The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-12-05
News of the Week.

INSWo "a VIZ ~
The first English Lutheran Church in New
England was organized in Boston last week.
There we're two ties in York county, Neb..
as the result of the late election, and lots
were drawn to decide the result.
A trip up Pixies Peak by the new railway
| is said TO be too much for one out Of every
| 200 people, on account Of the rarehed arr.
Josiah Carpenter, who died in Preston
| county, West Virginia, on Sunday, claimed
to be l49 years old. He left daughter who
is over 80 years old.
Fire at the works of the Keystone Farm
Machine Company, York, Pa, Friday night
of last week caused loss of $1,000. partly
covered by insurance.
Mrs. Mary Crittenden died at her home at
Pen Yam, N. Y, last week at the age OF lO2
years. Her grandmother, a Massachusetts
woman, lived to be los years old.
Aunt Phila Weston, the last survivor Of
| the negroes who were born slaves in Washing
ton county, N. Y, died in the almshouse Of
that county u few days ago, at the age of lO2
| years.
The celebration of the golden jubilee of
Peter Richard Kenrick, Bishop of the Arch
diocese of st. Louis, Mo-, for the past fifty
years, was begun at ST. Louis Sunday with
thanksgiving services in all the Catholic
| Churches.
Fortune Stoe, Richmond, Va. dray driver,
| has lust retired from the active pursuit of his
| vocation at the remarkable age of 10. be
went to Richmond about 90 years ago, when
he was youth of 20.
Two children named Monk, aged four and
three years respectively, of Metamora,
Illinois, were left alone in the house by their
parents on Saturday. They played with fire,
| ignited their clothes and they were burned to
death.
A special train on the Pennsylvania Rail
road on Saturday covered the distance be-
| tween New York and Washington, DDS miles,
| in hours and IL minutes This is said
| to be the fastest time ever made between the
two cities.
AT special meeting of the City Council of
| Omaha, on Saturday night, three of he mem
bers got into a quarrel and pounded each
other until the spectators had to separate
them. Blood was drawn from two OF the
combatants.
Rev. l.. Herbert, who died recently, has
been preacher of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church in Ohio for 60 years. During that
period lie kept, it is said, q correct list OF
| those who were converted by his minstrations,
and the number, it is related, exceeds 5000.
When a stage was held up recently by rob
bers in California, among others, the driver
was relieved of his money, which amounted
to S2450 On the driver explaining, how
ever, that the amount was every cent he had,
the robbers generously returned him Il dollar
A large hawk, a few days ago. in Creagers-
town, Va, flew through large window with
a chicken in its talons, breaking a heavy
pane of glass in its passage, and fell on the
| floor of u room, where it was captured after
a severe struggle. The chicken was scarcely
injured.
A wholesale delivery from the Pittsburg,
| pa Penitentiary was foiled on Saturday
night by the discovery of tunnel that the
convicts had dug from the interior, leading
to the sidewalk outside. The work was COM
pleted, only stone in the sidewalk remain
ing in its place.
Eighty thousand bushels of wheat are stor-
ed in the elevators and vacant buildings at
| GAYLORD. Has. 1t has been impossible to
secure cars to haul it away, and buyers have
been compelled to refuse grain because they
had no room to store it. The same condition
of affairs exists in several other Western
Kansas towns.
Owing to 'squeeze" corn sold in New
York on Monday from 90 cents to $l.l0 per
bushel. IL reports from Germany and Rus.
! sia be true corn will sell within the next
three months at from so to 95 cents per bush
| ell. 1t is said that Germany will require
| 40, 900, 600 bushels extra owing to the failure
of the flax seed crop.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has
announced that the convicts shall be returned
to the mines if it takes every able bodied
man in the State to do it. 1t is understood
that the quarters at Bricevile. Coal Creek
and Oliver Springs will be ready in about
two weeks About 800 out of 452 released
convicts have been recaptured.
Some men stopped train near st. Louis
on Monday night, entered the express ear
and blew open the safe with dynamite. The
safe contained 49, 900 which the robbers
took. Not more than twenty minutes was
consumed in the robbery and the thieves had
departed before the train men or passengers
realized what mad taken place.
The total failure of the corn and bean crop
in Durango, Mexico, owing to the drought,
is causing intense suffering among the poor.
| The price of corn has risen to an enormous
figure. Whole families, covered with few
rags and half dead with hunger, are dragging
themselves into the mountains to feed on the
| tunis, the fruit of the cactus. The rich are
apparently quite Indifferent to the fate of the
starving people.
As Rev. DIR. John Hall, Pastor of the Fifth
| Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York,
was passing from the church to the parsonage
adjoining at the close of the morning service
Sunday, John G. Rath, German, stepped
from behind a wagon on the opposite side OF
the avenue and fred three shots at him in
quick succession, none of which, however,
struck DIR. Hall. Rath, who was at once ar
rested, was found to be of unsound mind.
A man in Vienna, seventy years old, aiilct-
ed with religious mania and believing him
| self called upon to make sacrifice, procured
seven nails, each three inches long and ham
mered them into his skull When taken to
hospital blood was pouring from his head,
| While the doctors do not entertain any hopes
of his recovery, they are deeply interested in
the case as showing how the brain may be
terribly injured and yet not cause sudden
| death.
Snow fell at Norfolk, Va, on Sunday TO
the depth of eight inches, also at Staunton
and Harrisonburg, in the same state, and the
cold was intense. From five to seven inches
of snow fell at Rocky Mount, Battleboro and
Weldon, in North Carolina. Four inches OF
snow fell at Marshalltown, Iowa, and the
temperature there fell to u degrees below
zero on Saturday morning, the lowest known
at this season for many years. About six
inches Of snow fell on Friday night and
Saturday morning at Rochester, Lockp0rt
and other points in New York.