The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-03-07
News of the Week.


Smallpox is prevailing in Chatauqua county,
Kansas.
The grippe is so bad in Chicago that bust
ness is retarded.
Twelve Representatives and three Senators
died during the 5lst Congress.
Madrid, Spain. was visited by very de-
structive hurricane on Thursday.
Thomas F. Close, tax collector in Phila-
delphia, Pa, has embezzled $4,000.
March LIST was the Tooth anniversary of the
death of John Wesley, the founder of Method
ism.
Schimmel's fruit preserving factory, in
Philadelphia, Pa, was burned Thursday; loss
Sl35, 900.
negro man was arrested in Wilmington,
Del, on Tuesday, with so dead chickens in
his possession.
A retail firm in Rome, Ga, did business
Of many thousand dollars last year and lost
only IS in bad debts.
On Thursday night of last week "a oyster
men, mostly colored, were drowned near the
mouth of the James river, Va.
There are more visitors in Florida now
than for several years. Hotels are crowded
and will be for the next three weeks
A law has been passed by the Indiana legis-
lature prohibiting the railroads from charging
passengers more than two cents a mile.
A fire, causing the loss of nine lives and
over million dollars worth of property,
occurred at Bangkok, Siam, on January 10Th.
Buford Grimes, chief clerk of the city
treasurer's Office in Richmond, Virginia, was
arrested on Wednesday on charge of embez
element.
The Otto Colliery, at Minersvile, Pa.
which employs 300 men and boys, was flooded
Wednesday. The water came from an old
working.
| Charles S. Curtis, of Lockpc TT, n. Y, who
was nearly eight feet tall and still gaining in
/ growth, died in that place on Wednesday
/ aged y years.
Six men who had charge of raft lost their
lives on Monday in the Cumberland river,
/ near Princeton, Kentucky. They were caught
/ by "a heavy gale.
I The Monroe High School at Monroe, N. c.,
$4,000 structure, was burned Thursday
] Thomas Pemberton and Albert Bost, two
students, persisted in the flames.
A horse is on exhibition in New York city
| that is a curiosity. 1t is from Oregon. The
tail is II feet inches, name 0 feet inches,
and the foretop 8 feet g inches.
Edward H. Moore, of Machiasport, Maine
a member Of the State board of agriculture,
was so badly gored by bull in his barn Wed,
nesday night that he died the next day.
/ There are number of trichinosis cases
near Ida Grove, Iowa, the result of eating
1 bologna sausage. There are now II persons
whose recovery is doubtful, and four have
died
A syndicate of capitalists of Cincinnati,
Ohio, have bought the Block Tobacco Fac.
tory, of Wheeling, w. Va, at price some
! thing in excess of 81 100000 The original
owners retain an interest.
! Leonard jerome, the well known horseman
of New York, died in Brighton, England, on
! Wednesday. He was a graduate of Prince
4 ton, studied law, became Wall Street broker
I and finally devotee of the turf
Monday and Tuesday nights were the cold
est on record for March in the far West, the
mercury registering from 20 to 400 below zero.
( On Monday night at ST. Johnsbury, Vermont,
the mercury fell to 420 below zero.
In Massachusetts, on Saturday night, there
was destructive thunder storm. Several
( churches were struck by lightning and barns
burned. On the coast vessels experienced
the toughest weather of the season.
! The cable of the incline at the coal mines
]
Saturday as the miners were going to work,
and the car dashed down the mountain. Two
men were killed and eleven others badly hurt.
1 A boiler in the dye house ofJames McComb,
in Albany, New York, exploded Wednesday
and went through the upper floor and roof
and over house tops and landed in a yard 800
feet distant. Three men were badly injured.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of last week were the coolest days known
since the establishment of the weather bureau.
/ The cold was more extended, and the mer-
curry varied from 3S0 above to 46' below zero.
Stevens and Baudet, the Minneapolis census
conspirators, who pleaded guilty to one count
of the charges lodged against them, have been
sentenced by Judge Shiras. Stevens was
sentenced to pay fine of $1,000, and Baudet
$1,000.
Rev. Robert F. Hopkins, D. D., died on
| Tuesday, at Sewickley, Pa, aged 90 years.
1 Re was native of Kentucky, and Joined the
! Ohio conference in 1923. His widow is 81
years old, and they had been married nearly
60 years.
! Miss Carter, of Wilmington, Mass, has
| given that town $4,000, the income of which
is to be used in painting houses that may
need 1t from year to year, provided the
applicant does not own dog and is a mem
Der Of some temperance organization"
A report reached Scottdale, Pa, Wednes-
day night that an explosion had occurred in
the Paul Mine of Operator Rainey, and two
men were injured, one dangerously. Full
credence is given the report, as Rainey is run
ming in opposition to the strikers, while his
| Grace Mine is still burning, it being claimed
the strikers fired the latter.