The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-07-11
News of the Week.

Pa, on July Is.
Caterpiars are destroying fruit and other trees in
the New England States.
Isaac Hazelhurst aged 50 years, the Oldest member
ofthe Philadelphia (Pa) bar, died on Tuesday.
According to the census the Catholic eommuni-
cants of this country Is years old. is 6,250O0O
The Park Theatre, in ST. Paul, Minnesota, was de-
stroyed by fire early Sunday morning Loss, s'5Ooo
Columbus Ga, had $4,000 fire on July3 1t
started in lumber yard and burned the entire
block.
Yellow fever has made its appearance at Bruins
wick, Georgia. II was brought there by foreign
vessel
Hannah Smith, aged ITO, of Paris, Kentucky. Mrs.
Ann Doherty, aged los years. of Aver, Mass, both
died on JulyS
Hannibal Hamlin ex-vice President of the United
States, died in Bangor Maine, on Saturday evening.
He was 50 years of age.
Emanuel Greisner. of Lebanon, Pa. is4o years old,
has been in this country twenty years, married
twenty years and is the father of twenty children
Mrs sallie Smith. colored, died in Newark, Del,
on Monday. She weighed over 400 pounds, and her
coffin was four feet wide and two feet deep.
A fire in San Francisco. on Saturday, caused by
fireworks, destroyed the Centenary Methodist Epis-
copal Church and four residences. Loss 100000.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday a total of 1,O26
passenger cars, carrying more than 10000 people,
left Camden for Atlantic City, Cape May and other
seaside resorts.
carload oftea which was being run aboard
freight boat from the dock at San Francisco. on
Saturday night, fell into the harbor and sank.
About 10000 pounds of tea in all were lost.
The coroner of Yuba county, Cal, fined n corpse
$50 for carrying concealed weapons, confscated the
pistol from deceaseds pocket and took for fees the
remaining s25 of the s75 found on the remains.
Moses Brothers, one of the largest and Oldest
banking houses in Montgomery, Ala, have failed
The liabilities are said to reach half million dol
lars with large assets but which are not available
Ex-Sherff James B. Feeling, of York county, Pa.
died on Tuesday, aged II years. He was prominent
a Democrat and was one of the most popular men
in the county. He leaves widow and IA children
Last week over 100000 acres of grain, feed and
timber land were burned within ten miles of Milton
Cal. The heat for few days exceeded that of any
former years. The mercury registered 112 Thurs
day
Near Rockbridge Rockbridge county. Virginia,
Monday. q colored man named John Phillips fell
into the machinery of wheat reaper which was in
notion and was literally cut TO pieces dying almost
instantly.
Advices from the Straits of Belle Isle New Found
land to June 3Oth show that they full of heavy
ice The grip is working havoc among the people
of that locality, and many are reported starving,
dead and dying.
Bank examiner Drew, of Philadelphia, Pa, has
been publicly dismissed He reported the condi-
ton of three banks in that city first class and in
less than week they failed almost causing panic
in financial circles.
The four condemned murderers Harris A. Smiler
Joseph Wood, James ]. slocum and shikiok Jugiro
were executed by electricity in Sing Sing prison, N.
Y, on Tuesday morning The witnesses said that
death was instantaneous and painless.
At a balloon ascension, near Denver, Colorado, on
Sunday, children were given ride on the back of
an elephant. The animal becoming frightened at
the balloon threw off the children and one of them
was crushed to death under the elephants feet.
The laws passed by the Illinois Legislature at its
recent session compiled, printed in book form
and ready for distribution within six days after the
adjournment of that body. The compiler was Mrs.
Myra Bradwell, and the work is said to be excellent
ly done.
On the 4th instant, the steamer Servia broke a
crank pin when 2l7 miles out at sea- She signalled
for assistance which was Immediately sent aud she
arrived in New York on Tuesday. There were over
LOO passengers on board besides heavy mail and
freight
A despatch from Grand Forks, North Dakota says
the grasshopper district is increasing in area. The
hoppers are beginning to hatch on low lying lands,
and are coming out rapidly. Many farmers in the
vicinity of Orr catching from five to ten bushels
per day.
Alexander Lund was robbed and then murdered
in Chicago early Monday morning. Two police
men noticed a group of men engaged in what they
took to be friendly scue and paid no attention to
the disturbance until a shot was fired One man
was arrested.
AT Alexandria, Va, on Saturday night, Miss
Eleanor Dove, while attempting to land on the
wharf from excursion steamer fell into the river
and.was drowned. Her mother was so affected by
her loss that she was seized with commissions and
died on Monday evening
Mrs Mary Nmmock while suffering from a fit of
religious Mysteries in Pittsburg on Sunday after
noon decided 10 sacrifice her youngest child. She
chopped its head in a horrible manner with a
hatchet when it was rescued by the neighbors, but
it is not expected to survive.
wreck occurred on the Kanawha and Michigan
Railway, near Charleston, West Virginia. on satur-
day morning The sleepers on high trestle caught
fire during the night and burned so that the rails
spread under the train. Two coaches were thrown
from the trestle and thirteen persons were killed
and fifty-two injured four fatally.
Another big lumber raft has arrived at He'll Gate,
New York city, in tow of two tugs from St. Johns.
The raft is nearly mile long and contains $500 600
feet of lumber. 1t is the fifth that has been put
together by John Leary, who invented this novel
method of transporting lumber by sea. This is the
largest raft of them ALL and has been brought from
st. John without loss.
As fast train on the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railroad was standing at Ravenna, Ohio
early Friday morning, awaiting orders it was DASH
ed into from the rear by heavy freight. Three
were teleseoped and 10 passengers were killed
and 10 injured. After the collision the wreck
caught fire, and many of the bodies were so badly
burned that they were almost unrecognizable.
Fifteen years ago Frank Woosley and John Brock
LETT Springfield Ohio to go to Texas and raise cat
tie. Woosley disappeared and Brock was suspected
of murdering him. Brock narrowly escaped lynch
ing. He devoted the balance ofhis life and fortune
to finding Woosley, and succeeded in locating him
last week. thus proving his innocence. He will now
sue Woosley for $4,000 damages for not discovering
himself when he knew of the search.
freight train and work train on the Omaha
road collided near Mendoza, Minnesota, on Thurs
day afternoon oflast week. The freight train was
derailed and thirty of its destroyed by fire. The
engine was also wrecked Several of the trainmen
jumped into the Mississippi river to escape death,
and came ashore. 1t was reported that three
tramps were burned to DEATH The loss to the rail
road in burned freight is figured at $4,000.
Captain Luther Martin, rs years of age, commit
ted suicide at st. Simond's Island, near Brunswick
Georgia, on Saturday night. Going to the beach, he
walked into the water fully dressed even to straw
hat Other bathers in the water who did not know
him thought he was too modest to wear an ordinary
bathing suit Martin walked out to deep water and
deliberately swan out to sea. Nothing has been
heard of him since. His wife committed suicide at
the same place in 1881.
In the Tribal Circuit Court. of the Chickasaw
Nation, at Tishomingo Indian Territory. on satur-
day, Smith Paul, aged 50 years, his son, Samuel
Paul, aged 49, and the latter's son. Joe Paul, aged
90 all prominent Chickasaw Indians, were each
granted divorce from his wife. The woman from
whom the grandsire Paul was divorced is said to