The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-04-07
NEWS Of the week.

Chicago. Several hremen were killed.
The stores on the west side of the public
square, in Harrisburg, Illinois, were burned
Sunday. Loss $4,000.
Tho radnct;on Of the public debt during
uaroh amounted tn s11 .b86. $50. The total
omonnt of cash in the Treasury is $3.50, Asa
0o2.
Hon Rapiamin Harris Brewster. one of the
LEADING members of the Philadelphia, Pa,
Rar. and an ex-Attorney General of the
limited States, died on Wednesday morning
Z A Moev& 20 umbrella manufacturers.
Nv Yorl, fs;led On Tuesday. caused by
ba;mc nnabla to shin Goods to customers on
,ba i7,a Of The railroads where the strike pre
na;,s .'"' %
Is. u..oh thoro were coined at tho
n,;nts Of ,hn limited States 4. 092. 623 pieces.
i ni,,'s - 81 ea1 oGo 5s Tho standard dol.
iars nnn,bereJ 7GO 4s2 and the PENNIES A..
oSi 400
c -,
Two boys, a9out y years e, ~ "a'' ,su
DemafTa anu u ruoir M;oh;eon ON Er;Jov Of
last e week when they broke through and both
were drowned
T,ro f.o;abt trains on the Chicago and
Nr W. non' pe;Inoad ool,;ded near 0narry
49, E. r,an were ;n;nreS
I pn.t vi ao, a-;d ,an cars containing stoct
Do'h Sus.ie1 az W."
"1re ny, ri, p:...l
Davlu N. nli'e' e4.eu .t C. 'n of ~
6.1. anu selu u al - III, hove in Sau
hepuoiican $500 u,eu d. 90 Snn5ay n,orn
ichieyi nedi i ,oH:'
Jug. ne was oo'' III io''
Sohneman large TOBACCO warehouse nis a az
York, Pa, IN which was stored aoou!S lz;coo
worth OF leaf TOBACCO was destroyed ny IRE
nae a0 nlgh1 ne s.ooA s',ad snr s,o
9oo ne, ne iosS % ohont "a 600
wv "niie 'ne ioSs oN II 20 "''"'
During, thunder storm carry Monaay
morning llghthlnS struck al, OH tah6 az r E'l-
lenton, Penna., owned by the National Iran
sit Company. One mouse, a nafn, lour en- En-
glnes anu anu an engine mousse toge.neI WIN
apou' ooo oa'ie's u o'i' meie ues,
Herbert johnson, the lS-year. Ola son OF
wealthy farmer OF Liverpooi, Lehlgh county,
"a, was reproved on Monday morning oy
his teacher Tor delacing sehool iurhitIre.
He went home, made VIII, leaving some
personal effects to iriends, ana commltteo
suicide by shooting hlmseii through the hra,n
The gorge IN the Missouri rlver, above ELK
Point, broke on Sunday, and the country De-
tween that place and jefferson, Dakota, was
submerged The Milwaukee and St. raul
tracks are under water for nine miles. Many
iamltes IN the hooded region nave peeh
!
STOCK mas perisheu'
The house painters of Cincinnati, about
800 IN number, struck on Monday for more
wages ana fewer hours. Ihey nave neeh
receiving 20 cents an hour ior zen hours; now
they want 81 cents ana nine hours' lhey
also want 20 cents an hoqr ior extra hours
on Genus lor SUNDAY WORK anu the aoo'iSh'
ment OF some obnoxious rules.
Professor Hogan made balloon ascension
at Jackson Michigan, on Wednesday. When
the airship reached height estimated at
nearly io,ooo Ieet hogan jumped out ana
dropped about ooo ieet before ms parachute
| opened and checked his rapid descent. he
reached the earth safely IN tour minutes at q
Rain prevailed throughout California on
Friday, of last week, and reports received
from all the grain producing counties show
that both the wheat ana barley helos are
looking eXcepuonaiiy me. me present pros
Peets aie iof the largest Yleia Oh ran IN tle
history oI t4e otate, WINE .ne trelt eltp4e
VIII also le larger tla'i III any previous year
/ The sudden melting of the snow and heavy
rains during last week caused Hoods in the
/ country around Detroit Michigan. About
200 acres OF land we're oyeriiowed, and sixty
bridges washed away. The flood in the Sioux
| river, Iowa, caused by the great ice gorge at
its mouth, continues, and the s96mergence OF
the iowlanas is increasing. Inc missouri
river mas i'iieh aoout " ioo''
! John Browntield; Sr., an old business man
OF south pena' !nalana, mas maze an assign
| heht' ms ilao,litibS are Silf,oou, win as
! sets, 1t IS thought, about the same. Many
farmers dld their banking with brownheld.
he has gwen up everything to his creditors,
and his wife has declined to adhere to her
dover right and signed the deeds which leaves
herself ana her husband ponn'iess'
| Clause Spreckels on tuesday consummated
the purchase OF the site Tor his big sugar re-
finery, The property chosen is about 10
acres e OF land on the Delaware RIVER front, at
Philadelphia. ia. u was nougnt rom the
estate OF William V; Merrlck Tor SoUo,o00
cash. 1t Is stated that the buildings Will
cover 49, square feet OF ground, and they
VIII vary IN height from y TO ii stories.
The strike on all the railroads in Chicago
was ended Wednesday, except that on the
/ Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the
men returned t9 work; 4hls was the result
| Of mass meeting held with closed doors on
Tuesday evening, but the meeting declared
Its undivided confidence IN the cause and con,
duct OF the burlington strikers ana urged
them to light with even greater though always
honorable fury. Nothing is to be left undone
to bring the burlington to terms
\ riot occurred on Monday at the limestone
| anarries at Carbon, Peuna The employees,
about one hundred in number, we're notified
/ a week ago Of a reduction in wages. They
struck and sheriff's posse was sent to the
quarries in anticipation of trouble. The trou.
| Bile came in the afternoon, when shots were
e,xch hanged between the strikers and the posse.
A striker named Angelo Vareeso was wound
cd IN tne knee. rive oil me ieaalng rioters
were arrested anu lougeu IN jan at New pasFie'
Rev. Clayton Mnmma, Of Reading, Penna.,
and Rev. John Oonnard, of Denver, I.ancas
4 ter county, were struck by train on Sunday
afternoon while walking on the track of the
Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad,
near Bushong' Furnace. Mumma was killed
on the spot, and Connard so badly injured
that he died in the evening. Mr.. Connard
preached his first sermon in the Mennonite
! Church, in Reading, that morning. He was
about 40 years of age, and leaves a widow
and seven children, Mr., Mumna was about
as years OF age.
J. H Renpeker n lumber mercbant of