The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-10-15
Maryland Affairs.

Two more persons we're severely burned by
gasoline IN Baltimore on Tuesday.
Ia Baltimore there were p, ~ new voters
Registered nj the recent siiingS OF the registers.
Waiter Fiuney. former cashier of the Sec
uBd National Bank Of Belair, has been indicted
on the charge Of making false returns 10 the
Comptroller II the CuTrency.
Frederick p. Morrison. superintendent Of
the Maryland School for the Blind, and a we'll.
known educator. died Ia Baltimore. October s.
He Was a native OF Hartford county. and was
born September so, 1887.
Governor Warfeld. Judge MeSherry and
Others sill deliver addresses al Frederick No.
vemhrF p. on the occasion Of the unwilling Of
bronze tablet, in the Frederick courthouse,
20 the memory Of the l. Judges who first off,
eiAily repudisted the British Stamp Act.
Mrs ~ Elizabeth Ecker. mother Of Albert
/ Ecker. ut Woodsboro, Frederick county, died
a. her home. near there. OF - complication Of
diseases Tuesday night. She Is survived by
several grown children Her funeral took
place at Beaver Dam on Friday where inter
meni vas made.
William F. Fuller pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court, Baltimore, on
Tuesday, to a charge Of emhezzhng 81 .532. ~
from 3D., Second Natioua! Bank, IN which be
Sas a clerk, and vas sentenced by Judge
Morris 70 five years jn Jail, the lowest penalty
allowed by law for the odeuse.
A. a reunion OF the brothers and sisters Of
The togle family, at iEe residence of Luther
Blessing near louisville Frederick county,
last sunday, Mr.. Dennis Fogle. of near Clem.
souyille, experienced slight attack OF paraly
SIS Immediately after dinner Mr.. Fogle re
covered apparently from the attack iH few
hours and was able to return home that even
ing
The dwelling of School Commissioner John
" Paterson. on ST. Leonard's creek. in Cal
yeri county, was destroyed by fire on the night
of October = The members of the family
aere alarmed by the flames just " time make
their escape iu their night clothing. There
was an insurance of 81, $50 on the property il
the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Calvert
county.
On Sunday night some children turned on
a sriEor OF barrel Of gasoline in Frederick
a, The corner Of Market and South streets.
The fluid was running down the gutter Tor
several squares when someone threw lighted
match iuroJt Instantly the gutter was ablaze.
Seeing the fire approaching, a colored man
rolled the barrel Of oil to Il safe distance from
T TUE tlAtllF-.
John II. Evans, Of Baltimore, was arrested
last Monday By Game Warden Charles II.
Whitaker, on the charge of having iu his pos.
session four robins at Pleasant Plains, halt
mile east of Towson. Mr.. Whitaker handed
MIR. Evans over 10 Deputy Game Warden
Malcolm, who took him before Justice W. H.
Enrich. of Arlington, and charged him with
only having two robins in his possession.
Evans pleaded guilty and the Justice imposed
a fine Of g for each robin and costs, the whole
amounting TO $40.
Fire early last Saturday morning destroyed
eight frame dwellings in Sextouvile, little
village in Baltimore county, about one mile
from the southwestern city limits. near the
Claremont Stock Yards. The dwellings were
part Of a row of IA frame buildings, the other
six being saved by volunteer FIRE fighters who
secured hose aud attached it to a water tank
at the stock yards. Three or four families
occupying the dwellings had sufficient warning
10 get out most of their furniture.