The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-04-14
News of the Week.

cattle owners, in Hartland, Kansas, have
failed Liabilities, 100000
Six inches of very wet snow fell in Vermont,
on Tuesday night, and seriously damaged
telegraph and telephone lines.
The grist mill of c. Fl. Jones, in James
town, New York, was burned on Tuesday.
Loss, SIS, 900; insurance, $4,000.
The planning and manufacturing mills of
Buffum & Co., at Bristol, Tennessee, were
burned Monday. Loss, 5000; insurance,
$1,000.
Daniel Sayre, for thirty years Grand Secre-
tary of the Masonic Grand Lodge, of Alaba-
ma, died in Montgomery on Saturday night,
aged 50 years.
John and David Bowman, farmers, 81 and
81 years old, living alone few miles from
Barrie, Ontario. Canada, were burned to death
in their house Sunday.
A large stock barn on the farm of Matthew
Howard, near Paris, Kentucky, was destroy
ed by lightning on Friday night. One hun
bred of stock were killed.
White and Cross, the absconding bank Off
GERS, left Toronto on Saturday, in custody of
an officer, for Raleigh, North Carolina, where
they will be tried for forgery.
Two barns belonging to Franklin Mace,
outside of Norristown, Penna., were burned
early Saturday morning. Thirty-one cows
and ten horses were burned to death. and
large quantity of grain, ETC., consumed.
During the funeral of John S. Brown at
Shawneetown, Illinois, on Monday, the floor
of the house gave away, throwing the coffin
and about 40 men, women and children into
the cellar. Many were severely injured.
A remarkably severe thunder passed
over Centreville. Mich, on Thursday Of last
all Iz..- J. L. a. l.
lightning and destroyed. Mr.. Parson and
his little child and Mrs. Yakee were killed
at the same time.
A man giving the name of Marx Morgan
stein leaped into the Kansas river at Kansas
City, Missouri, Saturday. He was rescued,
and in bag he had. thrown away-was found
S7425 in.bils. He said hewas sufferer from
an incurable disease.
A fire in Amesbury, Massachusetts, on
Thursday night of last week, destroyed num-
Der of business buildings and dwellings.
Every firm had large stock of goods on
hand for spring trade. The loss is estimated
at $780, 200 and the insurance S350,00O.
Advices from Matanzas, Cuba, say that the
crops of the cane fields and all the houses of
the Dolores estate have been burned. The
fire spread to three adjoining estates-the
Diana, the Andrea and the Santana-destroy-
ing large quantity of cane and killing large
number of cattle.
The damage by floods caused by the water
spout which passed over Pesth, and other
1,000,000 florins. The town of Tisza- Eszlar
is in so dangerous q position that the inhab-
itants have resolved to abandon it and settle
in a more secure district.
The shipment of chickens over the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad, from the South, has
become quite an important factor in the way
of freight A car load consists of from thirty
five hundred to four thousand chickens, and
during the season, which commenced last
week, will consist of from four to eight car
loads per week.
A syndicate, including several Georgia cap
italists, has secured the exclusive right for
the Southern States of the Thompkins process
for reducing vegetable fbres to paper stock,
with the intention of establishing mills in all
the cotton States and applying the process to
the reduction of cotton stalks and seed hulls,
now practically worthless.
DIR. c. W. Chase, a well-known physician
of Chicago, was arrested in that city on Tues
day morning, while selling buffalo robe
which the police supposed to be stolen. He
was lodged in a cell in the Central Station,
and in the afternoon committed suicide by
hanging himself with pocket handkerchief.
He was only 80 years of age.
In Terre Haute, Indiana, the number of
new cases of measles has averaged 25 a day
for two weeks. In many of the small towns
in Illinois and Indiana the schools have been
closed since the first of the year. In Vermil-
lion, Illinois, there have been Is deaths. In
Crawfordville, Indiana, there were over 800
cases in the month of March.
The Elba Iron and Bolt Company, limited,
and the Continental Tube Company, both of
Pittsburg, suspended on Saturday. Their
liabilities are reported at 1927 900, their assets
81 100000. An extension will be asked
The mills, when in full operation, employ
900 men. Depression in the pipe trade and
labor trorble, which compelled the closing of
the mills for nearly four months, are said to
have caused the embarrassment
The State Normal School in Terre Haute
Indiana, was burned Monday The 500
pupils all got out safely. In pursuance of the
policy of the State there was no insurance on
the structure. Its cost was $3.50, 000 Ar
engagements have been made for aecommoda.
ting the training school in the city school
building and for continuing the normal school
proper in temporary quarters. A defective
flue is supposed to have caused the fire.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
landing of General Rufus Putnam and his
band from the MayAower was celebrated in
the City Hall, in Marietta, Ohio, Saturday.
Addresses were made by Governor Foraker,
Senator Hoar, ex-Fresident Hayes, Bernard
Peters, j. Randolph Tucker and Others
Overflow meetings were held in the churches.
The centennial anniversary of the settlement
of "rhe Ohio Country" at what is known as
Marietta, Ohio, was celebrated Saturday night
by the Ohio Society of New York by dinner
at DelmonieC's.
a report was received at the photographic
Office in New York on Thursday that large
quantities of ice off the Newfoundland coast
were rapidly drifting into the steamer routes.
Captain Dawson, of the steamer Portia, which
arrived on Thursday from Newfoundland via
Halifax, says that he was blocked in the ice
at Newfoundland with other vessels for three
weeks. Continual strong easterly winds
packed the ice SO close to the shore that from
the signal hill at the entrance to the harbor,
5000 feet above sea level, giving a range of
view of over 60 miles, no open water could
be seen, and during that time, the ice was so
solid that he walked over four miles to another
vessel. His vessel was set free by westerly
breeze, and it passed thirty icebergs within
as many miles.
The New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Ledger of Monday says: The impor-
tations of foreign potatoes are growing in
magnitude, as witness the following statement
of receipts at this port during the past six
months: Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards
Island, 157, 296 bushels and 3S,493 barrels;
Great Britain, 800, 275 sacks; Continent, 55,-
2O7 sacks; Bermuda and the West Indies,
20S0 barrels. The receipts for weeks ahead
also promise to be heavy, as the market here
continues firm. Scotch Magnums are selling
at 81 10 a , % per 16S-lb sack; English and
$40 to Sl2 per barrel, and so on. The fore
going statistics do not include this weeks ar
rivals, which are valued at 800, 00S.