The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-08-24
LOCAL BREyITIES.

is said that WetzeI was the aggressor in the
encounter.
Mr.. Albin Dnvall, Of Warfeldsbnrg, left a
basket of fine peaches at this office ON We'd
nesday. From his orchard be will have over
two hundred bushels.
Mrs Jacob Werner, aged 80 years, 6 months
and 10 days, died in Hanover, Pa, on the 18th
instant She leaves five daughters and two
sons, one Of the latter is John Werner, oil
Alesia.
On Tuesday last, while preparing to go to
threshing, a board fell on the left foot of Mr..
Lewis Arnold, of Patapsce, fracturing two OF
the bones. DIR. NJ. l.. Bot rendered the me-
cessary surgical aid.
A gentleman advertised the loss of pair OF
eye glasses in the ADVOCATE last week. They
had been found by a son of DIR. j. s. Matthias
and were returned to the owner shortly after
O. clock Saturday morning.
lobe Butler, colored was lodged in Jail
here on Wednesday on the charge OF stealing
corn from Frank |. Lewis. He was COM
mitted by Justice Geo. A. Harrison, who also
brought him to Westminster.
Mr. George l.. Stocksdale has withdrawn
as a candidate for the Republican nomination
for Associate Judge of The Fifth Judicial Cir
cult. This leaves only Judge Reifsnider as a
candidate, and he will be nominated by ac-
clamation.
Mr.. Elias B. Arnold has contract to de-
liver poles for a telephone line in Carroll, a
part of through line from Philadelphia to
Washington Many poles have been delivered
along the Washington road from Hoods Mill
north four or five miles.
Mr.. Charles f. Beck, living on the Wash
ington road, about q miles from Hoods Mill,
has a willow tree he planted about eighteen
years ago, which is about 80 inches across the
stump and the branches of which cover sur.
rounding space of fully 40 feet.
Miss Mary johnson, aged 70 years, died at
the residence of her nephew Rev. II. j. Mac
aIister, Union Bridge, on the 18th instant.
She was daughter of the late Hiram johnson,
Of Baltimore, Nd. Her remains we're inferred
in Greenmonnt Cemetery, Baltimore, on Mon
day.
In Baltimore, last Saturday, marriage
license was issued to Vernon Stein, of Union
Bridge, and |. Mag Staub, of Carroll county.
On Monday marriage license was issued IN
the same city 10 Hugh Forsythe Kyle, Of
Charleston, w, Va. and Lydia Densifer White,
of Morgan, this county.
Tablets were erected in Manchester by the
Battle Field Commission to mark the move
ments of the Army Of the Potomac in the
Gettysburg campaign, showing the passage OF
part Of the Sixth Corps through the town.
Similar tablets were erected at the Courthouse,
ii this city, this week.
The Havre de Grace Republican of August
II, says :-Messrss Chas. S. Hinchman and
George W Albaugh have purchased the val
liable Hall property, i'll this city, embracing
the wharf and water front and the entire square
a. Ill.
and fronting 300 feet on st. John street.
Last Mondays heavy rain caused the breast
of the dam at j. d. Shearer's mill, on Gun
powder Falls, to give away. The breast is
100 feet long and the washout is over 35 feet.
A large piece of ground, in which were about
500 bushels of potatoes, was either washed
away, or so deeply covered with mud as to be
worthless.
Miss Lille AIhowell, of Baltimore. who is
visiting at Mr.. Uriah MiIler's, this city, and
who is blind, fell off the porch on Tuesday
and had the right ankle joint dslocated and a
bone of the ankle fractured. The injury is so
serious that it will be some time before she
will be able to use the injured leg. DR.. M.
l.. Bott dressed the injuries.
On Friday Of last week DR.. Charles R. Fouiz,
Health Officer for Carroll county, and State S
Attorney E. o. Weant visited Mount Airy and
placed six houses infected with diphtheria
under quarantine. The houses are all occu-
pied by colored people and the sanitary con-
dilions were very bad. Two persons have
already died from the disease.
Parts of Carroll, Baltimore, Frederick,
Hartford and Cecil counties, Nd, and Adams
and u rk counties, Pa, suffered greatly from
the heavy rains of Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day. The damage 10 corn, plowed fields,
roads and bridges is very large, and railroad
and tracks, bed and bridges were washed out,
and some were covered with land slides.
President Lewis. of Western Maryland Col
lege, who was selt.Iad by the General Confer
ence of the Methodist Protestant Church to
represent that bu,ly as delegate to the Ecu
menica Conference of Meihodism, which will
meet in London the first week in September,
will not he able to attend. owing 10 press OF
business connected with the opening of college
September 10.
Mt. Airy was terrorized on Monday by a
gang OF negroes, who are engaged in the i'm
provements on the Baltimore X Ohio railroad
at Ridgeville. On Tuesday Baxter Peterson,
w. M. Buckner, Debney Whick and James
Montgomery were arrested and lodged in Jail
here on Tuesday night under commitment by
Justice Frank |. Lewis. Deputy Sheriff Tray
er brought them up.
1t is said that the cause of so many bridges
being damaged by the recent heavy rains is
because persons who trim trees or cut the tops
off, throw them into the streams. These hold
grass, &c, and when the streams rise they are
forced down, lodge against the bridges and
catch other debris, causing the water to wash
the bridges away or undermine the walls.
Road commissioners should look into this
matter and stop it.
Mrs. John Arthur, aged rs years, neal
Tyrone, had an infested tumor, weighing ten
pounds taken from her abdominal cavity on
Friday of last week. DIR. C. BRINE was the
attending physician. Prof Gushing of Johns
Hopkins, assisted by Drs. Pancosi and Bush
of the same institution, performed the opera
ton. Drs. Motter and Kemp were also pres
ant. Mrs. Arthur is in charge of a tranec
nurse, and is doing well.
Mr. Charles c. Gorsuch on Monday evening
last entertained large number of children a
a watermelon feast. The grounds and porche:
and parlors were brilliantly illuminated with
colored lanterns and electric lights, and al
orchestra rendered music during the evening
About 100 melons were served the little guests
On Wednesday night Mr.. Gorsuch treated the
colored children at their school house grounds
which were illuminated. About 200 were
present and had good time.
The Baltimore County Commissioners haC
a conference recently with the Commissioners
of Carroll county with reference to erecting ,
bridge over Benson's ford, between the two
counties There is an island in the stream "A
that point, and it was found necessary to cree
two bridges one of which it was estimated woult
cost So, 900 and the other ST 900, the 81 ,0O'
bridge to be built on the Baltimore county
side. The Baltimore County Commissioner
agreed to pay 81 900 of the total cost.
Mr.. Harry H. Herring died at the home o
his father-in-l law, w. Bradley Herring, in West
minister, last Saturday morning of tuberculosis
in the twenty sixth year of his age. He wa
engaged in the milling business as membe
of the firm of Herring Bros, Springfield Mills
near Sykesville, but had retired OIL account q
i'll health. He went to Mountain Lake Parl
in June and was brought from there to West
minister on the day before his death. He wa
a son of Francis l.. Herring of Woolery's dis
trict, and a nephew of Comptroller j. W. Her
ing. He leaves widow, to whom he wa
married in September last
Theodore Evans, the man who was slappe
by Nicholas w. Steele on Wednesday of las
week, as noted in the ADVOCATE last Saturday
died on Sunday, and Mr. Steele was arreste
and held at the Southern Police Station with
out bail to await the action of the coroner
jury. The jury on Monday night exonoiate
Mr.. Steele from all connection with Evans
death and he was Immediately discharged an
heartily congratulated by host of friends
The evidence showed that Evans broke hi