The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-12-17
News of the Week.


town of Shelbyville, Tennessee. was de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday night.
James J. Foran. one of the former pro
prietors of the Cincinnati Enquirer. died in
Cincinnati, on Monday night, aged IS years.
A negro woman of Edgefeld county, South
Carolina, has been arrested for the murder
of her baby serving it cooked to her friends
at a quilting party.
A storm of sleet. snow and rain was gen.
eral throughout the West on Tuesday and
caused an almost complete interruption of
Geographic communication.
Captain George n. Woodbridge, cashier of
the Savings Bank of Richmond. Virginia.
committed suicide Monday evening. He had
been suffering from depression.
The round house, containing II engines,
and the machine shops of the Rio Grande
Railway, at Salida, Colorado, were burned
on Sunday. The loss is estimated at $780,,
O00.
The Secretary of War has sent to the
House an estimate of appropriation aggrega-
ting S23, 80 required for marking battle lines
and sites for tablets at the Antietam battle
field.
Over l 900 persons at Homestead, Pa. are
suffering for the want of food, and relief is
asked. They are mostly the families of those
who were engaged in the riots and strike last
summer.
The total values of the exports of domestic
beef and hog products from the United States
during the month of November, 1892, was
SIC, AS, 524 as against -, O40, 5S4 in Novem.
Der, 1891.
+. Edwin Elwell, of Sandwich, Mass, has
been awarded the contract for an equestrian
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erected upon the battle. field of Gettysburg
The price is So, 900
The will of Jay Gould has been offered for
probate in New York. The executors, in
their petition. said that the property in New
York State consists of $2.000.010 in realty
aud $40, 900, 900 in personally.
James Still. 4 negro boy, who is an inmate
in the Jamesburg New Jersey Reform
School, is said TO have tasted no food for -
days, and yet this condition is unchanged.
His body is rubbed with sweet oil twice
day.
The liquor dealers of Waltham. Massachu-
sets, have decided to withdraw all their
funds, amounting to about Sl50,0O0, from
the local national bank. the officers of which
were prominent in the recent no license agi-
tation.
Joseph j. Tannenholz was horsewhipped
in the street. in New York. on Sunday night,
by three young women-the Misses Fetter-
man, who alleged that TanneuholZ had spo.
ken disrespectfully of them in bar room
The women were required to give bonds to
keep the peace.
The steamer Peru, at San Francisco, on
Tuesday, brought news that the fire in Toxic
on November II destroyed nearly 700 houses.
Seventeen fremen were injured while fight
ing the confagration. On November a
portion of limestone mine in Nagayamura.
Japan, collapsed, killing SO miners.
A colored preacher by the name of Light
foot, who has been collecting money from
the negroes in jackson county, Arkansas.
under the promise of taking them to Liberia,
was assassinated Friday afternoon of last
week, at Robertson's Church, Arkansas. It
is supposed the negroes whom he duped did
the killing.
James Frouatt mas been arrested at Rah-
way, n. j.. charged with the murder of
young woman whose body was found on the
morning of Saturday, March 26, 1887, III a
lonely road leading to the village of Milton.
two miles west of Railway. The body was
never identified. 1t is said Frouatt has made
confession.
At Galveston. Texas, on Tuesday morning,
Melinda Milliugie, Of i'll repute, was found
in her room dead, her throat cut, and COM
pletely disemboweled, sitting at table with
her head on her arms. She was living with
her mother, VINO was arrested on suspicion.
The mother and daughter frequently quar-
relied. and both were addicted to drink.
Thomas 6. Lamar. of Aiken, South Caro-
lima, well known as the owner of the extern
tive kaolin deposits at Langley South Caro-
lima, was killed at Aiken. on the main street,
on Monday evening, by Mayor Robert A.
Challee, the Mayor having been already Sc
riouslv shot, and the Chief of Police, Robert
CASTOR, probably fatally wounded by Lamar.
Two collins containing badly deeomposed
bodies of infants were found on Saturday in a
stable in Haverhill. Massachusetts. They
as security for the payment of his bill-one
of them for three years. In one case the
family concerned produced bill from the un-
dertaker and viii sue him Cor breach of con-
tract.
About noon on Monday the surface of the
ground three hundred yards east of Packer
coliery. No. ?, near Lost Creek, Penna.. be-
gan to crack, and several minutes after a
freight train and coal train had passed over
the spot the ground gave way, carrying with
it both tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The cavity thus made is 70 feet deep and
about 40 feet in diameter.
Mrs Kate Painter, of Greenburg, Penna.,
was arrested on Tuesday on charge of poi
soning her husband, George Painter, we'll
known citizen. Painter died suddenly and
under suspicious circumstances about six
weeks ago. The stomach of the dead man
was sent to Pittsburg chemist for an analy-
sis of its contents, and the result showed the
g ,,,t h. ~,
When the mail pouch was thrown off the
Southern Express, on Tuesday at Thurlow
Station, Pa, thief sneaked up and carried
it off. The pouch was taken to an adjoining
field, where it was rifled of il contents The
pouch and one letter were recovered. This
mail usually contains money, sent to the
families of working men in South Chester,
and the amount stolen can only be coniec-
tured.
A Pittsburg paper publishes a story of an
alleged conspiracy to poison the non-union
men employed by the Carnegie Steel Com
pany in Homestead. The developments
made, it is said, implioate members of the
Advisory Committee, members of the Anal
gamated Association and members of the
labor organizations sympathizing with the
locked out men in Homestead 1t is alleged
that several persons have lost their lives,
while scores of others are still suffering at
their homes and in hospitals from the effects
of poisonous drugs administered to them in
food. 1t is said that nine or more persons
have been arrested. The only name given of
those charged with administering poison is
Robert beatty.
The fourth statistical report of the Inter.
State Commerce Commission, which has just
been computed, shows that the railway mile
age in the United States increased during the
year ended June 80, 1892 1885, 90 miles, the
total being l6S, 40274 miles; there were
1875 railway corporations of which 500 were
Independent companies for the purpose of
aperation 80 railways had a gross revenue
IN excess of 50. 600, 600, and these companies
control 69.4S per cent. of the total mileage Of
the country, and receive 5000 per cent of
the amount paid by the public for railroad
service. There were 80, l39 locomotives in
use, 7S4, 2S5 men were employed, and the to
tai capitalization was $500. 475, OILS, or $780,
942 per mile of line. The gross earnings
amounted to 81 ,096, 76l 1896.
A despatch from Summit, Mississippi, tells
of terrible tornado which passed two miles
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