The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-02-28
News of the Week.

utareS has caused a loss OF over StiVOOiOOO'
A convent Just completed at O'Neill, Neb.,
by the Dominican Order of Sisters, was burned
on Saturday.
Belle BOYD, the Confederate spy. is now
living with her seventh husband. She is
lecturing in New York.
Col. S. S. Breneiser, of York, Pa. died on
Sunday night of heart disease. de was 81
years old, and had lived in York all his life.
The discovery is reported Of quarry con-
tanning large deposit OF alabaster, extending |
for several miles, on the foot hills near Canon
City, Colorado.
A fire occurred in a tenement house in |
Brooklyn. New York, on Saturday night, and |
six persons, three adults and three children, |
were burned to death.
Scott Bishop, a negro, who few days ago
assaulted and robbed Hugh Hammack, near
Blackstone, Virginia, was lynched by mob
early Monday morning. Hammack died on
Friday last.
A despatch from Denver. Colorado, says
that la grippe has taken cssession of Fort
Logan. Eighty soldiers re in the hospital,
and four deaths have occurred this week from
the disease.
Lightning struck nitro glycerine magazine
near Findlay Ohiu. on Saturday morning.
to indicate the place of the magazine is a hole
in the ground.
There was tornado at Jacksonville and
Utica, Indiana, Wednesday night. Many
buildings were partially or entirely destroyed.
and miles of fencing was blown away. There
was no loss of life.
1t has been prophesed that in 10 years
time there will be more camphor trees than
orange trees in Florida, and that the cam
phor producing industry in that State will
become of great importance.
Forty.seven head of imported registered
Jersey and Holstein cattle, belonging to Jacob
woodward, of Parkersburg, West Va, were
burned to death on Tuesday. The animals
were valued at from $500 to $500 each.
The Salt River Valley, in Arizona, is
suffering from the seyerest flood in its history
! The damage is estimated at Sl25,000 Five
| Indians are known to be drowned, and it is
rumored that white family have met the
same fate.
/ The Rev. Abraham Cassell, minister of
/ the German Baptist denomination, died on
Saturday at Yerkes, Montgomery county, Pa.
I He entered the ministry when he was twenty
( years old and had been preaching over sixty
| years. He was 81 years old.
/ Carroll Copey, who was born in the OK cart
in which, his parents were emigrating from
/ Connecticut to the ''Susquehanna country in
/ 1896, died Thursday on his farm at Crooked
( Creek, Troia county, Pa, aged % years. He
had lived on the farm GO years.
A house in Perry, Wisconsin, occupied by
Marcus Holgarson and family, was burned on
Friday of last week The oldest child was
cremated and another died from its injuries,
while the mother, who rushed into the fire
for her little ones, has become blind from the
effects of the fire.
Two and one-half inches of rain fell at San
Carlos, Arizona, on Monday in six hours; total
I fall in one week six inches. The CHA river
is higher than ever known. The Indian
farms and bitches have been destroyed. The
! Agency -four mill is partly inundated and the
machinery is ruined.
/ Miss Asenath Philpott, of Gainesville,
/ Texas, has hair ten feet seven inches long.
/ 1t grows so rapidly that she has to have it cut
several times year. All her family are noted
/ for the growth of hair. Her grandfather 5
/ beard trailed on the ground and his hair was
cut three times week.
! Government officers are investigating the
case of foreigner at Lima, Pa, suffering
from leprosy, with view to preventing the
4 spread of the disease and of sending the man
/ to the country where he belongs. Twenty
! FIVE cases have been discovered in New Orle-
ans and much excitement prevails.
An explosion occurred at the Spring Hill
| Coal Mines, Nova Scotia, Saturday afternoon,
| from some unknown cause, and 123 men and
BOYS lost their lives. A number of others
escaped with injuries. Of the unfortunates
/ "a were married, 40 single, 25 boys, and 157
children are left unprovided for.
The magnificent kennel of fox hounds
] Of CIn On0 Of 4boropub
bred animals, and owned by Jas. C. McComb,
of Claymont, Del, was destroyed Saturday.
| One of the hounds was bitten by rabid dog
several days ago, and he in turn bit the whole
kennel. Every dog was killed to prevent
contagion.
Knight Dickerson, upon whose body foot
square of skin, taken from the arms of his
brother Knights of st. Bernard Commaudery,
Knights Templar, was grated three weeks
ago, died at Emergency Hospital, in Chicago,
on Monday afternoon. Much of the grated
skin became properly attached, but the pa.
tents vitality was exhausted.
The food at Los Angeles, California, and
vicinity, has caused a great deal of damage.
The old and new San Gabriel rivers broke
from their banks, on Wednesday and ran
together, making an inland sea 10 miles wide
and II miles long. Six persons are known
to have been drowned, and a number of
families have not been heard from.
information was received on Wednesday
night in Natchez, Mississippi, that work on
the Henderson.Ashley levee had been aban-
doned by the contractors. The water is now
going through the gap very rapidly. The re-
suit will be the flooding Of a large portion of
the lower nart of Concordia Parish Some
damage vii! also be done to planters.
While entering the harbor at San Francisco
on Sunday night the American ship Elizabeth,
from New York, was wrecked on the rocks
at North Head. The captain and II sailors
were drowned. The life saving crew, com
manded by Captain Henry, started for the
wreck, but could not reach it. The captain
was washed overheard by big wave and
drowned.
A despatch from Aspen, Colorado, says
that the heavy fall of snow in the mountains
has made travel very dangerous. On Saturday
a slide caught train of mules within few
yards of the Little Rule Mine, carrying nine
of them down the mountain and killing six of
them. The mules were loaded with valuable
ore from the Little Rule, which cannot be
recovered.
John A. Williams, leader in the train rob-
berry at Spur Switch, Texas, in June last,
and who was placed on trial at Lind on
Saturday night and sentenced to 80 years in
the penitentiary. Napoleon McDaniels, one
of his partners, who was given similar
sentence last September, and afterwards
escaped, is still at large.
Thomas Hall, inventor of the turbine water
wheel, was struck and killed by train in
Railway, New Jersey, on Tuesday. Mr..
Hail. who was about 70 years old, was walk
ing on the railroad track near his home. He
stepped from one track to another to get
out Of the way of freight train, and was run
down by the fast express. The body was
horribly mangled and death instantaneous.
Transito Aurtarte, widow of Gen. j. NJ.
Barrundia, who was killed by the Guatemalan
officials on board the American steamer AGA.
pulco, and whose death resulted in the recall
of Minister Miner, the New York World
says, has officially announced her intention
of asking the United States government for
81 100000 indemnity for the killing of her
husband. Papers in the suit have been served