The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-03-12
Maryland Affairs.


The eaaags treasurer 90 Hartford couU,y re-
ports the auuib-r of Delinquent raXTsyv-s
quite large Gb,s year.
r. 7. Haaa~ay' xeaeral store At ! '.erderu,
Hartford coaaiy. w4s accidentally bC-ned on
March g.. less< $Ioouo.
Jeremiah Golden. aged - years, dlc,4 near
Hancock. Washington cosuiy. March :. He
vas s8ccessGal farmer
last susday abog, 1890 people VISITED
the fsias Il the great Use shjeh occurred 20
Baltimore. February $.
Several serious breaks occurred in the s;ree'
aater mains Of Elkion, last saturday morning,
Iao rr=alg 81 the Uains trrczlng.
Nars elderly persons have died 80 this
State ssuer January lhaa tas many years
Grip and pneasuouIa we're the rrnclpa. causes
Clark Sterling. aged as years, died ~ CEs-
deld. somerset county. March ;, from pars,y
80. tie had been married i've times aud 8
survived uy nice ehil3rra.
Tval6c through The Chesapeake and Della
ware cAual daring the last les DAYS mas been
the largest for RAN wears. For - days the
canal saS frozen aBd traffic Was suspended.
Herman Richter has purchased farm cost
iag SIS $40 5. Hail Slauon, Prince George :
raaatv Mr. Richter comes from near Can.
slunall. sud all engage IA truck farming this
srasou.
On aec0aut Of the scarcity Of lA5orers aud
Ia. early ssurer there arr large quantities OF
corn .tili standing anhu>ked IN the upper eua
OF Baltimore county. and much OF %, 70 is SAID,
sIil he lost 70 the farmers.
james Mclaughlin succeeded IN having tao
fraudulent cheeks cashed toy business men Of
FlEcatt CITY, last week. He has several
aliases. Look cat for hlm. 4 postal note
raiser Is also travelling through the State.
BALTIMORE had last week what Assistant
Health Commissioners Jones characterized "a,
"a terrific death rate. A total 81 3V2 per
sons died 10 the city. PneumonlS caused y
Of the deaths, consumption 80 aud The grip 70.
Fire Al Faderal.burg, Caroline county.
March 5ih. DESTROYED over $4,000 worth 81
property Il started al a. III. aud burned
for SIX hours. No water works. but men,
women and children formed bucket liH'
and prevented the destruction OF the town;
fortunately there was no SInd.
Washington county fruit growers will this
spring make vigorous crusade against Inc
deadly san Jose scale In their fight with The
destructive pest they viii make use Of the most
approved method-spFayiug. d. Maurice
WrrIz. who has extensive orchards at Quincy,
is operating on a big scale against the enemy
Of fruit trees
Thomas Burk. Wabash ;uunelworker,
supposed to be from Harrisburg, Pa, was
struck hy a Baltimore and OHIO Railroad tram
while walking on the track below the EylltS
Creek tower, near Cumberland, Monday after
noon aud instantly killed, being mangled IN =
horrible manner. Both legs and both arms
and the head were severed from the body.
Rev Theo. Smoot, rector Of ST. George 5
Episcopal Church, Mount Savage, died Tues
day morning Of pneumonia, superInduced by
grin. after an illness OF 10 days, aged 81 years.
He l.ayeS = widow and two children. Inter
p,sut will be at All Faith Church, ST. Mary 5
county He was native Of Charlotte han
Md. and a graduate of Charlotte Hall Col
lege.
The receipts al the Office of Baltimore coun.
~ treasurer MAYS have fallen off great deal
since the fire ia Baltimore. The treasurer re-
ceives taxes in Baltimore city on Saturdays,
and the receipts before the fire have been
from 500 TO $500 each Saturday, and at umtS
much more Last Saturday only about 500
was taken in. and of this sum $3.50 was Tor one
bill. The taxes collected during February
amounted to only $3.50 So.
Frank johnson, colored, 80 years old, was
shot and fatally injured March g. by Police
man William Khpp in Frederick. johnson
and several other negroes quarreied in Locust
alley. and when KHpp arrested johnson he
grabbed the officers club and struck him.
khpp then shot johnson in the face, the bnl'
let entering under the left eye and lodging at
the base Of the brain. Physicians who probed
for the bullet say Johnson cannot recover
Mrs. Caroline Rebecca Zimmerman, OF
Frederick. widow of Oliver 7. Zimmerman,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Solo
mon l.. Hedges. near Walkersyille, March .,
from pneumonia, aged Y years. She went TO
her daughters the Monday previous to be
present on her twenty fifth wedding annirer
sary Tuesday. She is survived by two sons,
Harvey.and Spencer, and two daughters, Miss
Clara Zimmerman, of Frederick, and Mrs
Hedges.