The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-04-28
News of the Week.

| something easier.
Three thousand shoemakers are on strike
| in Berlin, Germany.
Seim Co.'S. glass factory, Baltimore, was
burned on Thursday night. Loss $4,000.
George Daugherty, aged nearly "a years,
died in Gettysburg, Pa, on April y.
Miss Betsey Bupp, aged about 10, commit
ted suicide in Hanover, Pa, last week.
Mrs. Susan Carbaugh, died suddenly in
Adams county, Pa, on Friday of last week.
DIR. D. Hayes Agnew, of Philadelphia,
Pa, celebrated on Tuesday the 50th anniver-
sary of his electorate.
John Parsons, wife and child, were killed
by lightning Sunday night at their home in
Centreville, Kentucky.
York, Pa, is infested by fire-bugs. At
least ten incendiary fires have occurred there
during the past two weeks.
Another large cotton factory is to be erect.
ed at Danville, Virginia, with capacity of
80, 900 yards of cloth per day.
John Hartman, of Dallastown, York coun-
/ ty, Pa, beat his wife so severely on Wednes-
Of last week that she died on Saturday.
Chauncey Winchell, President of the Rock
Vile Comm National Bank, is the oldest
bank President in the Nutmeg State, if not
in the country. He is in his 9Sd year.
Mp. B. Wells, Treasurer of the Seneca
/ Falls Savings Bank, in Albany, New York,
was arrested on Sunday, charged with being
a defaulter. The amount is thought to be
under $4,000.
| A despatch from Staunton, Virginia, on
Thursday, says heavy frost during the week
have killed the pear, plum and damson crops
and greatly damaged the peach crop. For
ward wheat on the river bottom is seriously
injured.
A hail-storm of remarkable severity passed
| over Mobile, Ala, and the adjacent country
| Monday afternoon, and was followed by a
sheavy rain. The hail fell for an hour, cover
4 :. s,.s >,~...-a --.-a. 1-.e o.. l--,aaa to
Esfrpit trees and vegetables.
Robert Bonner's famous trotter, Dexter,
once 1.-THE King of the Turf" died at Mr..
Bonner's stables, New York, on Saturday
morning of old age and exhaustion. Dexter
was just 80 years old, having been foaled in
l April, 1858. His best time was 2.17i.
The Oldest man in Northwestern Ohio died
in Findlay, on Friday of last week. His name
was Simon Cassidy, and he was born in Vir-
ginia April u, 1889. He was a soldier of
the war of 1872, and also of the war with
Mexico, and drew two pensions for these sep
crate services.
The collector Cor the Methodist Book Con-
! ccTH III DOSLOu OH 4hOuudy ldiu upon COuH-
ter while he went up stairs a pocketbook,
containing $3.50 cash and checks for about
$1,000, which he had just collected. During
his absence the pocketbook was stolen.
William B. Dinsmore, President of the
Adams Express Company, died at his resi-
dence in New York on April 20. Alvin
Adams, Mr.. Dinsmore and John Hoey estab-
lished the business of the express company in
l841, beginning with leather bag and a
hand barrow. To-day the company has 5000
employees.
Nanny Sidebottoms was convicted at Som
erset, Kentucky, on Friday of last week, of
the murder of Thomas Wilson, and sentenced
to Imprisonment for life. While being taken
to prison a mob gathered 10 lynch him, but
a fire breaking out in a church they stopped
to extinguish it, and the jailor escaped with
his prisoner.
In the District Court in Maiden, Massach-
usetts, on Tuesday, Mrs. Abby H. Conner
was placed under $4,000 bail to answer a
charge of manslaughter for causing the death
of her daughter, Mrs. Lottie A. James, the
victim of the Christian science affair at Med
ford on Thursday of last week.
B. F. Boyston shot and fatally wounded
Miss Lulu Frazier, in Cooper, Texas, Mon
day afternoon, and then committed suicide.
The couple were engaged to be married
The knot was to have been tied last Saturday
i night, but the young woman postponed the
wedding and the shooting was the result.
The river at Dubuque, Iowa, marked 20
feet 2 inches above low water mark. The
lower part of the city was nearly afoat, and
part of the levee was covered, The base
ments of many factories and buildings on the
low grounds near the river are filled with
water. On Wednesday the water had fallen.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church began their semi annual session in
New York on Wednesday with closed doors.
The proceedings consist mainly in the discus
sion of questions of administration. The
1 General Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church will begin its session Tuesday
morning next in the Metropolitan Opera
House.
William Stringer. of Hot Springs, Arkansas,
keeps half-a- dozen game cocks in his back
yard. On Monday his four year old son wa S
chasing one of the birds, when it turned and
attacked the little fellow, knocking him down
and gaffing him about the head. The boy
was cut and pecked in horrible manner be-
fore he was rescued, and died of commissions
| in a short time.
The trade in birds for women's hats was SO
enormous last year that a single London
dealer admitted that he sold two millions of
small birds of every kind and color. At one
auction in one week there were sold 5000
birds of paradise, 5000 Impeyan pheasants,
400, 900 humming birds, and other birds from
North and South America, and 100000 feath-
cred skins from India.
Mile. Deaco, slack wire performer, gave
an open air exhibition in front of the Opera
House in Steubenville, Ohio, Tuesday even
ing. The wire was stretched from the hotel
/ xuipdnu, to tho To piI Ia Of he
street, distance of 100 feet, with a fall of
one foot in two. When in mid air the appa-
ratus gave way, and the woman fell and was
| fatally injured. Her real name is Annie
/ Wilson, of Philadelphia.
Bishop Keane spent last week in Louis
vile, Kentucky, receiving subscriptions to the
Catholic University of America. Louisville's
contribution is over eleven thousand dollars.
Bishop Keane is now in Washington superin-
tending the arrangements for the laying of
the cornerstone of the Divinity building of
the University, which is to take place on the
afternoon of May oath next.
An explosion that pitched seventy persons
into the air, Throwing one man fifty feet
wrecked sixteen big plate-glass windows,
$4,000 worth of clothing, and caused a
stampede of hundreds Of people from the
upper stories of tall buildings, occurred in
|
cago, on Thursday evening. Queerly enough,
no one was killed or even fatally injured.
A SON of j. C. Waltmyer, of West Hemp
field township, Lancaster county, Pa, was
taken i'll with malignant diphtheria last week,
and died on Sunday. Three other children,
aged five, eight and eleven years, were taken
| i'll and died and were buried on Monday.
Now the four remaining children, three sons
and daughter, are dying, and the father and
mother are both down with the disease. The
neighbors are panic stricken.
Samuel I. Young, who fred the barn of
Frank Mace, near Norristown, Pa, two weeks
ago, whereby SO animals persisted, has been
4 arrested. He made confession, saying he
went to the barn to steal horse, and in
| lighting match to find halter he acciden-
! tally set fire to some straw and was unable to
extinguish the flames. After selling the
horse and spending the money he went back
to the same neighborhood and stole horse
and buggy, which he also sold.
A telegram from St. Paul says that for some
time representative of prominent English
millers has been in the Northwest, perfecting
scheme for the direct shipment abroad of
| Minnesota and Dakota wheat in its purity,
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