The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-09-26
News of the Week.

Mrs. Mary Yost aged 81 years and 20 days,
died in Staunton. Va, on Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Borden Biddle, died in
Philadelphia, Pa, on Sunday aged 80 years.
At Lyndenyille, Vermont, on Septemb er
Is, there was thunder storm and hurricane,
and much damage was done,
Fires in Stutsman and Eddy counties,
North Dakota, have destroyed over 5000
acres of grain. Fire trenches have been
plowed.
Willie and Eddie Walmsley, twin brothers,
aged years, were drowned in the Passaic
river, at Paterson, New Jersey, September
| Is. They were bathing, and neither of them
could swim.
| A fire is reported raging on the prairie six
Nearly 10000 bushels of wheat have been
destroyed.
Charles NJ Miller. clerk in Deering' S
| book store in Louisville, Ky, is short $685.
600. He returned $4,000. 1t is said that
| he will not be prosecuted.
A syndicate of York PA capitalists have
purchased $4,000 worth of real estate in
! Roanoke, Va, and other sales last week
amounted to over $4,000.
An explosion in Il coal mine near Charter
I IL.
resulted in the death of twenty. nine workmen
and the injury of eleven others.
Lorenz Brentano, ex Congressman, Consul
and editor, who had checkered career in
Europe and this country, died September Is
in Chicago, aged rs years.
R. II. Duncan, who, in February, 1889,
killed the Williamson family of four persons
in San Saba county, Texas, was hanged at
Eagel Pass September Is.
The Michigan Methodist Conference, by d
vote of l49 to 10, has decided to admit
women as lay delegates. The Illinois con-
ference has also decided to admit them.
NJ. d. Thrasher, Postmaster of Edwards
Vile. Alabama, has been arrested. He is
charged with corresponding with green goods
men in New York city with view to getting
a supply
Joseph p Duffy, young postal clerk on
the Michigan Southern route from Elkhart,
Indiana to Chicago, has been held in $4,000
hail for rifing letters. His stealings were
carried on for months.
Forest fires have devastated the country
near Cumberland, Wisconsin. Several farm
houses and barns, two wood yards and other
property have been burned. The little vii
iage Of Perley was nearly wiped out by fire
on Thursday of last week.
Nearly thirty squire miles ol the cranberry
marshes between Valley junction and Nor
way Ridge, near Tomah, Wisconsin, have
been burned over. All the buildings filled
with harvested berries and the tents and ac-
coutrements of the pickers have been con-
sumed.
A number Of English Methodists arrived in
this country on Saturday to attend the Ecu
menical Conference at Washington. They
brought with them, as a giftto the University
College at Washington, a chair made of the
wood from the chapel in which John Wesley
used to preach.
A severe storm broke over Ottawa, Canada,
ON the afternoon Of September Is. Great
damage was done to trees and shrubbery.
The glass roof OF the House Of Commons was
broken by falling eornices, the members
desks on the Ministerial side were deluged,
and many valuable papers were destro yed.
George W. johnson and son, living 60 miles
south Of Bismarck, South Dakota, were
burned to death Sunday while fighting prairie
fires. Owing to the unusually long grass this
year the FIRE was uncomfortable, and swept
over the country, from Winchester to the
Missouri river, for so miles southeast, destroy
ing a large amount Of grain, hay and build
ings.