The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-11-21
News of the Week.

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ter, Pa.
Several farmers and butchers have BEEF
arrested in Philadelphia, Pa, for selling dis
eased meat.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
quarterly dividend.
Trenton, New Jersey, is sconrged by small
pox and a necessity for vaccination enforced
upon its inhabitants.
Senior Montt, the Gillian Minister. wa
formally presented to the President on Satur
day by the Secretary of State.
On last election day Nathaniel Laird, o
0swego, n. y, cast his eighty seventh an
nual vote. He is said to be l09 years old.
Recent floods in Somerset county, England
deuged immense tracts of land of great fer
tility and caused damage estimated at $35, 900
St. Louis had 81 zoo, 600 fire on Tuesday
Among the buildings burned were several Of
the finest stores and private residences in the
city.
There is an enterprising young chicken in
Marion, Ohio, that has gone regularly into
the egg laying business at the age of four
months
The Harrisburg, Pa, handle factory will
be removed TO Bristol, Va. The company
will remove their machinery and men from
Harrisburg.
James Bell, OF Pulaski county, Va, recent
| ly sold 800 head of fat cattle for export aver
aging 400 pounds each in weight. The sale
amounted to $4,000.
The United States steamers Atlanta, Ben.
nington and Concord have taken on coal and
ammunition. and were ready on Tuesday to
leave Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Wash McNair, horse dealer of Chambers
| burg, Pa, who has also sales stable in Phil.
adelphia, on Monday made an assignment,
his liabilities being estimated at over $40. 600.
Heavy clouds obscured the moon last Sun
day evening during most of the time the
eclipse lasted, and observations were so in
terrupted that the event lost scientific value
to many astronomers.
VIM. j. Florence, the celebrated comedian,
died suddenly in Philadelphia, Pa, on Thurs
day night, aged 60 years. He had been i'll
several days, but was thought to be improving,
when a relapse occurred.
At Allisonvile, w. Va, last week Joseph
Carney was caught in the belt of -four mill
and killed. Both arms were torn off, both
| legs were broken in several places, his neck
was broken and the room was spattered with
blood.
pany's works, in Joliet, Illinois, exploded on
Monday, killing the fireman, Frank McSwain.
The large building was wrecked, causing a
loss of $4,000. The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
Mrs. Lilies, who lives near Eason Hill, on
Terrapin creek, Polk county, Georgia, is 10Y
years old. Her Oldest living child is 90 years
Of age and her youngest 81 years. She was
never sick day and never took "A dose of
medicine in her life.
Azeez Musalem. an Ottoman subject from
Mount Lebanon, Syria, called at the White
House on Saturday with portrait of Presi-
dent Harrison, in silk, framed with native
wood, inlaid with mother of pearl, which he
presented to the President.
Argument was begun in the United States
Supreme Court at Washington, on Monday,
in the case involving the constitusiona!ity of
the anti lottery law-the prosecution of news
papers for publishing and sending lottery ad-
refreshments through the mails.
News has been received at San Antonio,
Texas, of an encounter between Catarino
Cara, with 100 followers, and large force
of Mexican soldiers, on the 18th instant, II
miles from Mier. the result of which was the
repulse Of the government force.
In the United States there are 97S. 16l
cars and only 100, 304 are equipped with au-
tomato couplers. A representative of the
American Railway Association informed a
committee that it would cost SIS, 900, 900 to
fit all the freight cars with air brakes and
couplers.
In the United States district court, Phila.
delphia, the grand jury indicted Edward L.
Mcguire, J. Frank Lawrence and Charles r..
Eye, formerly clerks in the Keystone Nation
al Bank, charged with making, aiding and
abetting an officer or clerk in making false
entries i'll the books, &c.
The red hematite ore beds, near Christians
burg, Va, have been sold to syndicate com
posed of Virginia and Northern capitalists
for the sum of S19, 900 cash. A railroad will
be Immediately built to the mines, which are
now being opened, and force of $50 men
put to work to develop them.
The family of James Stevens, four in num-
Der, are reported i'll of typhoid malaria, at
Pearl River, New Jersey, as a result of drink
ing water from a well affected by the drought.
Hundreds of wells in the country around
! Hackensack, New Jersey, have run dry or
become unfit for use, and in some instances
mills have been shut down.
The large barn on the farm of Daniel X.
Fannery, near Douglassville, Pa, with farm
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fire Wednesday night, and thirty two head of
cattle, mostly registered animals, persisted in
the flames. The dwelling house, fine brick
mansion, caught fire, but was saved The
loss is placed at $4,000.
Last week Isaac Van Meter, of Hardy
county, West Virginia, sold for shipment to
! Europe SO head of cattle which averaged 1916
pounds. Nine of these cattle averaged 1905
pounds. George Cunningham, of Grant co. /.
shipped lot that averaged 1910 pounds. and
Allen Caperton, of Monroe county, sold 80
head that averaged 1867 pounds.
Wolves killed three children of Andrew
Gulick on Thursday at the iron rolling mills
near New Brighton, Mimi, ten miles north
of st Paul. During the great fires in Pine
county in September great droves of wolves
were driven south into Ramsey and Anoka
counties. The Gulick children wandered from
home into the woods at noon and were attack
ed and devoured by the beasts.
The Rockdale Mining and Manufacturing
Company of Columbia, Tenn, made an as
Segment Thursday to the Safe Deposit Com
pany of Nashville. Liabilities, 100000. The
assets consist of 5000 acres of ore lands,
heavily timbered, furnace costing $50, 400
and $40, 900 worth of pig iron. The property
was recently leased at 50, 200 per annum The
failure was caused by the low price of iron.
Two suits have been entered against Judge
S. Clinton Hastings, of San Francisco, by his
two daughters, one alleging that her father
had her illegally declared insane in order to
obtain possession of her property and the
other asking for settlement with respect to
certain property managed for her by her ia.
Their. Judge Hastings was at one time Chief
Justice and Congressman from Iowa. and
was first Chief Justice of California.
Dave Cummings, of Sioux City, Iowa, a
discharged railroad employe, has confessed
that last January he removed the spikes from
rail on the Sioux City and Pacific railroad,
causing the wreck of passenger train just
on the edge of the city, in which an engineer
and fireman were injured. He has also been
recognized as the man who a short time ago
placed his baby on the track to have it killed,
but it was seen by brakeman and rescued.
Charles Jeannes, S5 years of age, porter
in the City Bank, New York, was found on
Sunday morning in the cellar of the bank,
pounding himself on the head with short
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