The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-07-04
NEWS OF the week.

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States Is SIS Immigrants
sunday last was the hottest day san Francisco has
experienced since 1871 The mercury ranging from
go to I070.
The South Side Mills of the Diamond State Iron
Company at Wilmington, Del, were burned on sun
day. Loss $4,000
Smallpox is raging in witten, a fourishing man
ufaeturing town of westphalia, Germany, and also |
in Herne and Horedt
Disastrous tires have occurred throughout this
country during the past week. the losses ranging !
from 81 900 to S5OOOO0
Monday was festival day in Mexico. and news
has been received of five killings in diherentpaees
growing out Of the celebration.
Earthquakes occurred at Verona. Italy, Monday |
night Buildings were shaken and cracked, and |
the inhabitants rushed to the fields
During the past year the postofIiee department
used $4,000 worth of Irvine in tying up letters and
postal card packages shipped through the mails.
William Gates colored 90 years fage, was lynched
near West Point, Mississippi, on Sunday night, for
assaultins the l6-y ear-od daughter ctG. Goodell-
Harry Edwards, the actor, who died in New York
last week. owned collection of about $4,000 moths
and butterflies, which he had insured for $1,000.
Adam s. Robert of Gettysburg, Pa. dropped dead
on Saturday while walking along the street. He
was 20 years old and leaves wife and six children
At Brushton, N Y, on Saturday night. 4S persons
were poisoned by eating ice cream. Two ladies
died ON Tuesday and several Others critically ILL.,
DR.. Randolph X. Stevenson, who was the surgeon
in charge OF the Confederate prison at Anderson
vile, Ga, during the civil war, died Monday at
Halifax, MS.
jesse Cartwright, living in Baldwin county, Ala
bama last week killed his wife and then killed his
brother, John W. Cartwright Jealousy is said to
have been the cause.
California has taken all invoice of her giant trees
left standing and finds 2675. The largest of these
is 60 feet in circumference Visitors at the Worlds
Farwill see one ofthem.
The Saar river, in Alsace- Lorraine and Rhenish
Prussia has overlooked its banks flooded the val
ley and almost destroyed one of the finest wine
crops that the region in question has seen for years
Mrs. Samuel A. Hazlett was using disinfectant
of an inhammable character at her home in Brook
lyn N. Y, Saturday, when caught fire, and she
was burned so badly that death resulted in a short
time.
Louis Dillinger, alias Paul May, who escaped
from the jail at New England Mo-. in May, 1890, the
day before he was to have been hanged for the muir
der of his wife and two men. was captured in Chi
cago on Sunday night
Mafk ManDS anu Nus CHlllu Mtit slIuch u1 lABll-
ming al their home, three miles from Matthews, N.
c., Monday night. and both were Instantly killed.
Mr.. Mannss wife escaped. The family were sitting
around the fireplace at the time.
An officer in the Health Department in Chicago
has discovered that the flesh of broken down, ema-
ciated and diseased horses is being made into
sage meat and sold in the poorer quarters of the
city. An investigation is being made.
Rev. William NJ. Ogden, Rector of the Church of
the Holy Cross, at Warrensburgh, New York, fell
dead in the pulpit while preaching, on Sunday
morning. He was So years OF age and had been
Pastor of the church for twenty years.
| EFT Mann, manager of the Shelley plantation,
near Shelley Station Boliver county, Miss, was
murdered Saturday night He eating supper
and the assassin shot him through window. A
negro tenant with whom Mann had quarreled has
run away.
The strawberry crop in New Jersey just closing
has been one of the heaviest and yielded the best
prices of any other season. John Kerne, of Carks-
boro from seven acres of land marketed 10000
quarts that melted him about 500 or about the full
value of the land.
The Florence Tripoli Works, at Florence Alabama
have commenced operations. The trpoli is found
in large quantities in Lawrence county, Tennessee
and is said to be the only deposit of the kind this
side of the Atlantic 1t is used for inside paint and
for polishing purposes.
Vim. B. Croft of Middletown, Del, has discovered
a remedy for the peach yellows. He tried it on hi
own orchard, which was badly affected by Yellow
a year ago; the trees seemed to be dying. Now hi
trees are green and vigorous, and will yield an av
erage of three baskets per tree.
Mrs. Lemuel p. johnson, of Bridgeton, N. j.. wa
taking some biscuits from the stove on Saturday
ened and tainted. When found she was entirel!
envcloped in flames. She fingered in great agon!
for two hours and then expired
Great preparations are being made in Germany t.
celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of tn
birth of Theodore Koerner. which occurs on Sep
TENDER 23d. Few poets are so popular in the Father
land the young officer who lost his life on tn
field of battle when only twenty-five years old
The business failures for the first six months O
the present year are reported by II. G. Dun & Co. +
number 6074 as against 1886 during the correspond
ing period in 1890. The amount owing by the PAL
ties who have failed in 1891 foots up s92,O00yOOO
while for the corresponding period in 1890 it wa
s65OOO,oOo.
The great salt basin salton, Arizona is reporte
to be rapidly filling up with fresh water from sub
terranean passage believed to connect with tn
Colorado river fthat is the case the desert will b
converted into lake 400 feet deep and over fit
miles long and the Southern Pacific Railroad track
: will be submerged for nearly 100 miles.
Clayton Yost, aged years, son of Rufus Yost nea
Reading Pa, OH Saturday was terribly gored by
bull. The animal turned on the boy while he wa
driving it out of the field. One of the bulls horn
entered the boys side, fracturng number of ribs
and penetrating the right lung. The left lung wa
also badly lacerated. The boy cannot recover.
sentence of death at Charlotte N. c. for the murde
of Italian asked the sheriff for a match on Mon
day evening and when it was handed him he struc
the sheriff violent blow with the chain by whic
he was fastened to the door of his cell. A colore
prisoner saved the sheriff's life. Bra bham begge
to be killed.
Patrick Mulroney, juggler and sword swalowel
injured himself fatally at Columbus, Ohio, Sunday
by trying to swallow violin bow instead of usin
the slender sword he was accustomed 10. Twice h
essayed to swallow the bow, but he failed and pre-.
emily began vomiting blood. He continued
suffer paroxysms of retehing losing at each spasI
much blood, until Monday morning. when he dice
The City Point Land Improvement and Develop
ment Company, which is composed of Phiadelphi
capitalists has purchased of c. D. Tinsley of Peter.
burg, 5000 acres of land in Prince Georges county,
Va. at cost of $4,000. This large tract of land
on the Appomattox and James rivers, and is to b
divided into building lots, and is TO be made mar
ufacturing and commercial place to be called "Cit
of Antwerp"
The Wisconsin land commissioners have durn
the last three months been investigating the subie
of trespass on timber lands and have unearthe
great frauds Millions of feet of pine timber ha,
been cut by various individuals of public Ian,
with no authority whatever, 100000 feet havir
been stolen from single township in the nortl
western part Of the state within the past two year
The robbery has been going on for dozen year
and the extent of the loss to the state is
} Monday was a Swedish holiday in Newberr
Michigan, and there were many fights between Ii
Swedes and Firms. John Laholn, a Norwegian, gre
: angry because some one said he was drunk Ora
: bling huge knife he started out, slashing ever
t body in reach John Lund received a slash aero
2 the breast, making a wound IL inches long an
moo r1p 10 ha oh tbat,c cd Cor