The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-10-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

for $4,000.
The residence of Mrs. Milton Schaefftr,
West Main street. is being repalnted. Mr..
Charles f.. Bowers is doing the work.
Clarence G. Veitch, of Baltimore. purchased
,h. MAYNARD property, near ReISterstown, Tor
81 900. The property contains 464 acres.
William Richards, of Baltimore, an inmate
-, the Bay View Hospital, died on Friday last.
IN. decreased WAS II former resident OF Hamp
stead.
William Il. Westaway, of Patapsco. has
i,,nrnyed his property by e-spouli''g his back
t,,!I.Iiuo, William Crout. OF Baltimore, dId
the work.
Tl. Western Maryland College Foot Ball
team met its second beirat this season on Sat
urJuy by the Mrrc"rsburg College team, The
score being e to d.
D. Milton Feeser of Litlestown. purchased
At pnbIic sale, on Saturday, the home OF the
l,tr Rev. NJ. j. Alleman, of the same place.
The price paid was 1927. TO-
Clarence l.. Flickinger, son of MIR. Rufus
Firkinger of near Cover, who has INST re-
covered from an attack of infianmatory rhet
mntism, has taken up his usual work, ana Is
now at Pakhogue, Long Island. N. I.
Frank SNYDER, engineer on the Western
MARYLAND Railroad, has been promoted I"
assistant road foreman of motive power Mr.
SNYDER was in charge ot the Blue Mountain
Express this summer. lie is na I'VE OF ms
CITY,
Mr.. William r.. Yingling. of Stonersville.
exhibited at this Office on Saturday last an
immense head of cabbage that he raised IN ms
Garden. II weighed lG pounds, and was IA
inches in diameter and 3 feet I inches IN CIR
conference.
A. W. Coomhs, of Taneytown, Is now con,
,,acleh with the local office of the Prudential
Insurance Company. f. Z. Bishop. Superin
rrudrnt, at Hanover. Pa. Mr.. C"om''s tor
several wears has heen assistant postmaster ut
Taneytown.
Mr.. James NJ. Trayer, Pennsylvania avenue,
rnrchased the residence of the late Benjamin
Franklin. East Main street, at public sale on
S,,urdny las, for $1,000 Miss Lillian franklin
w;,s the acting execu,rix. Bond Parke the
aitoraeys and Elias n. Davis the anril"neer
The Western Maryland Railroad Company
ran test freight train: from Cumberland to
Hagers,own Monday tor the purpose OF Il Ger
tanning how many tons OF freight can be han
died with "A single engine. The train was one
Of 4, 300 tons. and was pulled through by one
locomotive without being stalled.
Fire completely destroyed the flint mills of
the Glen Morris Supply Company, at Glen
Morris, about II o clock Saturday night. The
fire is supposed to have originated in the boiler
room and had gained considerable hradwny
before. being discovered. The total loss will
amount to 81. 900. which is partly covered by
insurance.
A rumor is going the rounds to the effect
that the Western Maryland Railroad Co. is
contemplating abandoning Pen Mar and that
the trolley company may take the resort and
run il, The cause assigned foI the railroad
forsaking the park is that it finds it burden
some to handle the excursion trains with the
large amount of freight it is now hauling.
A two-mule team owned by Oliver hrebs,
residing near Glen Rock, and being driven by
his son Addie, was struck by local freight
train near Glen Rock Friday afternoon last
shortly after . O'Clock. Both mules were
thrown into the air, one being killed and the
other escaping without injury. The driver
WAS also thrown from the wagon, but he too
escaped injury.
The 10 year old son of Dr. Robert Wells,
of Harrisonvile had narrow escape from
death the first of this week, when the buggy
in which he was sitting was overturned and he
was caught beneath it, DIR. Wells had tied
his team in front of the house of a patient and
while he went into the house the son sat in
the buggy. Two teams came down the road,
tanning two women and a man-ran into the
Doctors buggy. The buggy was turned over
and the little boy was caught between the seat
and the crushed top. He escaped without
injury.
freight train going east over the Baltimore
and Harrisburg division of the Western Mary
land railroad was deraiIed about O'Clock
Saturday morning near Fowblesburg. Several
coal ears were thrown down an embankment,
and the track was torn up for Il distance OF
several hundred feet. No one was I'M ured.
1t was nearly o clock in the afternoon before
the train service was restored. The passen
gers were transferred around the wrecked
train. but several thousand gallons Of milk
did not arrive in the city until o'clock at
night, greatly mountaineering Il number OF
the city dairymen.
Mr.. Dallas Biehl, who resides at Stevenson,
in the Green Spring Valley. had a narrow
escape from death on October while working
in il quarry owned by Mr. W. |. Cross, near
Stevenson Edward Hartley. who was also
working in the quarry. had placed blast,
which loosened several tons of rock and earth,
and Beh, wishing to remove the stone to the
bottom of the quarry. assembled to the top aud
began to pick them loose, when Il landslide
occurred, which carried him to the bottom of
the quarry A large rock struck him on the
top of his head, inficting a painful cut. and
he was also cut and bruised about the body.
President B. F. Bush of the Western
MARYLAND Railroad, Tuesday announced the
sale of the Companys coal plant, stores and
coal lands located at Simpson. W. Va, CON-
prising about 5000 acres of the Pittsburg coal,
to John T. McGraw, of Grafton, w. Va. The
deal was concluded late Monday afternoon,
and possession of the property was delivered
TO MIR. McGraw. The consideration was not
made public. The property is situated on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad considerable
distance from the terminus of the Western
Maryland. at Belington, W. Va, and from
any of the Western Maryand's allied lines
This is one of the reasons given by the Com
pany for the sale.
The people Of this city who were on the
streets at 1915 o'clock Saturday night were
startled by the sudden appearance OF an al
most binding light, described by some as
.baving given the effect of a prolonged flash
of lightning. They soon discovered, however,
that it was the passing of brilliant aerolte,
apparently short distance north of the city
limits. and that ITS course was from west TO
east. II was near the earth, and as ii receded
in the distance seemed 10 curve downward
and probably came to the ground either as
solid or gaseous substance. By the brilliant
light which it emitted ordinary newspaper
print could have been easily read. Ii was
probably one of the group of aerolites de.
scribed in The Sun and The American OF
Sunday morning.
The Prohibition party of this county held a
mass meeting Thursday night, October 8, III
Odd Fellows Hall, this city, which was ad,
dressed by Oliver w. Stewart, a member OF
the Illinois legislature. The meeting was
largely attended, but at its close, when mem,
bers OF the Prohibition party were requested
to remain for the purpose of nominating a
ticket to be voted for at the election in No
vember, nearly the entire audience retired,
leaving only IL or Is to make nominations.
These held a convention privately and nomi
mated ticket partially, leaving several vacan-
cies. which may or may not be filed. To
request for list of the nominees answer was
made that for the present they would not be
made public. Some of those appealed to
stated that il was not desired TO have the com.