The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-07-06
MARYLAND Affairs.


July 10 has been designated as Mary
land Day at the Pan-American exhibition
at Buffalo, N. Y
Baltimore had temperature of SO 20
on Sunday, june 80, and there were two
deaths and 13 prostrations.
A brick plant with daily capacity of
25, 900 bricks per day is being erected at
Buckeystown, Frederick county.
Henry Blozer, who has carried the mail
between Hagerstown and Reiffs. for %
years and has been stage coach driver
since 1852, has retired.
According to the report of Thomas G.
B. Howard, of the State Fisheries Force,
4, 281, PAT bushels of oysters were in
spected and passed during the season re-
Gently closed in this State.
John Louis Stieff, the widely known
California pioneer and retired piano manu-
faeturer, died last Saturday afternoon at
his home, in Baltimore, of stomach trou-
BILE, after an illness of three weeks
Fire Sunday night destroyed the Junior
department building of the House of Ref
uge, representing, with contents, value
of SIS, 600 Boy inmates accuse one of
their number with having started the fire.
At o clock Sunday evening the Their
mometer registered 1000 in the shade in
Cumberland At Frostburg, much
higher altitude, the heat was equally OPP
pressive, while at Elkins, W. Va, the
day was the warmest since the establish
ment of the Weather Bureau there.
A 5-year-old child of John Brown, of
Hyattstown, Montgomery county, last Sat
urday, while following binder on his
farm, was caught in the cog wheels, and
was wound up into the wheels Its frantic
screams caused the driver to stop just in
time. The child was badly bruised and
it took nearly an hour to get it disentangled
from the machine
Mary Preston, colored, aged 38 years,
was fatally burned last Saturday afternoon
at the residence of Frederick Nassauer,
Eutaw Place, Baltimore. Geo. Brooks,
colored, was heating coal oil on the range
to use in killing mosquitoes, when the can
exploded, the oil fell on the woman and
burned her so badly that the flesh peeled
off She died several hours later.
Clarence NJ. Thomas was before Justice
Fechtig, Central Police Station, Baltimore,
last week, on charge of obtaining $40
from William A. Farrell, manager for a
loan association, by means of false pre-
lenses. He got the money on a loan
March last, and Farrell said Thomas
signed paper containing statement to
the effect that he had no other debts, but
he afterward learned that Thomas had
other debts. He was to pay 81 month
interest on the $40 loaned, said Farrell
Thomas said the interest accumulated so
fast that he could not pay it, much less
any on the priecipal.
-Four damage suits, aggregating 800,
900, have been filed in the Baltimore
courts against John Jay Gilbert and VIM
f. Gilbert, who compose the wholesale
drug firm of Gilbert Bros. & Co, 8, IL
and Is North Howard street. The suits
were instituted by persons who allege they
were injured by drinking extracts prepared
by the firm One suit is by widow and
children for the death of the husband and
father They claim that the head of the
family died from drinking Jamaica ginger
prepared by the defendants The other
suits are for the loss of eyesight after
drinking small quantities Of the extract.
It is charged that they used wood instead
of grain alcohol in preparing the extracts
The Wicomico News of last week says j:
Messrs. Station, Sweet Il Co., closed their
berry season Saturday by shipping two
refrigerator cars of fruit to Providence, r.
l. The season has been fairly profitable
to the firm. They purchased this season
the product of 100 acres set in Candy
plants, the yield being 305, 676 quarts.
The acreage was distributed among so
growers, who were paid about $40, 99S. :
66. OF this amount the cratemen were
paid So, $50, and the pickers 81, 500.
At the prices paid the growers they cleared
little more than two cents per quart after
paying all expenses The 6rmed capped
for Boston preserving house IS, 600
quarts Of berries, receiving for same the
sum of $3.50.