The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-03-08
Maryland Affairs.

Leonardtown, St. Mary's county, is to have
bank.
The snow has been so deep in Garrett coun-
ty this winter that some of it is expected to
continue in shady spots until midsummer.
Col. Lemuel Shovel, widely known native
and resident of the Eastern Shore, died OF
pneumonia at his home, at Ocean City, March
1st.
The trouble in ST. Pauls Lutheran congre-
CATION, Cumberland, resulted in locked doors
at the house for morning and evening service
last Sunday.
William Dyche, aged rs years, of Cumber-
land, plunged down a stairway last Sunday
while cropping in the dark and was instantly
killed. His neck was broken.
Gov. Smith has signed the death warrant
and fixed Friday, April 25, for the execution of
Mary E. jackson, colored, of Baltimore, con-
victed of poisoning her husband by putting
arsenic in his corn-bread.
Baltimore police are looking for negro
man who they believe is employed by gang
of counterfeiters to pass counterfeit silver
quarters. Complaints are being made to the
police department from all parts of the city
of their circulation.
James Walsh, aged 112 years, died last
Sunday, at Morantown. Allegany county.
He was a native of Ireland, but came to this
country with his parents when 8 years old.
His baptismal certificate was given him by his
father when James was 81 years old.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was so
badly damaged by the recent food that it
will be impossible to obtain funds to repair it.
In many places the canal is so full of mud
that it cannot be distinguished from the adj
joining land aud in others the debris is pack
ed so tight that the water cut the banks away.
William G. II. Stump, well known resi-
dent of the Green Spring Valley, Baltimore
county, and prominent in local society circles,
was seriously injured by falling from rapidly
moving train on the Northern Central Railway
as the train was passing through Woodberry,
last Sunday afternoon. Besides having both
his legs, as we'll as one of his thighs, badly
fractured, he received deep cut on his fore
head and suffered severely from the shock.
He was taken to the Maryland General Hos.
pital, Baltimore. He died Monday morning.
Last Saturday night,six prisoners escaped
from the Talbot county Jail at Easton and L.
John Thompson, deputy sheriff in pursuit OF
them, was shot and killed. Lewis Green, a
negro, who is to be tried at the next term OF
court for numbering Carrie Price, colored,
was captured at Oxford, charged with shoot
ing Thompson. Later his brother, Will Green,
and a colored woman were arrested. All
three were taken to Easton and put in Jail
The officers experienced difficulty in protect
ing the prisoners from the Infatuated citizens.
On a slab of sandstone recently taken from
the red sandstone quarry near Emmitsburg,
DR.. J. A. Mitchell, professor of geology al Mt.
st. Mary's College, diminishing, has found di
nosaurian foot prints which determine the
species to which the animal belonged. The
slab is about three by four feet and covered
with impressions and suncracks. Ofthe many
impressions discovered by DR.. Mitchell, dat
ing as far back as 1896, this is the only one
which shows the imprint of the two hind and
the fore feet. The hind impressions are large
and the fore small, which would go to show
conclusively that the animal was a species OF
dinosaur. known in palaeontology as thes-
pesius, or herbivorous dinosaur. This animal
NAV have attained a maximum size of 25 feet
in length and stood II feet high, and walked
about where Emmitsburg now stands. The
slab discovered by DR.. Mitchell lay in bed
of blue shale about two feet thick, and above
this blue shale are strata of red shale. the
lower stratum being about two feet in thick
ness Below this lies four-foot layer of blue
and very dense sandstone. Many of the beds
show beautiful ripple marks; large suncracks
! as the mud hardened under the heat of the
sun. These markings show beyond doubt
that here were ancient beaches and mud flats