The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-11-29
MARYLAND Affairs.


VIM. H. Hare, justice of the peace
and we'll known resident of Freelands,
Baltimore county, died November g.
Twelve horses, ten cattle and some sheep
and hogs persisted in fire which destroyed
the barn of Shields Payne, near Hedges
vile, Washington county, Monday
Mrs. Emma Pullman Hank, Chautau
qua county, N. Y, has sold the Fairview
Mountain property, west of Clearspring, to
DR.. George Fl. Soulters, of Washington,
for s21, 900.
Joseph NJ. Cushing, of Gushing & Co.,
one of the oldest book firms in Baltimore,
died suddenly last Sunday from heart
trouble. He was 81 years old and was
one of the best-known men in the trade
and also among educators and as public
speaker.
Cans Bros, umbrella manufacturers,
Hopkins Place, Baltimore, were burned
out last Sunday afternoon. Loss about
5000, 900. Other property adjacent was
injured by water and smoke. lu 1888
warehouse on the same ground was burned
and several lives were lost.
John L. Bruins, bookkeeper for the Al
legany Paint Company, Cumberland, who
went to his home, Midland, las6 week,
has developed case of smallpox and has
been removed to the smallpox hospital near
| Cumberland. The home of his father,
Garrett Burns, has been quarantined.
Charles P Barnette, manager on the
farm Of A. G. Snyder, near Towson, Bal
timore county, raised 218 bushels OF yell
low corn on one acre of ground this season.
BENJAMIN NJ. Benson, of Foreston, Fifth
district, same county, raised 145 barrels
of yellow corn on 10 acres
Henry J. Schiresen, formerly clerk in
charge of postal sub-station No l04 IN his
drug store, corner Pratt and Bond street,
Baltimore. has been held in $500 bail by
Commissioner Rogers for the action OF the
United States grand jury on the charge OF
embezzling money intrusted to him for
ransmissi on in the mails.
Harry L. Boyd, of Kent county, who
has for three consecutive years won the GER
tifcate of honor for Kieffer pears at the
MARYLAND Horticultural Society meetings,
has forwarded to cold storage for exhibition
at the approaching meeting basket OF
Kieffers which average in weight about "a
ounces. Nineteen of the pears fill peach
basket.
Miss Carrie Benson, aged % years, COM
mitted suicide early last Monday morning
at her home, 1881 Jefferson street, Balti-
more, by cutting her throat with razor.
The unfortunate girl had been in i'll -healta
for some months, and this, together with
being of nervous disposition, was at
tributed as the incentive to the deed.
Ten spiritualist mediums were arraigned
before Jtstice James W. Lewis, at the
Northwestern Police Station, Baltimore,
Friday afternoon of last week, on the
charge of telling, and each was
committed to the House of Correction.
Four of the prisoners were men and SIX
were women Hundreds of persons in the
city and from the country daily patronize
these charlatans, who know no more about
the future than log of wood.
Deeds conveying additional land for the
proposed extension to tidewater and the
establishment of terminals there by the
Western Maryland Railroad Company were
fled for entry in the Record Office Of the
Superior Court, Baltimore, last Saturday
by McComas, Gather & Greenbaum, at
torneys for the company. The convey
ances are to the Western Maryland Tide
water Railroad Company, which is con-
stituent company of the Western Maryland
Railroad Company. The property is in the
vicinity of Fort Covington, in South Bal
timore, and contiguous to the rs acres
purchased by the company, deeds for which
were recorded Saturday, November 10.
A New York syndicate, headed by Mr..
DIN I. Ely, of New York, and represented
by Mr.. Jacob s. Rosenthal, Of Baltimore,
has leased for 20 years the large apart
ment store of d. Lowenthal & Son, at the
southwest corner Of Howard and Lexington
streets, and will improve the site in the
future with large seven-story department
store fully equipped in every detail. The
deal includes the building, which is 100
by $50 feet in size and four stories in
height, the fixtures and equipment, entire,
and the stock on hand at the beginning Of
the coming year. The transfer will be
made as soon as the necessary papers have
been drawn. The syndicate, which in
cludes four New York capitalists, in add
ton to Mr.. Ely, was incorporated in New
Jersey this week under the title of the
Olin T. Eli Company, with a capital of
$3.50, 600, divided into 100 shares of pre-
! ferred stock valued at $3.50 each and 100
shares of ordinary stock of the same value.