The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1890-12-27
News of the Week.


in New York from Europe.
Accomac county. Va. has shipped over
700, 600 barrels of sweet potatoes tins year
A Scotch syndicate Of capitalists have pur- /
chased the oatmeal mills at Cedar Rapids, /
Iowa.
At Saranac Lake, New York. on Saturday 4
morning, the thermometer registered 22' /
below zero.
The shrinkage of the values in Il railroad
stocks during the past six months amounted {
to 1921, Us, 1865.
Thomas G. Massey. well known real estate 4
agent of Roanoke, Va, was knocked down
and robbed on Monday night.
Cornelius Sullivan killed Patrick Fahey. in
Lexington. Kentucky, on Monday. They
qfarreled over the Parnell situation.
Senior Sueci. the Italian faster, who began
fast of As days in New York on November
9Th, ended his fast on Saturday night.
Rev. James Black, d. D.. LII. D., Professor
of Languages at Wooster University, Wooster
Ohio, died on Tuesday, aged s. years
DIR. Diller Luther. ex-Secretary Of the
Pennsylvania Board Of Public Charities, died
in Reading on Tuesday night. in the SD year
Of his age.
Edward Enoch knocked James Gravett
down in a saloon, in DanyiIle, Virginia, Tues
day. and then stamped him 10 death with his
heavy boots.
James Russell was killed and WIN. Brown
fatally wounded by Thomas Arnold, dis
charged negro, at Bessemer, Alabama on
Saturday night.
Owing to the grip the death rate of New
Orleans has increased equal to that Of the
cholera scourge twelve years ago. Over 5000
cases are reported.
A mysterious disease is prevailing in Fair
field. Freestone county, Texas. Dot Of 10
cases there have been Ii deaths. 1t battles
medical skill and kills in few hours.
DR.. E. II. Riggan. prominent resident of
Mecklenburg county, Virginia, was murdeded
at his home, by negroes. on Saturday night.
The supposed murderers have been arrested.
ST. Demands Roman Catholic Church. on
Fourteenth street, between Eighth and Ninth
avenues, New York, was burned out Saturday
morning. Loss about S75,0OO: insurance
| 100000.
Many Of the counties of the northwestern
part of Kansas have offered extraordinary
bounties on wolf, rabbit and gopher scalps,
in order that destitute people may have
means Of making living this winter.
Sitting Bulls band Of $50 warriors, led by
Big Foot, on Monday surrendered to Colonel
Sumner, who. with 200 soldiers, surrounded
them near Standing Rock. North Dakota.
They were making for the Bad Lands.
John Brennan, station agent at Bay Sta
| ton, Ohio, on the Toledo, Findlay and
! Springfield Railroad, was murdered aud
robbed on Monday night. His body was
thrown into the depot, which was then set Oh
1 fire. There is no trace Of the murderers-
The White River Methodist Conference. in
Arkansas, on Friday of last week, unani
mously suspended Rev. n. B. Fizer five
months ''for going away from his church
without leave and running for Governor Of
Arkansas.
| A peculiar disease has attacked the horses
in Jefferson and Swanee counties, Kansas
/ and scores have died within the past ten days.
| The disease has also made its appearance in
i Missouri, and is proving fatal to horses in
/ several counties.
DR.. A. T. Augusta, IA well known colored
physician, died at his residence in Washing
| ion, d. c., on Sunday night. When the war
broke out he was appointed a surgeon in the
army, and was probably the first eolored man
| appointed to that position.
While gang of men were blasting on the
| line of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, in
| Wayne county, West Va, on Saturday, several
| sticks of dynamite, which had been put near
the fire to thaw out, exploded. Two men
were killed and ten injured, several danger
ously.
A fire in Athol. Massachusetts, on Sunday,
destroyed the Masonic and Central blocks,
causing loss of about $l35, 600. The insur-
ance is $4,000. Four firemen were injured,
| one perhaps fatally, by falling walls, and 4
/ fifth had his skull fractured by falling from q
! ladder.
I IL &. r,u,,pr.E.
| walls at Fairfield, Texas. Nearly all the
stores are closed, aud business is almost
entirely suspended. The disease is so fatal
and dreadful that the people are closing their
dwellings and leaving. Ten deaths occurred
in two days.
Windmill and Smiths Islands and Petty's
| Island, between Philadelphia and Camden,
! n. j., are to be removed. Work is to be
commenced in February. When the work is
completed Philadelphia expects to throw off
her ethargy and have the greatest boom she
ever knew.
Robert Gillian, a negro, was shot and
| killed in Petersburg, Virginia, Tuesday, by
! Paul Young. Gillian was drunk and stag
! gered against Young, who demonstrated with
him. Gillian in reply called him offensive
names, whereupon Youas whipped out pis-
tol and shot him in the mead
The little son of the Korean charge DAT
flares in Washington, Mr.. Ye, is dead. This
child was born in Washington in October last,
and was said to be the first Korean born in
the United States. In honor Of the city of
his birth his parents named him Ge Washon,
which is Korean translation Of Washington.
! At Lynchburg, Va, recently, negro was
on trial for stealing a watch. The cul prit
asked to testify, and, getting en- the stand,
stated in very solemn manner that every
word the other man had told was false, for he
could prove he did not steal the watch until
5 o'clock exactly, for the clock struck just as
| he took the watch.
Henry Christensen, 81 years of age, choked
his aged wife to death in her bedroom in
Chicago on Saturday night, and then cut his
own throat. Christensen was still alive and
conscious at last accounts, but unable to speak
and not expected to recover. The only mo-
| tive known for the crime seems to have been
petty quarrel between the pair.
1t is said that farmers in Kansas have
started movement to force a reduction in
railroad grain rates from points in that state.
| 1t is said that the Inter State Commerce Com
mission is to be appealed to- and that evidence
is being accumulated by a committee Of
farmers to be used in complaint against the
Rock Island the Atchison and the Missouri
! Pacific.
On Monday terrible accident occurred on
the Selenter Lake, in Eastern Holsiein, Ger
many. Twelve young girls. who were on
their way home from church, were crossing
the lake when the thin ice suddenly gave way
and they were preeipitated into the water.
They were all drowned in the presence of their
frenzied parents, who stood on the bank pow.
| erless to rescue them.
A smokeless powder is being manufactured
at the United States Torpedo Station at New
port, Rhode Island. a number of expert.
ments already made show that it is not only
smokeless, but also of higher explosive power
than the ordinary powder, ten grains being
sufficient to drive a bullet into pine
board TO depth of 20 inches, while 20 grains
of service powder can make the missile peue.
trate but IA in inches
DR.. +. II. Landes, of the veterinary depart.
ment Of the University of Pennsylvania, has
been for two years engaged in studying lock
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