The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-01-10
News of the Week.

Abraham Williamson, one of the oldest citizens of
Berkeley county, W. Va, died on December 81, aged
90 years.
Emma Abbott, the opera singer, died on Monday,
at Salt Lake City, Utah, of pneumonia aged about
forty years.
There are 1873 manufacturing plants in Richmond,
Virginia, giving employment to 216lS persons and
employing s165O652O capital
Mary Wilson Lacey died in Philadelphia, Pa, on
December 2s, in her goth year. Her father Peter
Wilson, lived 1O2 years. and her mother 100.
The London Economist is authority for the state
ment that f5iO0GOOOO of English money have sought
investment in America during the last three years
Eleven or twelve men were killed on Monday in |
the Utica mine, near San Andreas, California, by
the breaking of skip in shaft. They fell dis
lance ofll0 feet.
on Friday night of last week the Fifth Avenue
theatre New York city, was burned; loss 100000.
Several buildings adjoining were much damaged by
water and smoke.
Reports from Eastern Colorado tell of desttution
and famine among the settlers. owing to the lack of
rain 1t is said that many dying Of starvation,
and that hundreds will follow if assistance is not
soon rendered.
United States Circuit Judge D. C. Trowhett, aged
e. years, died Sunday evening of softening of the
several months. He was a distinguished jurist of
many years service.
The discovery of tin ore in Texas has created ex-
element 1t is found in workable quantities on the
Colorado river, in Llano county, 100 miles north
west Of san Antonio. New discoveries made
daily Sixty deposits have been located
Nineteen Italians have been arrested in Pittsburg
for passing counterfeit silver dollars and 100 of
the spurious coins are in the hands of the police
1t is said TO be the best counterfeit standard dollar
ever made. The coin manufactured in New
York.
Daniel Curran, aged los years, died at midnight,
on December 3lth in Lima Ohio. He was in full
possession of his faculties till the last. He leaves
brother in Belle fontainc who is 100 years old. He
was born in Irelsnd, but had lived in this country
- years.
John Roony was burned to death in his barn, near
Pattsburg New York, on Sunday night. 1t is
thought that he went into the barn while smoking,
and, being under the influence of liquor, lay down
to sleep, and spark from his pipe set fire to the
structure.
| At Bowmausdale, Pa, on Saturday evening, four
/ young men got lot of whisky on prescription
and drank it, Harry Stouffer, aged seventeen years
has died from the effects and another of the party,
named Weaver lay out in the cold and was so badly
/ frozen that both legs must be amputated.
During the past year the Roanoke CVa) Machine
Works turned out 80 large locomotives, $50 thirty
ton coal cars 7S5 thirty ton box cars 22 coke cars
I7g thirty ton fiat cars 10 cabin and large wreck
ing ears. The works now give employment to
LOO hands, and the pay roll aggregates nearly S7O
900 monthly.
William Nelson Cromwell assignee of Decker,
Howell & Co. of New York. who failed about two
months ago for over S12,OOO.OOO, Tuesday issued a
letter informing the creditors of his ability to de-
clare cash dividend Of 100 per cent, and pay on
demand every just claim against the firm, principal
and interest, in full
Benjamin Sharp and Marshall Quillan, negroes,
had whisky drinking contest in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, on Christmas Day. Each easily drank
pint and had begun on a second when Sharp fell to
the floor dead. Quillsn staggered into the back
yard of the saloon and fell in the mud where he
was found an hour later insensble.
\ few days ago, near Albany, Georgia, Richard
Reid and another negro, known as Bill stole and
ate some food belonging to Joe Moore also colored
and then laughingly told him of the joke they had
played on him. Moore put strychnine on some fish,
cooked it, and at his invitation the 9th er two easted
on it. They are dead and Moore has fed.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Strong arranged to celebrate
the fftyrst anniversary of their marriage in Otta
wa, Kansas on Friday of last week, and relatives
from different parts of the State to attend the
festivities. In the morning. Mr. Strong died sud
denly, and in the afternoon his widow also passed
away. Both were apparently in good health.
Chester wilmot Yerex well known in connection
with the hullless oats scheme has been arrested in
Bremen, Germany, under instructions from the
British vice consul there, on a charge of forgery
With his retirement from the hull-less oats business
ends one of the biggest frauds ever successfully
III ~ bn far nF and he
United States.
The Fishing Creek Lumber Company have made
an assignment in Lancaster, Pa. The company has
paid up capital of 500 0OO and the assets consist
Ing of q large saw mill in Columbia county and ex-
tensve wood lands in Columbia and Sullivan coun-
ties are believed to exceed the liabilities Edward
Eberman, of Lancaster is the President. Tight
money is assigned as the cause
Such storms of sand and dust as are prevailing in
Central Illinois have never been known at this
season OF the year No rain has fallen in some eoun-
ties for months. The wind has blown strong and
continuous for several days, and the dust and sand
lie in deep drifts in the bitches like snow The
streams are drying up rapidly and the scarcity of
water is occasioning great inconvenience among
{ the farmers
The statement is made on good authority that the
: French Canadians living the state line are
brmiug organizations with a view of obtaining
many OF the abandoned farms of New Hampshire
and Vermont 1t is believed that there will be con-
siderable emigration from the lower part of Canada
the coming season. The movement is well organ
lied, and committees have been sent to buy up
abandoned farms.
The business failures throughout the United
safes during 1890, as reported to r. G. Dun 4 Co.,
numbered lO9O7 or only p more than in 1889. The
liabilities however were SlS9 100000, an increase of
S1OO0090 on those for the preceding year, and the
largest since 1851, when they S225, 100000. In
uinada the failures for the year 1917 against
l5T7 during 1889 and the liabilities were s1SOOOOOO
an increase of 100000.
La Belle King, one of the opium smugglers who
escaped from the United States secret service Off
GERS while being conveyed from his home at Port
Hlron, Mich, to Detroit, about two years ago, by
jumping through car window has been captured
al Olympia, Washington, where he was driving a
laundry wagon under the name of Boulanger. lie
IS aid to be at the head of the largest smuggling
ring in the United States and is worth great deal
ofmoney.
Col. W. II. Paine, of New York who was promi-
neluy connected with the construction of the
Brooklyn bridge and Hudson river tunnel died
suddenly in Cleveland, Ohio last week. He was
about 81 years old. 1t is stated that he was connect
ed directly with the laying of every principal cable
In The United States, and was one of the most highly
respected engineers in the country. He was the first
engineer who made chain survey across the Con-
tinent to the Pacific coast.
The contractors at the government stamped en-
yelope agency, in Hartford, Conn. recently discov
cred that stamped envelopes were being sold in
Hartford below the regular price, and inquiry de-
veloped the fact that they had been stolen two
years ago by one Fay, who, up to that time, was
waichman employed by the contractors. Over 20 600
stamped envelopes have already been found that
were sold by Fay, and that the government con-
tractors acknowledge the liability and will indem-
I. Nifty the government against loss,
! 1t Wortley, England, Friday night of last
, week. while children were in the dressing room
of q school house preparatory to making their
appearance on the stage. in tableau at a charity
bazar, a little girl who playing with a lighted
lamp accidentally set fire to her clothes. Her
cries caused panic among the other children,
who made a rush for the door, in which direction
the child with the burning clothes also ran. The