The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-04-02
Maryland Affairs.


been fixed at 90 cents on the 500.
Receivers have been asked for the Frederick
Starch and Manufacturing Company.
Anna, wife of John Tinker, died March rs.
at her residence in Reisterstowu, in her 18th
year.
The Jacob Tome Institute, at Port Deposit,
has been closed owing to prevalence of typhoid
fever.
For the first time in Is years the Talbot
County Clerks Office is without work, all pa.
pers having been recorded.
Txo barns we're struck by lightning in Gar
rett county, March 25, aad burned. A mum
Der of cattle were cremated.
Henry C, Rank, aged "a years. editor of the
Cumberland Independent, died suddenly on
the afternoon of March %, from acute indi
gestion.
VIM. I. Wright's storehouse and an adjoin-
ing building, on TIghman's Island. Talbot
county. was burned last Monday; loss about
$4,000.
Miss Martha Finley. of Elkton. who has
made quite reputation as authoress Of the
''Elsie Books, has been elected vice presi
dent of the Authors Association Of New York
city.
United States Judge Iorris, at Baltimore,
has enioined A strikers at Cum berland mem
bers Of the American Flint Glass Workers
Union. from violence against men taking their
places.
The warehouse at III Center Market Space,
the first building to be erected 10 the FIRE dis
trict of Baltimore. has been condemned BY
Building Inspector Preston, aud viii probably
be torn down.
The carrying away Of the Conowingo bridge
across the Susquehanns river by ice has re
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Flintville. The owners cannot get their pro
duct shipped away.
Mrs. Sarah Resi-, widow of Peter Resi-,
died suddenly At her home 10 Washington
county, March Oath, in her eslh year. She
owned fine farm aud other valuable property.
Three sons survive her.
A frame dwelling belonging TO Dr. Jernine-
ham Bone and situated near Buckeystown,
Frederick county, was burned 70 the ground
late Saturday night. The house was not oc
cupied. Loss about 500.
On the night of March "A the residence Of
Jacob l.. Kline, of Adamstown, Frederick
county, together with contents, was burned.
Loss about $50OO With much difficulty the
other buildings were saved.
John B. Coale, free rural delivery carrier
between Port Deposit and Rising Sun, Cecil
county, has been arrested at the instigaiion of
the Maryland Society for Prevention Of Cru.
city to Animals and fined 81 and costs.
John Williams. colored, has beea convicted
in the Criminal Court, Baltimore, Of murder
in the second degree for killing George Vii
son, colored, with eobblestone. be was
sentenced to the Penitentiary for 10 years.
The W q. Reisner Manufacturing Com
pany of Washington county, Nd, has been
Incorporated. 1t viii manufacture lens meas
ures, ties; or surface indicators and refino-
scopes, all three being inventions Of Mr..
Reisner.
Capt VIM. H. Pierce, aged so years, died
at his son laws, in Ceciton, Cecil county,
last week. He was with the Clyde Transpor-
tatio Co. for over 40 years, and retired on ae-
count Of age. He never lost a vessel or met
with an accident.
William Sears, colored, was convicted of
murder in the second degree by jury in the
Criminal Court, Baltimore. last Monday for
the killing of George Bennett colOred, Feb
ruary 20 last Judge Wright sentenced the
prisoner to Is years in the Peniieatiary.
On the afternoon of March 25 fight took
place in saloon, in Cumberland, between
some negroes. Sydney Toney shot and killed
John Reesly, of Boston, Mass, and William
Smith, Of Brownville, Pa. Toney escaped to
West Virginia, but was shortly after arrested.
A disastrous fire occurred Thursday Of last
week in the woods of Mr. DuYall. near Jes-
sup, Howard county, on Thursday, and was
spreading to other timber at night. The FIRE
started in a sedge field on the DuvaR property
and high wind carried it to the adjoining
woods.
In Baltimore 10 men of the Street Cleaning
Department have been arrested for stealing
$1,000 worth of block tin from Clendenin
Roc uvhoSa uyarohns,za tbav al
up last week. 1t was found in the cellar after
the FIRE. A policeman has been dismissed for
participating in 1.-THE divy.'
Mrs. Mary ]. Plummer, said to be the oldest
woman but one in Cambridge. died March %,
aged 80 years and months. She was the
widow of Edward Plummer, formerly Of Tai
bot county and afterward of Cambridge. Six
children, "a grandchildren and Is great
grandchildren survive her.
The long aud continued ice embargo of the
winter is given as the cause for the great mum
Der of dead crabs and oysters found along the
shores and in the deepest waters of the tFibu
taries of the Chesapeake bay. Hundreds of
dead crabs are lying along the shores of the
Corsica and Chester rivers.
Isaac Friedenwald, of the well known print
ing firm of Friedeuwald Co., Baltimore, died
from Bright's disease, March Is, aged 10
years. He was a native of Germany but came
to this country when a small child. He was
connected with several enterprises and was
active in church and business circles.
Last Saturday night the tomato cannery of
Peter Student, at Hamilton, Talbot county,
and 1850 cases of tomatoes were burned, to-
gether with all the machinery, &C.; loss on
stock and goods about $4,000. The fire was
caused by an incendiary, as there had not been !
any fire in the building for several months.
While waiting to board a train to convey her
home to West Virginia, Miss Judith Christian,
3s years old, of Weston, W. Va, died sud.
denly shortly before o'clock Monday after |
coon in the waiting room of Camden station. |
Baltimore Miss Christian was seated on one |
of the benches and fell forward to the floor. |
When lifted up life was found to be extinct.
w. B. Gardner. of Annapolis, has present
ed Governor Warfeld and President Jones of |
the Senate with walking sticks. The wood |
from which the stats are made was procured |
by Mr.. Gardner from the old Treasury Build !
ing, which was formerly used a council |
chamber. The record tells of a meeting of |
that body in 1894. The Governor and Presi- |