The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-11-22
Maryland Afairs.

William Cabell, aged IA years, will start
an Angora goat farm at Hancock.
North East and Chesapeake City, Cecil
county, are each to have national bank.
Capt. VIM. w. Bryan, aged u years,
died suddenly while sitting in a chair at
his residence in Centreville.
Only 5 of the 200 or more Syrians who
came to Hagerstown in the past few years
remain. The others have gone to various
points.
Mrs. Caroline Vogelgesang, Of lab
William street, Baltimore, ON November
Is, was burned to death by stepping on
match.
George F. Nesbitt, Jr., secretary Of
Sandy Springs Savings Bank, Montgom-
cry county, died last week, from consump-
ton, aged 81 years.
DIR. William Fl. Grim, the well-known
physician and surgeon of the Fifth Regi-
ment, died suddenly last Saturday night
at his home in Baltimore.
The Shannon mill, part of the McCul-
Tough Iron Company's works in North
East, is being dismantled and the machin-
cry shipped to Wilmington, Del.
Michael Myers, colored, is held at Eli
colt City for alleged perjury, growing out
of charges against William d. Yelling,
applicant for the postmastership of High
land Howard county.
Official information received at An
napolis shows that the total value OF prop
erty in the state assessable for state pur-
poses amounts to 1866, 857, SOB, and upon
that basis the state tax of II cents on the
500 will yield revenue of 81, 1873, :
658. 26.
The Oldest steamboat in the United
States, the General Cadwalader, built in
1S45, and which has been running be-
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia, was put
out Of commission by the Ericsson Line 5
recent announcement that she will be sue
ceeded By 19-knot craft.
Six steers and two COWS on the farm OF
Samuel Barrick, near Woodsboro, Fred
erick county, became wedged between two
fodder stacks, and, being unable to get
out, three died from suffocation and the
others are not expected to live. The ami
mails had been missing since November II.
Sexton Hinkel, of St. Johns Gene
terry, Waverly, Baltimore county, on Sun
day, found in grave the body of man
who was alive when exhumed and who
gave his name as John Mare Badollet and
his residence at Wilmington, Del. A let
ter explaining the burial was found in the
grave box The man acknowledged to
the police that be had buried himself. The
grave had been prepared for the remains of
Mrs. Ella Prince.
Charles L. Shipley was convicted in
the United States District Court, Balti-
more, November 13, of mailing improper
letters to Miss Rebecca May Beam and
Miss Nellie White, of Pikesville, Balti-
more county. He was sentenced by Judge
Morris to one year in Jail at hard labor.
The verdict was agreed upon and was
taken into court sealed The jury recon-
mended Shipley to mercy. 1t was the
second trial of the case, the jury disagree
ing at the first trial last May. The ver-
dict marked the ending of case that
caused much excitement in and around
Pikesville, where Shipley has lived all his
life For years the residents of Pikesville
have been annoyed by Objectionable letters
and drawings which were slipped under
their doors, thrown into their yards or
scattered along the roads.
John T. Holland, young man, colored,
was shot and killed one mile north of
Perryman, Hartford county, about 2.30
O clock last Sunday morning, by Sarah r.
Hail. Holland, in company with Charles
Wilmore, Septimus York, Mary Smith
and Sarah F. Hall, left Perryman about
10 o clock Saturday night for Mrs Hall 5
home, apparently in an intoxicated con-
dition, and in brawl at Hall s house Hol-
land was shot. 1t is claimed by the Hall
woman that Holland, who is her nephew,
called her ugly names, cursed and threat
ened to kick her, and to intimidate him
she took gun from another room and told
him he must keep quiet, when, she states,
Holland caught the gun barrels and held
them directly in front of him. In the
tussle for the gun it was accidentally dis
charged, the load entering the lower part
of his abdomen, killing him instantly.