The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-01
News of the Week.

Rhode lzlaru- lie mas kinney trOuDle.
Thereare about 900 gold cutters in New York and
less thar one-fourth that number of gold heaters.
/ A heavy white frost occurred in New HAMPSHIRE
ON Tuesday, and great damage to crops resulted.
j The Railroad Bridges in this country if placed
continuously, would reach from New York to Liver
pool.
At Havana, Cuba 10000 cigar makers have been
locked out owing to difficulties with their employ
/ ers
Michael o'Connell, a prominent citizen of Lynch
burg. Virginia. died there Sunday, at the age OF
80 years.
The strike on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
| it is not yet over.
Miss Margaret Fennical died on Monday, at Car
Isle. Pa aged 50. She was the smallest woman in
| the State, being only "a inches high
| Scarlet fever has broken out at South Fork n
| Pennsylvania mountain resort, and the summer
| visitors are leaving the place by every train.
Thomas Moran, suspected fugitive from Jackson
Tuesday and placed in quarantine at the LaZaretto
| in the harbor.
A stock train ran into herd of cattle near Fort
Buford, Dakota on Sunday. Seventeen cars of stock
were ditched, killing thirty-five head. Two train
hands were injured.
Bishop BENJAMIN Herr, of the Mennonite Church,
died at his residence, near Lampeter, Pa. on Sat
urdsy, aged 81 years He had been a bishop for
nearly forty years.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will next
week begin work on its additional shops at Altoona
Penna. They will cost over $500 600 and give EN-
| ployment to 1000 new men.
| W. F. Hudson, assistant Distributing Clerk of the
ton after a short Illness lie was Well known in
Democratic circles in Iowa.
| A reduction of wages has caused strike among
the 100 employees OF the Lehgh Stove Manufacturing
Works TT Lehighton Penna and the works have
been closed indefinitely.
Brooklyn, n. Y, visited by an unusually
severe wind and hail storm Monday MANY of the
stones being as large as peanuts In Flatbush con-
siderable damage was done to greenhouses.
During Harrison and Morton pole raising near
Norris OtSego county. New York on Monday even
ing, cannon was prematurely discharged, killing
John Dickson, Albert Sergeant and Frederick Sage
Dr. r. H. Miner, a prominent citizen of Chester
Pa committed suicide early Wednesday morning
respondent since the death of his wife, more than
year ago.
sa5y Whitley and Maud King. Of Pinkney Point
risk Of their own lives, went out IN a boat in a
heavy gale and rescued three men and boy whose
boat had been capsized.
At Willamstown. New York. on Sunday night
three farmers surprised burglar while wrecking
safe He dashed through q window and shot
and dangerously wounded in the side. He refuses
to disclose his identity.
The mining, milling and farming implement
burg, Penna., was burned early Tuesday morning.
Loss, $4,000: insurance, about 5000. Jacob Evans
discharged employee was arrested ON the charge of
setting fire to the works.
Afive-mile swimming match for the international
championship took place on Monday afternoon at
Coney Island, between Johnson of England, and
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utes so seconds. Levy was taken with cramps ON
the second mile, and forced to retire
As picnic party were crossing a trestle on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, near Evansville
Wisconsin, on Sunday evening q freight train came
along and knocked Miss Maggie Puzzle to the rocks
80 feet below She was killed The Others escaned
by crawling out on the end of the ties
A motor and car on the South Side Electric rail-
way, in PittSburg, ran away Tuesday morning. At
the bottom of the hill it jumped the track and
crashed into telegraph pole; The seven passen-
gers injured Mrs. Rachel Heron it is feared,
fatally. The engineer lost control of the brake.
Mayor Lawson, of Menosha, has issued an appeal
to the people of Wisconsin in behalf of the families
of those killed wounded in the recent mill disas-
ter. He reports that 2S small children and nine
widows are destitute Thomas s. Jourdain another
of the victims of the explosion, died on Monday.
Policeman William Tillman while on duty in
New York early Monday morning, detected by
Roundsman Bingham in the act OF robbing plumb
pipe and brass goods and was throwing them over
the yard fence. Tillman is prominent member of
Reno Post, G. A. r.
Joseph Breed, Assistant Cashier of the Hartford
National bank, i'll Hartford Connecticut, committed
suicide on Wednesday by cutting his throat He
was 30 years of age He was trustee of three
estates and it is rumored that his accounts or
had been short all of these. Officers of the bank
say his accounts there are all right.
Alfred C. Hobbs, of Hartford, Conn., is now 76
years of age. He is the man who succeeded in
picking every lock placed before him the Crystal
Palace, London in 1851, and won $1,000 offered by
English firm TO any one who could pick the lock
they manufactured. Mr., Hobbs became a lion. and
was presented to the Duke of Wellington and Queen
Victoria
A despatch from Marquette Michigan, says forest
fires are raging gil along the railway lines of the
P9Pned At Carney the Mepasba Wooden w Seen
Company lost 500 cords of slaves, barn and 40 tons
of hay. Brown & Co lost s29OOd worth of bark and
cedar posts II is feared that in the back districts
there will be loss of life.
During storm in New Brunswick New Jersey
Monday afternoon, the flagstaff and cupola of the
New Jersey Rubber Works was struck by lightning
The cupola was set on fire. but the flames were soon
distinguished. There were 800 persons majority
of them women, in the rooms, and many of them
were stunned and many became panic-stricken.
Great excitement prevailed.
freight train of forty-two cars on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad became disconnected near Stanford
Station early Monday morning. and as the two Sec
tons came together some of The cars were derailed
,,d set fire. Eighteen wore destroyed, and
for some hours. Two tramps who were stealing a
ride, were severely injured
The death of Rev Jesse Pratt, the Oldest Baptist
minister in Arkansas, under peculiarly painful cir
cumstanceS, is reported from Little Rock. Ills son,
]. X. Pratt, on trial for assauting woman, and
the father expressed the hope that he would die
before the verdict was rendered. He expired five
hours before the jury came in sentencing mis- TO
five years imprisonment. Grief and shame killed
him.
At SteiEward Germany Monday last, seven
old wooden warehouses, containing cotton, rice,
sugar and saltpetre valued at 100000 marks, were
destroyed by fire. Six persons persisted in the
flames The spectacle was grand one. Twenty
thousand persons watched the flames. Most OF the
cases of champagne and large quantity of candles
were also destroyed.
H. S. Benjamin and F. A. Bates, members of the
bankrupt mining stock firm of Moore, benjamin &
Co, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have been arrested
on a charge of conspiracy and their bail fixed at
sl00OO The charge of conspiracy is made in con-
neelion with a civil action brought by Mrs Helen
Warner to recover $4,000 from the bankrupt firm.
She placed her money in the firms mining stocks,
and claims that she was guaranteed against loss.
Thirteen Mongolians were initiated into the mys-
teries OF Chinese Freemasonry, in Chicago on Tues
day night at the Lodge rooms of Chin Mon Heck
Lodge. Chin Mon Yeck Company comprises nearly
500 members and is growing rapidly There are
Lodges in all the principal cities, and the zee Tong
Hong Company, OF San Francisco, is the recognized
head The order was established about II years ago
and now has a membership exceeding l50,OOo.
A Portuguese brigantine, from the Azores for Bos-
ton with 81 female immigrants on board, put in at
Halifax ten days ago. 1t was said she put in there
for water but 1t has just been discovered that she
az 10 one by I 70 eVSde the
American law. Had-the vessel taken the women to
Boston they could not have landed there, as they
United States.
The Governor of Indiana has again written to the
judges and prosecuting attorneys of the districts dis
tnr6ed by the Mnite laps Irg n Iss M
promises to request the Attorney General TO assist
in every way possible in procuring indictments and
insists that the perpetrators of the ourages must be
ferreted out and every citizen in the region who is
supposed to have any knowledge of their crimes
shall be summoned for examination
Samuel Vintou, q grain dealer. has returned to
Minneapolis Minnesota from trip through North
Dakota He says he found thousands of acres of
wheat uncut, and that large portion never viii be-
on account ofthe damage by frost. There are some
fields that have escaped without damage, and in
these the yield and quality will be excellent. In
some localities visited by the frost the wheat pre-
sented healthy appearance for a few days and
afterwards would commence shrivelling.
Damage by the storm on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday of last week. at New Orleans and vicinity
will reach over S3500,000. In two counties not Q
head of live stock was left and In many cases chick
ems, cats and dogs were drowned BY the rush of
water from the Gulf of Mexico and the Overlooking
rivers At Pittsburg and vicinity the loss Is about
81 600, and for several days the factories and
mills were closed owing to railroads being SO badly
washed as prevent the hauling of coal and coke.
The large barn of A. c. Reuly. at Spring Valley
Stock Farm, near Indianapolis, indiana was burned
on Tuesday afternoon. Seventeen high bred horses
and colts were destroyed, among them Mary c., who
had n record of 2.35, and had made for her owners
on The course S75 600. Ina Pancoast mare. with q
record OF o2i3< was also destroyed. The loss on
stock is $4,000 and on barn and contents $1,000.
The insurance is $4,000. A Homewood horse was
destroyed, which ends the line.
VIM, F. Shelley, of Littlestown, Pa, who had been
an intense sufferer for over five years. died on
August 90 About five years ago Mr.: s. got an affec-
tion between the jaw and ear which grew alarm
inrly and baed the skill of the resident physicians
Ei1inent physicians from Baltimore, Philadelphia
and other cities were consulted, but without avail.
,lna rhvsirians agreed that similar malady