The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-10-04
Maryland Affairs.

Hog cholera is prevailing in Talbot
county. S. NJ. Tull had go to die out Of
$50, and many of those left are sick.
The Maryland Synod of the Lutheran
Church will hold its annual session in Ha-
gerstown, beginning October %.
It is estimated that the storm of last
week damaged the railroads in this state
over $50, 900
L. B. Disharoon, of Worcester county,
had yields of wheat this season of from
311 to 81 bushels per acre. His total
crop was 3 ,44O bushels.
Fourteen arrests were made in Cam
bridge on Monday for gambling, DRINKS
and disorderly conduct on Saturday and
Sunday.
Thirty head of cattle which were being
driven to Homecoming fell through a county
bridge on the road between Franklin and
Morrison.
Harry Warner, colored, was shot and
killed by another negro man at church
festival near Muirkirk, in Prince George s
county, last Saturday night.
The rains last week in Howard were
very damaging to plowed ground, where
the wheat crop had been sown, making it
necessary to plant this grain over again.
The largest school in Baltimore county
is school 2, District II, which numbers on
roll nearly 1000 children. The school
has % teachers, Miss Mary L. Molloy
being the principal
James Richie, of Frostburg, while at
work September ~ in the new shaft, Hoff-
man mine, of the Consolidation Coal Com
pany, was caught by fall of breast coal
and instantly killed. He was 40 years old
and leaves a widow and nine children.
Harry F. Starner, who, on May last,
shot and killed Joseph Henry Rinehart,
near Emmitsburg, was placed on trial in
the Circuit Court in Frederick Friday of
last week. Starner was indicted for man
slaughter and was acquitted.
At the close of business on September
10 the Ga national banks of this State
showed loans and discounts of ST., 1872,
996, As, individual deposits amounted to
SO, 244, 1872, As; capital stock paid in 81, :
431, 700, and a surplus fund and I'M
divided profits of SO, 043, 1913. Al.
A sensation was created by the arrest of
Is merchants in Washington county for
selling without licenses. Warrants are
out for number of others Some of those
arrested, it is alleged, have not taken out
license for seven years. License should
have been taken out May |. The penalty
is fine of from 500 to 500, one-half to
go to the informer
George Marshall, colored, has been ar
rested at Rockville, for stealing, on Septem-
Der IS, SOC worth of postage stamps and
about 81, 800 worth of notes and securities,
as well as one mortgage belonging to Edgar
r. Perry, at Potomac, Montgomery
county. Marshall is about 20 years old
and carries the mail for his father from
Brookeville to Rockville and from Rock.
vile to Potomac
COL John A. Hayden, prominent resi-
dent of Frederick, died September &c, of
general debility, having been confined to
his home since last April Colonel Hay
den was 72 years of age. He was born in
Alexandria, and came to Frederick in 1870,
as chief engineer of the construction of
the Frederick divisions of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. He married Miss Alice NJ,
daughter of the late James McSherry and
sister of Chief Judge James McSherry, of
the Maryland Court of Appeals.
William +. Spangler, who left his home,
in Williamsport, June Is, has returned in
greatly emaciated condition and says he
remembers nothing since he left home until
Thursday of last week, when he found
himself in Grafton, W. Va. When he
left home three months ago it was to con-
suit physician in Hagerstown. His dis
appearance could not be accounted for and
he now seems to be unable to explain it.
At first he did not recognize his wife and
children. He wears different clothes from
those he had on when he left home, but
does not recall where or how he came by
them.