The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-29
News Items.

There are 81 900 female telegraph oper-
ators in this country.
A colored man living at Tilleny, Y. C..
has ~ children and 33 grandchildren
Calhoun county, Illinois, has no railroad,
telegraph or telephone within its borders
Snow fell in Vienna on October 81. In
Germany the rivers and canals are covered
with ice.
At Seacatreus, Texas, 1870 persons have
died within the past week from typhoid
fever, and the epidemic shows no sign of
abating.
John r. Read, of Philadelphia Pa, has
sold 100000 acres of land in Dickinson
and Wise counties, Virginia, to a northern
syndicate.
Dubuque Ia, is reported to have the
first case of lumpy jaw in human being
ever recorded in the State. The victim
is six-year-old girl.
Samuel Hance died on October s, at his
home, at Booths Corner, Delaware county,
Pa. He was in his 95th year. and had
been licensed exhorter in the Methodist
Episcopal Church for over 20 years.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the express robber,
who was sentenced to fifty years imprison-
ment escaped from his cell in the peniten-
tiary at Auburn, New York, on Saturday,
but was later reeaptured within the prison
inclosure.
The largest man in Kentucky is Ross
Skaggs, of Lawrence county, who weighs
52l pounds and is 6 feet S inches tall
His arms measure feet in circumference
and his thighs feet He is thirty-one
years Of age.
The Tolliver-Howardf feud has broken out
again in Western Kentucky. At general
fight at Hogtown, on Sunday night, Colonel
Tolliver was killed and Wylie Tolliver and
Sam Howard were fatally injured The
feud has resulted in 80 deaths already.
The powder mills of the Phoenix Powder
Company, at Kellogg, West Virginia, blew
up Sunday afternoon. A piece of iron
crashed through the wall of house half
annie distant and seriously injured woman,
and many windows in Huntingdon, four
miles away were broken.
Water is 50 scarce at some places north
of Port Clinton, Pa, that it is necessary to
guard the tanks of the locomotives to pre-
| vent the people from carrying off the
water. On one of the divisions OF the
Lehigh Valley Railroad the water to sup
I ply the locomotives is transported for
quite distance by engines,
The Texas cotton crop is estimated to
be 30 per cent. below that of last year
From other parts of the South reports in
dicate that the crop has deteriorated 34
/ per cent below former estimates, which
were very low. The percentages of the
States vary from 63 to a. Florida being
lowest and Tennessee highest.
An armed mob surrounded Dalton, Ca,
on Sunday night and, after killing one of
the negro residents Of the town and wound
| ing two others, obliged the city marshal to
warn the other negroes to leave the town
within 10 days. The people of the town
have raised fund to ferret out and punish
the ringleaders in the outrage.
A despatch from Eagle Pass, Texas,
says there is almost coal famine in North
ern Mexico, owing to the tremendous Ut
mand occasioned by railroad extensions and
the developing of the smelling and manu-
! fa4.l,,rinn industries. All mines are in
ereasing their forces and sinking their
shafts, hut are unable to supply the de
mand
The ,youth now prevailing in Schuylkin
county, Pa, is said to be the severest the
region has ever known. Shenandoah has
been without city water sii.re Thusday
last, while at Mahanoy City the water is
turned into the pipes for only two hours
each day. The people Of Ashland are
depending upon springs and cisterns, the
public supply of water having become ex-
hausted
The Art Society of Pittsburg have
adopted resolutions strongly commendipg
the gift by Andrew Carnegie of 81 900
600 to the city of Pittsburg for public
library, and his significd intention of Civ
ing s. 100000 more to endow the gallery
of art, which is to occupy part of the
library building. The resolutions are in
tended as an offset to the movement by
number of labor organizations to prevent
the acceptance of Mr. Carnegies gift by
the city authorities.
On October /, Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel
Hiegler celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
of their marriage. On the 4th of October.
1882, in Gettysburg, Pa, the ceremony
was performed by Rev. J. Ruthrauf,
pastor of the Lutheran church. Mr.. and
Mrs. Iiegler have lived in Gettysburg all
their lives, occupying for the last fifty-fve
years the house in which they now live.
They had eight children, all but one Of
whom are living. Mrs. Ziegler was Miss
Sallie Ann Culp, daughter of Matthias
Culp. The couple are enjoying good
health
Altoona, Pa, is without water. the Kit
tanning Point reservoir being exhausted
The supply from the storage reservoir is
cut off during the day. Machinery depen-
dent on steam boilers cannot be moved
The bakeries were idle, and some of the
hotels and many families were without
bread Saturday evening. The drought has
almost ruined the crops Mountain fires
are raging near the city. BOYS PLAYING
with matches set fire to w. E. Gruner's
stable Sunday afternoon and property val
ued at $4,000 was burned. The city was
threatened, but the FIRE was finally snb-
dued
$4,000 People Drowned,