The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-09-19
News of the Week.

erS IN boots ana Shoes nave lAlie" iaD''i
ties $4,000.
At Ottawa, Canada, on Monday, 1000 men
employed in the saw mills struck for lncreas'
ed wages and less time.
Pork will be admitted into Germany on
American inspection certificate, but Germany
has not abated the import tax.
Famine exists in thirteen provinces of Rus.
STA, and the government has appropriated
about SIT 200, 900 for their relief
+. Wenisch, aged 50 years, formerly of
Baltimore, Nd, cut his throat at the railroad
station in Philadelphia, Pa, on Sunday.
DIR. George B. Loring, aged "a years, eX
Minister to Portugal and ex-Commissioner OF
Agriculture, died in Salem, Massachusetts,
on Monday.
Several important arrests of eounterfeiters
have been make in New Orleans, Chicago
and New York 1t is thought the gang has
been broken up.
On Monday train on the New York Cen
trail Railroad ran 43G miles in 44O minutes,
including three stops. The fastest mile was
made in As seconds,
AT Ashland, Wisconsin, on Monday, a
severe storm occurred. Hail and rain ruined
the crops, and in Iron houses were unrooted
and trees torn up. The loss is immense.
Joseph England, wealthy farmer, near
Kansas City, Missouri, and q local politician,
was found dead in a well at his barn Monday.
1t is supposed he accidentally fell in.
It is stated that the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road Company intend to make million dol
lar display Mt the Worlds Fair, covering all
the territory through which the road runs.
Hail stones fell at Cumberland, Wisconsin,
on Monday, averaging from to II inches
in size. Corn and grain was moved down as
if by reaper.
A house il Geneva, Minnesota, was struck
by lightning on Saturday night, and Christian
Peterson, aged II years, was killed while ~
ing in bed brother who slept with him
escaped.
NJ. ]. O'Brien, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
treasurer of the Catholic Knights of America,
has left for parts unknown with $4,000 be-
longing to the order. His bondsmen will
make good the loss.
Two engines and seven freight cars were
thrown over an embankment on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, near Altoona, Monday
morning. end wrecked. One of the engl-
neers was injured.
Two boys are under arrest in Liverpool,
England, on the charge of numbering com
rade, eight years old, by drowning him. They
stole the clothes from the dead body OF the
little fellow and pawned them
The employees of the st. Charles Iron Fur
mace at Columbia, Pa, have been notified
that the furnace will be blown ont for an in
| definite period. Nearly n hundred men will
be thrown out of work.
! A serious outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia is
reported in Cumberland, England, and it is
feared that the valuable pedigree shOrthorns
belonging to Sir Wilfred Lawson are infected.
| The cattle already slaughtered were valued
! at $50, 900.
| Diphtheria is epidemic in Shelbyville, Ind.
! The public schools have been closed and
| general quarantine established. Thirty
| deaths have occurred in forty eight hours,
and adults are being attacked as well as
children.
The great strike among the negro cotton
| pickers, announced to take place on Monday,
| failed because the men were satisfied with
| the wages paid. The strike was gotten up by
a missionary who expected to make big
money out of it.
Malarial fever is carrying off the Indians in
the CHEYENNE and Arapahoe reservations in
the Indian Territory at the rate of 100 a day.
The ''medicine dance" has failed to stop the
disease, Notwithstanding it is kept up day
and night.
A passenger train on the Graymont branch
of the Union Pacific Railway was wrecked
| Saturday morning near Beaver Brook, Colo
RADIO, by several of the cars leaving the track
as the train was dashing around a curve.
Twenty.six persons were injured, five, per
haps, mortality
Two brothers named Gilliland were taken
from iaiI in Somerset, Kentucky, early Tues
dav morning by mob and hanged. They
were charged with killing Sheriff McCargue.
The brothers declared to the last that they
were innocent.
Fred C. Fitzsimmons, the all-round Cana
dian crook, who last March murdered Detec-
tive David Gilkinson, escaped from the Ale
ghany co., Pa, jail some time Tuesday night.
Ar eward of 81 900 has been offered for his
recapture, and detectives all over the country
have been asked to keep a lookout for him.
Exports of bread stufis from the United
States in August were valued at $2S, S5S, $40,
an increase of SIS, 000, 900 over the cores
nonding period Of 1890. For July and
| August the bread stulis exports were valued
at S45, 232, 900, an increase of S24, 0OO, 900
over the corresponding months of 1890.
In Boston, Mass, on Monday, 500 colored
women met and decided to place in nOmina-
ton for the school board Miss Alice Miller,
a young colored woman. Committees were
appointed to make a complete house to house
canvass and bring out as large a woman vote
as possible.
Robert Woodson, a negro, committed n
felonious assault on Mrs. Jackson Powell, IN
Columbia, South Carolina, on Sunday. A
large party is searching the woods for him.
| If caught he will make the seventh negro
| lynched in that section for the same offence
within few months.
! Frank C. White, who died in Asheville,
! N. c., last week, had the reputation of being
the strongest man, physically, in the South.
| He is said to have carried, with cotton
| hook in each hand, two bales of cotton across
the street. A bale weighs from $50 to 500
pounds.
| Prairie fires have damaged tract of coun-
try in North Dakota, extending south of the
| Northern Pacific line, amounting to seventy
square miles. Prairie fires are also raging
in the country near Houston, Texas destroy
| ing vast quantities of hay and burning fences.
There is a severe drought in that section.
Dr. w. H. Going, the state veterinarian of
Kansas, pronounces the mysterious disease
which has been killing cattle in the vicinity
of Leavenworth to be the dreaded Spanish
fever. The state law is very strict in the
matter of Texas cattle and prohibits their
importation without thorough inspection.
Herr Beck, teller in the Prussian Mort
gage Bank of Berlin, has absconded with
37S, 900 marks belonging to the Institution.
He was arrested in New York on Monday on
the arrival of the steamer in which he took
passage to this country. He had II 900 marks
in his possession, and viii be sent back to
| Germany on the next steamer.
The captain of the first company of the 37th
Fusleers Of the German army, stationed at
Kotoscbin, found sentinel asleep. He dis
ciplned the whole company by par aiding the
men four times on one day. Twenty. one men
| were absent from the last parade. They were
arrested, tried by court martial and sentenced
to imprisonment in fortre for terms vary
ing from eighteen to twenty-one months. The
affair has created sensation "a Berlin.
The Los Angeles Cali Times prints an
interview with Debarth Shorb, who has just
returned from Chicago, in which he states
that the management Of the Worlds Fair is
rotten to the core and will take steps to have
an investigation at Washington unless Davis
is removed as direclor-g general on the ground