The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-06-13
Maryland Affairs.

ceivers for the City Trust and Banking
Company, West Baltimore street, near
Paca street, Baltimore, last Saturday.
VIM. B. Thomas, of Westminster, is one
! of the directors.
Mrs. Agnes Emmons recovered So, 600
damages against Chesapeake City for per
sonal injuries In 1901 she was severely
hurt by defective boardwalk, and the
Jury held the town liable. The case was
removed to Chesterstown for trial and the
result was reached Saturday.
A stock train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad was wrecked on the night Of June
). near Woodstock, scores of cattle, hogs
and calves being killed, injured or turned
loose. The clearing away of the wreck
occupied the train crews ana trackmen for
many hours The train was bound for the
Baltimore stock yards.
Thomas w McGregor, in charge Of the
matter of rural free delivery supplies for
the Postofice Department in Washington,
and G. Ellsworth Upton, of Baltimore,
one Of his assistants, have been arrested on
the charge of conspiring to defraud the
government in the purchase Of pouches
! from c. f. Smith of Baltimore.
In Queen Annes county the outlook for
the tomato crop is very poor Plants are
scarce and not over one-half the acreage
contracted for will be planted, owing to
worm killing the young plants. Wheat
promises a good yield Hay will be the
poorest crop for years, and hungarian and
millet are being sown SO as to take Its
place Fruit is almost failure.
The scarcity Of farm laborers has become
matter of the gravest concern in Wicom
leo county. Year after year it has become
more difficult to get farm hands until now
there is hardly farmer in the county who
can get labor enough to tend his crops.
Wages do not seem to attract labOrers.
Formerly GO cents a day was the highest
price paid for farm hands Now farmers
are offering 81 and cannot get them at
that
Abraham d. Hoover died in Hagers-
town last Sunday evening of heart disease,
aged 81 years He was an employee Of
the Western Maryland Railroad and Il
brother of John Hoover, of Baltimore.
He was a member Of the Knights Of Py-
thias. His surviving children are Mrs.
Morton Banks, of New York; Mrs. John
Orndorff Of Washington; William Hoov
err, of Columbus. Ohio; Abram, Roy and
Russell Hoover, of Hagerstown.
During severe thunder storm that
passed over Washington county last Sun
day night lightning struck the mammoth
tannery of W. d. Byron & Sons, at Will
Transport, one Of the largest in the coun
try, and in few hours the great plant was
practically in ruins The total loss will be
between 5000, 900 and $3.50, 600. The
insurance is about Sl55. 600. The tan
merry covered about four acres and employed
200 hands Most of the buildings were
erected about six years ago, when the firm
removed from Mercersburg.
During the absence of her husband Mrs.
John Swami. wife Of farmer i'll Talbot
county. near Easton. was brutally beaten
on Friday of last week by an unknown
white man. who robbed the house and
made his escape. Mrs. Swami was attend
ING to some out -of-door duties, and on 90
inc back into the house, found the man
helping himself to food and drink. How
he got into the house she does not know,
but she asked him what he wanted. He
replied that he had what he wanted. This
was manifest from the fact that the side
board and bureau drawers had been ran
sacked and the contents strewn over the
floor. She ordered him to leave the house
when he grabbed her and fierce struggle
eusued He choked her and knocked her
down. and would have killed her but for
the fact that at the critical moment her
dog took part in the affair. Seeing his
mistress assaulted the faithful animal
sprang at the man, who vainly tried to
kick him off. The dog chung to the man,
giving his mistress time to regain her feet.
The dog kept up the attack and finally
obliged the fellow to retreat by leaping
through a back window, and taking to the
woods. Mrs. Swami was badly overcome
by the adventure. and required the service
of physician.
Last Saturday steer on the rampage
in the vicinity of Doughoregan, Third dis
trict of Howard county, injured a number
of persons, several of whom narrowly es-
capped being killed by the Infatuated beast
He was being driven to St. Charles Col
lege farm with a number of other cattle to
be butchered. 1t became unmanageable
and left the herd in furious rage. The
first person it encountered was Richard
Thompson, blacksmith, on the Triadel-
phia pike, who was riding bicycle. The
bull dashed at Mr.. Thompson, and catch
ing the bicycle with its horns, threw both
over a nearby fence. Mr. Thompson was
badly bruised and knocked unconscious
drivers by repeated attempts to catch them
on his horns, and they were forced to seek
refuge in the woods. He then came upon
two colored women employed on the farm
of ex- Governor Carroll and made dash at
them. One of the women was caught up
on its horns and thrown into thicket,
followed by the desperate brute, which
made repeated attempts to gore her to
death. She was saved only by the dense
underbrush. When she was rescued al
most all her clothing had been ripped from
her body, which was torn and bruised in
many places by the horns and sharp hoofs
of the steer. She had to be supplied with
clothing in order to proceed to her home
Others who narrowly escaped the vicious
attacks of the beast were Charles Boone
and Mrs. Rhine, wife of Walter Rhine,
farmer of that vicinity. The bull then
proceeded to the farm of John II. Her
bert and chased his hands from the field.
A government expedition has found in
Northern Mexico variety of cactus called