The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-04-04
News of the Week.


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Mrs. Phoebe Campbell died in Dexter Maine, on
Tuesday She was l02 years old in October last
Rev. DIR. Crosby, en- eminent Presb yterian minis
ter, died in New York city Sunday, aged 65 years
At Lake Benton, Minnesota. on Monday, the
heaviest snow oftbe season fell Itwasa continuous
fall for over thirty hours.
Ten special orange trains, comprising GO carloads
started for the east from the southern part of Cali
fornia on Sunday night
A farmer living nine miles from Peoria, Illinois,
is said to have discovered a rich vein of silver ore
on his farm, about 80 feet below the surface.
III Bangor, Maine on Friday of last week, Leslie
Ellis drank quart of whiskey without taking the
bottle from his lips. He died on Saturday.
Two boys named Nickerson and Harget, of Prairie
du Chem, Wis., died suddenly Friday of last week
from nicotine poisoning, after smoking cigarettes to
excess.
At Lynn Mass, is druggists have been arrested for
violating the liquor law of the state. and at Provi-
denee Rhode Island, l6 druggists were arrested on
the same charge.
Mrs. Hermione Mofiitt, who for twelve years had
been employed in the sealskin department of John
wanamaker's store, Philadelphia Pa, was arrested
on Saturday charged with the theft of sealskin
caps.
Adam Barley, aged 6l his wife, aged n; a sister,
6s and daughter 20 years of age, have died within
the past week. after few days illness, of la grippe,
followed by pneumonia. They lived near stephens
City, Virginia.
Three children of W. II. Walker, at Carlyle, Ills.
got hold of some pokeroot last Saturday while play
ing on ground which had been broken for garden,
and ate the one of them is dead and the Others
are dangerously sick.
Dispatches from Paris, France OH Monday night
say that the northeast departments have been Wis
tied by heavy snowstorms. The local railways are
blocked with snow. The mountain road in the
Vosges is impossible
There were 1904 deaths in Chicago during the four
weeks of March ended last Saturday night against
1919 for the corresponding period in 1890. Last
week alone there were 900 deaths in the city. The
health department attributes the increase in the
death rate to the grippe
despatch from London England. on Monday
says A heavy snowstorm swept over the northern
part of Great Britain. All the horsecar lines and
railroads of Aberdeen are blocked by the snow which
| has fallen in and about that city.
| Gen James Elkin, of the United States army, died
! at his home in Louisville, KY, March 9th. he
entered the army Lieut.Col of the Tooth Penn
! sylvania Volunteers. He was member Of the COM
mission that tried Mrs. surratt.
/ jury in Goshen, Indiana, on Saturday, returned
a verdict of guilty in the case of endry aud senenc-
ed him TO life Imprisonment. Hendry and Alrs
Cakins got the life of the latters husband Insured
for s. 600 and then as charged, drowned him. Mrs.
| CaIkins became a witness for the state
! Zoe Clayton, an actress, who started from san
Francisco to walk to New York on wager, arrived
at her journeys end on Friday night of last week,
% days ahead of time She is said TO have walked
the distance of S95 miles in months and ~ days
aud will receive for her trouble about 1880.
Mrs Faulkner, wife of Senator Faulkner, of West
Virginia died on Tuesday afternoon in Washington,
D. C. She had been i'll about two weeks. Mrs.
Faulkner's maiden name was Miss Sally Winn. She
was a resident of Charlottesville, Va, where she
married Mr. Faulkner in 1865 and then went to live
in Martinsburg, W. Va.
A great landslide was threatened at the Terrace
street bluffs in Kansas City, on Sunday night. in
consequence of the recent rains. The earth cracked
along the street for Il distance of several hundred
feet, and an entire block of houses which hung
trembling over the railroad yards, 100 feet below
were deserted by their occupants.
Thomas Clark, aged 16 years. who carried the mail
from Oil City to Rougy, Wyoming, has not been
heard of for more than week. and is supposed to
have persisted in the snow which is five feet deep
on level over part OF his route His father. A. w
Clark started in search Of him on Friday of last
week, during another snowstorm and has also dis
appeared His horse was found on Sunday dead in
the snow.
Dr. Stephen Madison Bartlett died at his residence
in Washington. d. c., on Monday, aged "A years
DR.. Bartlett was a grandson of Josiah Bartlett, OF
New Hampshire. one of the signers of the Declare
ton of Independence, and was for 20 years professor
in female college at Tuskegee Alabama. At the
time of his death he was employed in the Treasury
I Department
While VIM. Pritchard was standing in front Of his
home on Montgomery street, in Paterson, New Jer
sey on Sunday night, an unknown Italian stole up
unseen and stabbed him in the head, neck and
shoulders. The assassin escaped. PritchaTd car
assign no motive for the deed, except that few
nights ago an intimate friend of his insuted two
strange Italians
A landslide occurred on the Potomac, Piedmont
and Fredericksburg Railroad, near Frederic ksburg
Virginia. on Saturday. The slide is about $50 feel
in length and 40 feet in depth, and the track for
distance of about 20 yards is torn away Two land
slides on the Spartansburg branch of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad have covered a quarter of a
mile of track to the depth of 40 feet.
Four negroes, two men and two women, were ar
rested last week and lodged in jail at Belgrecn Ala
bama charged with burning the town of Russell
vile on Monday night of last week. The women
made a confession, and early Sunday morning a
mob took jeff Dinsmore and Eli Hudson the men
from Jail and lynched them. The men denied theiI
guilt but the mob believed the story of the women
Charles Elliott, faro dealer occupied a box in
the Casino Variety Theatre in Spokane, Wash, on
Friday night of last week, and during the perform
ance drew revolver and shot and killed Mabel
{ nai,a fatally Kynuudal Carrie Smith He
then committed suicide. The shots were intended
| for an actress named Lulu Durand, who was on the
stage at the time and of whom Elliott was insaney
Jealous
Jerome Fackenthall, of Doylestown, Pa, who
served for the past three years deputy recorder OF
deeds for Bucks county, was arrested on March 9th
for embezzlement and larceny, and was held in
81 600 bail to the charge at the May term of
court large number of deeds left for record were
not recorded and are missing. Fortunately receipts
were given in each case. Fackenthall is a lawyer
and is prominent in Republican circles.
On March 9th the Norwegian bark Dictator, from
Pensacola to West Hartlepool, England with cargo
oflumber, crew orfiiteen and the captains wife
and threey earod son, went ashore four miles south
/ of Cape Henry. During the day and evening nine
OF those board were rescued through the efforts
of the life savers but at night the vessel broke i'll
pieces and the remaining eight, including the cap
tain's WIFE lost The captain, just before the
vessel went to pieces sprang into the sea with his
son strapped to his back, and reached the shore
| alive, but the boy was lost.
The Maine Legislature held Il joint meeting on
March 81 to consider the matter of removing from
Office by address to the Governor, of Judge Charles
s. Hamilton. of Biddeford. He is charged with in
temperance, immortality, RIGHTEOUSNESS while a
judge presiding over court while intoxicated. and
illegally signing and issuing for officers use blank
| legal documents when cases were pending TO
authorize their issuance. Hamilton's counsel de-
MED the charges. claiming that they not prop
erly drawn, and that sufficient notice had not been
given to prepare defence and asked that the peti-
TONERS be ordered to furnish bill of particulars.
| ON March 2Srd Paul Schonebein was admitted to
the New York city hospital He weighed 40 pounds
and in one hour his appearance resembled that of
a man weighing 800 The strange transformation
has had but one parallel since the opening of the