The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-09-19
Maryland Affairs.

Edward Parrish, Of Dickeyville, was killed
and William +. Shirley, of Harrisonville,
/ badly hurt IN an accident in q race after
/ tournament a; Fraukintown, Baltimore coun-
IT, Wednesday. Mr.. Shirley is in critical
/ condition.
David II. Wiles. aged Is years. died in
I Hagerstowu last Monday He was the Oldest
/ member of the Washington County Bar, and
had practiced his profession for about 80 years.
| He was an an uncompromising Democrat and
/ had never cut his ticket He had amassed
I a fortune and had been an extensive travel
/ Ter.
! George W Norris died from paralysis on the
| night ofihe 10Th, at his home in Frederick,
| aged SO years, He is survived by a widow,
/ one son. Dr. NJ. G. Norris, and two daugh
/ tiers, Mrs Nettie Jerregan, Of Lyle. Ga, and
1 Violet Norris. He also leaves two brothers,
/ J. H. Norris, Of Emmitsburg; and Frank
/ Norris, and one sister, Mrs. Geo. Geiselman,
4 Of Rocky Ridge
/ Judge Albert Richie. Of Baltimore, died at
/ Narragauseti Pier, r. l., Monday afternoon.
/ He had been i'll since August 81, aud was OPP
/ Grated upon for appendicitis Wednesday week,
/ and it was successful On Saturday he relapsed
/ and did not rally. He was native ofFreder-
ick, was born in 1884, read law with his brother,
/ the late Judge Richie, and began practice in
| Baltimore in 1859 where he filled many posi-
/ tons. was appointed Judge September 1892
/ by Gov. Brown. and in November, 1898, was
\ elected Associate Judge. He was a hard
/ student, careful and painstaking, aud popular
with all the members of the Bar.
/ The German Baptists dedicated their new
| church building at Easton last Sunday. Rev.
/ George $. Rairigh, of Preston, delivered the
/ dedicatory sermon in the morning, and in the
/ evening be was assisted by Elders Secrist,
/ Wingard, OherIiu and Gibe. The German
/ Baptists or Dunkards are becoming quite
| numerous in Talbot county, having come from
/ the North and West. This is the only church
/ building they have in the county, but for the
past two or three years they have been con
/ Quoting tent meetings iu Eastou and other
/ parts OF the county. The building dedicated
( was built by the Society of Friends in 1874.
/ The store building and stock of John A.
] Belt at Gaithersburg, Montgomery county,
| was burned Monday, excepting a portion of
( the stock. The loss Is covered by insurance.
/ Mr.. Belt, the owner, was absent at the time
/ at Westminster with his son, where he took
/ him to enter him in the Western Maryland
I College there, and left the store in charge of
[ Marshall Walker, his clerk. A straw rick
owned by Bruce Hoskinson, back of his livery
stable, afterwards caught on fire and was
burned down, which endangered other prop
( eriy.
/ in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, slid to his death Monday
! morning while at work on the roof of shed
/ at Chases Wharf, foot of Caroline street. The
man, after sliding off the roof, tell against the
! side of the bark Dom Pedro, which was moor
| ed to the wharf His body rebounded and
/ landed on the edge of the wharf from where
it toppled over into the harbor. When the
body was recovered, it was found that the
] l..IL ,,,, H. hal h,ay,
the company for over 20 years.
Charles Mitchell, coored, aged 80 years, is
held at the Central Police Station, Baltimore,
for the Anne Arundel county authorities,
charged with having abducted two boys, Ray
mond Frederick and Charles Stalk, aged 10
and u years, respectively. Joseph Frederick,
father of the younger boy, did not wait for the
law to take its course, but, with two friends,
Thomas Page and Samuel Kelley, drove to
the shanty where the negro had taken the boys,
and after taking possession of it, bound aud
gagged Mitchell and brought him 10 the city.
However before the colored man was turned
over to the police the three men had treated
him to a severe drubbing that he viii remem
Der for quite long while,
The will of Mrs Grace Greenway, of Balt-
more, was filed last Monday distributing an
estate ofabout 81, 900, 600 Mrs. Grace Green
way Palmer, wife of Houore Palmer, Mrs
Fannie W. Keith and Mrs Sarah Field, wife
of Stanley Field, of Chicago, share equally
with five other children of Mrs. Greenway' S
nephew, the late George Brown. The largest
of other requests is 100000 to a niece, Mrs.
Elizabeth Whitridge. A friend, Miss Ellen
Thames. is left $4,000, and the German In,
dustral Exchange S25, 900. The will is re
markable for a number of requests made to
servants and other employees of Mrs Green
way. including $12. 900 to her maid, Elizabeth
| McCausland; $500 to the housekeeper, $500
to her waiter, 5000 to dressmaker, $500 tc
her seamstress, $500 to her cook, $500 to the
: coachman and similar amounts to several Of
her mothers servants.