The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-11-21
Maryland Affairs.

On the 18th instant the canning factory
of C. K Blaney, of Hartford county, was
burned, together with 1900 cases Of toma
toes and large quantity of farming i'm
plements.
Mathew Simms, colored, aged l3, ant
Arthur Hardesty, same age, were cunning
near Groom Station, Prince George coun
ty, on the 18th instant. Both boys were
sitting down when Hardesty's gun was
accidently discharged, the load entering
Smms near the heart causing almost III
slant death. He lived long enough tc
exhonerate Hardesty.
While assisting in operating IA corn -shuck
ing machine on the afternoon of the 18th,
on the farm of Watt Belt, near Avery
Montgomery county, George Bean had hi>
right arm caught in the machine and ground
off near the elbow. He also received
an ugly cut just above the right eye. \
cornstalk got stuck in the machinery, and
in attempting to extricate it his hand was
caught and his arm drawn in.
Earl Unger, Clyde Unger and Guy Cline,
boys ranging in age from II to ID years,
were arrested in Hagerstown November II
on the charge of stealing hams from I'll. f
Snavely, local grocer. After being taken
into custody they admitted they stole the
hams, and confessed being guilty of nu'
merous other petty thetts committed at
Hagerstown during the past several months.
One of the boys was recently charged with
the larceny of a gold watch, but as the
watch was recovered the boy Was not pros
ecuted. They are now in Jail.
Annie Elizabeth, wife of David S. Har
tie, died suddenly in Hagerstown, last
Sunday night at o clock in the Office of
Dr. 0. H. w. Ragan Of apoplexy, aged
go years. Mrs. Hartle was taken i'll while
attending services at the Presbyterian
church, where she had gone in company
with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Ridenour,
and Miss Anna Lightcap. Soon after ser
vices began she became i'll and left the
church and went to the Office of DIR. Raglan,
IA few steps from the church, where she
became helpless and died in Il few moments.
Her husband is one of the most widely
known men in Hagerstown. He and five
children survive.
George H. Pendleton colored lawyer
of Annapolis, on Saturday filed with the
clerk Of Washington county his resi- gnation
as a member of that bar, and thereby hangs
a story of considerable interest. In a letter
to Judge w. j. Witzenbacher the colored
lawyer asked to be permitted to withdraw
his resignation Some time ago Pendleton
borrowed from Eveine Walker, colored
woman of Haserstown, the sum Of 1928.
When the time for payment came around
the lawyer did not meet his obligation, and
suit was accordingly instituted in Anne
Arundel county. At the request of Pen
dleton, the action was transferred to another
county, Judge Revell selecting Washing
ton, as it was convenient to the plaintiff.
In the Circuit Court Saturday the case
came up for hearing. As an offset to the
claim Pendleton put in il bill for profes-
sional services for S549. The jury, how
ever, refused to consider it other than as
simply slayer. With the evidence all
in the jury quickly returned verdict for
the plaintiff for 1866, and created mild
sensation in court by offering the following
suggestion in writing: awe further would
say if it were in the power of this jury we
would suggest that the defendant be i'm
prisoned until the cost Of the trial is paid -
Judge Witzenbacher before accepting Pen
dleton's resignation has appointed COM
mittee to investigate the whole affair, and
it is probable that the negro lawyer will
be disbarred.
Frank Griffin, well-known Howard
county farmer, died horrible death No
yember II, in field almost within call Of
his home, at Roxbury Mills Evidence
that the accidental discharge of the shot
gun with which he was hunting had torn
away his stomach and that Mr. Griffin had
crawled over the field in agony as flames
started by the shot consumed his body
were found. The body was discovered the
next day at noon. Mr.. Griffin left his
home early Thursday morning to 90 rabbit
hunting. The time at which he was ex-
pected to return passed and he did not APP
pear, and late in the evening his family,
already alarmed by his absence, were fur
ther excited when the dog which had gone
with him in the morning crept in alone.
Searching parties were organized, and all
through the night they secured the woods
in the vicinity to no purpose. When the
body was discovered it had been burned in
two parts The dead mans knife, some
change from his pockets and his watch
were scattered in wide circle about him,
showing that he had not lost consciousness
as soon as the wound had been inflicted
but had dragged himself about in agony
for some time after it, making vain at
tempts to extinguish the fire, which was
slowly torturing him to death. The hands
of his watch pointed to II, indicating the
time at which the fatal shot was discharged
Mr. Griffin was 33 years old, leaves "a
widow and four small children, and was as
we'll known in Montgomery county as in
Howard, his father, Charles Fl. Griffin,
having been Judge of the Orphans Court
in the former county.
A German skeptic, Heinrich Heine,