The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-05-14
MARYLAND Affairs.

Reisterstown is to have a new high school
building to cost So, 900.
George Patterson, aged 90 years, died May
8, al Loeb Raven, Baltimore county.
John D. Rockefeller has sent Johns Hop
kins Hospital, in Baltimore, the 100000 he
promised last April, with $1,000 interest.
Isaac Guggenheimer, of Guggenheimer &
We'll, stationers and printers, died suddenly
from heart disease at their office in Baltimore,
May 6.
Allen Manokey, coloYed, who killed his wife
February 16, was found guilty at Cambridge
of murder, and was sentenced to Is years in
the Penitentiary.
Last week % sheep owned by Vim. Jones,
farmer near Dickerson, Montgomery coun.
ty, died from rabies They were bitten a few
days previous by strange dog.
Robert Boggs, convicted of forging the
name of Charles Lake, clerk of the court of
Dorchester county, to note for S35, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years.
Sydney johnson, colored, 10 years old, who
shot and killed Vim. Smith and John Reisby,
both colored, was found guilty at Cumberland
of murder in the first degree and sentenced to
be hung
Within the last two months Capt G. W.
Maddox, of the oyster police schooner Bessie
Jones, of st. Mary's county, has paid over to
the State nearly $500 on account of fines col
lected for violations of the Oyster law.
Last December John NJ. Pherson. aged 80
years, farmer of Union, Cecil county, trod
upon a nail. The wound healed. but recently
symptoms of lockjaw developed, and the at
tack caused his death May 6, after great suf
fering.
While greasing a buggy recently Rev Z. K
Craa1 &c hal A,-t
Church, Cecil county. scratched his hand upon
one of the wheels. Blood poison rapidly de-
veloped and last week he died in a Philadel
phia hospital, aged 50years.
James Madison Gingeli died May at bis
home near Bethesda, Montgomery county,
aged IS years, of paralysis. he was man of
means and was highly esteemed. James
Eden Selby, who resided near Glen. same
county, died May 8, aged 70 years.
By the explosion of coal oil lamp, Mrs
Mollie w. Drysdale. aged 65 years, was burned
to death at her home, 609 Oxford avenue.
Baltimore, last Sunday night. Last Saturday
Mrs. Mary Ellen Feehly, Of Allen street, same
city, was burned to death by the explosion of
a gasoline stove.
Mrs. Lamb is the first woman in the State
to be made a school trustee. She has been
chosen a member of the board of Govanstowu
SCDOOi, DdiIulOTe county, anu the StieCll0N
was made BY the School Board last week
Mrs Lamb is the wife of Mr.. Geo. NJ. Lamb,
one of Baltimore city, leading merchants.
Franklin NJ. Burch, aged 35 years, Of Ma
sonville, Anne Arundle county, was found
dead on the Baltimore and Annapolis Shor;
Line tracks at First street in Brooklyn last
Sunday morning. The body was mangled be-
youd recognition. His limbs were cut off and
his arms, head and body crushed. He was
under the influence of liquor the night previ-
Gus.
The Baltimore County Democrat, of last
week, says A negro preacher in the upper
end of the county addressed bis flock with
great earnestness on the subject Of Mira.
cles,n as follows my beloved friends, de
greatest of all miracles was bout de loaves
and fishes. Dey was 5000 loaves of bread
and 1000 fishes, an de twelve 'postles had TO
eat EN- all. De miracle is dey didn't bust
Michael J. Harrigan, for number Of years
florist at the summer home of Gen. james A.
Gary, the Summit, Gainesville. several days
ago had extracted from his back small trian-
gular piece of glass which had been lodged
there since February, 1897. Harrigan was
repairing one Of the Conservatives on the
place when be slipped, breaking glass sash,
and a small piece of the glass entered his
back. He was unaware of the glass in his
back until several days ago, when it began to
main him severely