The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-16
News of the Week.


were ousted from street-car service last year
by electricity.
Fire bugs are at work in Vienna. Five
incendiary fires have occurred this week
cntailing great loss of property.
Margaret DAILY, colored, of Philadelphia,
Pa. was buried on Saturday. She was
Al years old, feet high, and weighed 3l2
pounds.
For the first time in the history of the
city the Democrats of New Britain, Con
necticut. elected their local and county
ticket on Tuesday.
Two distinct earthquake shocks were
felt throughout Montgomery, Warren and
Otsego counties, New York, on Tuesday
morning at 1923 O'Clock.
The bean and cucumber crops were
killed and strawberries badly injured by
frost in the neighborhood of Norfolk,
Virginia, on Sunday night.
A freak of nature is reported from neal
Grandview, Tex, where mare gave plrth
to twins. one being horse and the other
mule colt. Both are living.
John Ewing and his wife, of Fort Mad;
ison. Illinois, have been arrested charged
with frightfully beating and burning, be-
sides starving, foster child.
Six thousand houses were destroyed BY
fire Sunday last in Toxic, the chief city OF
japan. The loss of life was heavy. Fifty
of the natives were killed, and a number
are still missing.
The annual horse show day at Gralntz
Park. Cincinnati. Ohio began Monday
Over one million dollars worth of thorough
bred and trotting stations and hackney
horses were placed on exhibition
Forest fires broke out in parts Of New
jersey on Friday and Saturday of last
week. Several tracts Of from 2O,0OO to
80. 900 acres were burned over, and much
loss was sustained by truckers and dairy
men.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
and parsonage at Corsicana, Texas, were
bur ned on Tuesday, it is alleged by rival
churches who were jealous of the success
of the church in winning members and
Converts
Two French families at North Wind
man. Connecticut, seven persons IN all,
have been poisoned by drinking buttermilk
which had fermented in tin can on Sun
day. One of the number, Mrs. Dewey, is
in critical condition.
4 blizzard, with heavy fall Of snow,
Prevailed in Iowa and parts of Missouri
on Tuesday and Wednesday. In England
and Wales, on Wednesday, the mercury
fell from 60 to 30 degrees and snow fell
to the depth of six inches.
The total value of the exports Of do
nestle bread stuffs from the United States
during the nine months ending March
3lst, 1892, was S233, 1892, as compar-
ed with 49,, 252, 926, during the correspond
ing period in the previous year.
Ario Pardee, of Hazelton, Pa, died re-
Gently leaving an estate Of over S30, 900
600. He leaves Il widow, but no child
rem. As he had intended to donate largely
several educational institutions, great ex-
citement prevails because he left no will.
A mass meeting of representative citi-
zens of Lincoln, Nebraska, was held on
Monday to protest against the proposed
appropriation by Congress of Sl0O,000 to
defray the expenses Of the &. A. r. en-
campment in Washington in September
next. Resolutions were adopted instruct
ing the Nebraska congressman not to vote
for the bill.
James w. Cooper, one of the colored
Jurors who served in the Schneider muir
der trial at Washington, D. c., died on
Tuesday from exhaustion. He was ro-
bust man. and accustomed to an outdoor
life. The long confinement and mental
strain told on him severely, and when he
was discharged he had lost over 30 pounds.
The trial occupied 30 days.
A number of the leading oil producer,
in the southwestern Pennsylvania oil field
are taking action look to general suspen-
sion of drilling operations for period OF
six months. beginning about May |. The
purpose is to curtail production. The
Standard producing companies are said tt
be willing to Join the movement, provided
there is sufficient unanimity among the
Independent producers.
Five pistol shots were fired in the back
room Of house in St Louis Tuesday
morning. When the room was entered
Howard Echols, colored, was found dead
with two bullet holes in his body, ant
Jennie Harris, also colored, was foun'
dying, having been shot three times
Each had discharged revolver, and it j
supposed duel took place. The coupl
had been living together, but quarrelled
and Echols had threatened to kill tn
woman and himself
Five negroes broke open freight Ca
on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
between Birmingham and Decatur, Ala
bama, Tuesday and, in subsequen
skirmish with officers, one of them wa
shot and fatally wounded and three other
were arrested One of them confesse
that the gang was that which attempt
ed to wreck Louisville and Nashvill
train at Bayles three weeks ago, and VIII
succeeded in robbing the Georgia Pacif
mail train at Weems station two weeks age
Rebecca Langdorf, domestic in tn
family of Solomon Bernstein, in New York
wag arrested on Saturday night on tn
charge of hsvipg placed the l5-mOnths-olt
child of her employer oq a hot stove. TIL
girl had the child with her in the Kitchen
when suddenly its screams called tn
the mother to the scene. and sh
found the child horribly burned, lying OIL
the floor near the stove. The girl sale
she accidentally burned the child in tryin:
to light a candle, but the little one loOkeC
as If Il had been burned on the stove.
A sail boat containing an instructor an
ten boys of the Boston Farm School, O.
Thompson's Island, was capsized in Rostol
harbor on Sunday evening, while on tia
way to the school. All of the occupants
managed to get into positions where the.
could cling to the boat They tried t
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