The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-16
News of the Week.


Pa, was dedicated last Sunday.
A. B. Church, aged 81 years, was burned
to death in his house at Jersey City. Tuesday
night.
General John W. C. Corcoran has been
elected chairman of the Massachusetts Dem
cratic State Central Commute.
According to dispatch from ST. Louis tw1
more large whiskey distilleries are to be built
there to fight the Whisky Trust.
Four eight inch steel rihed cannon have
arrived at San Francisco, from Washington.
for the new Notifications of the bay.
Captain Robert F. Bradford, U. S. N, was
found dead in bed at his home in Portsmouth
New Hampshire, on Saturday morning.
Charles Colster, farmer of Syracuse, New
York, committed suicide last Saturday he
had become Respondent through fear Of he
coming insane.
An attachment of $4,000 has been placed
on Gen. B. B. Buffers property in Lowell.
Massachusetts, at the suit of Estes & T.auriat.
the Boston publishers.
By an explosion of dynamite in a stone
quarry at Bellaire, Ohio, on SATURDAY eight
men were hurt, John Walters fatally. The
residence of Frank Nelson was wrecked.
The total number of victims of the Krebs
mine disaster, near McAllister, in the Indian
Territory, last week, has reached fifty. eight
Seventeen others are not expected to survive.
A despatch from Ashland, Pa, SAYS that
the West Lehigh mine fire is still raging furi-
ously and appears to be of enormous propor-
tons. The burning vein is almost 20 feet
thick.
Congressman Mills was quoted on Saturday,
at Corsicana. Texas, as having said that he
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tor. should there be a called session Of the
Legislature.
Charles S. Furst's dry goods store, D. B.
Olmstead notion store and 6. W. Clerihew's
tailoring establishment, in jersey City, were
destroyed by fire last Saturday night. The
losses are estimated at $500, 600.
Fire destroyed tie Academy of ST. Louis
de Consaque, at Montreal, on Tuesday. There
were 800 children and number of nuns in
the building when the flames were discov-
cred, but all were gotten out safely.
A dispatch from Ionia, Michigan. saws that
Frank Harden has made II confession impli.
eating three well known farmers in series
of daring thefts of wheat in that region. by
which $4,000 worth of grain was lost to its
owners.
A fast freight train ran into shifting en-
road, at Royersiord, last Saturday morning,
fireman and brakeman of the shifter were in
iured, the first two severely.
The Montreal Trade Bulletin SAYS that a
movement is on foot to form combine of
the cigar manufacturers of the Dominion, and
some preliminary meetings have already taken
place. If the project goes through factories
will be established in Montreal, st. John, n.
B., Toronto and Vancouver.
The Brooke Iron Company, of Birdsboro
Pennsylvania, has notified its employees of Il
general reduction of wages. Puddlers are
reduced from $3.50 to 1925 per ton, sheet
mill employees from 40 to 36 cents a ton. and
nailers about 10 per cent. The firm employs
over 400 hands.
1t is reported that the French Consul Gen
eral at Quebec has instructed the French
Vice Consuls throughout the Dominion to
warn all Frenchmen to hold themselves in
readiness to join their respective corps in the
French army. This is supposed to be in
consequence of the Tangier difficulty.
The time fixed by the Comptroller of Chr
rency for the payment of the assessment of
100 per cent on the stock of the Spring Gar
den National Bank, Philadelphia, expired
last Saturday. Only about SIS, 900 of the
$3.50, 900 then called had been paid The
receiver will institute suit against deinquents.
A fire broke out in the Sibley Block, at
Rochester, New York on Tuesday, and the
building was completely destroyed. The
chapel of the Second Baptist church and one
or two adjoining properties were damaged.
1t was reported that several persons were
caught by "a falling wall and buried in the
ruins.
Judge Simonton, at Harrisburg, on Satur-
day, issued decree requiring the Quaker City
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Philadel-
phia, to conduct its business hereafter on a
purely mutual plan, with the premium rates
as basis of security. 1t will also have to
keep separate bank account to the credit of
the corporation.
The entire street car system of lndianapo-
lis is completely tied up. Ten days ago Pres.
ident Frenzel, of the Citizens street railway
company, took up all the badges of the EN-.
ployes and notified them that, except on
strictly company business and under certain
other conditions, the men must either pay
fare or walk. Hence the men have struck
A syndicate of Western capitalists has pur.
chased 1,600 acres of land lying between
Alexandria and Mount Vernon for about
$l40,0 900. The same syndicate has secured
andria for an electric railway, which will
be constructed at once, embracing the prin-
cipal streets of the city, and running from
the steamboat and railroad depots to Mount
Vernon, the whole scheme involving the
expenditure of at least 100000.
The first bill introduced in the Ohio General
Assembly after its organization on Monday,
was for redistricting the State for representa-
ton in Congress, so that the Republicans will
have seventeen Congressman and the Demo
Gratis four Columbus, which has been in
Democratic district for years, is thrown in a
republican district, though the majority is
less than 900 in total vote of 81, 090 The
four Democratic districts will have an average
majority of 10000. Congressman Cultivate
is thrown into Republican district.
A riot occurred in Micanopy, Florida, on
Monday night, during Il tightrope perform
ance in the public square. 1t was started by
a colored rowdy named Hinson fatally shoot
ing a young white man named Chitty, who
had ordered him away for using bad language
in the presence of ladies. A fusilade of about
20 pistol shots followed the murder, and
John Jones, colored friend of Hinson, was
killed. Hinson was arrested and lodged in
Jail. At clock Tuesday morning he was
taken from Jail and lynched. At last accounts
the town was quiet.
Two rustic Southerners registered at u ho-
tel in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Monday eve
ming, as Reuben Hall aud Sias Griffen, of
Virginia. 1t being suspected that they were
victims of green goods sharpers, policemen
Swallowed them. They retired early, and
when the clerk accompanied the officers to
their room it was found that they had blown
out the gas and werein danger of suffocation.
On the table by their beds were two large re-
volvers. The Virginians were taken to
police headquarters. where they admitted
that they were to meet man in Plainiield
who was to sell them S3l, 900 for $500.
While the British steamship Eleanor, bound
for Holyhead, England, was off Greenore
light, county Louth, Ireland, on Monday, but
far out at sea, one ofthe men passengers, who
had been acting in strange manner, suddenly
jumped overheard. The vessels engines
were reversed, boat lowered and volnn-
teer crew of six sailors started in the direction
of the drowning man. After an hours search
they found him clinging to a life buoy that had
been thrown from the vessel on the first alarm,
but he died before they could pull him into