The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-23
News of the Week.

TO resume MS dutleS In the House.
The trial of Senator Quay's suit, charging
the Beaver Star with criminal libel, was be-
gun on Monday at Beaver, Penna.
Mrs. Barbara Lau died in Codorus town.
ship, York county, Pa. on Monday, at the ad
vanced age of l03 years and months.
Nineteen buildings in the business centre of
Au Sable, Michigan, were burned on Friday
night of last week, causing loss of $4,000.
Michael McNeirney, of Bethlehem, Pa, on
Saturday struck his wife on the head with
Ratchet and inflicted fatal injuries McNier-
ney escaped.
! John Luther, of Wilkesbarre, was waylaid
and murdered by gang of Hungarians near
| Maltby, Penna., on Sunday. Two of his as
| sailants were arrested.
| During cabinet meeting on Tuesday after
noon Secretary Blaine was taken suddenly i'll.
| He complained of nausea, and said he felt
weak and faint. He is better.
Robert Hepler, of Kenoma, Missouri, while
drunk on Monday, killed Mrs. Goody and
her youngest child, about years old, and
fatally injured her daughter, years old.
By a collision Of coasting sleds at Cadiz.
| Ohio, on Saturday night, Miss Ramsey, Miss
Maud Ramsey and Harry Perry sustained
broken limbs and several others were injured.
Walter A. Wood, inventor of the Wood
harvesting machines and other agricultural
machinery, died at his home at Hoosck Falls,
New York. on Friday of last week, in his nth
year.
The North Alabama Improvement Compa-
ny has sold all of its properties to the North
western Land Association, of Pierre, South
Dakota, the transaction involving upwards OF
81, 900, 900.
The entire business portion Of the town of
! Orleans, Nebraska, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday. Loss $4,000 Many ofthe fremen
and residents were badly frozen while fight
ing the fire.
Thomas Quinn, u hackman, of Elizabeth,
New s.Jersey, on Saturday shot and killed
Mrs. Charles Snyder, with whom he had been
drinking, and then surrendered himself to
the Prosecutor of the county.
The bodies of John Hammer and a negro
were found Oh Monday on the Warrior river.
They left Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday,
to look for cattle, and were evidently over
taken by night and frozen to death.
Mary Simpson, Chicago dressmaker, COM
mitted suicide on Saturday night. Going to
the lake shore and divesting herself of her
clothing, she lay down on the ice. She was
found there frozen to death tie next morning.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Carlisle, Penna, will be dedicated on Sun
day, March g. 1t is large edifce adjoining
Dickinson College, and built principally by
friends of that institution at II cost ofS4O, 900.
! William Coulter, of Sault Ste Marie, Mich
igan, on Friday night attended a revival
meeting and there confessed the murder of
his father, a year ago, for which crime he had
been tried and acquitted He was re-arrrest-
/ ed
! John Marley, aged 80 years, and son Peter,
/ of Belair. Ohio, were found frozen to death
! on Saturday morning, under the Ohio Valley
/ Railroad bridge. 1t is supposed they fell from
the trestle on their way home the previous
night.
I desnatch from Chattanooga. Tennessee,
| saws that Expert Goodman has completed his
! examination of the accounts of NJ. J. O'Brien,
/ Supreme Treasurer of the Catholic Knights
of America, and finds the deialcation to be
/ So, S25.23.
General W. j. Sewell. ex- United States
/ Senator. and Vice President of the West Jer-
sew Railroad. has been appointed Second
4 Vice President ofthe Baltimore and Potomac
1 Railroad. He will have his headquarters in
Washington.
/ Anexplosion of natural gas occurred Mon
dav morning in the residence of Judge John
1 S. Brassee, at Lancaster Ohio. The house
was demolished and adjoining properties we're
! damaged, but none of the occupants were in
/ iured seriously.
/ Samuel Bennett, of Gilmer county, is per-
| hans the father of the largest family in West
Virginia. Mrs. Bennett is only forty four years
/ old, but she has borne 81 children, 10 of whom
! still reside with their parents, both of whom
are in the prime oflife.
The nowder mills at Central CITY. near Cat.
/ lettsburg. Kentucky, exploded Monday morn
I ;np Five men were killed and one injured
fatally. Window glass was broken in Cat
| lettsburg. and the explosion was heard in
! Irontop. % miles distant.
/ Wb;fe - marty of voung peopIe were coast
I inc at Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday
night Mary duncan anu ma.,,e :eeni nF III
iatally lnlGIeu ny 'uo u, "
Sledsi ana henry 'arro" was Nii'eu W d oo'
llslon with a passing carnage
I Herbert c. Gates, aged 81 years, OF Palm er,
/ Massachusetts,, shot and killed himself on
/ Sunday night, while insane from the grippe.
| His mother struggled with hum Tor an hour to
secure possession oil the gun out she was I'M
able to prevent MN rom hili'ns nimse''
William r. Hancuff, aged 62 years, who
[ had been missing from his home IN Altoona,
/ Penna., for several weeks, was on Saturday
/ found dead on the mountains east of the CITY,
| He had been i'll for some time, and is sup
| posed to have wandered away and died OF eX-
! posture.
/ The Falls City Fire Insurance Company of
/ Louisville, Kentucky, has reinsured its Sl8,
I 10000 risks in the London and Lancashire
and will go into liquidation. The Union In.
/ surance Company of Louisville has reinsured
/ in the German. American of New York and
will also go out of business
! While four boys were coasting on hillside
/ Mt New Castle. Penna.. on Saturday afternoon,
/ their bob sled ran into sleigh, frightening
! the horses Walter johnson. aged IA years,
was knocked ON the head by one of the horses
and Mrs buchanan. the oceunant ofthe SLEIGH
,nas tL,ou,, ont Roth were fatally iniured
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p itH9DuS ,astIa TpesSov n,ornng and dis.
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