The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-02-23
Maryland Affairs.

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John Rasin, colored, had his arm torn
of by shredder in Kent county, and
died soon afterwards.
Mrs. Nellie Cook has started an anti
salp,n crusade in Williamsport, but has
not used any hatchets.
Elmer c. Grass, aged Is years, has
been arrested on the charge of robbing the
postofice at Olive, Frederick county.
Last Saturday afternoon the Maryland
Biscuit Company's factory, Baltimore,
was burned Loss 500, 900; fully in
sured.
Prof Howard Shriber, of Cumberland,
died on the 10Th, aged " years. He
was one of the best known instructors in
the State.
Hagerstown is suffering from dearth
in house servants, as so many girls are
working in the various factories and negro
women are unreliable.
Two men were cut in two on the rail
road at Perryville, Cecil county, on the
18th instant, one was brakeman who fell
| from his train, the other an unknown ne
gro man.
The closing of the Isaac Robinson can
neries causes condition of hopeless I'M
certainty among the farmers of a large part
OF the finest tomato growing section Of
Kent county.
Water was left running into the boiler
at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Cumber-
land, on Saturday night and overAowed
through the pipes to the church, causing
heavy damage.
The Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad
Company and the York Southern Railroad
Company have been consolidated under the
name of the Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company.
Frederick Hoffman, more than ninety
years of age and a well-known resident
of the First district of Howard county,
died last Saturday night at his home,
near Pfeiffer' Corner
In an explosion of dynamite at Patter-
son Creek, Cumberland, ON the 18th, three
men were killed and four were seriously
injured by an attempt of an italian laborer
to thaw dynamite before an open fire.
Eyers Shrover has been arrested, on
evidence secured by Detective Seibeld, OF
Baltimore, charged with setting fire to the
schoolhouse at Pleasant Walk, Frederick
county, to satisfy grudge against the
teacher.
Enoch George Hedges, aged "a years,
died at the Confederate Soldiers Home,
Pikesville, last Saturday night. He is
survived by widow and two daughters
and brother at Fort Reno, Oklahoma
Territory.
Frank o. Conner, fireman on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, was pinioned
under freight wreck near Connellsville,
Pa, on the 10Th, and fellow trainman,
to save him from being burned alive,
chopped off his feet with an ak and re-
moved him from the wreckage.
| Schools of instruction have already been
started on the Eastern Shore aud in South
ern Maryland to educate the negroes how
/ to vote the new Australian ticket this fall.
Educated negroes and white men have been
employed from distance where there were
none in the vicinity.
Owing to the wind blowing from the
northwest for Ia days, much inconvenience
was experience in making landings at the
Chesapeake bay and the several river
wharves. In some cases the steamers and
sail vessels could not get over the bars
and passengers and freight had to go by
rail-
Farmers in Wicomico county are going
to cultivate peanuts on a large scale.
Experiments show that the soil of that
county is peculiarly adapted for their
growth, and that yield Of IS to 80 bush
els per acre can be obtained, which are
readily sold at Is cents per bushel, and
the vines are worth $25 per acre in feed.
Southbound train No. %, on the Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road, was wrecked near North East, Cecil
county, Monday, Engineer Edwin Medes
was killed under the wreckage, and Fire
man George Meyers had one of his feet so
badly crushed that amputation will be
necessary None of the passengers was
hurt.
Miss Elizabeth Musselman, one of the
oldest residents of Baltimore county, was
buried at Mount Gilead M. P Church,
Woodensburg, Baltimore county, Sunday.
She was in the Cpd year of her age, and
died of pneumonia at the residence of her
brother, Mr.. Harry Musselman, near
Woodensburg, which was the homestead
of her father, and where she had spent
her entire life One brother, Jacob Mus
selman, of Baltimore, and one sister, Mrs.
Sarah Hustler, of Woodensburg, are the
only surviving members of the family.
Zero Weather in Southern Europe.
MADRID, Feb. 17.-Throughout Spain
the weather is intensely cold, the Their
mometer registering s degrees below zero
in Madrid Snow has fallen in Murci and
in Palma, capital of the Island of Majorca
where snow storms have been practically
unknown. A heavy gale is sweeping the
southern coast, and eight small wrecks are
reported from Cadiz.
PARIS, Feb. livery severe weather
and heavy snow storms are reported
throughout France Snow has fallen at
intervals during the day in Paris Snow
fails are also reported in Algiers, where
several natives have been frozen to death.
Telegraphic communication with the in
terror is partially interrupted.
Later dispatches state that Switzerland
is suffering from intense cold, and that
there was heavy fall of snow in Rome
Last Monday The mercury at Grennhle