The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-01
News Of the week.

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The ship Guy C. Goss, the first tea ship to enter
the Tacoma Customhouse, arrived with $4,000
woilh of tea on Saturday.
henry Brennans house, near East Berlin, Pa, was
struck by lightning on Friday of last week, and his
daughter killed while closing window.
Frederick C. Havemyer, aged 50 years, died on
Monday near New York city. He was the founder
of the well-known sugar firm and leaves large
estate.
| The temperature Sunday night in many States
was the coolest record for this of the veal
Light frosts occurred in Michigan and North
| Dakof.
Thetown of Genoa, in Nevada, narrowly escaped
being swept away by cloud burst on Friday
afternoon oflast week. Much damage was done TO
properly
Tuesday nights storm in Lancaster county. Pa,
destroyed the oats and tobacco crop. Over three
inches of rain fell, causing great damage to roads,
bridges and farms.
RaSson Labar, 10 years of age, was drawn through
the rollers of a COMPRISING machine at the Ivanhoe
Paper Mill, in Patterson, New Jersey on Saturday
and crushed to death.
lew weeks ago a meteoric stone fell near Gettys-
burg Pa. 1t weighed SO pounds and shaped
like IN oyster shell. On Wednesday it was shipped
to the Smithsonian Institute.
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including the Washington Hotel, was destroyed by
fire OF Saturday night. Two women and two chill
dren frightened to death.
The banks of the Missouri river at the "Elmwood
Bend" opposite St. Joseph, continue to give way,
threatening the submergence of six square miles of
territory, including farm land three railroads and
bridge.
During services in the United Presbyterian
| Church. in Greenville, Pa. Sunday morning, a
storm and the steeple struck by lightning
and badly shattered. A panic followed, but no per-
son hurt.
| A tornado struck and demolished the house Of ].
r. LEI rear Wichita Falls Texas. on Sunday after
noon. Ice. his wife and brother in-law. j. W.
Rodgers and two children were badly hurt. Sew
eral other houses were moved from their founda
tions.
Gettysburg, Pa, is TO have an electric railroad
The same company has purchased the Springs
Hotel, which they will refurnish and open next
season. A line will extend from the hotel to Center
Square, where it will interseet with the Baltimore
street line.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company, at steelton,
Pa, started No. . furnace, which has been banked,
and the men at work are principally eOlored men.
This has angered the Hungarians and Poanders
who worked at the furnace, and they threaten TO
raid the furnace.
| An exclusion train which stopped at Middle
town. Ohio, on Saturday night to make some repairs,
was run INTO by heavy freight. The three rear
cars, crowded with people, were overturned. Three
persons killed and large number injured
four it is feared, fatally.
Friday afternoon of last week will long be remem-
bered for the disastrous storm that passed through
York county, Pa, especially in Manchester town
| ship. Buildings and trees were blown down,
tObacco corn and other crops destroyed by hail,
and meadows overfowed by the sudden rise in the
streams.
The East Street Reaper Works, at Springfield, o..
the largest agricultural implement works in the
world covering forty six acres and raj king next in
size to the Krupp Gun Works. of Prussia, were sold
10 syndicate of capitalists of Cleveland, Chicago
and New York, for the manufacture of railway cars
and supplies.
A terrific washout and landslide occurred on the
Colorado Central Railroad, near Idaho Springs,
| Saturday night By the landslide four hundred
feet of the track covered depth of fifteen
feet, and by the washout one hundred aud fifty feet
Of track were swept away. \ man named Brooks
was drowned.
| A fire on Saturday in J. B. Cowan Il Co.'S big
| liquor house in Dallas, Texas spread rapidly
to the Ben Brook School Furniture Companys place,
| the Brewers Storage Company's warehouse and
Wofe q Co.'S cotton GIN Five hundred bales of cot
ton in the gin belonging to Sanger Bros. was de-
stroyed. Loss, 100000.
The large and costly stables and covered training
track of Leroy Payne, liveryman of Chicago, at
his horse farm at Chebanese ILL.,. were destroyed by
fire on Sunday night, together with the contents.
The 100 horses were rescued. The loss was heavy,
collection of paintings on sporting subjects in the
Office being alone valued at $4,000.
The vicinity of Elm Creek, Neb, was visited Mon
day evening by of the most destructive rain and
| hai-storms of the season. Hailstones an inch and
ahalf in diameter fell leveling small grain TO the
ground. Garden vegetables are completely ruined,
while corn is riddled and cannot recover. Scarcely
one-half of the small grain has been harvested.
On the farm of Col. W. B. worsham. of Henrietta,
Texas there is a remarkable well. 1t usually con-
tains about eight feet of water. but when the wind
blows from the north the well goes dry, and remains
so until change of wind, when the water again
flows in and resumes its normal height This strange
phenomenon has been observed for several months.
Grasshoppers are running the oats prospects in
twenty counties along the Ohio and Indiana border
| line and the devastation is most marked in the
region around the headwaters of the Wabash, Miami
and Maumeee rivers Many growers, alarmed at
the ravages of the pest their oats green but the
hoppers followed it into the shock and now in
| the corn.
Mis-. Mark Hopkins Searles died ON Saturday
morning, near Methuen. Massachusetts. She was
about 20 years of age. Her first husband was Mark
Hopkins, the Pacific coast millionaire. her second
husband Edward F. searles the New York archi-
tect Her first husband left an estate supposed to
be worth s60OOO.OOO, and her wealth reputed to
be sIOOOOOOO
Otto Schuendove aged 10 years an employee of
the Werner Printing and Lithographing Company,
| in Cleveland. Ohio, on Saturday called the cashier,
who making up the pay roll, to the telephone.
When the cashier returned 10 the office Schuendove
was missing, having stolen $1,000 from the desk.
Two confederates were waiting outside with team
and the robber escaped.
Near Paris, France, collision took place between
two excursion trains on Sunday night. over 100
| persons were injured and 80 killed. Fortunately
the trains were running slowly or the loss of life
would have been great The funeral of the killed
took place on Wednesday and was attended by over
5000 people. There were 81 hearses in line, and
the village ofst. Mande was dressed in black.
-Four boys, two of them named Laswell and the
Others named Houstman, were playing with an old
| gun, near Springfield Illinois, on Sunday night,
and one of them dropped a match into it. The gun
was discharged and Gus Housman was fatally
wounded several shot entering his heart. John
| Iaswell was shot in the arm and Arthur Houstman
in the shoulder. The boys were unaware that the
gun was loaded.
A small boiler used in the repair shops of the
| Hill City Oil Mill at Vicksburg, Miss exploded
Tuesday, fatally injurng the engineer and fireman
The boiler, weighing 1900 pounds few into the air
and fell into the house of Marx Lowenberg 500 feet
away, going through the roof, floor and ceiling and
landed on his breakfast table. but no was hurt
/ the family having left the table when they heard
! the report caused by the explosion.
F-4A- daring and unusual surgical operation was
| performed at the French Hospital, New York city,
on Sunday, on Charles Fursman, a boy OF IL years.
Young Fursman dislocated his neck without injury
to the spinal cord, and the doctors set it without
disturbing that life centre. The boy is doing well
and will be sent home in few weeks. 1t is said