The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01
News of the Week.

Aaron Goldstein, prominent Hebrew,
aged 105 years, died at Paterson, N. D., on
Wednesday,
Two large barns and corn shed at Columbia,
Pa, the property of the Helse and Essex
estates, were destroyed by fire Monday Loss
$4,000.
There was heavy frost in parts of Vermont
and Massachusetts, on Monday night. Crops
were damaged.
Several -four and corn mills have been de-
stroyed by fire at Toulouse, France. The
damage is 1000, 900 francs.
tits estimated that the general government
has spent in the aggregate $4,000, 900 in
river and harbor improvements
Richards, Tower, & Co., ship owners and
merchants, of Swansea and London, have
failed. Their liabilities are 81, 1000
Court de Chamford died at Frohsdorf, Aus
tria, on the oath ult., of cancer of the stomach,
aged So years. His body was taken to Paris
for interment.
By the falling of an elevator in Farquhar's
new carpenter shop, in York, Pa, Saturday,
Henry Russell, j. w. Eichelberger and Fred.
Hill were severely injured.
Henry Packard, an employee of Barnum
circus, was fatally crushed by one of the ele-
plants at Cincinnati Monday morning, and
died soon afterward.
By the bursting of the boiler of an excur-
sion steamer, near New York, on Monday
afternoon, - persons were killed and large
number injured.
Walter f. Pool, Republican Congressman
elect from the first North Carolina district,
succeeding Louis c. Latham, died at Eliza
beth City, N. c., Saturday. He was 80 years
of age.
The saw mill of Finley Young & Co., at Viii !
Transport, Pa, and from twenty-five to thirty
million feet of lumber and several dwellings,
were burned Monday night. The total loss is
nearly 100000.
Extensive forest fires are raging between
Seal Cove and Great Pond, ten miles from
Bar Harbor, Maine, on the western side of
the island. The fire has burned over some |
1000 acres. sa4 x
Robert B. Hayne, for the past ten years
paymaster of the South Car DINA Railway |
Company, committed suicide in Charleston,
S. c., Saturday by shooting himself. He was
the son of ex-Attorney General Hayne, of
South Carolina. He was temporarily insane.
The report of the inspection of the prisons |
of Allegheny county, Pa, by the Women's |
Auxiliary Committee of the State Board of
Charities characterizes the cells in the Pitts |
burg Jail as chambers of horrors" The |
munity.
Five prisoners escaped from the Dover
del. jail last Saturday night. Among the !
number were Bob Allen and Henry Raisin,
notorious colored burglars, who were leaders
of a gang which carried on extensive thieving |
operations in Kent county. The others who
escaped were Henry Watson, white, Joseph .
Cook and Israel Loote, colored.
A severe hailstorm passed over the country
near Sterling, Ills, Monday evening, extend
ing over a territory Is miles long and 10
miles wide. The loss to the crops will APP
proximate $4,000. There was furious hail
storm Monday night in Rock county, Wis,
destroying the entire tobacco crop. The
damage is estimated at $4,000
Near Colquitt, Miller county, Ga, few
nights ago, two coored men entered the bed
chamber of prominent lady with the object
of assaulting and numbering her. She was
awakened by the touch of one of the men and
put them to flight with pistol. On Sunday
one of the culprits was captured and after
being lodged in Jail was shot dead in his cell.
Dispatches to the New Orleans Time Dem
ocrat from all sections of the cotton belt show
a considerable falling off in the crop prospects
as compared with last year. except in Tennes-
Sc and portions of Texas. The decrease is
estimated in some cases at 3355 per cent The
corn crop also is reported considerably dam
aged by drought.
The competitive drill between Knights
Templar Communicates at San Francisco
took place Saturday. Only three command
cries competed, the Rapier of Indianapolis,
nard of Chicago. The De Molay Command
cry was awarded the first prize, and selected
the miners vase; Rapier the second, an onyx
column, and the St. Bernard silver globe.
Henry Hertel and wife, german shopkeep-
ers, Of Savannah, Ga, were found murdered
Sunday in their store. Hertel was lying on
the floor handkerchief tied over his eyes
and his skull crushed in. His wife was lying
on the sofa in the parlOr with her throat cut
and one arm nearly severed. Two colored
men were arrested on suspicion. Hertel was
supposed to have large sum Of money in his
possession.
The number Of persons killed by the
cyclone at Rochester,, Mimi, last week was
81 and the number injured 100. The financial
loss falls mainly on the poorer classes of
persons An appeal for aid has been issued.
1t is proposed to rebuild by public contribu-
tions the houses owned by the poorer persons.
On fifty farms in Omstead county every
house and barn was demolished. The loss
to farmers is not less than 5000, 900.
Alexander Simms, colored, died in Wash
ton, ID. c., on August n, aged l06, and was
buried on Sunday following. He was born
in l777, at Burnt Mill, near Bennings, d. c.,
then part of Maryland. During the funeral
services a colored woman replied to a refer
ence by the officiating preacher by rising and
stating that she was born in the same year.
Simms was employed as a laborer on the
Capitol, and purchased his freedom before the
war.
Jacob Oldenbarger and Jacob Bush had a
law suit in Indianapolis Tuesday in Justice
court, which was decided in favor of the latter.
Meeting Bush on the street about l o'clock,
Oldenbarger drew a pistol and fired, killing
Bush. He then shot Samuel Campbell, who
was passing at the time, probably fatally. He
then shot himself dead. 1t is probable the
shooting of Campbell was accidental.
The steamship Elbe arrived at New York
on Saturday Among her passengers were
the party of German members of Parliament,
military officers, university professors, bank
ers and representatives of the leading journals
of Germany, who have been invited to be
present at the opening ceremonies of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. A similar num-
Der of English and French representatives
arrived in New York on Tuesday.
The trial of Isaac H. Lockwood was begun
in New Haven, Conn, Tuesday. 1t is charged
that he issued fraudulent circular, repre-
senting that banker, whose early dishonesty
had been condoned by kind benefactor, had
died, leaving $3.50 900 to be devoted to aiding
men who had yielded to dishonest impulses.
When he had received communications from
guilty parties he would blackmail them and
use their confessions to secure hush money.
A large ol-still in the South Brooklyn, N.
Y, Oil Works, owned by Barne, Scrymser 4
Co., exploded Monday, setting fire to the
works, which were destroyed. The loss was
about 100000. John Reynolds was overtaken {
by the burning oil and fatally injured. Joseph
Dennis and Michael Kavanaugh were badly
burned. Samuel Love, fireman, was thrown
from his engine and severely hurt. Sparks
from the oil works ignited the sulphur works
of Daniel Gray, causing $4,000 damage.
Ellen Meloy, daughter of Geo. Meloy, of {
Centre, Juniata county, Pa, was struck by g
lightning one afternoon last week while :