The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-30
News of the Week.


On Tuesday 227 deaths were recorded in
New York city in "a hours; 40 per cent. of
which was due to the heat.
Mary P. Benneman, of Kokomo, Indiana,
aged 119 years, and Marion Darlington, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, aged 10, died last week.
In New York, on Saturday, there were
thirty prostrations from heat, six being fatal.
In Brooklyn there were ten cases and one
death.
Near Mt. Holly, Penna., Saturday evening,
Mrs. Pallenger drank quantity of carbolic
acid IN mistake for water and died almost in
stantly.
At Stahlstown, Pa, on Saturday, the 49,
by lightning and killed while standing before
an open window.
Six persuasive young women and a
young man-were drowned by the upsetting
of a little steam yacht, in Newark Bay, n. j.,
on Saturday night.
Deborah Chesley, widow 80 years old,
living in Manchester, New Hampshire, com
mitted suicide on Monday by hanging. Melan-
cholia was the cause.
A thief entered the Crown Prince of Swed-
ems apartments in the hotel at Franzensbad,
on Saturday night, and secured jewelry worth
plOOYUOO, Will WHICH, HC 6SCdDtu.
In the Court of Oyer and Terminer in New
York, on Monday, Charles Giblin, the muir
derer of Mrs. Madeline Goeltz, was senten-
ced by Judge Barrett to be hanged on Au-
gust 18th next.
The business portion of the town of Hol-
brook, Arizona, was burned on Saturday,
together with the Atlantic and Pacific Depot,
section houses and large number of cars.
The lOss Is estimated at 5000 ono
About midnight on Saturday night, party
of masked men rode up to the house of Chas.
Gross, q wealthy farmer, in Pilaski county,
Missouri, and, dragging him from the house,
carried him mile away, and there whipped
him to death. The alleged cause is the di-
vulging of secrets of the agricultural
Wheel, secret organization.
A train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, loaded with Chicago delegates, ran into
freight train, near Chicago junction, Ohio.
at two o'clock Tuesday morning. The en-.
gines, baggage car and freight cars were de-
molished and the track torn up for long
distance. The engineer was fatally hurt and
the passengers scratched and bruised.
A terrific thunder storm passed over Wyo-
ming Valley, Pa, on Saturday. At Pittson
many buildings were struck and damaged BY
lightning, and miner named Brady was kill
ed. The rainfall was tremendous, flooding
many large tracts in the country districts, and
covering the Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks
in places with from one to two feet of water.
A thunder storm passed over Pottsville.
Pa, on Saturday afternoon. 1t rained so
hard that in ten minutes the sewer inets were
clogged with debris and the streets were sub
merged to depth of from one to three feet.
Railroad streets, for distance of mile, be-
came the centre of seething river, the water
making a rate of six miles an hour and sweep
ing every loose thing before it. The damage
to the streets and sidewalks was very heavy.
Henry Baker, farmer, living north of In
dianapolis, Indiana, objected to George Long,
who visited his daughter. On Sunday night
the men met, and from words went to blows,
and from blows to pistols, Baker disarmed
Long, shot him, and when the latter fell
started away from the scene. Long stagger-
ed up, seized the pistol, and shot Baker
through the heart. Long was fatally wound.
ed.
Great preparations are being made for the
gathering of veteran soldiers on the
Gettysburg battlefield during the week begin
to-day, Saturday. Fifteen hundred tents
were shipped to the field from the arsenal at
Harrisburg on Saturday, and 800 additional
tents are being pitched for the New Jersey
delegation. The United States Government
has also shipped 1000 tents from the Schuyl-
kill Arsenal. This encampment of the Grand
Army will be the largest ever held in PennsyI.
vania.