The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-06-22
News of the Week.

Zachariah Mcdaniel, aged 102 years, diet
near Elkton, Va, on June II.
Watson Goodspeed, of East Pittston, Ne.
died on June IA, after fasting 80 days.
Prohibition was defeated in Pennsylvania
on Tuesday, by about 200, 600 majority.
The contributions from Paris for the Johns
town food sufferers amount to Sl4, l66.
Lycomine county, Pa, in addition to the
loss by the flood of May 1921, last Monday
lost . county bridges.
john ". Bardsley, who brought the Eng
lish sparrow to this country, died III Phila
delphia, on Monday, aged 81 years.
The cheese transactions in Utica, New
York, on Monday, were the largest ever
known there, aggregating 22,600 boxes.
The roof Of the MERGED Market, in the city
| of Mexico, fell in on Friday of last week,
! burying nearly 40 persons. At last accounts
8 dead and IA injured had been recovered.
A violent wind storm swept over Peru, In
diana, Tuesday afternoon, doing damage es-
timated at several thousand dollars. The
Standard Oil Company brick warehouse was
destroyed.
A rain and hail storm passed through
Marion county, Kansas, on Monday The
wheat and oats were badly damaged and in
to commence.
One of the severest rain storms ever expe-
renced in Cuba occurred there last Sunday.
In Havana several of the streets became
roaring torrents, walls were undermined
and houses collapsed.
Gen. William I. Withers, breeder of
noted trottng horses, died at his home in
Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday from the
effects of tvOundS raeaivad in the Mpxipan
war. He was 81 years of age.
A heavy rainstorm prevailed in portions of
Florida on Monday and did some damage
Reports from Tampa state that the track of
the South Florida Railroad was submerged in
many places and that there were several bad
washouts.
A severe storm visited the vicinity of
Charlottesville, Indiana, on Sunday night.
IL extended over a stretch of country ten
miles long and one mile wide. Fences and
bridges were washed away and barns torn
down. Crops were destroyed.
A wind, rain and hail storm passed over
the southwestern part of Berkeley county,
West Virginia, on Sunday evening, running
crops and trees. Several houses and barns
were wrecked by the wind and live stock was
injured by the hail.
The June floods have worked disaster 10
the farmers of Southern Indiana who have
crops in the bottom lands The damage to
all the Southern Indiana and Illinois counties
along White and Wabash rivers will amount
to many thousands of dollars.
Severe hail storms prevailed on Tuesday in
many parts OF Germany. interfering greatly
with railway traffic. While a procession was
passing through the streets of Silesian town
tive of the paraders were struck by lightning
and killed. Forty others received severe
shocks.
Miss Sarah Rome, aged u. of Brooklyn,
AID Mrs. David Rome, aged 70, Of Toronto,
Canada, sat beneath a freight train at Coney
Island on Saturday night, engaged in sketch
ing, when a special train ran into the car,
setting ii in motion. Mrs. Rome was killed
and Miss Rome badly injured
A despatch from Eldorado, Kansas, on
Tuesday, says that the upper valley of the |
Walnut is flooded and that Mrs Graham and |
her babe sere drowned. A portion of the |
Missouri Pacific track IS washed away. Ii is |
feared that number Of people have been |
drowned in the lower valley.
Adyices received in Mason City, Iowa. on /
Monday. from a good portion Of Western and |
South Dakota, state that small grain is an /
entire failure, more so than in any other year. |
The grain Is all burned up. Fully half ofthe |
acreage was sown to wheat and oats. Corn /
does not ye, show the elects Of the drouth.
Rochester, y. Y, enjoys a net revenue Of /
SIS. 600 yearly from its waterworks, after |
paying ali expenses for running them, as we'll /
as interest oa the bonded debt. Richmond, /
Va, derives an income of $50, COO in a similar /
manner. Erie, Pa, receives s.. 900; Hart |
ford, Coun.. SS5, 900; Detroit, Mich, more |
than 500, 600, and number OF other cities |
show equally good results.
A fearful storm visited the southern portion |
Ot Charlottesville, Ind, on Sunday night Il /
e extended over a strip OF country ten miles 1
long and one mile wide and ended in q regu. |
lar cloud burst. Fences and bridges were /
washed away and barns torn down. Grow. /
lng crops we're destroyed and where turn.
pixies were crossed the waite cut them down /
70 sAe tseel the coaaay os either SIDE.
Thandcr storms Of unusual severity passed /
over New England on last Saturday afternoon. /
New Jersey vas similarly visited aud much |
damage was done by lightning. la Piainfield /
the spire Of new church was shattered, and 4
several residences we're damaged Ia Jersey l
CITY twO fires were caused BY lightning the /
losses sggregaiiag $4,000. In Newark two /
churches and several buildings were struck by |
lightning.
Frank Ryan and Frank Saddler, under in
dic,meat 10 Canton, Ohio, on two counts for /
attempting to wreck the Fort Wayne limited I
near that city, on April "a and 9th, pleaded I
guilty on Tuesday on the FIRST count aud we're /
sentenced TO ten years each and to pay costs /
OF prosecution. On the second eoaut they 1
were gwen FIVE years and to pay $500 each. I
They confessed that their object ia wreeking 1
the train was plumber.
A telegram from Ellenbary, Washington I
Territory, or Tuesday. says that heavy forest 1
hres are burning on the east side Of the Cas-. |
eade Mountains. Large quantities Of fr tim. |
Der have been destroyed. The roar Of the /
flames can be heard for miles The heavens |
are brilliantly illuminated by the glow. The /
iumbermen say millions Of feet Of timber have |
been burned. Several small bridges on the /
Northeru Pacific Railroad have been burned, |
delaying trains.
The Lost Log Committee of the Lumber, |
mems Exchange, in Williamsport, Pa, re.
ported on Wednesday that about l25, 600, 600 |
feet Of logs have been found below Clark's /
Ferry, including those in the Chesapeake |
Bay, aud more viii yet be recovered. A reso- /
luton was passed authorizing the committee /
10 sell all these logs, and that will be prompt.
Is done, as at leaSt zen dollars per thousand /
feet will be realized upon the pine logs
John kiucaid, Of Gannisou, Colorado, who |
is IN Chicago, says; The syndicate Of Chi |
eago and Pennsylvania capitalists who went
10 GunnsOn to inspect some lands supposed |
to contain anthracite coal, found a richer dis |
eovery than they anticipated. A huge noun
tain of almost chemically pure manganese of |
iron was found, together with almost unlimited |
veins Of anthracite. This manganese is es.
sentially the spiegel eisen of commerce.
William Beekman, colored, a notorious |
character of Railway, New Jersey, died last |
Saturday. It has been learned that be- |
fore dying he confessed that he threw Isaac /
King. also eolored, down a cellar way year |
ago last March, breaking his neck. A coro-
ner's jury at the time returned verdict of 1
accidental death, as it was supposed that
King bad fallen into the cellar. Beekman |
had served thtse s.ms N prison.
A heavy wind ana rain storm visited Kan. |