The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-09-05
News of the week.

aN5u9t % anu % lives htEe lost
Typhoid fever is prevailing at Newark. n. J., and
numerous deaths have occurred.
Mrs. Falkenburg, of New York city, was 100 years
old on Sunday. he is in excellent health.
winnemucca. Nevada. had a $4,000 fire on sun.
day, owing to the failure of the water supply.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet, was 50 years old
on August %. nls health is good and he received
over 600 eongratulatory letters.
Mrs. Eugene Lavender was tarred and ftathered
in Newago Mich, on Tuesday by some angry
women whom she had offended.
While a railroad water tank was being torn down
near North Danville, Virginia. Monday, tie timbers
fell upon C. W. Osborne and killed him instantly.
Mrs. A. D. Barnum, postmistress at Mann, 10 miles
from Great Falls Montana, and her son, E. 7. Bar
mum, have been arrested on the charge Of robbing
the mails.
A fight occurred between two factions at n colored
camp meeting, at Sweet Home, Little Rock
Arkansas, on Sunday morning. One man was kill :
ed and several were seriously wounded.
Fire caused by an overheated stove broke out sun
day morning in the odd Fellows building at Alien
town, Penna and the tenants and the building suf-
fered TO the extent of $4,000.
The postofiiee at Leeds, Iowa, was robbed on Sun
stamps stolen. This is the sixth postoiiice robbed
during the past month in northw est Iowa.
CLOUD burst deluged the eastern part of Rens-
seaer county, New York, on Thursday night Of last
week. causing great destruction of property and in
terruptine railroad travel. Three lives were lost
Charcoal furnace No. . of the Woodstock Iron
Company, at Admission, Alabama was burned on
Saturday together with one hundred thousand bush
els Ofcharcoal. The loss is about $4,000. The FUR
mace was built in 1878 and cost 5000
The Pennsylvania Salt Works at Natrona were
damaged by fire Sunday morning. Loss 100000
At Quanah Texas, fire on Sunday afternoon destroy
ed II blocks of business houses on the public square
of that place, causing loss of 100000.
Fifteen murders and fatal assaults were committed
in New York city on Sunday, and several bodies
were found floating in the harbor If the above had
occurred in the South the North would be calling
for missionaries and money to convert the heathen
A dispatch from Bermuda says that severe storm
ragged there on Thursday of last week. causing great
damage. Trees, walls and telegraph and telephone
wires were Frustrated and the sea was very rough
1t was said to be the worst storm experienced there
since 1880.
Mrs s. H. Remmer wife of a restaurateur of Bing'
hamton New York persisted in fire in her bedroom
about three O'Clock on Saturday morning. She was
in the habit reading herself to sleep, and is sup
posed to have unconsciously upset the lamp while
turning in bed
A tornado struck Newark, New Jersey, on Friday
afternoon of last week, dwelling walls, unroofng
buildings and doing other damage in a track one
and aquarer miles long by an eighth of mile wide
Several person were injured by flying debris but no
fatal casualties were reported.
Twenty-Five persons were killed, nine seriously
injured and &c badly bruised by railroad accident
near staesville y. c. the Western North Carolina
Road, on Thursday of last week. train was forced
from bridge by the spreading of the rails and
plunged Go feet down into a creek.
Eugene o'Haro, desperate and ex.eonyict, who
was under arrest for an attempt TO kill policeman
escaped from the jefferson Market Jail, in New York
City, carly Monday morning, by cutting through the
bars of various doors. 1t is supposed he had the
aid of an accompliee TO get over the wall.
A young man named Harlow was accidentally
shot through both legs with rifle in the hands oil
his brother Alfred, in the Adirondacks, on Saturday
and died the next day. guide named McCullom
was also shot and seriously wounded by sportsman
named Mullin, who mistook him for deer.
All of the northwestern part of Faulk county
South Dakota was burned over Friday night Of last
week by a terrible fire twenty miles wide and ex
tending from Faulkton fifty miles northwest As
far as the eye could reach the sky was lit up with
burning stacks of hay and grain. The farmers are
ruined.
Mrs. Julian Fillmore Harris, last survivor of 0
family of eight brothers and sisters, one of who N
was Willard Fillmore, the thirteenth President Of
the United States died Sunday night at the residence
of her son, Charles Harris, in San Francisco. She
was born in 1872, and went to California in ISL
from Minnesota.
During fire in the Kirby House, at Denver, Col,
Monday afternoon, a quantity of gasoline exploded,
tearing a hole in the front of the building. L. f.
Rowley who was on the sidewalk in front of the
house, was blown into the middle Of the street and
was fatally injured Several others injured by
flying bricks.
The steamer Empress, of Japan, which arrived at
Vancouver on Sunday, beating the Pacific ocean
record by eight hours brought news of typhoon in
Japan that caused the loss of $50 lives. The Ger
man vessel Helene Rickmers was driven ashore from
her anchorage and wrecked, and 90 or so of her
crew are believed to have been drowned.
George A. sherber, an aeronaut. made a balloon
ascension from Central Park, PEORIA Illinois, on
Sunday night, and. on descending in a parachute
fell into the lake and was nearly drowned. Julius
Curle, who also made an ascension at Peoria on the
same day fell into net of electric wires, and was
terribly shocked before the wires could be cut.
At breckenridge, Col. recently some person put
dynamite in the Methodist Episcopal Church bell,
and the bell and belfry were blown to atoms, en-
the lives of more than one hundred peo-
ple The deed supposed to have been caused by the
Mr.
because he wanted the saloons closed on Sunday.
Five persons were killed and twenty injured Mon
day night in wreck on the Louisville, Evansville
and st. Louis Railroad, near Troy, Ind. The train
struck a broken flange, plunged down steep em-
bankment, took fire and was burned. Many of the
passengers who were slightly hurt on the crash were
badly scalded before they could be extricaed from
the wreck.
Henry Frederick Bushenhagen, aged 60 years, and
his wife, Emily, aged II, were murdered in Bloom
field, Connecticut, early on Sunday morning. by 6
tramp to whom they had given shelter. Theii
bodies were frighifully mutilated and thrown into
an old well. 1t does not appear that robbery wa:
the motive for the crime. The murderer has mi
been arrested.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kansas, says tina
secret order of boomers has been organized al
5000 members have been sworn in. They propose
to arm themselves early in October and make raid
on the Cherokee strip. They will burn the grass
kill the cattle and make determined stand to hold
the strip for homes.
Francis Noah colored, n waiter, behaved so 6adl!
on Sunday at the residence of Alex C. Hyer in New
York city, that policeman John j fisherman was call
ed in to arrest him. When the officer laid his hand
OH him the negro turned and nearly severed the
head of the officer with razor. Sherman died
almost Immediately Noah then tried to XIII him
self but was not successful.
The current was turned in the West Bridge street
Grand Rapids, Michigan, electric railway, for lhC
first time, on Saturday OF last week and within al
hour a man and his horse were killed. George
Heydorn's horse became frightened, and, running
against telegraph pole caused small wire to f4l
across the TROLLEY wire and on the man and horse
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