The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-22
News of the Week.

| ing the loss of 60 lives.
Norfolk, Va. had $500 600 fire on Saturday after
noon. About $1,000 bushels of peanuts and several
warehouses were burned.
Rev. Samuel Kramer we'll known Methodist
preacher of Washington, D. C., died on Saturday of
heart failure aged 81 years.
During recent thunder storm in Maine the skin
of boy who was struck by lightning turned dark
purple, and has remained so ever since.
Dr. John A. Baker, who was convicted of poisoning
his wife at Abingdon, Va, on Friday of last week
has been sentenced to be hung on November 9th
The island of Martinique was devastated by cy-
clone on Tuesday night Every vessel in port was
lost, every house damaged and GO lives were lost.
One wheat field in Colusa county, Cal. covers 572
square miles. This year it yielded an average of 10
bushels per acre. total of nearly 100000 bushels
Robert B. Cropley, a well known citizen of Wash
ington, D. c., committed suicide last week by shoot
ing himself Financial embarrassment is supposed
to have been the cause.
Dinwiddie county, Va, was visited by hurricane
on Saturday afternoon, accompanied with hail and
rain. Tobacco, corn and orchards were destroyed
and buildings demolished.
Ten persons were killed by a railroad collision
between ostrom and Loswitz, Prussian Poland, on
Tuesday. The train took fire and several of the in
The White Stac Line steamer Teutonic, which ar
rived al New York on Wednesday from Liverpool
beat the record for western passages her time being
. days, 10 hours and 81 minutes.
severe storm passed sumner, Illinois, on
Sunday night, unroofng houses and uprooting
trees. In the vicinity of Monticello many cattle
were killed and the corn damaged.
Two insane women named Anna Gorosowsk HI and |
Ifa..N q.
of bed clothing within twenty minutes of each other
on Wednesday, in the county jail at Buffalo, n. Y.
The Elberon Hotel at Long Branch, including the
Garfield cottage, where President Garfield died, was
sold on Wednesday at auction for $4,000 to one of
the trustees The price is said to be abont half its
actual value.
James Buckingham, known as De I've, an eronaut |
made a descent from balloon In a parachute en-
Sunday, over Lake Onondaga, but was caught be- |
meath the parachute and drowned in the pres
ence of 1000 spectators.
Sam Sing, a Chinese laundryman of Harrison |
New jersey, was on Saturday pronounced to be
leper and was removed to u hospital. The laundry |
will be dsinfected. but people who have clothing |
there refuse to take ii away.
Avon Taylor farmer of San Mateo, Cal, while |
intoxicated on Monday evening beat his wife with |
a pick handle fracturng her skull and inhicting |
fatal injuries and then seriously injured his S-year
old son with the same weapon. Taylor cannot be |
found.
On Tuesday cloudburst near Botzen, Austria,
flooded the lowlands, converting the mountain
streams into a torrent, which swept through the
village of HOLMAN, carrying away men and cattle
and destroying half the houses. Forty persons were
drowned
The costly machinery in the mine of the Pittsburg
Coal and Coke Company, at Alum Cave, Sullivan
county Indiana, was destroyed by fire on Saturday,
involving loss of s1OO,0oO. There had beon a
strike at the mine ana it is thought the works were
set on fire.
The heavy hastorm in Minnesota on Thursday
night covered an area about 40 miles long and from
a half mile to a mile and u half in width from Sank
Rapids 10 Elk river, destroying all corn and stand
ing grain in its path The hail covered the ground
to depth oftwo inches in some places.
At Zollikofen, Switzerland an express train from
Paris ran into the rear of an excursion train on
Sunday. Fourteen persons were killed and twenty
four seriously injured. The dead and wounded
were from the country districts of Switzerland, and
were on their way to Berne to attend the centenary
feteS in that city.
The monument at Bennington, VT, commemora-
tive of the battle of August l6 IVY which destroyed
Burgoyne's expedition intended 10 cut off New Eng
lne OF the colonies. was
Gated on Wednesday with imposing ceremonies.
President Harrison made speech. Hon. Edward
J. Phelps was the orator of the day.
Mrs. George Mallonee, niece and five children are
seriously i'll at their home in Grafton W. Va from
eating poisoned cakes The lady made the cakes
on Sunday, and while absent from the house few
moments it is believed some enemy attempted to
poison the entire family by placing arsenic in the
dough. %
Prof. King, the ;eronaut, made balloon ascension
on Sunday at a summer resort near Denver Col,
taking with him two young people who were mar
ried in the basket just before the rope was cut At
height of 5000 feet the balloon burst and fell to
the earth. The silk of the balloon broke the
fall however, and the three inmates escaped death
mob of Hungarians surrounded the house of the
Rev. John Martvoney pastor of st. Ladiaau's Roman
Catholic Church, Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday
night, broke the windows and howled for the
priests blood. The police arrived in time to prevent
the breaking in of the DOORS The trouble grew out
ofiealousy between Polish and Hungarian members
OF the church.
At Jacksonville. Florida on Tuesday, fire destroy
ed So buildings causing loss of $3.50 900; insurance
light In Waco, Texas, Monday night. several
stores were burned; loss S275OOO. At ST. Louis Mo-.
on Tuesday, there a $4,000 fire. At Cambridge
Mass, one ofS2S0 600. At Boston mattress factory,
loss 100000, and at Columbia, Pa, the Acme Oil
Company lost $4,000.
Charles Lawrence, cashier of the suspended Key
stone National Bank, who was indicted with the
banks fugitive president Gideon W. Marsh for con-
spracy in the misapplication of the banks funds,
was sentenced by Judge Butler in Philadelphia on
Tuesday to seven years in the penitentiary Francis
W. Kennedy and his brother, Henry II. Kennedy,
president and cashier, respectively of the Spring
sth.
Miss Annie Harkess, parachutst, made as
cension in a balloon on Saturday at Coney Island,
near Cincinnati, and when 500 feet above ground
opened her parachute and began to descend. Sud
denly the parachute closed. and the woman de-
scended with fnghtful velocity until she struck the
ground and was killed. An aronaut named John
son fell from balloon to the ground distance of
1900 feet, at Tacoma, Washington, Saturday and
was killed instantly
Mike Weitzel, Mary Balletlne and JOS johnson,
the latter man 20 years of age, together in
eabooSe of freight train at Texas City Illinois, on
Friday night of last week. when Johnson was
knocked down with slung shot by weitzel because
he resented some unseemly remarks by the woman.
johnson realiated by disembowelng weitzel with
a knife, upon which the woman struck Johnson in {
the face with Ratchet. Both men have since died.
uesPa'ch lroh Noruenhamn Grand Duchy OF
Gutenberg, Germany, says that high placed scat
fold, upon which large number of men were
working, collapsed on Wednesday, dragging a lower
scafold TO the ground, killing 10 upon the spot
and seriously injuring 40 others. In addition so
workmen were precipitated into the water but most
of them were saved through clinging to the planks
and poles belonging to the fallen scafolding Ono
of these men, however. has since succumbed. The
collapsed structure belonged to the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
Pennsylvania capitalists have recently invested !
100000 in coal and timber lands in the counties
of Fayette, Nicholas and Greenbrier W. Va, which ]
they propose to develop by means of lateral rail-
roads stunning from the trunk line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio. short time ago Pittsburg parties made
purchase of 600 in Logan county for S. 500
which has turned out to be an unexpectedly good /
investment The purchaser recently sold 56s pop !