The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-28
News of the Week.


Rev. E p. Roe, the naYelist died on July 49,
Florida.
Mrs. sophi Douglicrty, aged 90 years, died Oh
Monday in Manayunk Pa.
Elizabeth Chamberlain died in PHILADELPHIA. Pa
on Monday aged 96 years.
Samuel Ritter, aged 6s fell dead in Chambersburg,
Pa, OF Monday, caused by heart disease
Mrs. John s Martin, Of Chicago, died on Sunday
OF hydrophobia, caused by the bite of pet dog.
Rudolph Sevic was arrested in Chicago on We'd
nesday, for having furnished the dynamite for the
recent conspiracy.
The nine hundredth anniversary of the introduc.
Kief on Thursday
Rev. John F. Brooks, well known Presbyterian
. divine, died in Springfield Illinois, on Monday
night, aged 81 years
Official reports from the recent forest fires in
Northern Sweden. including the town of Sundes-
vail, is placed at 50 100000.
Margaret Robinson Smith, of PHILADELPHIA Pa
died in Norway on June 81. She leaves about SO :
900 to charitable institutions mostly Presbyterian
The Catron building in Santa Fe New Mexico,
containing the opera house. postoice and stores was
$4,000.
freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road jumped the track near Belmont. Ohio. ON Mon
day. brakeman and three tramps were injured
and l6 cars demolished.
| Mrs, Polk. Mrs Garfield and Mrs Grant. widows
OF former presidents, are the only ladies in the
United States who enjoy the ranking privilege by
laws passed by Congress
Oeuerdl Williams Z. Mlckham, Receiver of the
Newport News and Mississippi Falls Railroad, died
in his Office in Richmond Virginia on Monday
The doctors attribute his death to hear disease.
| Charles Miranda, brakeman on the Cincinnati
and Muskingum Valley Railroad, fell from a freight
train, near Bremen, Ohio on Tuesday and was KILL
ed. Six of his brothers were killed on railroads.
Forest fires raging in Arenas county Michigan
Timber of all kinds is being destroyed Many farm
ers have had to fight for their homes. There has
been no rain of consequence there for three months
| There is great excitement in the oil regions over
| the revival the pithOla nil field In
and long abandoned territory Black Brothers have
seven wells that are good for 5000 barrels month
On Tuesday, as the body of an infant child of
Mr.. and Mrs: Charles Bin awaiting burial in
IIaverhill, Mass, the drapery about the bier took
| fire from candles, and the body was burned 10 q
| crisp.
BENZ. II. Lannam, coiored, about so years of age
and the oldest negro employe in the Treasury De-
partment, Washington, d. C.. was married on We'd
I nesday night to Wilimina Evans, woman about
I 30 years OF age.
Halfa million of baskets of peaches will be ship
ped, this season. from Middletown. Del. and from
Mount Pleasant and Townsend, each four miles dis
tant The crop in Delaware is estimated at about
! IS 100000 baskets.
| freight and material train on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad collided on Sunday morning,
near Lynchburg, Virginia. killing both engineers,
one fireman and eight the crews The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
| Sarah Kelly died on Wednesday Mt Belleville, n.
j. after having TASTED for ~ days. She was So years
ofage. When she began to refuse food she weighed
152 pounds and at the time of her death she weigh
| ed only so pounds
/ The six-story shoe factory of Krippendorf Ditman
d Co.. in Cincinnati was burned on Tuesday morn
| ing. Loss, $4,000; insurance, Sl61 600. The en-
ployes thrown out of work number $50, whom $50
are women and girls.
On July fire destroyed over s3OOOOO0 of prop
ery at Port-au-Prince, Hayti. about 400 buildings
| being burned On the eth four incendiary fires
were started at the same time, and the. loss will
! equal that of the 4th.
The underground railroad in London is about to
substitute electric engines for the steam locomotives
now in use. Three electric engines of two hundred
/ hNrs ant nnn Rnf
! be attached TO each train.
Fifty convcts in the penitentiary at Joliet Illinois,
were confirmed on Sunday by Bishop Spalding.
convict orchestra played solemn march, The can
didates were confirmed in groups
| Hon. Sam Randalls real malady is hemorrhoids,
which he inherited from his father. His recent
attack was brought on by eating sour ice cream
when his system was much deteriorated from hard
work. His recovery is confidently expected,
For the past ten years the owner of Touring mill
at Dubuque Iowa has had a sign on his fireproof
safe reading No money here; Please cal at the
urday night one called at the house and secured
SLS70.
In Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. Theodore
W. beats, railroad employe, got caught between
two cars. James s. Wrightington, car builder, at
work near by, ran to Deatss assistance and rescued
him. but in SO doing he received injuries which
caused his death in a short time.
Over 600 kegs of cavier, have been manufactured
in Delaware City, this season, all of which have
been sent to New York for shipment to Europe.
Cavier is a preparation of sturgeon roe used ex-
tensivey for food in some countries. Thesupply of
sturgeon is failing at Delaware City.
August Keogel, Brotherhood man and striker
was arrested in Chicago on Saturday and placed
under 900 BAIL on the charge of assisting Bauere
sen, Bowles and the other alleged conspirators in
procuring storing and distributing dynamite to de-
stroy property of the burlington Road.
AT Morleys station, twenty miles from Redding
California, James Mason, an old stage driver, com
mitted suicide Monday. He bought a fifty
pound box of giant powder, sat on it and touched
the explosive of with a match. The Coroner gath
cred up twenty pounds OF the body in a basket
Later advices from Roslyn Washington Territory,
regarding Sundays fire, say that the entire business
houses on the outskirts LETT The total loss will
reach about Si50O00 About $50 fami lilies are left
without homes, food or clothing. The town has no
fire department.
Two men were arrested in Pittsburg, Pa, on Mon
day, while attempting to swindle an old man. They
had in their possession $4,000 in spurious green
backs and a large number of dies for quarters and
half dollars II is thought they belong to gang
which has recently been flooding the country with
counterfeit money.
The stage running between San Luis Obispo and
Templeton, California, was robbed by masked man
ON Friday night. The passengers, six in number,
were placed in line and robbed of about $500.
There was one lady passenger. Nothing was taken
from her. About 81 900 was taken from the express
box of Wells, Fargo & Co.
During thunder storm in Chicago on Sunday
morning Mr.. Moody's old church, al La Sale and
Chicago avenues, was struck by lightning, which |
tore OFF large part of the slate roofing rush was
made for the street, but the panic was stopped by
Pastor, Rev. Chas Goss continuing the services
Eleven rufians boarded the west bound express |
train at Ashtabula, Ohio, on Sunday night, and as
soon it was under way attempted to lake posses
sion" oft The conductor and several druinmers
prevented the robbers from doing anything, and |
when the stopped at Geneva nine of them were
captured and lodged in jail.
A heavy rain and hail storm visited Plymouth, |
Wisconsin, on sunday The extent of the hail fall |
may be judged from the fact that it covered the |
ground to the depth of several inches for hours AFTER
the storm. Fruit and crops were greatly damaged |
The is thought to have been quite general and
to involve a large area of country.
Dyer Seaman, notorious thief and desperate, in |
Chicago who was arrested a short time ago after a
sensational encounter with the police, preceded by
what was almost literally q siege and oomhardmenf
III his hiding place. was Saturday sentenced 10 TEN
wears i'm prisonment. His partner in crime Molly |
Mott, was sentenced to six years imprisonment
while John P Anderson was cleaning out $50
foot well, at Johnstown, Nebraska on THURSDAY Of
He mas remained there ever since without food or
water and deriving his fresh air from that part of
the well below Another well was sunk besides the
old one and he was rescued after being confined ono
week,
James Hutchins well to do resident Of Chicago,
died on Monday in that city at the age OF % years