of the
Pancake and other orchards of West Vir-
ginia, who have offices there.
Alexander Brengle died suddenly in
Frederick May 81, aged SO years. Mr..
Brengle was seemingly in his usual good
health. After returning from drive he
was going from the stable toward the house,
when he received stroke of paralysis about
8 O clock and was found in the yard an
hour later unconscious and remained so
until he expired For over 20 years Mr.
Brengle had been engaged in the boot and
shoe business, having succeeded his father,
the late Lewis A. Brengle, and was con-
nected with number of organizations.
Last week the German Steamer Frank
furt carried the following load to Bremen
100 bales cotton, Z, 499 sacks -four, 375
sacks rolled oats, 20 hogsheads Virginia
tobacco, IA hogsheads stems, 20 hogs
heads Kentucky tobacco, 10 cases leaf
tobacco, 30l bales cotton, l POE tierces
lard, 600 half-barrels lard, IS tierces
grease, 1,025 pieces hardwood lumber,
449 bags brewers grain, 1888 barrels
rosin, SO, 900 bushels wheat, 10, 900 bush
els oats, Ill, 429 bushels corn, 2 cases
steel hoes, rs barrels grease, IA oak logs,
l 400 pieces North Carolina pine lumber,
5 hogsheads leaf tobacco; value, 1904, 896.