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

Secretary Blaine has gone to Bar Harbor,
Maine.
A New York syndicate has purchased the
Luray, Va, Caverns for Sl25,000.
Burnett S clothing establishmentin Montreal,
Quebec, was burned on Sunday night. Loss
$4,000.
The Knickerbocker icehouse, at Farming
dale, Maine, was burned on Sunday night.
Loss $40, 900.
Near Milford, Va, ON Monday, boiler in
Jordan saw mill exploded killing three men
and fatally wounding another.
The Norton block, Church of the Trinity
and several dwellings in Los Angeles, CAL,
were burned on Sunday. Loss 100000.
A. E. Myer, a leading merchant of Platts-
burg. Missouri, with two daughters, Ella and
Rose, aged IS and IA years, were drowned
on Sunday while trying to ford a creek.
DR.. J. Benson Losing, the historian, died
on Wednesday at his residence, near Pough
keepsie, n. Y, aged rs years. His best
known work is his ''Field Book of the Revo-
luton
The saw mill of the Parker Il Long Manu-
featuring Company, in Lisbon, New Hamp-
shire, was burned on Monday, together with
a number of dwellings surrounding 1t. Loss
100000.
The works of the Brooklyn Cooperage
Company, Wiliamsburgh. New York, were
burned on Monday night. The cooperage
company is owned ,go do6 principally by the sugar
trust. Loss S42O,OOO.
Enos Frey, aged u years, died in York,
Pa, on Tuesday. He began the manufacture
Of engines and boilers in that city in 1915,
and has always been one of its most active
and progressive citizens.
Robert A. Peasants, oyerseer on the farm
of Prof j. J. White. near Lexington, Va,
was drowned on Saturday III narrow spring
while drinking by slipping between the walls
and being unable to extricate himself
VIM. L. Benson, one of the oldest and
most widely known members of the bar in
Erie county, Pa, was found dead in his room
on Tuesday. Heart disease is supposed to
have caused death. He was known as "the
poor mans lawyer.
David Brooks, of Philadelphia, Pa, the
widely known electrician, who was the in
ventor of the underground conduit system
adopted by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, died on Saturday, after two days
illness of pneumonia. He was born in 1920.
Charles B. Rouss has given $500 for the
erection of an iron fence around Mt. Hebron
Cemetery, Winchester, Va. 1t includes the
Stonewall Cemetery, in which over 1000
OOnIGuHfdle ucdu lTOH every oOuiuGIl Cltttt
are buried. Mr.. Rouss' parents and a son,
who recently died in New Gork, are buried in
Mt. Hebron.
Willard R. Smith, of Hallsville, New
York. and Walter Pfefer, of Wiliamstown,
New Jersey, freshman Of Rutgers College,
were drowned Tuesday evening while bathing
in the canal at New Brunswick 1t is thought
that Pfeffer tried to save Smith, who could
not swim. The drowning was not discovered
until half an hour after it occurred.
Two freight trains on the Shenandoah Val
ley Division of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad collided on an unfinished trestle
across a ravine, near Luray, Virginia, early
Sunday morning. An engine ana % cars
went through the trestle to the bottom of the
ravine 20 feet below. James f. Stricken
was killed and John Reese fatally injured.
The Census Bureau has made public the
tobacco statistics of Maryland. The total of
planters in the State during the census year is
shown to have been 3.l6S; the total area
devoted to tobacco, II, 966 acres; the total
product, 1886, 1913 pounds, and the value of
the crop TO the producer, estimated on basis
of actual sales, S579,6S9.
In Butler, Pa, Tuesday, the grand jury re-
turned true bills on 13 indictments against
members of the West Sunbury NJ. E. Church,
charging them with forcible entry, disturbing
Il
be tried next week. Rival factions in the
church have for some time been carrying on
bitter contest for possession of the church
property The suits grew out of a recent
attempt of one faction to forcbly ect the
other W lille services were in progress.
The exercises of the Grand Army Post at
Whitesville, KY, on Saturday, were inter-
rupted by roughs, who dragged the speaker
from the stand, tore the floral emblems to
pieces and dispersed the assembly. The
veterans went to the depot to take the train,
when they were again attacked by the roughs.
A battle ensued. in which citizens went to
the rescue of the veterans. Burrell Taylor,
leader of the roughs, and one of his compan-
ions, Dave Smith, we've fatally stabbed. The
people of the town sent a posse after the
roughs.
= Disastrous reports of the condition of the
European grain crop are being received. In
| France fields of winter wheat which were
ploughed over and resown this spring have an
| irregular and unhealthy appearance. Both
in Germany and Italy wheat promises to be
| below the average. The condition of Russian
crops is critical. Drought continues, and
there will be total failure in Bessarabia unless
rain falls in less than ten days. Absolute
drought prevails on the Dnieper, and in the
Crimea the intense heat is scorching crops.
| The outlook is unfavorable in the Volga prov
inees and throughout Podolia owing to lack
of rain.
In Philadelphia, Pa, on Monday, president
Francis w. Kennedy and cashier II. H. Ken
nedy of the Spring Garden National Bank,
were held by United States Commissioner
Bell in $50, 900 and SIS, 900 bail respectively
for trial in the United States District Court,
on charges of embezzlement and misapplic =
ton Of the funds of the institution. Francis
| W. Kennedy was unable to get bail, and went
to prison. Damaging testimony was given by
National Bank Examiner Drew, paying teller
Turner, ex- assistant cashier Mcclure, assistant
bookkeeper Shute and others. 0verissue of
stock and the wrongful crediting of notes,
checks and due bills as cash were charged.
To Francis w. Kennedy. it was asserted, had
been traced. directly and indirectly, $500, 900
| worth of discounted naper.