The Democratic advocate., 1902-03-15
Maryland Affairs.


Some $50 bicycles are now turned out
daily at the Crawford works in HageIstown
Il is said it win cost over s25, 600 10
repair the damage done to the Chesapeake
ard Ohio Canal
At the close Of business, February 20,
the National Banks of Baltimore had on
deposit s31, III, 678.24.
z. E. McCleary, proprietor Of Locust
Vale Stock Farm, near Towson, has shipped
$50 horses to New Orleans for the British
army in South Africa
Work Of repairing breaks in the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal has been begun,
but it will be month or more before It
will be open to traffic.
Harry K. Duke & Co., booksellers and
statiorIsrs, and proprietors Of the Fin de
Steele Circulating Library, Cumberland,
have fled deed Of trust.
Thlrty-nine persons were received into
full membership of the Methodist Protest
ant Church in Cumberland Sunday, as the
result Of the recent revival services.
j. Duncan Almony, Of Hartford county,
has been arrested, charged with the murder
Of Horace Sutton, Of Baltimore county,
who died from fractured skull Dec. b.
George Goode, of Seneca, Montgomery
county, caught carpin the Potomac river
Saturday which weighed 30 pounds.
Many have been caught weighing from five
pounds to 20 pounds each, but this 3D.
FOUNDER is the heaviest yet.
All Of the police Of Cumberland and ID
tramps in the police station were vaccinated
after having come in contact with man
arrested for drunkenness and who, 1t de-
veloped later, escaped from the Cumber-
land smallpox pesthouse.
Mrs. Rosalie E. Pressprich and her :
children had narrow escape from being
burned to death in their home, on South
Stricken street, Baltimore, at an early hour
last Sunday morning. Mrs. Pressprich
was awakened by the loud barking OF a
shepherd deg in the yard Of her home.
Last Saturday morning Robert Pue,
near Ellicott City, found his cornhouse had
been opened during. the night and several
bags Of corn stolen. He telephoned the
sheriff and in short time negro man
was arrested in that place while endeavor-
ing to dispose Of it.
The Spring Hill Club, colored social
organization, was raided in Chestertown,
Kent county, last Saturday night, and
found handsomely furnished with rockers,
tables and other articles stolen from the
porches of residents of Washington avenue
last summer. The president and other
officers are under arrest to explain their
possession Of the goods.
E. P. Gibbs, Of Hardesty, Prince
Georges county, has gone on trip West
for the purpose of inducing other Western
farmers to come to Prince Georges county
He came from Illineis two years ago and
settled in; the county Twenty three of
his former neiglhors in Illinois purchased
land in Prince Georges recently. Secre-
tary Badenhoop, of the Bureau of lmml-
grafton, Baltimore, has sent pamphlets and
maps of Maryland to different people IN
Illinois and Nebraska.
A large frame barn on the place of
Henry B. Alder, near Corbett, Baltimore
county, was destroyed, together with apart
of its contents, by fire about 3 o clock
Monday morning. All the stock and
portion of the other contents were saved, a
lot of hay, straw and farm machinery being
destroyed with the building. It is sup
posed that "a tramp set the barn on FIRE, as
one was seen to 60 in the barn the evening
before. The loss will probably reach ST.
500; 81, 900 insurance on the building.
Mrs. Margaret Grier, wife of the late
Rev. Robert Grier, who for 80 years had
been pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Emmittsburg, died last Saturday night,
after an illness of few days, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Rosa Amman, aged
84 years. She was twice married, her
former husband Mr.. Sheeler Stewart, by
whom she had two children, who survive
her-Dr. John w. Stewart, of Rock Is
land, and Mrs. Rosa AMMAN She was
lifelong member of the PresbyterianChurch
While living four generations were together
in the home.
The grand jury at Towson returned to
the court the presentment found against
Charles L. Shipley for common libel, with
the Endorsement ignored. : Shipley had
been charged with writing and posting OBJ
jectionable placards and letters at Pixies
vile and vicinity There was no recon-
mendation from the jury to the court asking
for the dismissal of Shipley, and he still
remains in the county jail. Deputy Sheriff
John f. Anderson said that the Sheriff
had received orders from the United States
Marshal Office to hold Shipley if he was
not convicted at Towson.
A letter from Snow Hill, March Z says:
Mrs John D. White, widow of the late
DR.. John d. White, died at her home, in
Wilton, last night Of collapse following the
death of her daughter, Miss Jennie White,
who died last Friday This death is sad
one, as it removes the last member of a
very happy family. Two years ago VIM.
White, an only son, died suddenly while
on his way from New York to visit his
father and mother. Mrs. White was pros
trated with grief at her sons death. In
a few months DR.. White died, and his
death, coupled with that of her son and
daughter, was more than she could bear.
Mrs White was 70 years old.