The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-06-20

An official eableeram from Admiral Mccain al
Iauique Chilli, to the Secretary of the Navy an
uounees that she Itata sailed under convoy OF the
Charleston at o'clock Saturday night for San
Diego. CAL 1t is not probable that she will be
forced as her machinery is in bad shape, so that it
is expected that a full month will be occupied in
the homeward trip
The odd Fellows of Chicago have decided 10 erect
n great temple for their order in that city on the
northeast corner of Van Buren street and Ffnh
avenue The building will cost 100000, and it
will be sixteen stories in height. 1t will have
frontage of 100 feet on Fifth avenue and 1e5 on Van
Buren, street The ground for the site will cost be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
Tuesday was the hottest fifteenth of June ever
known in New York and New England. At Provi-
denee r. l.. the thermometer registered lO1o, at
Boston. IS; New York, g7Is Hartford, 81, and at
points in Maine from 30 to 80 The highest in
Baltimore was 9so In Wisconsin the heat so ex-
panded the rails throw the track out OF gauge
and derail passenger train.
Dr. John Clarke, of Waldo. Ark. on Sunday, was
hitching his horse to a in front of patients
house. when the animal sprang on him. knocking
him down. The Doctor succeeded in getting up
and behind the tree. but the horse chased him
around, and assistance arrived as the doctor was
about exhausted. The horse, which is thought to
have had hydrophobia, was lassoed and shot.
Martin. Fuller & Cos large abattoir and relrigera
tor buildings at the Philadelphia stock yards, were
| DESTROYED by fire on Sunday causing loss esti-
mated at SS7SOOO. nearly all ofwhich is covered by
! insurance About 900 head of dressed beef were
/ consumed and $4,000 worth of hides were partly
destroyed. Charles Hoeke was probably fatally in
| jured by a bolt blown from bursting kettle.
| The champion family of Iowa is living on farm
| near Hartford. There are twenty nine living
children, Robert Packard and wife being response
BILE for the entire crop. The first, man forty
| Joining the parents The other twenty-eght are
single and live at home. There is only girl
among the number. The first child was born alone
The next five births produced tripletS and the re-
1 mainder are sets of twins.
During heavy thunder storm on Tuesday even
ing lightning struck the house of Emanuel Fuhr-
man. a farmer, living near Hanover Pa, on the
Baltimore turnpike, and, after badly shatering the
roof passed into a summer kitchen, adjoining the
dwelling seriously injuring Mr.. Fuhrman's aged
wife who was engaged in preparing the evening
meal Behind the door. in the room with the old
lady stood a loaded shotgun and several cans of
giant powder. The electric fluid tore the entire
stock from the gun barrel, splintcving it into a
thousand pieces. but neither the load in the gun
was discharged nor the powder ignited-
Col. Geo. B. Wrestling, president of the Montalto
Iron Company. and superintendent of the Montalto
Railroad died ON Wednesday, at his residence
MOntalto Park, Pa, from apopleNy. lie was porn
in Harrisburg January - 1885. In early life he was
a civil engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and afterwards built the large tunnel at
oxford Furnace, N j.. on the Delaware. Lackawan-
ma and Western Railroad He served with diStinc-
ton throughout the war; and invented for the
government an attachment designed TO assist the
movement ofheavy artillery through the deep mud
OF Virginia. He was with Kearney's brigade dur
ing the advance from Burks Station to Bull Run
In recognition of his services Governor Curtin issued
to him three separate commissions as colonel.