The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-10-12
News of the Week.

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| facturers' trust
| H. J. Myers, grain merchant of New Oxford, Pa.
has made an assignment.
Six inches of snow fell at Niagara Falls and Lock
port New York ON Sunday
VIM Settle, of Seven Stars, Adams county, Pa,
died on Tuesday. aged 81 years.
On Sunday night there was heavy frost in por-
tons of Mississippi and Alabama.
The Anthony Loan and Trust Company, of An
thony, Kansas have decided to stop business
There are 339 cotton mills in operation in the
South at present In 1880 the number was l42.
W. A Robinson & Co., oil dealers, of Providence,
r. l., have made an assignment. Their indebted
ness is 100000.
The railway station at Sagua Cuba, on Tuesday,
was destroyed by fire, with part of its contents.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Miss Eliza Grove, aged a. committed suicide in
Springfield township, York county. Pa on Monday.
No cause is assigned for the deed.
Nathan Nelson, aged 81 years, well known resi-
dent of Dillsburg, York county, Pa, struck by
an extra train on the 4th instant and instantly
killed
steam threshing engine on the McAndress
farm. near St. Thomas, Dakota, exploded on Mon
day morning, killing three men and wounding
several Others,
The magnificent residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
studebaker at South Bend, Ind, was burned on
Tuesday night Loss 100000 Mrs. studebaker was
slightly injured.
Philip Doerson, carriage manufacturer of Lam
caster, Pa has made an assignment for the benefit
of his creditors His liabilities are about S2 900 and
assets nominally the same.
UNI. IF
Christana, Lancaster county, Pa. have made frm
and individual assignments. Their liabilities and
each aggregate about $4,000
An opera house. in course of erection at Lansford,
Pa. suddenly collapsed on Monday, burying six
workmen under the debris They were all badly
hurt, three of them it is feared fatally.
Father Boyle, Catholic priest, was convicted on
charge of criminal assault on Miss Geneva Whita-
ker in Raleigh. North Carolina. on Saturday night.
He was sentenced to be hanged on November %.
John Lyon Smith, the last of the twenty lone orgi
nal trustees of Wesleyan University, and who had
been trustee from 1881 to the present time died on
the 4th instant at Middetown Conn.,, aged 90 years.
despatch from Ishpeming, Michigan, says that
typhoid fever is epidemic in a number of upper
Peninsula towns notably at Negaunee and Iron
wood there being nearly 100 cases in each of these
cities
A terrible prairie fire threatened Estherville,
Iowa, on Sunday The town was saved, but a
number of farm houses with aquantity of grain and
hay were destroyed Four buildings in Swan Lake
were consumed.
The General Council oftbe Evangelical Lutheran
Church of North America convened in PiItsburg,
Pa on Thursday. The council embraces SIG
churches and 10000 members. About 100 delegates
were In attendance
John Burns, Henry wattman William Carroll and
Harry Smith were sentenced in Brooklyn on Tues
day to nine months imprisonment and $3.50 fine
each for having attempted to vote Illegally at the
recent Republican primary.
There was riot at Bristol. England on wednes-
day on the arrival of number Of laborers to re-
place six hundred gas sokers who are on strike The
newcomers booted and pelted with stones until
they took to their heels and disappeared.
Charles Eidman, an electric light company's en-
ploye in New York, received q shock on Wednesday
while repairing wires. and. falling from pole to
the pavement was instantly killed. His back was
terribly burned by contact with the wire.
Eighty-seven cases OF small pox are reported in
Soeorro, New Mexico. The Board of Health Of 81
Paso. Texas 200 miles from socorro has ordered
quarantine against the latter place. Vaccination
viii also be made compulsory in the public schools.
Charles F. orris. who resided with his mother.
Mrs Mary King. in Buffalo n. Y. shot her while
sleeping on Tuesday morning. and then committed
suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear with
razor He smoked a cigarette while his life blood
ebbed away.
On Monday night a fire broke out in the three
story brick building attached to divers Tenth
street MILL on the South Side, Pistsburg Pa. and
destroyed the machine. blacksmith, car shops and
llnala f..ff..
insurance. The firm viii rebuild at once.
James Dean. a farmer, living in Wright county.
Mimi. who had been missing poultry. heard COM
motion in the hen house before daylight on Tues
day. springing from bed he seized his shot gun.
and running 10 the door fred in the darkness at
something moving about in the hen house. He
killed his eight year old son. The boy was SOM
nambulist.
Amer the first scene of Lord Chumley," at the
| Lyccum Theatre. in New York on Tuesday evening
Charles r. Bishop who had few moments before
taken prominent part. died suddenly in his dress
ing room behind the scenes, while changing his
costume Heart disease Is supposed to have been
the cause. He resided In Baltimore. Nd. for a
number OF years, and was 4 great fayorite.
A heavy rain storm at Bellows Falls, Vermont on
Sunday night caused the streams in the vicinity to
rise 50 rapidly that large portion Of the abnment
/ Of the Vermont end Of the toll bridge gave way,
sliding into the river and severing communication
/ between Vermont and New Hampshire. few
small bridges ON other streams reported carried
away and other damage done by high water.
terrible hurricane visited the Island Of Cardinal
/ Italy. the 9th instant One hundred persons
were buried in the debris Of buildings shattered by
/ the storm. and thirty persons were killed. The
/ Province of Cagliari was also ravaged by ter
rife storm. in which 30 houses were destroyed.
Sixteen persons were killed and hundreds were In
Iured. The town of Cagliari suffered severely.
Daniel S. sholes. Postmaster at RidgeHeld, Con-
neeticut, was in court on Monday. charged with
selling stamps Illegally. 1t shown that Sholes
had been in the habit OF selling stamps in quaint
ties on credit to firms. sholes's defence was that
he had bought the stamps himself and paid for
them on each occasion. keeping personal account
with the firms to whom he delivered the stamps
fire at Rocky Mount franklin county, Va. on
Monday night. destroyed the Franklin warehouse
and several other buildings comprising most of the
business portion of the little town. The loss is So
COO insurance $4,000. Incendiarism is suspected.
Ex Congressman Massey and Judge Marshall ad-
dressed meeting at the warehouse Monday AFTER
noon and some negroes were heard TO remark that
IL would be burned.
Northwest Territory. Canada, along the American
boundary line. Stock is already suffering in con-
sequence Owing to the unusually dry season, the
amount of hay put up was small, and immense
stretches of prairie have lately been burned over
The outlook is so discOuraging that some rancho:
offer to give their cattle away. knowing that death
. from starvation is almost certain.
A large crowd assembled at Jerome Indiana, on
Monday night 10 see display OF natural gas from
the strongest well in thestate. The young man wht
applied the torch foolishly turned the vertical Ell
bow tat on the ground, and the force of the gniteC
gas threw sixty feet horizontal pipe around. Tit
Rev Chusa Mormon. aged a years. preacher IL
the Friends Church, was pinned to wire fence b.
the end Of the flaming pipe and roasted alive HI
body was almost consumed. Several persons wer
hurt
Carrie Hill, aged Is years, has been arrested Il
4 Topeka, Kansas. for theft Four weeks ago she &c
+ a clerkship in Halmon & Cos. millinery and fame
goods store and since then she has not only robbie
: them repeatedly but has carried away with he
), | three wagon loads of goods, worth 5000, whtc
were found in her room and identified by the hrrI
; year ago she clerked week or two for Bernie
i mer & Lewis, and in the search several hnndre
dollars worth of goods that she had taken fror
f them were found
ATOW Is THE TIME