The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-08-18
News of the week.


News of the Week.
Philadelphia, Pa, had 81 deaths from typhoid
! fever last week
Aeeomac county va will ship ,OO90g1 barrels of
sweet pc latoes this season.
The stable Of the Exchange hotel, Hanover, Pa.
| was burned on Friday afternoon of last week.
| During heavy rain storm in Cleveland on sun
day afternoon lightning struck several houses
| A report from Greeley. Iowa. says there
slight frost OH low grounds on last Saturday night
Richard L. Spoford prominent Massachusetts
lawyer died ON saturday At Newburyport, aged e6
years.
Scotia. on August LIST arrived at New York on Sat
urday.
Valley National Bank. died at his residence. in Win
chester, Virginia. on Saturday.
of the rigate Bainbridge during the late war died
suddenly on Sunday in Brooklyn.
The steamships Thingvalla and Geiser, of the New
York and Copenh agen Line, eollided IN fog on
Tuesday. The Geiser was sunk, with l05 persons.
The wholesale agricultural implement warehouse
of Martin & Co., and Kingman 4 Co.. at Peoria, Illi
nos, were destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning.
Higgins's carpet mandatory, in New York. re-
sumed monday. with l401 hands, who will work
for two weeks, when 400 Others will take their
places.
The weavers at the American Linen Mills in Fall
River, Massachusetts, struck on Tuesday because
of dissatisfaction with their pay About ZOO looms
are idle.
Lawrence r. Jerome a well-known citizen of
New York, died on Sunday in Sharon. Connecticut
aged IS years. He had been unconscious since Fri
day night.
The Cairo, vincennes and Chicago Railroad wharf
boat sank, Sunday night at the landing in Cairo
Illinois, with 800 bales OF cotton and $500 sacks Of
cotton-seed meal.
During thunderstorm on Sunday evening a sta
BILE belonging TO William L. Ewing, at Cold Spring,
near Cape May, was struck by lightning and three
horses were killed.
ing to the yellow fever Nearly all business is
suspended and people are leaving by cars and boats
as rapidly as possible.
The 7. B. Scott Lumber Company. OF Merrill. Wis
consin, has sold to Milwaukee parties a tract of
standing pine Prairie river estimated to contain
100000 feet, for $4,000.
Norman Q. Fake native of Riehfield Springs
New York, employed as chemist at the Depart
ment of Agriculture, in Washington, ID. c., was
drowned in the Potomac river, on Saturday. while
bathing.
Ann Hardin, the first woman married in Texas
after its annexation; and known all over that State
5 "a ar Sae va srs c az ~ Ie
ferson Davis.
A Valparaiso despatch says the reservoir belong
ing to the Menas brewery burst on Saturday morn
and traffic was suspended. 1t is supposed that up
wards of 300 people were drowned.
G. D. MeCorkle's cottage at the Mount Tabor Meth
odist camp meeting grounds, near Newark, New
jersey was destroyed on Tuesday morning by fire.
Two of the five children that were in the house
COW belonging to Amos Basehoar, of near Lit
tlestown. Pa, last week gave birth to a calf with
double head, having two mouths, four eyes, but
only two ears The calf in every other respect is
perfectly formed 1t eats well and promises TO live.
Frederick Hoag, the runaway German postal
clerk who is charged with embezzling 10000 marks
from the German Government, was held on Satur
day by the United States Court in Boston to await
extraditiou papers from Washington. He will then
be sent home for trial.
Samuel A. Noble. who died at Admission, Alabama,
nm Monday. left Reading Penna-, over 80
and was one of the first men to build a furnace
faith in the South becoming the centre of the iron
industry in this country.
According to the report of the Chef Of The bureau
and hog products from the United States during
July was S6G14 aal and during July last year 1885,
81 Sa9 0s9 against s269i,2l4 in July, 1887.
The stream of crude petroleum started three
weeks ago from Lima, Ohio to fill the two great
tanks at South Chicago began pouring into their
reservoirs early Tuesday morning. The oil is now
flowing the rate of 5000 barrels or 36 900 gallons
a day. Each tank has Il capacity of $1,000 barrels
AN attempt e waS eS o William S9r SS8SK G 81 to
ton, Pa while he and his wife We're asleep. Beyond
severe shock they were uninlnred, although por-
position make Mr., Collier unpopular with the min
ers, -, @,
Convent in New York city, were burned. Loss
on buildings and contents 81 600 900 insurance S429
600 The library contained 1900 religious and his
toreal books and is entirely destroyed. valuable
mineraiogical collection is lost large organ and
100 pianos were burned.
Miss Mary Berg and Miss Marion Preston. who
testified before the Congressional Committee on
Immigration, in New York, last week. TO the i'll
treatment of women and girls in the large clothing
snective employers. They will report the facts to
Tie committee at its next session
Vicar General Anthony Smith died in Trenton,
Now Jersey, on Saturday morning, aged 67 years
He Joined the Redemptorist Order In France in
1889, and came to this country in 1874, and was
dained in baltimore the following year. He was
osIiad 10 Trenton "a years ago. He built the ST
Francis Hospital and st. Marys cathedral there.
A Sioux City despatch on Tuesday says there is q
gloomy OUTLOOK o lSl and Southern OF SEoa cSs
and all grains will yield less than o1ethird of the
average crop Rust has severely attacked the wheat
promised fairly are now twisted and tangled by the
storms Of the last few days,
Jeremiah Hickman, an aged man was very seri-
onslv hurt in the Reading, Pa, Cotton Mills two
Wears ago He sued and got verdict Of $4,000
hs the Court reduced 70 $40 GOO and Tuesday the
sberif levied on some of the mill property for The
modore Garner. of New York, who, VITA q party Of
friends was drowned on the III -fa.ed Mohawk ten
years ago
A terrible 1yind-storm passed over Rockingham
county Va, on Sunday evening from cast 10 west,
doing Immense damage TO barns, houses, timber,
destroyed The sectiQn 1t passed over presents q
desolsie appearance, The old inhabitants say it
e sss hardly be esmaed but il is supposed to be
about S20.0O0.
A despatch from Clinton Iowa. says that the
merchants of that place. under the influence of the
Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad strikers.
have been boycottng that road by refusing 10 ship
goods over it and to receive goods Shipped over il
Officials OF the road have decided To- retaliae, and
the boycoiting merchants have been notified that
unless the boycott is raised the road will stop run
ring trains into the city,
The will of Isaac n, Phelps, the New York banker,
filed Tuesday, contains these charitable bequests
s0O0 10 the american Bible Society; 900 to the
american Home Mission Society; 5000 to the Ameri-
can Tract Society; $4,000 to the American Board Of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions and 5000 each
TO the Association for the Benefit Of Colored Orphans
the East River Industrial School and the Association
for the Relief of Aged and INDECENT Females,
kilograms received in the City of Mexico state
that Company is in course OF formation in London
and New York to build the Las Ghiapas Railroad
Under the tort concession. The Mexican National
aonstr,lcfion Campany Is ready to commence active
work on The railroad lines from Zacatecas to San
Luis Potosi and from ManZnnilla to Colima. San
Luis Potosi advices state that great preparations
are being made TO celebrate the inapgufation of
travel on the Mexican National Railroad to the Rio
Grande on the 10th of September,
There were twenty deaths from yellow fever in
8. Jago do Cuba up TO July 2sth, and they were
laraeiy among the military The season is irregular
and the weather is favorable to the spread Of the
disease Reports from the interior of tho island say
that many children and native Cpbans arc dying Of
the fever Cienfuegos has just got clear of the cpl
demic of small-po New Manzanilla and other
boilts are suffering. Precautions are unknown.
Ganta Clara state that 10 deaths have