The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-03-19
Maryland Affairs,

Burziass we're busy in Frederick last week,
securing booty Of small salur. however.
A volunteer src company bas been organ
lied a Giyad0a, Baltimore eoaaty.
Wheat delds in the lower part ot Cecil
county are nearly bare. sud the shortest crop
Ia wears Is predicted.
A company nth ssoo, zoo capital stock hes
b.sru Organized 20 baiii nu electric Fa'iway
from Salisbury 70 Cristield-
Ho~Asd Jones. uf Howard county. has
caught ihus Tar this winter By means - STEEL
Trap on = pole "a hawks and owls.
Dr. James Whitaker, aged 81 wears, a lead
ing physician Of Crc5I couusy. died ai his
bone in Cherry Hill, March L.
During the past winter The Chesapeake Bay
was frozen over frem shore % shorr 81 Poplar
Island siiA isr iu s1sGc places utne inches
shicS,
Foar eases Of smallpox hare been reported
uiihiu tSo aaiies of fredericksburg. Caroline
eoan;y. asd strict quarantine bias h~ru e.
,Abissed.
An epidemic Of srip ia Cecil eogniy has
affected so MANY teachers IN the public schools
,ha, the Schoal Board IS unable 10 supply
enough substitutes.
The past winter vas very trying on aged
40, withstand the rigors Of the severe weather,
aud sgceambed 90 attacks Of grip and puru
MONA.
william l. Amos. Of Hartford county, will
have charge OF The Maryland exhibit nj the
ST Louis Exposition. The agricultural and
horticultural exhibit promises to be the finest
ever made hy the State.
A, Cumberland, on Juue 10, the l2th an.
nuAl convention Of the Maryland State Fire.
mems Association will meet Great prepa
ration for the even, is being made BY the resi-.
dents Of The Queen City OF the Aileghanies
Burglars raided the several offices ~ the
courthouse at Elhcoyt CITY. la the county
commissioners room they battered a sale
almost 20 pieces but were scared of before
finishing the JOB There was only $40 m The
safe.
Owing to the rapid settlement, by ire in
saranee companies Baltimore banks are over
loaded with money. and it is drug on the
market. A. soon rs rebuilding begins u Will
be in demand, aud probably at high rates OF
interest.
John Wsstbruok was taken to the Western
MARYLAND Hospital, at Cumberland, last sun
day, suffering with a badly bruised head and
a number Of lscerated fingers, the result of a
personal Comba, with Thomas Doyle. The
wounded fingers were ehewed by Doyle,
Martin Nullin, aged 5S years, proprietor OF
Mullins Hotel, corner Of Baltimore and LIB
eriy street, Baltimore, which Was burned
February IS. died Suddenly last Sunday
night from grip pneumonia. He was native
of Ireland. but had resided in Baltimore 80
years.
Probably one of the finest and most valu-
able cousigUments of cattle ever imported TO
Baltimore, arrived March Is from Liverpool.
The CONSIGNMENT consists of so head Of cattle,
imported from the Island OF Guernsey for the
Spolswoud Dairy Farm, Broad Axe, Mont
gomery county, Pa, Edward /. Price. pro
prietor. In all the animals are valued al
$40, 900.
Elizabeth Josephine Chilcoat, wife of Geo.
Chlcoat. of Mantua. Fourth district, Balu-
more county, died suddenly at her home
March ~ She is survived by her husband
aud IL children-Edward f. Chilcoat, near
Glyndon; William II. Chilcoat, of Joppa,
Hartford county; Lewis Chilcoat, near Shawan;
George. Theodore and Samuel Chilcoat, Of
Baltimore; Mrs Ada Ballard, of Baltimore;
Misses Mary, Marion, Ella and Annie Chll-
coat Mrs. Edward Moores. of Hereford, Is
a sister of the deceased and Mr.. Lewis Grlf-
fifth brother. Mrs. Chicoat was % years
old.
Johu R. H. Embert died last Saturday at
his home, Sunnyside, on Wye river, Queen
Anne's county, aged 65 years. He was gal
liant Confederate during the Civil War. As
member of the Fourth Maryland Chesapeake
Battery of Artillery, composed entirely of
MARYLAND men. he served in Johnson's brig
AIDE. He was engaged in various campaigns
in Virginia under different commanders AID
was toward the close of 1863 captured. con
demued as spy and sent to Fort McHenry
to be executed. The last sacrament of his
church was administered to him by Rev.
James Gibbons, Tow Cardinal Gibbons. but
then simply priest of the Roman Catholic
Church. His sentence was commuted by
President Lincoln, the document arriving Just
in time to save his life,