The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-03-10
GENERAL NEWS.

on Saturday and Sunday and put stop to
all traffic
On Saturday hurricane visited Tama-
tave, Madagascar. The town was devastat-
ed, eleven vessels wrecked and twenty per-
sons killed.
Fire in Milwaukee, Wis, Saturday de-
stroyed J. Ferneck & Brothers candy
factory and several other buildings. Loss
S275, 900; insurance S230000.
Five shares of the New York San Pub
fishing Company, par value. of $1,000 each,
were sold at the Real Estate Exchange, in
New York, last week for S3350 each.
Twelve hundred painters in Chicago be-
longing to the Knights of Labor have de-
cided to strike on March 10 if their re-
cent demand for minimum rate of 81
cents an hour for an eight-hour day is not
complied with.
All railway traffic in Sweden and Den
mark on Saturday, Sunday and Monday
was stopped by heavy snowfals. Traffic on
the lines in Northeast Germany was also in-
terrupted, and Dantzic completely cut off
from the world.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ B. Merrill, of Hayfeld
township, Pa, last week celebrated their
seventy-ffth wedding anniversary by a
family reunion, at which all of their fifteen
living children were present. Mr.. Merrill
is 81 and his wife is SO years of age.
Adam Forepaugh has contracted for the
erection of an amphitheatre, at Broad and
Dauphin streets, Philadelphia, Pa, to cost
S150,000 and to seat 10000 persons. The !
building is to be modelled after the Paris
Hippodrome, and to be used like the Madi-
son Square Garden, New York.
The snow storm in Michigan on March
LIST and 2nd was one of the most severe
ever known The snow fall was accOmpa-
MED by heavy gale. The storm extended
over the entire length of Lake Superior
and well down into the Southern peninsula,
where the railroads are reported to be badly
crippled.
The Marguerite winery and distillery,
five miles south of Fresno, Cal, owned by
Rogers & Mallor, San Francisco, was total
ly destroyed by fire shortly after midnight
Saturday last Over 100000 gallons of
wine, valued at S150,OO0, and machinery
and buildings valued at $50, 900 were also
consumed.
The following official statement is given
of the loss of life and the destruction of
property by the cyclone at Mt. Vernon,
Illinois, on February 10, an account of
which was given in This paper: Killed
%; wounded 2l5; $40 houses destroyed
1000 persons homeless and houseless; and
500 persons are being fed by the charita-
BILE.
The Gettysburg, Pa, Packing Company,
with capital of 100000 has organized !
by electing John A. Livers, Hon. d. Wills,
H. j. Stable, J. f. Bair and J. George
Wolf directors, and Prof. +. S. Breiden-
baugh treasurer. A president is to be
chosen hereafter. The plant Of company
organized several years ago will be rented.
Secretary Bayard had a narrow escape
from dangerous injury on Saturday after
noon. While out riding his horse stepped
into broken drain and fell Mr. Bayard
was thrown upon the stone pavement and
the horse rolled over him. No bones were
broken, but he was considerably bruised.
According to returns the product of the
winter packing season in Chicago shows
decrease in many points over previous
years There have been killed nearly l.
$1,000 hogs, against 1,734,S 1922 during
the season of 1867. The actual number
packed was l ,440, 40 or 245, 800 less than
during the previous season.
Dispatches on Monday state that the
hamlet of Trasquera, at the foot of
the Simplon mountain, and another
hamlet in the Bini Valley, have been des-
troyed by avalanches. At the latter place
FIVE persons were killed Avalanchcs in
the Treutino Valley haze killed twenty
persons The bodies of over 200 victims
of the recent avalanches in the Italian Alps
have been recovered.
The will of the late w. W. Coreoran
has been probated in Washington. The
only public requests are 100000 to the
Corcoran Art Gallery, to which Mr..
Corcoran had already given 81 $780, 900;
$4,000 to the Louise Home, to which
Mr. Corcoran gave ia life half million
dollars; $4,000 each to the three orphan
asylums of the District, aud $4,000 to the
Little Sisters of the Poor.
In January last Joseph b. Dudley, col
ored, is alleged to have died in Charleston,
South Carolina. He was insured for S10,-
900 in the United States Mutual Accident |
Association and the Traders and Travellers
Accident Company, both of New York.
A detective was sent to investigate the
matter, as there was suspicion of foul
play. On Saturday two colored men con-
fessed that no such person as Dudley eyer
lived, and that the corpse alleged to be his
was obtained in colored graveyard. The
entire transaction was conspiracy to Sc
cure the insurance money.
During party at the house of William
Means, farmer, near Hilshoro, Ohio, last
week, two sisters named Stovey, left the
house and dressed up in ghos' 'v fashion.
They wrapped themselves in sh, is, put on
false faces made of dough and then burst |
suddenly in upon the guests. Four girls
tainted, two were restored without much
trouble, but Dora +. Atkins and Lizzie
CLANCY ''were restored only to pass into a |
condition of frightful delirium, screaming
and crying constantly. The physicians
hold but slender hopes of the recovery of
their reason
Much interest is taken in Elkhart In
diana, in Mrs Hooker, who has appeared
before the Pension Board and made for
NAL claim to pension, based on the fact
that she was an enlisted soldier of the late
war, served three years and was twice
wounded. At the breaking out of the
war, Mr.. Hooker was appointed first lieu
tenant and his wife accompanied him to
the front. She was enabled to do this by /
a clever piece of strategy. A young man
who bore some resemblance to her was in
dueed to submit himself to the necessary
examination, and when an opportunity |
presented itself, the young woman, proper
" uniformed, exchanged places with him.
With her husband she has lived at Elk
hart several years, and is familiarly known