The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-13
News of the Week.

During July there were l47s deaths in Balti-
more.
A 13-year- old girl living ne ar Darlington,
Indiana, weighs 2l7 pounds.
Ten pairs of twins are said to have been
born TO the wife of resident of Tompkins
N. Y.
A 2O-years. old girl of Rich Valley, Va,
is but 50 inches high and weighs only 80
pounds.
Seven widows of Revolutionary soldiers
are on the rolls of the Knoxville Tenn. Pen
sion Office.
The building trades strikes in New York
has ended, and over 20, 900 men went TO work
on Tuesday.
Thousands of acres of cotton in Fort Bend,
Harrison and other counties of Texas have
| been destroyed by the boil worm.
| Sixty thousand acres of forest in the district
adjoining Frankfort. on the Oder have been
swept by fire, aud the trees charred or de-
stroyed.
The design for the Worlds Fair souvenir
| half dollars has been selected. The reverse
will show the main building of the Exposition
and the diverse the head of Columbus.
A boat, overloaded with a picnic party of
ten, was overturned in Lees Pond, near
Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday, Annie
Bernstein, aged Is years and Ida Harris, aged
8, were drowned.
Congressman Watson, who made charges
of drunkenness in Congress, opened his cam
paign in Georgia on Tuesday. AT the close
of two hours speech he collapsed physi-
cally, staggering off the stand.
Bridget Kelly aged 81 years, of Browns.
vile, near Shenandoah, Penna., committed
suicide Monday by pouring kerosene over
her clothing and then igniting it. She died
before medical aid reached her.
Baltimore and Ohio engine ran into {
beef train near Bellaire, Ohio, on Monday
morning. Both engines and two cars were
wrecked, and two brakemen were injured
one, named John Lovejoy, fatally.
At county Sunday School convention o
colored Baptists, at Chapel Hill, Mississippi
on Saturday, riot occurred during which
! 40 or 81 pistol shots were fired, one MAJ
being killed and seven persons wounded
including two women and child.
j. D. Blount, of Goshen, president of tht
Montgomery County Agricultural Society
was accidentally drowned on Tuesday Will
engaged with party Of yonng men haulin
seine in the Patuxent. Mr.. Blount wa
about % years of age.
, In Philadelphia, Pa, on Monday Pete
Sweeney, 90 years old, brutally attacked hi
wife at noon, and she died at night. TIL
woman head was kicked to Jelly, and nearl
all her ribs were broken. Sweeney savagel
attacked the officers who arrested him.
The steamer Teutonic, which arrived il
New York on Wednesday of last week, mad
the fastest day run ever recorded, 52S mile
/ in "a hours. Owing to the breaking of som
5 machinery she was delayed some hours or sh
would have broken the record from shor
to shore.
One of the richest brewers in Europe
Dreher, of Vienna, who is reported to b
worth over SAC, 000, 900, to which the profits
his breweries add two millions year. Ye
he spends no more than if his income amount
ed to only so many thousands and never give
t cent for charity.
Arthur Croft, timer, of Pittsburg, Pa
swallowed FIVE ounces of carbolic acid o
Sunday in mistake for wine and died in grea
, agony Monday. Mrs. Croft had secreted tn
wine from her husband and in searching 70
it Croft came across the carbolic acid bott
and drank from it without looking.
The premises of Tarrant d Co., importer
+ and iobbers of drugs, on Greenwich street
New York, were damaged by fire Monda
morning to the extent of about $780, 0(
The fire is attributed to the effect of the he
weather on certain stored chemicals. o
Wednesday of last week n fire in the sam
building caused $685. 900 damage.
One day last week, near Buena Vista
Kentucky, a family named Mcintyre and tn
cock ate cabbage for dinner and were sool
taken with pains which caused the death {
four of the family and the cook in a few hour.
In looking for the cause of the sudden death
it was found that a snake of the spreading wipe
species had been cooked in the pot with tn
cabbage. How the reptile got there no on
knows.
A severe storm of wind, hail and rain pas
sed over South Dakota, Minnesota and Wis
: consin on Sunday night Trees were throw
} down, houses wrecked and gain destroyed
the damages reaching into the hundreds {
thousands of dollars. At Marshall the storm
took the form of tornado. Houses wer
wrecked and two men were reported killed
In St. Paul and Minneapolis a number O
honses were struck by lightning.
All the mines under the control of tn
Wisconsin Central Railroad Company, OF
the Gogebic range, save the Ashland mine
: have been closed, and about 2O00 men throw
out of employment. The cause of the shut
down is indirectly attributed to the Home
stead strike. No ore from any mine unde
the control of the Wisconsin Central Com
pany will be shipped, except from the Ashland
mine, until the Homestead matter is settled
Martin Reed, condemned murderer, es
capped from the Washington county PA. jai
on June g. On Saturday last he was dis
covered in an ice house at Nobestown, nea
Washington, Pa. An attempt to capture hin
was made, but Reed was armed with revol
yer, and shot and killed constable Coyle, VIII
led one Of the attacking parties. The ict
house was set ON fire, with the expectation o.
forcing Reed to surrender, but instead o
doing so he shot himself through the head
The body was burned to crisp when it wa.
finally recovered.