The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1890-12-13
News of the Week.


The total population of the United Statesis
SO, OOO, 900, a gain of 10, 100000 since 1880.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming
extent in the vicinity of Albert Lea, Mime
sofa.
1t is proposed that St. Paul have a big log
cabin instead of an ice palace during the car
nival time.
Central Illinois is suffering from a water
famine Farmers are hauling water 10 miles
for stock.
A fire in Washington, d. c., on Sunday, at
the corner of eth and D. streets, N. W., caus-
ed loss of over $4,000.
The grain house at Hawthorn Station, Hi
nois, owned by neighboring farmers, was
burned on Tuesday. Loss $4,000.
The will of Daniel B. Fayerweather. fled
in New York, contains requests of 81, 100000
to different colleges, and $95, 600 to hospitals.
At Pennsboro, West Virginia, OIL Decem-
Der I, Norman Calhoun, aged ninety one, was
married to Mrs. Martha Dickinson, aged
eighty.
A. Daggett, postal card contractor. was on
Monday declared bankrupt by the Court on
petition of the Manhattan Bank of New York,
and others.
A company composed of English and
American capitalists is negotiating for the
purchase of all the type foundries in the
United States.
Mrs Fanny Kemble Butler is living with
her daughter, Mrs. Leigh, in Surrey, England.
She is quite feeble, having completed her Slst
year last month.
The business portion of Sykestown, Mis-
souri,, was burned on Sunday night, Christ
Hollingsworth, a barber, persisted in the
flames. Loss $4,000.
A fire at Pittsburg, Pa, on Friday night of
last week caused loss Of over 100000; in
surance 1926, 900. About one half of the
damage was caused by water.
Clark's thread mills, at Kearney, n. j.,
closed on Wednesday, throwing 5000 persons
out of employment. The strike was, causedi
by the discharge of workman.
Rev. j. C. White, the oldest Presbyterian
minister in Cincinnati, died in that city on
December 5, aged So years. He had been
stationed there nearly so years.
Dr. J. l.. Stewart Il well known surgeon,
died in Erie, Pa, on Saturday night, aged SO
years. He had just returned from the Worlds
Medical Conference in Berlin.
1t is stated that the farmers in seven coun-
ties in South Dakota are in destitute circum-
stances, owing to the drouth which has pre-
vailed more or less for the past three seasons.
Three boilers in the sawmill of N. Byers Il
Co., in Columbia, Pa, exploded on Saturday.
d. Forsey and Christian Singer were scalded,
the former fatally. The boiler house was
destroyed.
Rev. Passhal Strong, of the East Milestone
Reformed Church in New Brunswick, New
Jersey, was stricken with paralysis while in
the pulpit on Sunday evening and fell dead.
He was So years of age.
The first snow of the season fell at Danville,
Virginia, on Monday. The storm extended
through Henry and Patrick counties On
Sunday night just before the snow began to
fall there was a thunder storm.
The natural gas which has been used in
Pittsburg for all manufacturing purposes
since 1885. has been exhausted, and return
to bituminous coal again has enveloped the
city in a cloud of smoke that is denser than a
| London fog.
| II. |. Kimball. of Chattanooga, Tenn, has
sold to English capitalists for s., 100000, u
three fourth interest in the property of the
Kimball Iron Company, about so miles from
Chattanooga. The property is rich in timber
and minerals.
| Col. A j. Snyder, representing a syndicate
of IA cattlemen, has offered the Cherokee
nation $l0,000,000 for the $500, 600 acres of
land known as the Cherokee strip. 1t is said
the Government has offered the Indians ST.
0OO,00 for the land.
A fire in Homestead, Pa, on Friday of last
week destroyed st. Mary Magdalene Catholic
Church, school house and convent, and two
dwellings. The loss is estimated at $4,000;
fully insured. The fire was caused by the
heavy pressure of natural gas.
C. G. Jefferson, of Clinton, Mass, an anna
teur weight litter, lifted with his hands alone
1,5714 pounds of solid iron at his private
gymnasium on Wednesday. David l.. Dowd,
Of Springfield, Mass, made professional lift
of ,442i pounds March p, 1888,
Alfred Rose, of Pen Yam, n. Y, in 1889
raised from one acre of land 1881 bushels of
potatoes for which he received the 500 prize
offered by the Farm Journal, published in
| Philadelphia and also a prizs-of $50
offered by fertilizer manufacturer.
The demand for aid from the poor settlers
in the Oklahoma country has increased. OF
the S47, 900 appropriated by the Government
for the benefit of the poor, there remains
scarcely $4,000. The country is covered
with snow from 5 to y inches deep.
A cyclone cleared space several miles
long and about 100 yards wide, near Munroe,
Georgia, on Monday. Jack Henderson and
his baby were killed, and a family of negroes
named jackson were buried in the ruins of
their cabin and two of them were killed.
William Miller passed through Dallas,
Texas, on Friday of last week, in the custody
of a sheriff, on the way to the Indian Terri
tory, where he is charged with horse stealing.
Miller had established himself in Texas as
preacher, and had just closed sermon when
arrested.
The Association of Wagon and Carriage
Wood Stock Manufacturers in session at In
dianapolis, Indiana, comprising four-fifths of
the firms engaged in the business, has deter.
mined to raise prices to wagon and carriage
makers 10 per cent. The new scale will go
into effect January l.
Factories in Springfield, Dayton, Troy,
Sydney and Piqua, Ohio have been notified
that they can no longer be supplied with
natural gas. Private consumers will still be
supplied. Manufacturers at Columbus have
also been notified. There is some alarm that
the natural gas wells will give out.
A number of woman in Carroll county,
Missouri, headed by Mrs. S. W. Whitman,
are building a memorial to the soldiers ofthat
county who fell in the war. There will be
no North or South, Union or Confederate
distinctions about it-just memorial TO the
fallen soldiers, whatever side they fought on.
Mr.. Dogan, an iron workman on the dome
of the State House, in Topeka, Kansas, fell,
on Tuesday, and was killed. He fell $50
feet and struck an iron cross, bar. He was
frightfully mangled. He was the ninth iron
workman that has been killed within the last
five years while at work on the State House.
At Roebuck. Mississippi, on Tuesday, as a
sequel to the Aron murder, one Moses Lem
on, colored, became very indignant at the !
lynching of Dennis Martin for the killing of
Gus Aron, and it was learned that he was
circulating among the negroes trying to get
up mob and go to Aron's store, murder the |
clerks and fire the building. The people of |
the neighborhood formed themselves into an |
organization and swung Lemon 10 tree.
Henry Levy was arrested in Alton, Illinois,
on Saturday. Levy and his companions had,
it is charged, planned to rob Chicago train
on Sunday at point between Alton and /
st. Louis. One of the gang was to cut