The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-05-16
News of the Week.


On June ! the carpenters employed in Duluth
Minnesota, about 1000, will strike for eight hours.
Louis Latte, a transfer clerk in the postoffice in
Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested Saturday for
rifing registered letters.
Potatoes are arriving in large quantities at Boston
from Prince Edward Island, and the vessels cannot
carry all that are offered.
Crop reports from Hungary show that barley,
oats rye and vegetables have greatly suffered from
the intense heat of last week.
Lewis Coleman, a fireman the Roanoke and
Southern Railroad construction, was bitten by IA
rattlesnake Saturday, and will die.
In Kansas on Sunday night the temperature fell
to the freezing point At Wichita the mercury was
down to a. and fruit and vegetation is injured.
Hundreds of acres of timbered mountain land
west of Huntingdon, Pa. are burning fercely, and
all efforts to extinguish the flames have been abln
doned.
Twenty-Five car loads Off iron pipe, made in Besse-
mer, Alabama, were shipped north on Saturday
1t is said to be the first shipment of iron pipe made
in the South,
Gen. Lemuel Todd prominent lawyer of Car
Isle Pa. died on Tuesday. aged "A years. He
twice elected to Congress- and took prominent part
in state affairs.
The wholesale grocery store of Francis II. Leg
Betl " OO, new 1OIht was ~ mt 5uhNos
afternoon to the extent of about 100000 the stock
and $4,000 on the building.
Customhouse officials are more thoroughly
scrutinizing immigrants than they have heretofore
done. Last week 81 from one vessel were returned
to Europe, two of whom were ex-convicts.
Capt T. J. Teaford one of the most respected
citizens of Roanoke, Va, died Monday evening OF
pneumonia resulting from the grip. He was sixty
four years old and an elder in the Presbyterian
church.
All business at the harbor of Ashtabula Ohio is at
complete standstil account of the strike OF coal
and ore handlers. Nearly 600 men are out. Afew
have attempted to work but have been prevented
by the strikers.
Sixteen cars, loaded with cattle. jumped die
track, near Trinidad, Colorado, on Saturday night
and went over embankment. The cars were
broken up and 800 cattle killed. Four tramps
who were stealing a ride were buried in the wreck
After many experiments at the Washburn & Moen
Works. Worcester, Massachusetts, process has been
discovered whereby steel wire be made that
will stand strain and tension equal to copper wire
1t can be manufactured cheaper than copper wire.
Within few weeks past Germany has drawn on
our stock for 50 500 900 in gold bars and S5S 900 in
coin France during the same period has called for
| Sc, 10000 in coin, and England S61O0OO0. The
United States has more gold on hand at this time
than any other country.
| section of Northern Michigan larger than the
state of Rhole Island has been burned over, and
| many villages have been destroyed. II is feared
some lives have been lost Railroad trains have
| been abandoned III Pennsylvania the fires are
doing great damage to the lumber and farming in
| terests.
John Mehan for a time yard master of the Nor
fork and Western Railroad, at Roanoke, Va and
leader offs gang of train robbers has been arrested
in South Dakota and is now on his way to Virginia.
He was followed by detective for over 5000 miles.
The property stolen was valued at many thousands
of dollars.
The supply of coal in Iowa is approaching ex
haustion even in the railway sheds, in consequence
of the strike Of the II 900 miners in the State all
except 200 are out, and it is said they have the
promise of the Illinois miners that the operators Will
be boycotted if they attempt to ship coal from IL
| inos to Iowa.
An extra freight train ran into a train of loaded
log cars at Shepherd, Michigan, on Sunday night.
The force of the collision started Is log cars down
the grade. through the shepherd yards to mile
south of Shepherd where the rest of the train was
being loaded with logs. In the collision which
followed three men were killed and thirteen in
iured.
| On Sunday night while forest fire was raging in
Potter county, Pa. a work train was sent out from
| Austin, with about 20 men OH board, TO fight the
flames. The train wrecked by the spreading of
the rails Moores Point where the fire was ercest
Seven men were burned to death, seven Others are
missing, and thirty were terribly burned. many
| perhaps fatally.
Mrs Findlay, of Chester, Pa. is the proud posses
of the tiniest baby born there. The minute
piece of humanity is now three months old, and its
exact weight is 81 ounces avoirdupois The baby
| hoe hut lie Een paraf1l1v
wrapped up in cotton. 1t blinks its wee eyes and
crows; and when it gets angry its cry is no louder
than the weak wall of a kitten.
Near Knox Creek, West Va, on Monday Lewis
Hall and his son, Lewis Hall, .Jr., got into Eight
with Samuel Steel and his son, Hiram. Lewis fiii,
Jr was shot through the heart and instantly killed.
Hiram Steel was pierced with seven bullets, aud
died in few minutes; Samuel Steel was MORALLY
wounded, dying shortly afterward, and Lewis Hall
received four slight wounds but escaped to the
mountains.
Tramps boarded freight train at Franklin and
at Edinburg, Indiana, on Saturday night and two
fights occurred between them and the train men,who
attempted to put them Off Car pins, knives and
pistols were used, and brakeman named Watt was
terribly slashed the face and breast and broken
| knife blade was left sticking in his arm. One of
! the tramps had his jaw broken by pistol shot
which lodged in his neck. 1t is thought both the
| wounded men will die.
| Johnnie Renner. the six year old son of Hiowa
county Kan. farmer and his eight year old sister
were playing at burying on Monday. The girl had
piled up the earth about the boy until it reached
his chin, and he was tightly imbedded when a sow
came along with her brood and savagely attacked
the girl who ran away. The SOW then turned OH the
boy, who was unable to move, and sank her teeth
in his face and skull several times The screams of
tbfs
was taken from the ground he was dead.
Mrs Connolly, aged ITO years, the oldest resident
of the Pennsylvania coal region, was burned 10
death OF Beaver Meadow Friday night last week
She had no living relatives, and for twenty years
past lived upon the charity the people of the vii
lage. Recently she became so weak that she could
not leave her bed, and it arranged to remove
her to the almshouse, where she would receive good
care The old lady suspected the arrangement and
rather than submit, she set fire to the bedclohng
upon which she lay ana was burned to a crisp.
Thomas j. Miller, of sharpsburg, West Va. has Il
large green and red parrot that is remarkably intel
lgent The bird brought TO this country in 1850
| from Central America by Morgan r. Miller a
brother of Mr.. Miller. AT that time the bird was
four years DID, thus making him fortyive years of
age and he is lively and spry ever. Mr.. Miller
also has a rare old brass bound corner cupboard,
with thin glass windows and considerably over one
hundred years old. Also, a metalworks clock, made
| in Shepherdstown. that has been in the family
seventy-fve years.
| Two wrecks on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
near Roanoke, Va, Sunday night, resulted in the
death OF fireman. injury of engineer the wreck of
four engines and number of cars The first wreck
The collision of two freight trains Sunday night
which was run into by third freight train, and
which, in turn, run into by a passenger train
Monday morning. Engineer Hardy escaped with
a bruise on the head and cash in the leg. Fire
man p. ]. Topping had one leg broken hip crush
ed, and was cooked from the waist down with
steam. Topping died an hour later.
Julius Kordgrew, German emigrant, arrived at
New York on the 9th instant and was debarred from
landing as being an insane person, On Sunday he
was placed on the steamer Columbia, 10 be returned
to Germany on Monday. Kordgrew was taken TO