The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-03-24
News of the Week.

Many horses died and are dying in New
York and Boston from the effects of the storm
last week.
Ex- Governor Fairbanks. of Vermont, died
suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York ON Saturday, of pneumonia.
A fire in Jacksonville. Florida, on Sunday
night, which was thought to be under control
after having caused q loss of $4,000, broke
out afresh. aud caused Il loss of $4,000.
The train of three passenger cais which
left Port jefferson on Monday the 18th, only
reached Lowell, Massachusetts, on Tuesday
morning, having been stalled in the snow one
week.
Adam Sasrs and Mrs. William Stahl, of
Fostoria, Ohio, who recently became insane
over religious matters, are both dead. The
deaths were sudden, and the cause assigned
is brain fever.
In Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday of
last week, Judge Depue entered Judgment for
$50, 900 against the Central Railroad OF New
Jersey for back taxes for the years 1873 to
1884 due the State.
The first section of the southbonnd fast
mail train was throwR from the track by
broken rail just north of Blackshear, Georgia,
on Saturday morning, and fell through a
trestle, wrecking the cars. % persons we're
killed and SO injured.
Henry Henning, living in Kensington, ILL
nois, shot his wife on Tuesday and then COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat. Mrs.
Henning may recover. 1t is said Henning
was hard drinker and during the last three
or four days he and his wife had several quar-
rels.
An epidemic of measles prevails in Buck
iugham county, Virginia, and many persons
have died of the disease. In one family all
the members-father, mother and IA children
are sick, and an old couple, aged respec
lively 81 and 81 years. are also reported pros
trated-
There was a severe snow storm in Nebras.
ka on Tuesday. In the western part of the
State eight inches of snow fell and the wind
reached velocity of so miles an hour All
trains were delayed. The storm commenced
with high temperature and rain, then chang
ed TO snow.
A dispatch from Denver, Colorado, says
snow fell to the depth of several inches during
Sunday night and Monday morning through
out the Rocky Mountain region. A stiff
wind accompanied the storm, and piled the
snow in the railroad cuts to such an extent
that it was impossible to move trains.
The Rev. DIR. D. F. Ewell, aged II years,
died at his residence in Clayton, Delaware,
Saturday night of pneumonia. DIR. Eweli
was born in Accomac county, Va, in 1917,
and was one of the oldest members of the
Maryland Annual Conference of the Metho.
dist Protestant Church, having been received
into that body in 1889.
Two breaks occurred in the dam across the
Susquehanna river at Columbia, Pa, on
Tuesday, one 100 feet wide, the other IS feet,
Both are being widened by the great body of
water rushing through 1t is estimated that
$4,000 will be needed to restore the dam.
The shad fisherman at Columbia fear their
occupation is gone this season.
Reports from vessels arriving at the sever
al ports since the storm of last week state
that the ocean and bays are strewn with
wrecks and the loss of life is terrible. Many
of the seaport hospitals are filled with sailors
who received injuries from broken spars or
being thrown violently to the decks by the |
waves running over the vessels.