The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-04-20
News of the Week.

Massachusetts, will not observe April so as hol-
iday.
From 100 to $50 fourth class postmasters are now
being appointed daily
Seventeen members of the New York stock Ex-
change have died this year.
Cholera is epidemic in the PHILIPPINE Islands and
100 persons have died ftom it.
Most of the business part of Muir Mich. was
burned Tuesday. Loss So coo.
No street cars have been run i'll Minneapolis this
week owing to a strike among the drivers.
Michael Fillmore died near Bonueauville. Adams
county, Pa. on April ), aged "a years, months and
Il days
Lucy Ann Willis. eolored, aged 81 years ae
cidentally burned to death in Philadelphia, Pa,
| Sunday.
The Conshohocken Worsted Mills Company, of
Philadelphia Pa, have failed. The Daidup capital
was 100000.
Mrs. Febger, wife of Rear Admiral John c.
Febiger. who was thrown from her carriage and
fatally injured, in Washington, last Sunday even
| ing died Wednesday morning.
George Calder a cotton manufacturer in Lancaster,
Pa, proprietor of the Fulton cotton mill has made
an assignment The liabilities are estimated at
/ Sl5OO0l and the assets at $4,000.
The storm of Monday night Tuesday and We'd
nesday caused great destruction TO shipping truck
farms, wharves, &c, the Virginia coast. At Nor
folk the tide rose higher than at the recent storm
At New Philadelphia Ohio, on Sunday Emma
Haney, young woman, attempted to kindle fire
with coal oil and was burned to death. Her father
was severely burned while trying to extinguish the
flames.
George Hoover, prominent business man and
ex-mayor of Broadway. Rockingham county, Va,
ID Na1r 4t,,
largest man in the state, standing six feet and
---Eaiehing five hundred and sixty pounds
Charles Hodges, . fire boss, and Evan Madden, a
pump runner, were passing thfeHgh an abandoned
work in Grand Tunnel mine. in wilkesBagse, PA. on
Sunday. when their lights igniteda large amount OF
accumulated gas, and both men were blown 30
pieces
A telegram from Danville Virginia on Wednes-
day night says that during the forest fires in Pat
rick county so, and not 100, farmers were burned
out The loss of livestock was very great Dr. Abe
Robertson was burned to death while fighting the
flames.
There being a deficiency in the appropriation of
the current year for the maintenance of the Min
nesota State University Ex-Governor John s. Pills
bury who is ene- of the regents of the institution
Tuesday presented $4,000 for the immediate use of
the University.
Patrick McAtameny switehman in the yard of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Jersey City
New Jersey, saved the life of boy Wednesday
morning by pushing him from in front of an
approaching train, but was struck and killed him
self He was u years old and had wife and seven
children.
Mayor Grant, ofNew York after due warning to
the electric light, telegraph and telephone com
panies to remove their poles on Tuesday set large
number Of men at work cutting down the poles.
Fifth and Madison avenues, and number of we'll
known thoroughfares in total darkness in con-
sequence.
Bernard Schroeder. confidential clerk and book
keeper for K. C. Solomon, leather manufacturer in
Newark New jersey, has been arrested ON a charge
of grand larceny. The allegation is that about SlO
90 worth Of alligator and kangaroo skins had been
stolen or sold under price and the proceeds put into
sehroeder's pocket
Eddie Gallery, II years old, was accidentally kill
ell at his home in Chicago ON Sunday night While
oyerhauling the drawers of bureau the lad found
his fathers pistol. The mother grasped the weapon
unfortunately catching hold OF the trigger An ex-
plosion followed. The bullet lodged just under
Eddies right eye and he died in half an hour
The Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company has
Isl freight its side tracks at Arkansas City
Kansas. which are being loaded with implements
household goods, merchandise and houses framed
and ready To be put up In Oklahoma. The agent at
that point said on Monday that he could move 900
Of freight and 5000 passengers ia twelve hours
general strike is reported TO be imminent in the
coal regions of jefferson county, Pa The Adrian
mine owners have notified their employees of a re-
ducon Of five cents per ton in the price for mining
coal-thRt Is, s. cents instead of 40 cents the
present price. The miners have declined to accept
the reduction and ifan attempt is made TO force il
upon them all OF the other companies win make
similar reductions. and the result viii bea strike in
yolying several thousand miners.
James Fields fatally shot by his wife at their
home in Butler, Pa, about 1 O'Clock Wednesday
morning. Mrs. Fields was reading book and her
husband ordered her TO come 10 bed. She refused
TO do So when he got up and struck her. She went
to bureau drawer and took out a revolver. telling
him II he hit her again she would shoot him. He
then struck her in the face. when she fired the
revolver, inhieting q fatal wound Before dying
Fields made statement exoneraung his
wife IN which he stated that she had shot in self
defence