The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-11-23
Maryland Affairs.

While walking on the tracks of the
| Northern Central Railroad near o Donnell
street, Baltimore, William Young aged 81
years, was struck by northbound passen-
ger train and instantly killed Sunday morn
| ing shortly after o'clock.
Mr.. August Schmalifus, aged rs years,
mysteriously disappeared from his home,
259 South Ann street, Baltimore, about
the middle of last August, and has not
been heard of or seen by his relatives since.
His daughter has requested the local police
to aid in the search for her father.
After battling with death for more than
seven hours, Robert Linton, laborer, re-
siding at 421 East Monument street, Bal
timore, died at O clock Sunday afternoon
at the City Hospital from injuries received
by falling into vat of boiling molasses
early in the morning at the vinegar works
of the Baltimore Manufacturing Company,
corner Of Monument and Van Buren, streets.
When Joseph Svatek, one of the most
daring burglars in the country, was released
from the Maryland Penitentiary Sunday
after having served term of four years
for burglary, he was Immediately arrested
by Detectives Shank and Dick, of the
local headquarters force, and turned over
to Detective Thomas Williams, of Delaware,
O., where he is wanted for Jail breaking.
Alphonse jock, an employee at the new
tunnel works of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, near Alberton, stabbed a fellow.
workman Sunday afternoon during an al.
tercation. The two men became involved
in quarrel over some work, when Jeck
drew knife and plunged it into the body
of his antagonist. Sheriff Joseph Hunt
arrested Jeck The accused was brought
to the Ellicott City Jail.
While on his way to work Saturday
morning, Lewis Loeber found the body Of
dead man lying across the railroad tracks
near the Cumberland Glass Works, Cum
berland. Upon closer examination he was
Mortified to find that it was the body OF
his brother, Conrad Loeber, the night
Waterman at the glass plant, who had been
struck by train and killed while on his
way home from work. The dead man
was Al years old.
His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, Sun.
day morning preached in ST. Johns Cath
olic Church, Frederick, and in the after
noon confirmed class of 81. At the high
mass, at which the Cardinal preached,
Rev. Father W. J. Kane, pastor of St.
Johns Church, was celebrant; Rev.
Father j. D. Boland, ofSt. Plus Church,
Baltimore, deacon, and Rev. Father AL
bert j. Smith, assistant pastor of St.
Johns Church, subdeacon. Rev. Father
o. B. Corrigan, of Baltimore, was the
Cardinals attendant at the throne.
One of the most sensational shooting
cases in the history Of Baltimore county
occurred late Friday afternoon, when
Frederick G. Wilkins, farmer, and son
of Mr.. George G. Wilkins, formerly gen.
eral agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Of
Baltimore, shot and seriously wounded his
wife, Mrs. Florence Garner Wilkins, at
their home near Parkton, on the Northern
Central Railroad AS result he is now
locked up at the Towson jail awaiting the
action of the grand jury, charged with as
sault upon his wife with intent to kill, the
warrant having been sworn out by Mrs.
Wilkins brother, Mr.. W. H. Garner,
Saturday morning, who was also shot at
by Wilkins.
Friday night about midnight, as Tele-
graph Operator Shenck, of Germantown,
was coming from his work at the telegraph
Office he found a white man, Caleb Ken
dali, asleep on the station platform. Awak-
ening the man, he told him he was cold
and would freeze and to come in and gel
warm. Kendall replied 81 can't. My
buddy got struck by train and killed
down here Shenck walked down the
track and found John Carter lying on the
railroad track, where the train going east
had probably struck him. Shenck went
for assistance. Agent Santman helped
him to pick Carter up, and they took him
into the railroad station, and later sent him
to a hospital in Washington, where he
died Saturday morning.
William E. johnson, of Laurel, specia
agent of the Interior Department, with
headquarters at Muskogee, l. IT,, figured
in sensational arrest last week at Eufaula
by rounding up, in a camp in the woods, q
man and woman suspected of murder a
Paw-Paw. The murdered man was james
McKeehan, whose body was found sewet
| nm in sack and hoatino unrioht in the
Arkansas river A search was instituted
by the police of Fort Smith for mar
named Trumbley and his wife, the former
being a brother-in-law of the murdered
man. They were captured at the above
place while trying to dispose of a boat
They later confessed to being witnesses tt
the crime, and accused James Harris, who
they said, afterward escaped, his 16year
old stepdaughter, Nora McKeehan, &C