The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-21
News of the Week.

| IdfFlSOnDuFS. Va. WAS HOOuGu ny Il ClOut
| burst on Tuesday.
By the strike of the dockmen of London
the shippers and men loss $10,000,000.
The first snow of the season at Laramie
| Wyoming, and Leadville, Colorado, fell on
| Saturday morning.
| DR.. J. w. Owen, prominent physician,
died in Stephens City, Va, on Sunday. He
was over 80 years of age.
Another high tide spread more wreck and
ruin over Coney Island and other resorts near
New York on Wednesday.
Legal proceedings that were begun in 1880
in Poland to decide the ownership of 40 acres
of land have just been concluded.
On Wednesday Seaford, Del, had $50, 900
fire. 1t was of incendiary origin, and started
about l a. m. and burned until $50.
A fire in Louisville, Ky, on Monday, de-
stroyed about Sc, 100000 of property. 1t oc-
cured in the business part of the city.
The new cruiser Baltimore is said to be the
fastest man. of-war ailoat, having made nearly
% miles an hour for four consecutive hours.
From Maine to Norfolk the Atlantic coast
is strewn with wrecks of vessels by the storm
of last week The loss of life has been very
great
1t is estimated that the $4,000 Americans
who have visited Europe this season have
paid to the companies for passage both ways
upwards of Sl4,0o0,000.
Sixty barrels of coal oil came ashore at
Cape May on Tuesday, and more are being
constantly washed up. They are probably
floating out of some foundered vessel.
Several thousand dollars worth of goods
intended for the relief of the distressed at
Spokane Falls, W. T., have been stolen, and
two members Of the city council and police
man are implicated.
W. Q. Campbell, accompanied by dog,
made safe passage through the rapids below
Niagara Falls Monday. Both the man and
dog wore cork life preservers. Campbell is
about 81 years of age.
The hot weather of last week at Holland,
Michigan, with the mercury registering from
So to 90 degrees, was followed by cold snap,
so that frost was observed Monday morning,
the first of the season.
During Sunday school services in a small
frame church near Columbia City, Indiana,
on Sunday, lightning struck the building,
killing two girls, each about II years Of age.
Ten others were stunned.
The fire in St Joseph, Missouri, on Sunday
night, entirely destroyed the main building of
the Exposition, with all its contents, including
a carriage made for Lafayette on his last visit
to America. Loss 100000.
Miss Rebecca Fairbanks, the last of family
that came over in 1885, is said to be still liv-
ing in house at Dedham, Mass. that was
brought over in the year mentioned aud To-
Gated on its present site at that time.
During supper in celebration of the open
ing OF a new armory in Birmingham. Alabama.
on Saturday night, the guests, nearly 100 in
number, were made violently sick by the ice
cream, which contained some poisonous sub
stance.
John F. Collin died in Hillsdale, n. Y, on
Monday. at the age of IS years. He was
member Of the Twenty-ninth Congress,
1851 From 1879 to 1884 Mr.. Collin wrote
and published four volumes of political
history.
A dispatch from Scoitdale, Pa, says that a
cattle disease, said by some TO be Texas fever,
and others black tongue, has reached East
Huntington township, and in the vicinity of
Bethany there are nearly 100 such cases.
The deaths are very numerous.
WIN. Goodman, the millionaire philanthro-
pist and temperance advocate, died suddenly
ia Toronto, Ontario. Canada, last week, of
heart disease. lie had Just finished Offering
prayer ai the Home for Fallen Women, aud
was Announcing q hymn, when he fell back
gasping, and died in few minutes.
John Zuinihal and his ten children left
Boone, Iowa, ia a wagon about September
lst for Milwaukee. They were ten days on
the road, and on arriving in Milwaukee nine
Of the children were taken with diphtheria,
six dying within six days They contracted
the disease ON the road.
Heavy rains fell in Berks and Chester
counties. Pa, on Monday night, doing much
damage to property. The Hibernia dam, five
miles from Coatesyille, and covering about
five acres, burst Two bridges on the vii.
miugton aud Northern Railroad we're carried
OF, and several eulverts were washed out.
The Braudywine rose seven feet.
A Mormon smigraRt train on the Norfolk
aud Western Railroad was wrecked near
l.ynchbgrg, Virginia, early Sunday morning.
A small bridge gave way after the engine and
baggage car had passed over il. Two cars
plunged into the creek. No one vas killed.
but about twenty were hurt, none fatally.
There we're niue Mormon elders in the party.
AtPikeville, Kentucky. on Saturday, Plient
and Doll Mayhorn, two Of the notorious Hat.
field gang, we're convicted Of the murder Of
the Mccoy brothers and sentenced to i'm
prisonmeat for life. They claimed that they
we're urged 20 the deed by old Anee Hatfield.
Ellison Mounts was found guilty Of the muir
der OF Eiilora Mccoy and sentenced to be
hanged on December 8.
The conviets Of the Tennessee penitentiary
we're leased at auction at the Capital on Sat
uriay for a term Of six years. The lease was
secured bY the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company. which was the only bidder.
The consideration WAS 500, 900 per annum,
the minimum allowed by the act authorizing
the lease. Nearly all OF the convicts will be
employed in the company mines. where a
large number are now at work.
At the session of the Cigar Makers Inter.
national Union, in New York on Tuesday,
President Strasser stated that employment
was gradually decreasing. The increase in
the number Of cigars and cheroOts produced
in the years 1855 and 1889 was much smaller
than during the years 1856 and 1887. The
increase in production was in the districts
where the lowest wages were paid. In dis
tricts where high wages were paid there was
decrease in the production.
Charles Friese, assistant engineer in the
icehouse Of Ruppert's brewery, New York,
met with an awful death on Monday night.
While at his post he noticed that bolt which
held in place n huge crank arm, weighing a
ton, had become loose Friese slowed up the
machinery Atlu tA hAiN NhsthhA
as il came slowly by. He missed his footing
and fell into a shallow pit into which the
crank dips, and in which it fits exactly. The
machinery descended upon the luckless eng-
neer and ground him to jelly.
Dispatches from many places in the West
indicate that frost occurred over a large area
on Tuesday night. The states and portions
of states included in the belt were Northern
Kansas, Northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and other places
farther north Though corn is generally out
of danger ia Iowa, the crop is reported dam
aged in the vicinity of Dubuque. The vines
near East Tawes, Mich, were hurt, but the
cranberry crop of Wisconsin is believed to be
safe The first snow of the season fell at
Iron Mountain. Mich, and it was followed
! by bitterly cold wave.
Mrs. William Diemens, of Wilson, near
1 Buffalo, apparently died Thursday night OF
I last week Of low fever. The body was pre-
pared for the grave, and the next morning
/ her relatives gathered about her bed and dis
! eussed the ACCESSIBILITY of sending messengers
| to notify her friends of her death. In the
I midst Of their talk the supposed corpse arose,
and said that she would act as messenger.
/ Her relatives ran from the room, but return
I ing. found her not only alive, but in fair way
/ to complete recovery. She explained that,
/ though in a trance, she had from the first
/ realized all that had gone on around her.
/ In the Colored Baptist Convention, at
| indianapolis, on Saturday, the Southern out