The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-01-17
News of the Week.

Senator Hearst, of California, is dying from
intestinal cancer.
| In Berlin, Germany, over 62,000 persons
are out Of work, owing TO the cold weather.
| Nine persons were drowned while skating
on the Seine, at Paris, France, on Tuesday.
L. NJ. Van Tassel's grain elevator, in New
York, was burned on Wednesday morning;
loss 100000.
Into the streets of Denver s25, 100000 in
gold and silver coin are shoveled from the
mountains every year.
Austria-Hungary has again been visited by
terrible snowstorms. A blizzard prevailed in
Vienna all day Wednesday.
Daimio persimmons weighing IS ounces
have been grown on the place of Col. Church,
just east of Orlando, Florida.
The shipments of wheat from Antelope
Valley, Los Angeles county, for 1890, were
34,s94 sacks, equal to 1907 $50 pounds.
Charles King, of near Middleton, Mass,
was l 10 years old on Thursday. His descen-
dants number over GOO, and his health is
good.
During thunderstorm at Washingtonville,
n. Y, on Monday morning, John Tremper 5
barn was struck by lightning. Five cows
were killed, but the barn was not set on fire.
A sleigh containing Milt Gilmore, Grant
Fleming Rube Babcock and Charles Ream,
all farmers, was struck by train near Clyde,
Ohio, on Tuesday night, and all the occupants
were killed.
A despatch from Chicago says that Mrs.
John Wagner is dying at her home in that
city of hydrophobia. She was bitten Novem
Der 26th by an Esquimaux dog, her face being
badly lacerated.
Mrs Rachel Stelwagon, who celebrated
her l05th birthday last September, and was
known as the oldest woman on Leng Island,
died on Monday night at her residence in
Flushing, n. Y.
Lee Beebe, of Lee, Mass, who won fame
in 1883 by predicting the great March blizzard
of that year, says the worst storm of the
present season will visit this country between
the LIST and middle of February.
The distress among the poor in certain parts
of Ireland is of such 4 character that unless
the British government takes prompt action
the fearful scenes of the famine years of 1876
and lS47 are likely to be reproduced.
The international glove fight between Jack
Dempsey, the Nonparie, of Portland, Ore,
and Bob Fitzsimmons, OF New Zealand for
$l2,0 900 and the middle weight championship
of America and Australia, at New Orleans
on Wednesday night, vas won by FrzSimmons
in the 18th round.
unique Christmas present was received
by the editor of the Columbus, Mo-, Dispatch.
1t was the left hind foot of a common gray
rabbit, which had been killed in graveyard
at midnight, in the dark of the moon, by ii
crosseyed negro. The charm is warranted to
keep away all misfortune and bad luck.
The Is year old son of Councilman J. d.
Sullivan, of Lynchburg, Va, while walking
along the streets on Sunday night, laid his
hand on guy wire from an electric light pole
and was instantly killed. A companion who
endeavored to release Sullivan from the wire
was knocked down, but escaped injury.
The following is the output of the prolific
Pacific Slope for the season now closing -
Fresh fruit, 1000 tons, or $500 carloads:
dried fruit, 525, 900 tons, or 50, 500 carloads;
raisins, 2,34l 900 boxes, or 22,4l0 carloads;
lima beans, $4,000 TONS, or 5000 carloads;
wine, $4,000 gallons; grain, A, OOO.OOO bush
kels.
George Booth, II years of age, made a
confession in Sandusky, Ohio, on Saturday
that he set fire TO the elevator of the Cincin.
natl, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad, which
was destroyed by fire on December lth, and
that he fired the general office of the company
two days later. The elevator fire entailed a
loss of 800, 900. No cause was assigned for
the deed.