The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-17
News of the Week.

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they were loaded with spurious coin.
The Empress of Germany gave birth to q
daughter on Tuesday. This daughter is the
seventh child of the Emperor and Empress.
A wind and hail storm, in Dane county,
Wisconsin, on Saturday, did damage to crops
estimated at several hundred thousands dol
lars.
Samuel j. Showalter, of Rockingham, has
bought the Weaver farm. near WaynesborO' :,
Augusta county, Va, about $50 acres, for
Sll 200 cash.
The value Of exports of beef and hog pro-.
duets from the United States during the
month of August was $40, 527 1858. Last year
the figures were 81, 602,Gl5.
The great rag house of Joseph Joseph, in
Cincinnati. was burned on Saturday, and
/ and Burnett's furniture factory, adjoining
was damaged. Loss. about S150,000.
During storm in Chicago on Saturday
/ evening lightning struck the house of George
| S. Hane, fatally burning his two boys, aged
and II years, who were sleeping together.
Petersburg, Va, was visited by water,
much damage was done to shipping, build
ings, &c. In the surrounding country the loss
! is terrible.
| Much damage was done by a storm in
Southern Minnesota on Saturday night. The
dwelling of j. Tubbs, in Waterville, was des-
troyed by lightning and several members of
the family were hurt.
Mrs. President Harrison is i'll from pull
monary tuberculosis and nervous prostration.
Mrs Jane Armstrong, of New York city,
lost $3.50, 900 in gambling at Monaco, Ger
many, and then committed suicide.
Minnie Merrck, who was riding in a lion
cage in circus parade in Winston, North
Carolina, on Saturday, was attacked by the
animal and bitten in the right jaw. A male
keeper went to her rescue and succeeded in
saving her life.
A telegram from San Francisco says that
the powerful Chinese organization known as
/ the Six Companies has issued proclamation
forbidding the Chinese in the United States
to register and be photographed in compli
ance with the terms of the Geary act.
As an electric motor and trailer car were
coming down steep grade in st. Louis
Tuesday morning, the motor man lost control
of his car. AT sharp curve the cars were
derailed and turned over. One person was
killed and seventeen injured, five fatally.
About 1900 mill men are Oh strike in
Menoninee, Michigan. They ask an increase
of - cents day for common labor and an
iuCItdsE VI IL per Stlls Ou Shliltu
The mill owners say they will not start up
the mills again this season unless the men
return to work at the old wages.
Frank Shockley, "a farmer of Milford,
Delaware, was stopped on Saturday night,
about mile from his farm, by two highway
man, and ordered to hold up his hands.
Shockley refused, and was struck on the head
with a base ball bat His skull was fractur-
I'D Tho bagh NO ode thar
At Camilla, Georgia, on Tuesday. cabin
on the place of Judge H. Shaft was destroyed
by fire. Two small children and their insane
grandmother were in the yard at the time the
cabin caught fire. The old woman carried
the children into the midst of the flames and
left them there, where they were burned to
death
The locked out men at Homestead held
mass meeting on Saturday afternoon. Adj
dresses were made by the leaders, encourag
ing the men to stand firm. The steamer
Tide was fired upon on Saturday evening
while making its usual trip from Pittsburg to
! Homestead with provisions for the nOn-union
men. No one was injured.
The river coal operators of the Pittsburg
district on Saturday served notice ON the
miners that the mining rate hereafter would
be 3 cents per bushel, instead of 81 cents.
| With the notice there was an order closing
| the mines until the miners accept the reduc.
ton. This shutdown will throw 1000 or 5000
men ont of employment,
The NJ L. Church South has ,209, 97G
members, 1907 organizations and 1861
churches, which, with their contents and the
| land, are valued at SIS, ia, 1862. tits strong
est in Texas, where it has l39,347 members;
Georgia is second, with 34,G0O; Tennessee
third, with III 1893; North Carolina fourth,
with IA, 1856; Alabama fifth with 87,9l2.
f. Ii. Hayes was arrested in Little Rock,
Arkansas, on Saturday, charged with com
4 pliclty in the murder of Martha A. Bracket,
at cambridge, Georgia, ! years ago, His
true name is Walter Williams. Hayes had
desperate fight with the officers. and his
wife came to his rescue with a" shot gun, and
was with difficulty prevented from shooting
the officers.
One hundred buildings in the village of
Eedleyyille, ON the opposite side Of the st.
1 Lawrence river from Quebec, were burned
on Saturday. There was no fire apparatus,
and large detachments from the French fri
gate Arethuse and the British man. OF, war
Blake were sent to fight the flames. Many
| families were made homeless. The loss will
reach $4,000.
/ At the ballast quarry of A. g. Morris, at
| Tyrone FORCES, Penna., Tuesday, there was
fall of rock and earth estimated at 100, 900
tons. There had been no blasting in the
quarry for three months, and the mass of
| rock, that presented face 60 feet high,
/ though oyerhanging, seemed perfectly intact.
/ John Harmody, So years of age, was buried
under the rock.
| The Carnegie Mills in Pittsburg are greatly
/ crippled, owing to scarcity of men. The
detection is among the skilled workmen,
who are working ON tonnage. About 30 have
/ left, and others have only been persuaded TO
remain by the promise that in the event of
breakdowns they will be allowed reasonable
amount Of pay for their time. The work
done at the mills is said to be unsatisfactory.
| A through fast freight train on the Fitch
burg Railroad ran into passenger train at
! West Cambridge junction, Massachusetts,
on Saturday night. Sin persons were killed
outright and nearly forty were injured. OF
| the latter three have since died. There was
a dense fog at the time, and the passenger
train was crossing to another track when the
| freight dashed into it. telescoping the rear
/ car.
The Peary relief steamer Kite returned to
! st. Johns, Newfoundland, Sunday afternoon,
bringing back Lieutenant Peary and wife,
and his party, except John NJ. Vorhoef, who
was lost in crevasse in Greenland. All on
board the Kite are in good health. Peary
accomplished an inland journey of 1900 miles,
and one of the results of both expeditions
has been singularly rich collection Of speci-
mems of the flora and fauna Of Northern
| Greenland, Later news states that Vorhoef
is not lost but deserted his shipmates, de-
claring his intention of living with the Els.
quime during the winter.