The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-06-27
News of the Week.

Mrs. Samuel Mather, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has given S75, 900 to Western Reserve univer-
sity for its college for women.
AT Camden, N. j., company with $780,
600 capital has been incorporated to make
paving blocks from furnace Stag.
1t is estimated that 3,ls0,OO0 baskets of
peaches will be shipped from the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and Delaware.
Charles Peterson, Swede, has been ar,
rested in Middletown, Connecticut, charged
with starting dozen fires at Cobalt.
Mrs. Jane Duff died at her home in Mara
win, Pa, on Sunday night, aged SO years.
She leaves four sons and two daughters.
Owing to long and severe frosts, the. vim
tage of the Rhine, Moselle and Palatinate
districts of Germany are complete failures.
York county (Pa. Lutherans are to have
celebration on July Is, which will eclipse
anything of the kind ever held in the State.
Hog cholera is reported to have broken
out with unusual severity near Waterloo,
Iowa, one farmer loosing his entire herd OF
100.
One of the principal business blocks of
Jefferson, Texas, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night Loss, S75,O0Oi insurance,
SIS, 200.
Immense damage was done in the neigh
borhood of Mt. jackson, Va, by the over
flowing of the Shenandoah river, on Saturday
and Sunday.
Myriads of hop lice have appeared in the
Puyallup Valley hop fields of Washington,
and threated TO destroy the hop crop OF the
entire valley.
At Brushton, Franklin county, n. y, on
saturday. forty persons were poisoned by
eating ice cream not properly prepared All
are out of danger.
The Commission appointed by the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church has decided to hold the next quad
rennial in Omaha in May, 1892.
From $1,000 to q, 900 lambs will be ship
ped from Rockbridge county, Va, to the
New York market this season. FIVE years
ago scarcely u carload was shipped.
Masked robbers entered priests house at
Bettenbausen, Prussia, and forced him to
give up the Sunday collections and the altar
vessels which he used in the services.
A shortage of 500, 900 has been discovered
in The accounts of the National City Bank of
Marshall Michigan. The depositors have
voted to ask that receiver be appointed.
At Frankfort, Germany, on Monday even
ING. a Young woman undressed herself and
deliberately Jumped into the bear pit in the
geological garden. She was torn TO pieces.
American workmen raided an Italian labor
camp at Chain of Rocks, near st. Louis, Mo-,
Sunday morning, drove the foreigners away,
confscuted their valuables and caused race
panic.
Anton Karl, an old and trusted disbursing
officer of the U. S. Geological Survey, was
arrested in Washington, on Monday, charged
with embezzling $500 Of Government
funds.
The cotton storehouse of the Border City
Mills, at Fall River, Mass, was destroyed by
a fire on Monday which is believed to have
been Of incendiary origin. The loss will be
100000.
The Home Brewing Company, with 5000,
900 capital has been Incorporated in Indian
apolis, Iud. 1t is an organization OF loea
Germans in opposition to the English syndi
cate breweries.
The crop prospects in the British North
west Territories and in Manitoba are OF the
brightest, and it is expected, if nothing oc
ours to spoil the crops, that the yield
wheat will be fully %, 100000 bushels.
| The steamer Majestic, of the White Sta
| Line. is credited with carrying abroad thu
largest letter mail that ever crossed thu
| Atlantic in a single vessel. 1t was taken las
week, and comprised $50 sacks, weighing 81
tons.
Frederick, son of Isaac V. Brokaw,
wealthy New York clothier, was drowned a
Elberton. N. j.. on Wednesday, while tryinI
TO save the life of drowning girl. Mr.
Brokaw's parents witnessed the drowning o
| their son.
Prof Abandon, of Drury College, Spring
| field Missouri. suddenly resigned on Mon
day night Shortly after he left IL was toun
that he was defaulter for 81 300, he havin
secured endorsements from every member O
the faculty.
Belmead, the farm of the late Major 'Iohr
Bowdoin Cooke, situated 40 miles west o
Richmond, Va, containing | 900 acres, wa!
sold at public sale on Monday for SIS, 900
| The farm is one of the finest in the State ant
the buildings cost over $4,000.
An excursion train of fifteen cars, whic
left Cleveland on Sunday afternoon on tn
| Nickel Plate Railway for Oak Point, iumpet
the track near Dover, Ohio, and seven car
were wrecked. One man was killed an,
more than thirty persons were injured.
Joseph Hayes, who is said to have been
nickpocket from Chicago, was killed a
| Toilet. Illinois, on Monday, by being rul
over by a wagon He and three companion
tried TO rob the driver, who knocked Haye
| off and the wheels of the wagon passed owe
him. T#
A riot took place near Wilmington, Del.
| Wednesday afternoon, between visiting
Colored Knights Templars from Baltimore
Washington, Wilmington and Philadelphia
| Razors, pistols, knives and stones were use'
indscriminately, and many were serionsl
wounded.
Mrs. John Larson, wife of farmer Twin
| in Troy, Wisconsin, threw her three littl
children into Lake st. Croix during 1T O
insanity on Monday evening. When foun
she was wading. Two Of the children wer
living on the shore dead; the third could no
/ be found.
In an egg eating contest at Beaver Falls
Pa, on Monday, Joe Hanna ate "A raw eggs
shells and all, in one minute and fifty fv
seconds. He will wager $50 that he ca
consume As eggs in 81 minutes. Mr.. Ham
never ate cooked egg in his life, but Away
eats them raw.
Race troubles have broken out in Varmint
town, South Nashville, Tennessee, and tw
companies of military are under arms. o
Sunday night Waterman, guarding stabl
TO prevent its being burned, was fired on b
two negroes, and riot was imminent on th
arrival of a force Of police.
Three boys were drowned while bathin
near Washington, Pa, on Monday, One {
them was John McKeown, the lavorite so
of John McKeown, the millionaire oil opera
tor. The boy was worth 100000 in hi
own right. The other boys drowned wer
Walter Jones and John Chapis.
A despatch from Mason City, Iowa, say
that within the past two weeks % cattle an
a number of horses have died from the effect
Of bites by a rabid dog John Maxwell an
his brother Frank caught the disease Will
skinning one of the steers, when John die
and the other is now a raving maniac.
At Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, tn
New Albany division of knights of st. Ed
| ward hns heen excnmmnninafed hv Rishn