The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-02-21
News of the Week.

In Montana on Tuesday there was a snow
fall of over 40 inches.
| A solid train of 10 cars of lumber arrived
in Savannah, Ga, one day last week.
The American Loan and Trust Company of
New York has failed; liabilities 81, S24, S27.
! Gen. H. II. Sibley, first Governor of Min
nesota, died at his home in st. Paul on We'd
nesday.
Gay Jewett, of Worth county, Iowa, died
last week. He was 30 years old and weighed
| $40 pounds.
The city gas works of Berlin brought
81, 49, 900 clear profit into the treasury during
the last financial year.
The Australian papers, Just received in San
| Francisco, state that by the burning of the
| steamer Ramed, at Wuhu, 200 Chinese per-
ished.
| A fire in New Westminster, British Colum-
| bia, on Sunday, destroyed property valued at
| $500, 600. A fireman named McCannon was
killed by falling wall.
Admiral David D. Porter died suddenly on
/ February Is at his residence in Washington,
/ d. c., from fatty degeneration of the heart,
| in the 18th year OF his age.
! G. F. RibIing, of Norwich, Vermont, last
week was convicted on 723 out of 1000 in.
! Dartmouth College students.
| Robert F. Allen, clerk in the postofiice at
| Washington, d. c., has been arrested on the
charge of embezzling two letters addressed to
/ the Commissioner of Patents.
! The steamer Sherlock struck the pier of a
bridge at Cincinnati on Tuesday and sank.
/ She had nearly 100 persons on board. Some
( escaped, but how many is not known.
I Rev. James P. Lerew, a prominent and
well known bunker minister of Latimore
/ township, Adams county, Pa, died February
/ II, aged Il years, months and days.
John w. Creator, of Yincennes, Ind. who
/ is insane, shot and killed Isidore Meyer and
conductor +. W. Leach on passenger train
/ near Bald Knob Station, Ark, on Tuesday.
! St. Mary's Hospital, at Rochester, New
I York, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night.
! A fireman was fatally hurt by falling from a
ladder. None of the patients were injured.
/ Loss S65, 900.
/ The body of colored man, supposed TO be
/ John Roland was found in a chicken coop in
! Lancaster, Pa, on Saturday morning. The
mans throat had been cut, and it is thought
/ that he was murdered.
! Last week the sale of the paintings of Geo.
! /. Seney took place in New York city. The
collection contained 307 and realized $685.
! 900. The one by j. f. MilIet, entitled
/ Waiting brought S40,500.
| Gen. VIM. 7. Sherman died at his residence
( in New York on Saturday afternoon last, at
/ the age of II years. The funeral service took
| place at the house on Thursday, and the re-
mains will be taken to st. Louis for interment.
/ A miner dropped naked lamp in the
| Meyer mine. near Scottdale, Pa, on Monday,
and fire followed. Four men were entombed.
| \ number of men are at work trying to subdue
the flames and rescue the imprisoned miners.
Two prisoners, one white, the other colored,
were taken from the Jail at Gainesville, Fla.
on Tuesday night, and lynched. They had
been arrested for completely in numerous
assaults and were leaders of desperate gang.
! Secretary Mohler, of the Kansas State
| Board of Agriculture, has received exceed.
/ ingly encouraging reports of the condition of
winter wheat. 1t is said that it looks much
better now than it has at any season for several
years.
Much damage was done in parts of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia
by the warm rains this week. The snow on
the mountains melted rapidly. and many of
the streams overfowed their banks causing
great loss.
Edward Park, the oldest inmate of the
! Westchester Almshouse, at Tarrytown, n. Y,
died last week, at the reputed age of 102 years.
He had been in the institution sc years. He
was a college graduate and belonged to a
wealthy family, but dissipation brought him
to want
Mary O'Connor died on Monday at Eliza.
BETH n. j., aged l04 years. She was born
in ireland, but had lived in Elizabeth for
many years. She retained her faculties until
a short time before her death, and was able
to do her homework.
Mrs. Elizabeth Booser, who for eighty years
had been famous worker in the harvest fields
of Lancaster and Dauphn counties. Pa. is
4 dead. aged 90. She worked in the fields as
late as last fall. She was the oldest member
of the Dunkard Church in Pennsylvania
A rock weighing about 200 pounds fell from
Duquesne Heights, Pittsburg, on Monday
morning, and crashed into passenger coach
of an express train, killing Miss Clara Elem
ming and injuring three others. The victims
were all students. and were on their way to
school.
! A three story building in Warren, Mimi,
occupied by A. P. Znevolds as drug store,
was burned Saturday morning. His year
old daughter was burned to death. Mrs.
! Znevolds and the hired girl were badly burned
in making their escape. The fire started from
an overheated stove.
A party of negroes on their way to church
near Petersburg Ga, on Sunday, quarreled
over cakewalk the night before and appealed
to arms. Every man had pistol William
Mattox was shot dead, dozen bullets entering
| his body. Several other combatants were
desperately wounded.
A fire occurred in the postoflce building,
in New York, on Saturday night and hun.
dreds of bags of newspapers were burned and
] tbnncon1c Of laffars la1o,,o1
/ their destination. Two newsboys were taken
| from the elevators badly burned Giuseppe
Michael fatally. The loss will amount 10
So, 200.
A despatch from Salt Lake City, Utah,
says: 1t showed here Monday night, and a
! peculiar feature of the storm was a large
quantity of salt which fell with it. The snow
melted on Wednesday and left the salt on the
ground at least one.fourth of an inch in thick
ness The salt was evidently absorbed from
the lake.
| The new pipe line being constructed from
the Southwestern coal fields, in West Virginia,
to Philadelphia will have capacity of Is, 900
barrels per day. Its owners, the Southern
Pipe Line Company, will construct tanks there
for receiving the oil, from which it will be
taken and refined by the Atlantic Refining
Company.
II. d. o. MesSersnlth, medical director IN
the United States Navy, with rank of commo-
dore, retired, died in Lancaster, Pa, on
! Monday, aged 81 years. He was commits
stoned in 1887 by President jackson, and was
a member of Commodore Perry's first expe.
dition to Japan. He served through the
Mexican and civil wars, being retired in 1872.
The trial of Frederick W. Sawyer and wife
for cruelty to Is year old daughter of Saw
yer, has begun at Bangor, Maine. The girl
testified that her stepmother several times
placed her on hot stove, had struck her on
the head with pieces of firewood, had broken
her arms, and had otherwise maltreated her.
The defence claims hereditary insanity on tho
part Of the woman.
The Third National Bank of Chicago failed
in 1877 for nearly 81, 600 000 and the stock
holders were told that their stock was worth.
less, as the capital and surplus were taken to