The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-07-09
News of the Week.

Malignant scarlet fever is prevailing in
London, England.
Oliver Young was shot on Sunday evening
in Baltimore by Henry Lohr with Il cat rifle.
The ball entered the right groin and may
prove fatal.
John Balm, wealthy Pittsburger, who at
tempted to smuggle about $1,000 worth OF
jewelry past the New York customs officers,
was arrested on Saturday on a charge of
smuggling.
William Tyler, President of the Vincennes
National Bank, shot himself through the
heart on Tuesday while standing by the grave
of his daughter, in the cemetery at Nincennes,
Indiana.
During the last nine months the imports
of coffee into the United States amounted to
465, 1877, 1872 pounds, an increase of upward of
l00,000,000 pounds over the imports for the
same period last year.
Word has been received in Newark, n. j.,
that DR.. Tragott Beck, of that city, has been
arrested in Germany for using language dis
respectful to the Emperor.
The wholesale department of the dry goods
store of George, Etter, Vert & Co., in Mont
gomery, Alabama, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night. The loss is estimated at
about $25O,0O0, covered by insurance.
George Beuser, brewery employe in
Louisville, Kentucky, accidentally shot Will
liam Ochs on Tuesday with pistol which
was supposed not to be loaded. When Beu.
ser learned that Ochs's wound was fatal he
killed himself
VIM. II. Shippers, a wheelwright, aged 4C
years, living at Newark, Del, was notified &c
appear at the bank in Wilmington on Tuesday
morning and look after small note due on
that day. Instead he went home and shot
himself in the right temple.
Ex Collector of Internal Revenue john H
Sellman died at his home in Anne Arunde
county, on Wednesday, in his 54th year. h
was appointed by President Arthur to the
position and held it until the election o
President Cleveland. Mr.. Sellman, vas
prominent in Republican circles and has helC
several positions.
| A small boy threw a lighted cigarette il
some fire crackers in San Jose, CAL, Saturda
night The result was conhagration whicl
swept three squares, destroying the Licl
| House, the California Theatre, A. C.. Hall d
Co. s packing house, the fair, general mer
chandise store, f. L. Smiths jewelry store
the South Methodist Church and numerous
| dwellings and smaller stores. The loss il
about 5000, 900, with probably $500, 900 insur
ance.
A man known as Matthias Van Hadelt
who entered the Trappist Monastery, a
Aiduebelle, France, as a lay brother, anC
who afterward murdered the procurator an
robbed the monastery, was guillotined a
Valence on Tuesday for causing the death O
the monk.
A cable attached to dummy, used t
steady electric cars going down Potts's Hill
near Lancaster, Pa, broke on Monday after
noon. The cable squirmed up the hill like
snake, and at great velocity, and woun
itself around the arm Of Frank Musser,
young man, tearing the limb from his body
As Byrd Short was driving near Abingdon
Virginia, on Tuesday with his brothers. wife
and child, rocks were thrown at the carriag,
by two drunken men. Short jumped out
and, as the men continued to advance, b
fired twice. Both men, named Henderso
Denkens and Lee Simmons, were fatally sho
Short has not been arrested.
During dense fog in the Atlantic ecea
June % the North German Lloyd steame
Trave, Captain Reimkastern. from New Yor
for Bremen, while going at full speed dashet
into the British ship Fred. B. Taylor, from
Havre from New York, and cut her completed
in two. The captain and nineteen Of the cre'
Of the Taylor were rescued by the Trave'
sailors. Mr.. Noodley, chief officer of tn
Taylor, was crushed to death, and the car
penter drowned. The Trave was only slight
injured.
The little city of Carey, Ohio was almo
destroyed by a tornado on Saturday night
No lives were lost, but the damage to propert
will reach over 100000. The storm cam
up at midnight, and unroofed and PARTIAL
demolished the Park Hotel and Gault House
the Presbyterian Church, the High Schoc
building, ten business houses, and score @
more of dwellings, besides destroying fencing
shrubbery, farms, and outhouses through
strip nearly twenty miles long and two mile
wide. The time of night and the characte
of the storm nearly scared the inhabitants o
Carey to death, and much mental sufferin
was experienced.
A tornado passed over the towns of Paris
Buckfeld, Summer and Hartford, Maine
Sunday afternoon and did much damage. TIL
funnelshaped cloud formed over Paris by tn
union of two heavy clouds. 1t first leveled
strip of forest, moving path twenty rod
wide through the thick woods. Sweeping Of
it blew dwellings from their found alton
smashed barns and farm buildings into kind
ling wood, killing several horses and destroy
ing wagons, farm implements, etc., and carry
ing the debris long distances. Huge eli
trees were twisted off Is or 20 feet from tn
ground, fences leveled and shade and fru
trees uprooted. Several persons we're iniure
in their houses.
The Inman Line steamer City of Chicago
Captain Redford, from New York, wei
ashore on the evening of July about half
mile inside the Old Head of Kinsale, on tn
Irish coast during a dense fog, remains fast
Three tags remained close by her Saturda
ready to render any assistance in their power
When it was found that there was no pro
liability of the steamer being got ahoat tn
passengers were told they would have t
abandon the ship. There was absolutely nj
panic on board. The sea was comparativel
smooth and the passengers entered the boa
without hesitation. They all reached hoi
in safety. The ladies on board behaved wit
the greatest courage throughout. Ltaer &C
counts say that the steamer will be acomplet