The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-28
News of the Week.

Philadelphia, Pa, has 1876 persons worth
over 81 900, 900 each.
The immigrants arriving in the United
States during April last numbered 90,959.
A fire at Minet ell Basel, Egypt, on Satur-
day destroyed the cotton warehouses; loss
$3.50, 900.
Several persons were killed in Philadelphia,
Pa, on Saturday night and Sunday during
drunken quarrels.
The First Baptist Church at Meridian,
Miss, was destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The loss is 10000.
Glen Rock, Pa, is becoming quite horse
market, more horses having been sold there
this spring than ever before.
The Opera House and several other bust
ness places at Lansford, Penna., were des-
troyed by fire on Saturday. Loss from $780,
600 to $4,000
The damage by the flood in Franklin coun-
tv. Arkansas, is variously estimated at from
$10O, 600 to $3.50, 600 The cotton crop will
be reduced at least one third.
Elias Britton, engineer at factory at Shoe
makersyille, Berks county, was struck III the
abdomen by plank whirled by circular
saw. on Saturday morning, and fatally injured.
The street car lines of New Orleans are
tied up, owing to disagreement between the
companies and the employees. A few ears
were run on Sunday, under police protection.
verdict for SIS, 800 was given against the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad at Wilkesbarre on
Saturday, and in favor of Rev. Mr.. Holden,
of Long Island, who lost n leg in an accident
recently.
Ii is reported from Pittsburg that the Mill
vale Iron Steel Company will start in opera
ton within a few weeks new process for the
manufacture of steel by which 1t can be fur
nished as cheaply as iron.
During the past year 156 negroes have been
hanged, burned alive, l iayed and disloint'
ed. vet the outrages still go on, what is to be
the outcome no one knows, but the wome
and girls must be protected.
break occurred on Sunday night in the
levee on the Fesier place, three miles below
College Point, Louisiana. This is regarde
as the most serious break thus tar IN the
Lower Mississippi levees.
Fifteen hundred feet of the wooden bridge
across the Des Moines river, at Ottumwa,
Iowa, we're carried away by the wreck OF the
ferry house, cutting off communication be-
tween the two parts of the city.
James Ginley, of McKeesport, Penna., has
been arrested on the charge of having driven
his wife and her newborn babe out of the
house, at the point of revolver The
woman is in critical condition.
The Methodist Episcopal General Confer
ence. at Omaha, on Tuesday adopted, by a
vote OF 298 to l62, minority report of q
committee opposing the proposal to abolish
the FIVE year limit to the pastorates.
A drunken riot among laborers at Atlanta,
Georgia, on Sunday night, resulted in the
shooting of three men. Kid Sanford wa!
shot dead, Bob Taylor was fatally wounded
and William Taylor died of his wounds.
During a trial in Pittsburg on Monday o
two men charged with arson, an old man who
was supposed to have been burned TO dealt
| In the fire which the defendants were accus
| ed of starting, made his appearance, alive
and well.
William H. Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius
| Vanderbilt, died at his home in New 1orl
Monday night. lie was q years of age, ;
Young man of talent, and would probably
have been the leading member of the Wander
biIt family had he lived.
Two frame houses in Pittsburg, the owner
ship of which was indispute, were destroyed
by fire at an early on Sunday morning, anC
one of the occupants, an old man nameC
Tucker. was burned to death. The fire il
believed to have been incendiary.
1t is reported from Kansas City that the
suit of Mrs James Monahan, in Chancery, t.
recover valuable property confiscated by thu
British Government in 1898 from Timothy
Brady, has been decided in Mrs. Monahan'i
favor. The property is valued at 81, OO0, OOO
Harry r. Hall, photographer of Shenan
doah, Pa, was arrested on Monday, charged
with an attempt to set fire to his place o
business in order to get the insurance money
He engaged William Richter to do the work
but Richter weakened and informed the
authorities.
A despatch from Memphis Tuesday nigl
saws that "it is estimated that 300 hor Sc:
and mules and 5000 head of cattle have been
drowned, and that 700, 900 acres Of cultivated
farms are under water between Memphis and
Cairo. According to Captain Howard, o
the Steamboat Line, there are 225, 900 acre:
of wheat destroyed, 300,000 acres OF corn
ruined and nearly 100000 acres Of cotton in.
undated. The waters continue to rise, and
in two days more it is expected that l,0OO, OOC
acres of cultivated ground will be flooded
The Arkansas bottoms are all under water,
and the number of lives lost and property
DESTROYED cannot be estimated because no
boats have gone into the flooded districts.