The Democratic advocate., 1892-12-31
News of the Week.

was 50 years old ON Thursday.
The Ohio river at Bellaire was frozen ovel
on Monday for the first time since 1885.
James Kirk, aged 70 years. committed sui
eide at New Market, York county, Pa, on
| Christmas.
Orange Judd, the senior editor of the
| ''0range Judd Farmer" of Chicago, died on
Tuesday, aged 20 years.
James McVeigh, of Waycross, Ga, is 81
years old, has % children living and has
never been sicE day in his life.
Martin A. Richie, farmer of Hilsboro.
| Illinois, was swindled out of S., 900 by ''three
card monte sharps" on Saturday.
Mrs. John W. Wunder, of South Orange,
New Jersey, was fatally burned Tuesday. In
ii spell of dizziness she fell over stove.
John d. Rockefeller has given 81, 900. OO0
to Chicago University, and an unknown dono 7
has given S250,000 to the same institution.
A Chicago dispatch reports an almost un.
paralleled dullness in the hog trade, 5000
men having been discharged since December .
The sheriff of Cumberland county, Pa, is
compelled by law to board tramps at A cents
per day. He now has about 50 in his keep
ing.
All the old mills of the Bethlehem Iron
Works, at Bethlehem, Pa, have been closed
for an indefinite period, throwing 1900 men
out of work.
1t was discovered at Toledo, Ohio, on
Monday night, that certain large factories had
for long time been stealing from the city's
natural gas supply.
The Christmas Society of New lork Mon
day made many thousand poor children happy
by the distribution of Christmas gifts at the
Madison Square Garden.
In the recent race between the steamers
City of Paris and Eturia of the Inman line,
from New York to Liverpool, the Eturia won
in days, 6 hours and 26 minutes.
j. II. Wade, of Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday
presented the city with four acres of land re.
served by his father in beautiful Wade Park.
in East End, valued in cash at 100000.
John jackson, colored man, who eloped
with Tessie Henkle, white waitress, was
taken from the Jail and tarred and feathered
at West Liberty, Ohio, on Monday night.
Rev Joshua Thompson. aged 81 years, a
retired member Of the Genesee Methodist
Conference, has been missing from his home
in Washington, d. c., for about four weeks.
An infant child of Mrs. Million, of Elwood,
Ind, was burned to death on Sunday, anoth-
er child having set the little ones clothes on
fire with matches during the mothers alb
sence.
The Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn, who has
been reinstated as a priest by Mgr. Satolli,
celebrated mass in private in the chapel Of
St. Johns College, Brooklyn, Christmas
morning.
John Mitchell, 4 colored man. aged 20
years, was found frozen to death last Saturday
morning in front of the residence Of Col. B.
| S. Watson, on North Front street, Milford,
/ Delaware.
Paul Gearhart, living in South Bend,
Indiana, IA years old, was so delighted on
Tuesday at receiving pair of skates that he
uttered cry of JOY and fell to the floor dead.
He had heart trouble.
| A. j. Bryant, who was arrested for drunk
enness at Bangor, Maine, and who made an
unsuccessful attempt at suicide in the Jail on
| Monday, has confessed that lie left South
| Carolina to escape arrest for murder.
At Plattsburg, N Y, on Monday the mer-
curry fell to % below zero, and at several other
places it ranged from 10 to 2l below At
Kansas City, Missouri, there was blizzard,
and the storm extended over the entire south
! west.
| While drunk Christmas night John Quinn,
Of Sharpsville, Pa, brutally beat his wife and
then cast her out in the cold. The woman is
| lying in a critical condition and her death IS
expected. Quinn was arrested and is now in
Jail.
The grand Jury at Lincoln. Nebraska, has
returned indictments against eight former
| officers and contractors of the State Asylum
for the Insane. The charges, it is said, EN-
brace forgery, embezzlement and obtaining
money under false pretences.
The Great Northern Line was blockaded
| Saturday night by heavy land-slides about
ten miles north OF Seattle, Washington. The
passengers were compelled to walk five miles
to Ballard, hearing the roar of the slides IN
the rear as they trudged through the mud.
The steamship City of Berlin arrived at
New York on Monday after rough voyage
! from Liverpool Ice gathered on the deck
several inches thick and coated the sides from
/ stem to stern. Several skylights were carried
away, and a boat amidships was broken to
pieces.
Appleton r. Hillyer and his sister, Clara
| f. Hllyer; of Hartford, Connecticut have
given $4,000 10 the Hartford Young Mems
| Christian Association for a manual training
institute, to be called the Hillyer Institute, in
/ honor of their father, the late General Chas.
7. Hillyer.
Anna Grouse, servant employed in a
/ residence in Indianapolis, encountered Il
| burglar in the house on Monday night, and
stabbed him three times with knife. He
was subsequently captured, and proved to be
| Charles Jaycook, cousin of the girl who
had stabbed him.
During a mass at st. Aloysius' ) Roman
| Catholic Church in Cincinnati on Sunday
Rev. Bernard Schwalem, young priest but
recently ordained, committed suicide in the
residence adjoining by shooting himself. He
I had been very respondent over a hereditary
tendency to insanity.
/ Houston county, Ga, is rapidly becoming
/ Il great peach growing county. Ten orchards
alone have total of 935, 900 trees, averaging
| 1921 acres, or nearly eight square miles. In
I addition, there are enough small orchards,
/ containing 5000 to 10000 trees, to swell
this sum immensely.
The resurvey of the boundary line between
/ Delaware and Pennsylvania has practically
/ been completed, the placing Of the marking
/ stones at intervals Of half mile only remain
1 ing to be done. A thin strip of territory on
which possibly 20 person, live, has been added
to Pennsylvania area.
During a religious meeting in colored
Free Methodist Chapel in Chicago, on Sun.
day night, James Williams confessed that he
had murdered Charles Lavaurne, his employ
er, in Paris, and that he had committed
another murder in Louisiana in order to have
one John Lafayette put in Jail.
John c. McCourt, late agent of the Louis
vile and Nashville freight Office in Cinciu-
natl, for whose arrest for embezzlement re-
QUESTION was obtained, did not wait for the
order of the Governor of Kentucky to act, but
went to Cincinnati Saturday and submitted TO
arrest. He Immediately gave bail in the SUN
of $4,000
Numerous outrages upon women in the
Northern and New England States have been
reported during the holidays. Several so
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