The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-22
News of the Week.

NEWS Oh GI10 w eek.
A fire at Paducah, KY, on Sunday night caused a
loss of $4,000.
Typhoid fever is raging in Rochester n. Y, and
great alarm exists.
A bright comet is approaching the earth. and will
soon be visible in the early morning in the eastern
hearenS.
Northampton aud Roanoke counties, North Caro-
lima have lost S500OOO in crops aud cattle BY the
recent rains
at Garage. Fulton county. New York, was burned on
Sunday night.
Reports from Pctoskey Walton and other points
in Michigan that rain has come and eXtnguished
the forest fires.
In New York on Monday. at the sale of j. D. Nor
rissey's stable French Park, the unbeaten twoyear
old was sold for Sl2,lO0.
Since January lst up TO and including Saturday
last 9 gallons of petroleum have been export
ed from Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs Rachel stillwaggon. of Flushing, N. Y. eele-
brated her l03d birthday on September IS. She
made a cake for the event.
Philadelphia, Pa, was injured by the heavy rains
of Sunday and Monday nights. Sewers burst and
much damage resulted TO the streets.
d. n. Vance, cashier of the Carrollton National
Bank, in Carrollton. Kentucky, has disappeared.
He was a delaulter for the amount of $1,000.
Yellow fever is still raging at Jacksonville Florida
and contributions of money provisions and clothing
are being sent from all parts of the country.
While intoxicated on Tuesday evening Mrs. j.
Franciscus, of Lancaster, Penna. threw a butcher
Il
terrible wound below the groin, which it is feared
will prove fatal
granite house in Rowan county Va, erected in
1766 is still owned and tenanted by descendants Of
the builder. The fireplace is eight feet wide five
feet high and five feet deep. The house is in good
state representation.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of Mrs Cynthia
Hathaway, of Savoy, Mass, was observed last week
at her old homestead in that town. over 400 people
were present, including about $50 of her descend
ants of five generations.
To,t
Mail Service in New York. and E. l.. Chapman. his
clerk, were removed wednesday by order of Post
master General Dickinson. Jackson had been in
the service . and Chapman 40 years.
Rev. DR.. Travelli of Sewickly, died in Pittsburg.
Pa, on Tuesday, aged so years. He Is said to have
introduced the kindergarten system of education in
the prison reform idea of the past two decades,
Mrs, Warner, Of Tyler county, West Virginia, on
in glass and. after giving each Of her children
spoonful, swallowed the remainder herself A ply
sician saved the lives of the children, but Mrs
Warner died.
Two inches of snow and sleet fell on Mount Wash
ington, New Hampshire on Thursday, September
IS. The thermometer stood at rs degrees above
zero 1t was the third snow storm and the sixth
time the thermometer has been below freezing point
since July 1st
The house occupied by Thomas Flood and wife
in Ithaca, New York, was burned on Saturday night
The fireman pulled Flood from the house after his
feet had been burned Off but only the eharred bones
of his wife could be found The couple were old
and dissipated.
telegram from HAVANA, Cuba on Tuesday
says that in the district of Rogue springs which
have been dry for long time are again flowing
and some estates in danger of being submerged
This reappearance of the springs excites general
alarm throughout the district.
William Schneider, mailing clerk in the post
Office at Lancaster Pennsylvania, has been arrested
on the charge of robbing the mails. Many valuable
letters have been stolen during the past year Most
of them were addressed to Revenue Collector Mac
Gonigle. Schneider gave $500 bail and was released
VII wind AocOmnaniad nv sheets nj
rain, visited Washington, D. c., on Sunday. Several
houses were blown down and number of roofs
lifted. The cupola of the Botanical Gardens was
destroyed the greenhouse badly shattered and
many valuable tropical plants injured. Loss $780,
CO.,
Andrew Rhuel farmer, living near Manchester
Missouri, made some dsparaging remarks about
Miss Annie Fink and was thrashed by her brother
Frederick Fink, who lived on an adjoining farm
On Friday of last week Rhuel procured a revolver
and shot and killed Fink and his sister and then
committed suicide.
William Fogarty was arrested in New York, on
Wednesday, on the charge Of numbering his brother
James, on the morning OF September 9Th by driving
an umbrella ferEule through his eye and fracturing
his skull. Two women saw the prisoner walk away
from the PROSTATE form of his brother carrying an
umbrella under his arm.
John Smith, Jr., contractor on the Nashville and
Knoxville Railroad was shot and robbed of 81 900
by two highwaymen near Lancaster Tenn, on Mon
day night. MIR. johnson, an employe of Smith, pur-
sued the robbers and fired upon them, wounding
covered the money aud took the robbers to Carthage.
C. A. Pillshury 4 Co., of Minneapolis, said to be
the largest milling trm III the world have just fin
ished division OF $4,000 among their employees.
This has been made in pursuance Of proftsnaring
plan adopted four years ago. For two years there
have been no amounts to divide, but the past year
has been profitable, and the firm keep their promise.
William Bohen, of Rockaway, n. Y, who gouged
out his wifes eyes in July lest and VINO was indiet
ed ON two counts, was on "Wednesday sentenced in
Long Island City, New York, by Judge Garretson to
ii years and six months Imprisonment on one count
and 70 u years and five months the second
making a total term of 26 years and II months at
hard labor.
The schooner Theresa has arrived at Victoria,
British Columbia, from Queen Charlotte Island, with
nearly $500 block cod in pickle; The captain re
fathoms. One mile from shore halibut banks, 100
fathoms are found, where fish six and seven feet in
length arc secured in great quantities The schoon-
er was recently loaded in one day.
AT Ankeytown, % miles south of Mansfield, Ohio
on September H. a Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train was derailed by switch and collided win .
freight engine blew up scattering wgeckage in all
directions. Harry Tomlinson, freight engineer, and
David Wilson, baggage master were killed. Thirty
two persons were injured, two of whom are not
expected 10 recover.
4 telegram from Ogden, Utah, says that two
special trains of fat cattle, belonging to Crocker Il
Taylor, reached there on sunday from Nevada, via
the Central Pacific road. These cattle are being
conveyed special cattle palace cars and will run
through to Chicago ON passenger time, being fed
aud WateFed while in transit II the experiment
proves, successful large shipments will probably
The l4-year-old daughter of Byrd Smith was sent
by her mother on Saturday afternoon TO start fire
in the stove in their home at Devine Station Texas
She used kerosene, and when the can exploded the
burning oil was scattered over the girl and her two
sisters and her baby brother, all of whom were
standing S SFeg1a Se s0ye watching her All the
moIhef was terribly burned while trying to save her
children,
Stxty-nine workmen employed In the Hoosac
Tunnel, at North Adams, Massachusetts,, were on
Saturday afternoon overcome DV gas from
passing locomotive. Fortunately the TACT was at
once reported by tagman, and another train about
10 enter the tunnel was stopped and the Frustrated
men were taken out The rescuers were also Affect
ed, some of them severely, All the Frustrated men
recover $50
Al Kokomo. Indiana, on Tuesday morning. while
an action for divorce was pending between Samuel
truett and hiswlte Pruett drew revolver and fsed
two shots into his wifes body fatally wounding her
He then shot and severely wounded man named
Blacklidge. Prpett admitted having intended TO
was unintentional, the bullet being Intended for an
other man who had invaded the sanctity OF his
hill In equity has been filed in the United States
Circuit Court, in Topeka, Kansas by the Union
Trust Company, of New York, against The Missouri
Kansas and Texas Railroad Company and the Mer-
the consolidated mortgages issued Fehruary l. 1871
June l, 1872, November l. 1872, and June l. iS7s
eating about ana are t sns o ag aHer
600 miles of road:
Anothef raid was made by the McCoys on the
Hatneld settlement, near Cattlesburg, Kentucky on
friday OF last week They attempted TO arrest Rich
ard Casey, a person who never had anything to do
with the trouble. Their action enraged the neigh
borhood and number of men went in pursuit.
They overlook the MeCoys at Paw Paw Mountain
where battle took place. Two of the McCoys were
killed and two were badly wounded None of the
Kentucky crowd vas hurt
The tallest smoke. chimney in the world is prob
ably one That can be seen from the windows of
trans crossing the Newark meadows 1t is being
erected in East Newark, N J. Its diameter at the
base is Is feet II is solid brick TO altitude OF $40
feet At its top il is nine feet in diameter cast
iron rim, 20 feet in diameter and bell suruotlnt
the whole, and make the total altitude OF The strct
ure 1856 feet. One million seven hundred thousand
bricks were used in its construction, and it cost
900.
Two men, named Steele and Mockabee, both
drullk, boarded train at Mount Sterling Kentucky
on Sunday afternoon, and fought ali the way TO
Stepstone, where the conductor. for the safety of