The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-06-13
News of the Week.


year.
Forest fires are raging in the lumber district of
Maine.
In London, England, over 5000 omnibus drivers
are on strike.
Russian winter wheat is said to be almost failure
| and rye is also short
Reading Pa, is flooded with counterfeit silver
dollars and dollar bills
The first heavy rain since the beginning of April
fell at Ottawa, ontario, on Wednesday.
The Union Mill at Philadelphia, Pa, was burned
on Wednesday 1t was a carpet mill, 600 by $50 feet
and the loss over insurance is 100000.
Burglars blew open the safe of the ewelry store of
]. A. Fauber at Clifton Forge Va, Sunday, and
stole about 81 900 in money and jewelry.
Mrs Frances James, widow of the late George P. R.
James, the English novelist and historian, died in
Eau Claire, Wis, on Tuesday, aged 90 years.
Hon. Byron Reed, one of the eldest citizens of
Omaha, Neb., died on Saturday. He widely
known as a numismatist, and had large collection
| of rare coins
The towns of Badia, Calavena and Tregnanzo, in
Northern Italy, were destroyed Sunday by Garth
quake. The inhabitants were compelled to take to
the fields for safety.
William E. Minchin. 35 years of age, individual
bookkeeeper at the American National Bank in
Nashville is defaulter for $1,000 He had been six
years in the employ ofthe bank.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald D. C. L., X. c. B.,
premier of Canada, died at Ottawa, Ont at about 10
O'CLOCK saturday night he was born IN glasgow
! Scotland, on the 18th of January, 1879
For the third successive time apples Will be
snort crop III Ne" lorA TINS year hepor's from 4S
districts give eoeiui accounts AN orcnaru OIL wv"
uees hau ho oossohs o"ihs W tne late iiosts-
In five Maine counties, where the population is
nearly all hatiVe porn Americans the Maine blole
society mas louhd lo'4lo ialnlies VINO confess that
they never so to church and 9S2 families who do not
own Bible
At the Kansas state University, in Lawrecc on
Monday, Mrs Ella Brown received diploma
lawyer She is the first woman to graduate iromthe
state law school, she VIII pracnce law win her
husband at hoiton.
Tuesday was as dark at Bangor Maine as the
yellow day" years ago. 1t was 80 dark at noon
that all the electric lighting currents were put on.
The cause cannot be explained, unless it was smoke
from forest fires.
Bishop c. f. Knight of the Protestant Episcopal
| Diocese of Milwaukee died on Monday afternoon.
He was eonsecrated Bishop two wears ago. He had
all attack of the grip several weeks ago. and a re-
| lapse followed nv paralysis on Friday.
A freight train on the Louisville Division of the
Pennsylvania Lines was boarded BY tramps on Sat
urday as it was leaving indianapolis. They over
| powered the trainmen and ran the train to suit
| themselves At Columbus after a fight nine of the
tramps were arrested
T,vaptv susnec,ad thieves ,vara arrested on Nom
| day morning at Lawrence Junction near New Castle,
Penna The men were in camp in the woods and
large quantities of silver and jewelry were found in
their possession. All were committed by the Mayor
| as Migrants and professional thieves
wn II Thorn a,ed % vears son or a nrominent
| lawyer ofIansing Micbiyan has been sent to an
asylum for treatment he smoking over 200 cigarettes
| a day. He committed several forgeries, but so
clumsily that they were easily detected. His mind
| is completely gone and he cannot recover.
| A water-spout burst near San Luis Paz. in the
State of Guanaiualo. Mexico. Sunday water from
| which swept away many houses and cattle up
| rooted trees. and for space of three miles the
country was completely devastated Hundreds oil
| people are homeless and in destitute condition
John Hoyt died in Manchester, New Hampshire,
on Sunday night, aged 81 years. He was probably
the oldest manufacturer of paper in the country,
having been in the business from 1925 to 1886 when
he retired lie ran paper mills IN cleveland anu
Castoiia OHIO for many years. ana also at Fepperei
Mass.
As train oil the Burlington and Missouri Rail
road was passing under bluff near st. Joseph, Mis-
souri, on Tuesday morning, an immense mass of dirt
and rock crashed down the bank and knocked the
engine and mail car off the track and wrecked them
The engineer, fireman and mail agent were fatally
injured.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the founding Of
the Society of St. stansaus the first Polish organi-
zaton formed in the United States was celebrated in
Chicago on Sunday evening. The Polish population
OF Chicago now numbers 100000, and of the commu-
nicants of the Church of st. Stanislaus there are
about 2O,OOO
Heavy rains have prevailed in Texas and on sun
day the Colorado river took on the sudden rise for
which IL is noted and in the first ump rose feet in
5 minutes The rush of water from the mountains
tben ceased and a steady rise set in and within 2
hours the river rose II feet Many cotton fields are
submerged
DR. Griffith 7 Thomas. a resident physician at
Mercy Hospital Pittsburp died from blood poison
ing. On Sunday he assisted at surgical operation
and the poison entered his system through boil on
his wrist. He was only % years old and took first
honor in his class nj the Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia.
Near Gladwin, Michigan. a farmer had been miss
ing his shotes and pigs for sometime He placed
them in a strongly constructed pen and about day
light on Thursday of last week he heard A commo-
ton in the pen When he got there he found n
black snake with mig in its coils The snake was
| kinad and measured 10 foot : inches
While Emperor william of GERMANY was exercis-
ing n party OF erenadiers ON the pssade ground at
| TempeIhof Germany ON Tuesday. lightning struck
the captain of the marty and 4 soldiers killing of
tho latter and dongarouslv ,voundipg the cantaip
and tho other soldier II is sunnosed that the riff
barrels and bavonets attracted the electricity.
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tho nurcbasa Of tho old Federal rrison in washing
TON I, is Tho iutentio ~ rorDove n to ALBANIA Co
on1 ,hara 60, I, nm &c ,Iooa Of a~h;h;,jop for
arious Inion ro,cs The Syndicate 10 said 10 have
bactin IN Tho e,o,t Of 90 ooo ooo and 10 have sent
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Judge Charies Johnson McCurdy' LIZ d. dled on