The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-05-25

The fishing season at Havre de Grace
for both shad and herring has been poor.
1t is said that the pack of herring at the
head of the bay will not exceed 15, 600
barreis-less than half of that of an ordi-
nary season.
The Greencastle. Waynesboro and Pen
Mar Electric Railway Company will extend
its trolley road from Pen Mar through the
mountains toIiighfeld aud Monterey during
the coming summer Bids have been ask
ed for the grading of the road bed
DR.. Thomas Sargent Latimer professor
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
widely known as physician and a gallant
Confederate soldier, died May Is at his
home, 2l1 West Monument street, Balti-
| more
Robert Banks, a Baltimore negro, 43
years old, was fined $50 and costs and com
mitted May Z for sitting in the lap of Miss
Mary Anderson on one of the cars of the
WeStport line late Wednesday night.
Dir H. G. Radcliffe, Frederick den
tist, has sued DR.. Franklin B. Smith, a
Frederick physician, for s5, 900 damages
for injuries he claims to have received as
the result Of horse which he was driving
being frightened by Dr. Smith automo.
bile.
TheShepherd and Enoch Pratt Hospital,
near Towson. lost heavily by the recent
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string beans, corn and other early vege-
tables were killed. Some persons in the
county lost 50 heavily by the frost that they
are plowiug the ground again and will plant
another crop.
George Benner, of Mount Pleasant,
Frederick county, accidentally broke his
set Of false teeth while eating last week and
several of the teeth, together with the
plate, slipped down his throat. DR. L. d.
Stone found the teeth sticking in Mr., Ben
ner throat in such position that it was
impossible to remove the plate The teeth
and plate was forced down the throat into
the stomach Thus far Mr. Benner has
suffered no serious results from the acci-
dent
james Fletcher, Jr, of New York, has
purchased Wye Heights, the property of
/ Col Louis Jones. at the head of Miles
River Neck, on Wye River, Talbot coun-
{ ty, containing about l 100 acres, for 500, :
600 This property is part of the orig
I inal Lloyd estate and was left BY the late
Edward Lloyd to his daughter, Elizabeth,
who married the late Col. David Trimble,
and is one Of the most historical properties
in Talbot county, and G. Aubrey Cox and
wife have sold to the Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, of Baltimore, trustees, 81
acres Of the farm known as Bondeld, near
Oxford, Talbot county, for 81, 900
By the stroke of the heavy knife in a
paper cutter, John Hurch, 40 years old,
500 Madeira street, a workman employed
/ by the American Label Company, Cross
and Coyington streets, Baltimore, lost both
bis hands on May IL. The sharp blade
of the machine used to cut through thou
sands Of sheets of paper passed through the
skin, flesh and bones Of the workman as it
cutting block of chalk, and his hands
rolled over to the opposite side Of the table.
Hurch had been feeding piles of paper into
the cutter with facility that comes only
with long practice, and was running the
machine at high speed when his hands
slipped under the cutter The blade came
down upon the metal table before he could
draw back or even scream, and the first
intimation Hurch fellow workmen had Of
the accident was to see him holding up his
wrists, from which the blood was squirting