The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-10-01

The brush ircs IN the eoaatry around Kings.
toa, Ontario, have been exslngaished by
heavy rain.
Battery C. third United States artillery. LEI.
Lancaster, Pa. on its march 10 YORKTOWN
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Jscens Cox. residing near Borden.
town, n. J., was bitten by . SpisE dog SIX
weeks ago, and died OF hydroPhObia on Non.
day.
The residence Of wm. Gibbons Ia SsdAlia,
No, was burned on MoadAy morning, aad
four children She weFe asleep up stairs per
ished.
Frederick ReitiinEsr, aged ss years, vas
soaad drowned in the canal in whkeshaEre,
Pa, Sunday. Il l. said that parties there
have insurance. 10 the amount Of $4,000 oa
bis life.
Typho nalariaI fevsr, bilious collie aad
pneamonia are playing sad havoe amoEg the
persons rezdered homeless hy the recent for
css fires il Miehisaa, and msay deaths have
already occurred.
The directors Of the ParAmore NAuow.
Gauge Railroad met at Little Rock, Ark, on
Tuesday and consolidated the Missouri and
ArkauzAs line. The length OF the line sill
I BE- over 1890 usiles, lis termiaas being the
City % Mexico.
John Sneeden, gamer fog the Cape Fear
lixhs ARTILLERY. bad both his hands blown Of
( by the peruaAGare discharge o. cannon, while
hrsng minute guns, at WILMINGTON, North
Carolina, Monday moraiHg. Il sbelievod bis
injuries are fatal. a maH named Newman
was killed, and another nam.d Sailoa was
MORALLY wounded, Monday morning, 81 ghe
sriag Of a eARnoa in TAsrytown, New York.
A special train conveying newspaper re.
porters and Knight TemplaFs 10 Cleveland,
troFa Washington, struck aaad car GA \
sreSlle bridge as Beaver Greek, Pa, about SIX
O'Clock on Saturday morning, killing four men
and fatally wosading t9o others, who died in
a few minutes, Tse unfortunate mea were
warned By pilot engine which ran ahead Of
the special, but they did not heed the warn
ing.
Simon Yeats, probably the oldest man in
Cumberland county, Pa, was ba.ied at MoaH.
Holly Springs on Tuesday. He was % years
old and came from family which for l0Hgev.
/ ity is very remarkable. He has surviving BIN
brother who is s., oae sister IS and another
81. 0ae brother died al so, another al 20
aud one At Il. A sister died at the age of9l
aud another at 81. He was three married
aad his third wife survives him.
Ga Friday morning OF last week train Of
IS oil cars broke into three sections, az Sterling
JUNCTION. sixteen uliseS IRON E&AeFSont AeN
Jersey. The middle section, having no brake
/ man, ran in,o the forward section, wreeking
one Of the cars, and the wreck caught FIRE.
Early in she afternoon ten tanks were burning,
several Of which had burst, and the burning
oil was running along the track. The West
eru Union aud railroad eompany'S telegraph
wires, twenty in number, were destroyed
! A tornado struck Elmira, New York, at
I halt. past four o'clock Sunday afternoon. 1t
( lasted only two minutes, but in that time
nearly every street WAS rendered impossible
I by fallen trees, the Rathbun House, the Pal
I ace ear shops, and number Of Other build
/ ipgs we're unroofed, two church steeples and
I dozens OF chimneys were blown down, and
/ several brick buildings had holes blown clear
I through them, scattering the bricks in all di-
/ reetions. No lives were lost, and only one
I person, man who was blown from his buggy,
( is reported seriously injured. A torrent OF
rain fell aud did much damage throughout
I the city by entering the houses, the pipes being
insufficient to carry it of. 1t is said the storm
was preceded by an earthquake shock. The
/ streets were full of people when the tempest
burst, and great CONSERVATION prevailed