The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-09-13
Maryland Affairs.

For the first time in FIVE weeks Washington
county had fine rain on Tuesday.
In Warwick, Cecil county, there is an cpl
demic of typhoid fever owing to bad water
from two wells.
Typhoid fever is said to be on the increase
throughout the State. Boil all drinking wa
ter, says the Health Board.
The Frederick grand jury have indicted
Vernon Rollins, of Sugar Loaf. for perjury in
a liquor case, and he is in Jail for trial.
While boring for oil in Anne Arundel
county. gold bearing quartz was found, and
the company is uncertain whether to bore for
oil or dig for gold.
The grand jury of Howard county indicted
William Mathews, merchant at Glenwood.
on the charge of violating the local option law
by the sale of intoxicating liquors.
The barn of Mrs. j. F. Suckern, near Sandy
Hook, Washington county, was destroyed by
fire Sunday night, together with the contents.
Loss, So, 500; partly insured.
Mrs. Rosa Miller, wife of William Miller,
died suddenly in Annapolis last Monday of an
acute attack of cholera morbus. She died
while her husband was getting prescription
filled by the apothecary.
After session of seven days the Howard
county grand jury adjourned last Monday.
They examined 81 witnesses, found 35 true
bills, made 80 presentments and dismissed IA
cases.
Mrs. Elizabeth Black Groome, widow of
Col. John c. Groome, and mother of the late
ex Gov James B. Groome, died in Elkton
Wednesday morning after long illness in her
S7th year.
Messrs. John B. and Henry Longnecker, of
Towson, have purchased the farm of the late
George Peter Quick, in the 18th district of
Baltimore county, containing 81 acres, for
$l1, 500.
Montgomery county this year will have the
largest corn crop on an average that IT has
had for many years. There will be but few
persons who will not make general average
of 10 barrels to the acre. Many farmers are
reporting Is and Is barrels to the acre.
Frank Bowles, the New York millionaire,
and his sister, Mrs. Anna Kendall, and her
son, Lyman B. Kendall, the New York banker
and broker, are said to be entertaining the
project of building large hotel and making
other improvements at Hancock, Washington
county, to cost SIS, 900.
James Hanson, a well-known Ellicott City
colored politician, is in Jail on the charge Of
embezzlement. Hanson was indicted by the
recent Howard county grand jury on the
Charge vi GtHDtZLtiuS pllf llOin INC OioCt Vi
the Sons and Daughters of Charity of Ellicott
City, of which he was president. He has held
for sometime position in the postofice at
Washington.
During the period from March IA. 1900. to
August 81, 1902 there were organized in
Maryland no less than 1S new national banks,
representing total capital of $l,032, 900.
Of these new banks IL represented total
capital of $780,, 000 while the other seven rep
rented a total capital of $730,000. The
amount of bonds deposited by these banks to
secure currency was $267, 200.
Mrs. Efie, wife of Cadmus Mackey. of
Pleasant Hill, Cecil county, was burned to
death Sunday at her home by the explosion
of a coal oil lamp. Mrs. Mackey was carry
ing the lamp in her hand and was descending
the stairs. when she missed her footing and
fell several steps. The lamp exploded and
the oil saturated her clothing, burning her SO
that she died some hours after the accident.
She was 80 years of age.
Miss Mary Burke, of Deer Park, who at
tended masquade ball Friday night at Oak
land, was missed from the party returning
home They went back and found her I'M
conscious in the road, with one half OF her
nose torn eff, the flesh torn from the right side
of her face the lower jaw broken and several
teeth knocked out. LII Is tnOugnt Inat sue iei
out of the wagon and was either run over or
trampled upon by the horse.
Lewis Hahne, a prominent young man OF
Cumberland, is lying at his home in critical
condition with cut head and face and bruised
chest, the result of severe trouncing admin
istered by Misses Edna and Laura McAbee,
two stout young girls not yet out of their teens,
last Monday, who accused Hahne of speaking
i'll of them. They met Hahne, and, after
bitter parley, beset him with stone and club
until he was unconscious. He was carried to
his home, and naturally weak heart is adding
to the seriousiess of his condition.
Agreements between the Frederick. Woods
boro Turnpike Company and the Maryland
Construction Company have been fled in the
Office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Frederick county. The Maryland Constrnc-
ton Company, which is the company which
proposes to build an electric railway between
Baltimore and Frederick, agrees to pay the
Frederick Woodsboro Turnpike Company
$3.50 annually for the right to lay tracks, erect
polls, etc., along the turnpike, or So, 900 cash
ia lien of annual payments, and to pay the
Woodsboro Turnpike Company $25 cash Tor
the privilege of crossing its road.