The Democratic advocate., 1888-01-07
News of the Week.

There were 2,912 fires in New York last
year, causing loss Of over s., 500, 600.
A sharp shock of earthquake WAS felt in the
City of Mexico on Monday morning at 7.30
o'clock
One hundred dwellings and twenty eight
business houses were destroyed by fire at Terre
Bonne, Louisiana, last week.
Twenty one houses in the business portion
of Salida, Colorado, were burned on Monday.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Sixteen persons, one fatally, were injured
in an accident on the Clearfield and Jefferson
Railroad, near Great Bend, Pa, on Friday
of last week.
The special election in the Eleventh District
of Michigan, to choose a successor to Con-
gresham Moffett, deceased, will be held on
February 18th.
Diphtheria has become epidemic in Strauss
town, Penua., and the schools there have
closed. Several prominent citizens have
fallen victims TO the disease.
General E. B. Alexander, of ST. Paul,
died at his son-in-law's residence, in Wash
ington, on Monday evening, at the age of sc
years. He graduated from West Point in
1923.
ExGov. Joel Parker, of New Jersey, died
on Sunday. He was leading Democrat
twice governor of New Jersey, and twice
spoken Of for Democratic nominee for Presi-
ident.
The building occupied by C. W. Pavey,
general merchant, in Mount Vernon, Illinois,
was burned on Monday. J. A. White,
retired merchant and one of the owners of
the building, was sleeping in second story
room and was burned to death.
A passenger train from the west collided
with freight train four miles west of Mead
vile, Pa, on Saturday morning. The pas.
senger train was wrecked and FIVE persons
were killed. Fifteen others were injured,
several severely, but all are expected to re-
cover.
George ii. Howells, of Louisville, Kentucky,
said on Tuesday that the pig iron market is
booming; that furnaces in the South are
running full blast, and that there is ready
market for all The product. Not since the war;
said he, has there been such prosperous times
in the South.
James Hendricks, hrothar of the late Vice
President Hendricks, died in Shelbyyille,
Indiana. on Sunday, aged Sc years. He was
soldier of the Union in two Indiana regi
the Hendricks family, and the third member
of it to die within year.
Some time Sunday night or carly next
morning the corner stone of the Harrison
Baptist Church in Harrison, N j., was pried
from the foundation, forced open and the
contents stolen. All the thieves got for their
trouble was about 81. so in old coins and some
papers that were valued simply as relics.
At Lebanon, Oregon, on Saturday night,
John, aged 8, and Mabel, aged Z, the only
children of John Ralston, were burned to
death in the bath room of the family residence.
The mother had just left them when the lamp
exploded, filling the room with flames. The
mother was badly burned in trying to rescue
the children.
The Drover's Journal, in its annual review
of the live stock trade of Chicago, shows re.
ceipts of 2,s7s,0Oo cattle, 6s, 500 calves, s.
100000 hogs and 1862, 900 sheep. The re-
ceipts of cattle, calves, sheep and horses were
the heaviest on record. Compared with 1886
the receipts show an increase Of 4l5, 900 cattle,
15, 600 calves, 154 600 sheep and is, 900 horses,
and decrease Of l,1s0, 600 hogs