The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-14
News Items.

AT Danville, KY, on Tuesday, the training
stables of VIM. Rue, containing 33 horses were
burned. Loss $4,000.
Eight blocks of buildings in the heart of
the town of Suisun, California, were burned
on Sunday night Loss over 100000.
J. R. Balch, % years of age, died at Fair
field, South Carolina, on Friday, from hydro
phobia. He was bitten by a cat about nine
months ago.
In Fauquier county the dwelling of Joel
Oliver, farmer, was blown down by cy-
clone, on Wednesday, and his mother and
sister killed.
At Wytheville, Va, on Tuesday night,
William Smith, colored, was taken from the
sheriff and hung for a criminal assault on
respectable white lady in Pulaski county.
81. C. Springer's livery stable at Buffalo, N.
Y, was burned on Wednesday together with
twenty-five horses. Two employees were I'M
able to escape and were suffocated. Loss
$50, 900.
Edward A. Deacon was hanged in Roches-
ter, New York, on Tuesday for the murder of
Mrs. Ada Stone on August 16, 1887. Deacon
was tramp, and killed Mrs. Stone because
she refused to give him food.
Mrs. Frederick Spittlehouse, aged As years,
while in an epileptic fit at her home, in Eliza
beth, New Jersey, on Sunday night, overturn-
ed lighted kerosene lamp, and, her cloth
ing catching fire, she was burned to death.
The Empress of Japan is to visit America
during the coming winter. She will bring
with her dozen maids of honor and numer-
GUS officials, besides small army of servants.
Her dresses are said to be of expensive gauzes
and tinsel.
Shortly after midnight on Wednesday the
Southern express went through trestle near
Orange, Va, causing the death of eight per-
sons and the wounding of twenty five others.
The trestle was AZ feet high, and was known
to be weak.
At Alpena, Michigan, on the 18th instant,
200 buildings were burned and l 300 persons
rendered homeless. Over 5000, 900 feet of
lumber was also burned. Several persons
are missing, and it is feared they were burned
to death. Loss over S400, 900.
Mrs Mary Collins, while sitting at her
window on the fourth floor of 101 Monroe
street, New York, on Tuesday with her baby
in her arms, fell out. She held the baby firm
ly in her fall and the child escaped uninjured,
but the mother was killed
A cablegram from London, July IL, says
the weather throughout England is abnormally
cold Snow has fallen in the suburbs of Lon
don, and the peaks of Skiddaw and other
mountains are covered with snow. 1t is the
first time snow is known to have fallen in this
country in July.
A bronze statue of General Phil. Kearney,
the tribute of the State of New Jersey, was
on Tuesday set in the Hall of Statuary in the
Capitol at Washington. The statue, which is
slightly above life size, represents the deceas
ed soldier in an easy pose, with his right hand
resting upon the hilt of sheathed sword, and
his empty left coat sleeve pinned to his chest.
John Zacher, of Caledonia, Wis, finished
fast of SO days on Wednesday. His weight
has been reduced from $50 to 80 pounds
The fast was the result of a quarrel with his
father, which was patched. up Wednesday,
when he undertook to eat. His stomach then
refused to retain food. The doctors think he
may live.
On the South Mountain, near Carlisle, Pa,
on Tuesday morning, Issac Fishefs hogs got
into the corn field of a neighbor, named Kry-
sher. Fishers children went to drive the
animals out, when Mrs. Krysher ran after
them with gun and shot one of them dead.
Mrs. Fishel going to the rescue of her chill
+ dren, the Kryshers beat her in the head with
hoe, inficting fatal injuries.
The tenth biennial meeting of the American
|, Association of Instructors ofthe Blind opened
on Tuesday morning in Baltimore. The
President, Professor W. D. Williams, of
Georgia, presided. About so teachers, many
OF them women, representing II institutions
in nine States, were present. Papers were
read by T. C. Doyle, fthe Virginia Institute,
on Higher Education and the Future We'll
fare of the INDECENT Blind" and Robert W.
Swami, of Baltimore, on "Facial Perception"
Timothy Sullivan, aged 60 years, and Mrs.
Kate Young, aged As, quarrelled some time
ago in New York, and remained enemies.
On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Young was
about to enter house while Sullivan was
: sitting on the stoop. She accused him of
obstructing the entrance, and they came to
blows. The woman gave Sullivan push that
sent him headlong down the steps into a
street, where he fell. A truck was driving
by, and the wheels passed over Sullivan's
chest, crushing him to death. Mrs. Young
was arrested and so was the truck driver.
DIR. A. Y. P Garnett, the well known ply
sician of Washington, d. c., died Wednesday
night of heart failure at Rehoboth Beach,
Delaware. He was born in Virginia in 1920,
graduated from the University of Pennsylva-
MIA in l841, entered the United States Navy
as assistant surgeon the same year, was pro.
NOTED surgeon in 1913, and resigned in 1850
in order to accept the Professorship of Clint
cal Medicine in the National Medical College
of Washington. AT the breaking out of the
rebellion he left Washington and became
Surgeon General of the Confederate Army.
When the war was over he returned to Wash
ington, and was again elected Professor in
the National Medical College. Recently he
was elected President of the American Medi-
cal Association. He contributed many valu-
able papers to medical literature.