The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-02-07
News of the Week.


At Vienna 10000 shoemakers are on
strike.
St. Mary's Catholic Church, in Quincy,
Illinois, was burned on Tuesday; loss,
$4,000.
Charles Zeigle, well-known citizen of
Gettysburg Pa, died on Tuesday, in his
59th year.
The Nebraska legislature has asked Con-
gress for 81, 100000 for the relief of the
sufferers of that state.
A hospital at Skopin, Russia, was de-
stroyed by fire on Monday. Fourteen
patients perishing in the flames.
The nail works at Towanda, Pa, were
destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning; loss
about $50, 600; insurance, $4,000.
The New York Star has suspended pub
LEGATION. Its owners expended 81 800 900
upon it but could not make it a success.
Goodwin Smith, the Canadian publicist,
says that the annexation of Canada to the
United States is only a question of time.
Two years ago 40 sacks of Seeding oys
tiers were planted in an arm of the San
Diego Bay. Now the beds extend over
1900 acres.
a wagon load of nitro-glycerine explod-
ed near St. Mary's, Ohio, on Sunday after
noon. The driver, LorseS and wagon were
blown to atoms.
A young Englishman named Bosanquet
was bitten by a rattlesnake, at Daytona,
Florida, on Sunday, and died on Monday
in great agony.
Augusta, Ga, has been invaded by the
grip. Physicians have succumbed to it,
and those who had it last year are taking
their second round.
Rev Dr. John B. Clemson, aged 81
years, died at West Chester, Pa. on Tues
day He had been an Episcopal clergy
man for over 60 years.
A man of Minden, Neh, becoming en-
ragged at a COW, tied her in stall and
sawed her legs off He was compelled to
flee to escape lynching.
Mrs Ann Jenkins died in Snow Hill,
Worcester county, Md, on Monday, aged
81 years. She had never seen either a
steamboat or train of cars.
George II. Duvall, colored, who is sus-
pected of the murder of Jarvis B. Griffin,
colored, in Philadelphia, three years ago,
has been arrested in Memphis,
Eight ice houses on Pine Lake, near
Laporte, Indiana, owned by the John Hill
Ice Company, were burned on Monday;
loss 1000; insurance, $4,000.
The dwelling of John j. Russell, a
wealthy resident of Petersburg, Virginia.
was damaged by fire on Sunday, and Mr.
Russell persisted from suffocation
Levi Brant, of St. Thomas, Adams coun-
ty, Pa, has sold hog weighing 100
pounds to Chambersburg, Pa, man for
S120 The hog will be exhibited.
By the fall of a cage in the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, at Harrisburg, on Saturday
John c. Beck and John Engleman were
precipitated from height of s. feet and
killed.
Rev. Albert Hall, one of the pioneer
Presbyterian preachers of Illinois, and foI
p years pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Springfield, died last week aged
81 years.
The Jail in Friar's Point, Mississippi
was burned on Sunday, and three Negro
prisoners persisted in the flames. They
started the fire by trying to burn the dool
down that they might escape.
John Dougherty, of Philadelphia; FeliN
McFields, of Uniontown, and John DAILY
of Ohio, were arrested on Monday, on the
charge of numbering Henry O. Dorwart
at Columbia, Pa, on Saturday night,
A train on the Savannah, Griffin anC
North Alabama Road was thrown from
the track and rolled down a 20 foot EN-
bankment, near Griffin, Georgia, on Mon
day night. Fifteen passengers were badly
hurt.
L. B. Imboden, President of the New
England Savings Bank, recently chartered
in Fort Worth, Texas, but not yet doing
business, has been arrested for forgery
He is charged with raising a check from
} $500 to 1900.
William Bradley got drunk at Barry
Illinois, on Sunday, and, going to black
smith shop, heated an iron red hot, fittet
it in wise, and then pressed his body
: against it. The rod penetrated his body
and caused fatal injuries.
John Owens was burned to death neal
Laurens, South Carolina, on Saturday
He went into barn to get some corn, and
it is thought, struck match, which Sc
some straw on fire. The flames must hav,
cut off his escape, as he persisted in thu
building.
Paul Kappes, the young business maj
of Gettysburg, Pa, who was caught rob
bling store in that town, was sentenced oil
Saturday to hard labor for five years, min,
months and fifteen days, and at the expira
ton of his term, to give fifteen hundred
dollars bond that he will keep the peace
for the balance of his life.
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