The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-27
News of the Week.


Twenty-Five cows and two horses have died
recently of anthrax in the neighborhood of
Newport, Delaware.
Daniel Riestling, aged 90 years, died in
Sunbury, Penna., on Saturday. of injuries.
sustained by being struck by freight car.
Two brothers who live in Clay county, ILL.,,
are known as the fish people" as their
bodies are claimed to be covered with scales.
Edward Geer's horse Hal Pointer paced
mile in 2054 at Chicago last week, lowering
Directs record of2.06, previously the fastest.
A cloud burst at Freedom, Penna., on
Friday night, washed away foundations of
houses and tore outthe main street to a depth
of six feet.
George Dougherty, aged 70 years, employ
ed at the convent at Glen Riddle, Penna., was
kicked in the head by a horse on Saturday
night and instantly killed.
About 1000 saw mill employees at Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, struck on Monday for 10
hours at the old lhour wages. The plants
of five lumber companies, including II mills,
are idle.
During recent absence of the Sheriff of
Jackson county, Alabama, IL prisoners in
the Scottsboro jail escaped. Eleven of them
have been recaptured. Among those still at
large are two murderers.
William Dunbar sat on his brother Joseph's
hat at Chester, Penna., on Saturday night.
a quarrel ensued, in the course of which
William shot his brother through the thigh,
inflicting serious injury.
The river coal operators of the Pittsburg
district, at Il meeting on Monday decided to
reduce the wages of their miners to three
cents bushel. A strike of the 10, 600 miners
-, fba district - nvOantal
About $1,000 worth of coupon tickets were
recently stolen from the Cheboygan Office of
the Michigan Central Railroad, neatly stamp
ed by the burglar and sold to the public
through the scalpers of Chicago and other
points.
Two prospectorS are said TO have discov-
cred silver and lead ores about 10 miles from
Little Rock, Arkansas. The silver ore assays
high as 1900 ounces to the ton. Land has
been bought and company organized for
mining purposes.
Frank Torres, the murderer Of Captain
William McKevey, foreman on Madame
Modjeska's ranch in San Diego Canon, was
taken from the Jail at Santa Anna, California,
on Saturday morning, by a mob of 35 men
and hanged to a telegraph pole.
William Smith and Andrew konker, aged
respectively Is and IL years, were killed at
Auburn, New York, on Sunday by Il wagon
they were driving coming in contact with an
electric car. Their horse became frightened
by the car and ran directly into it.
telegram from Oswego, Kansas, says
that farmers who claimed that back water,
caused by the dam across the Neosho river
there, ruins there farms, have blown the OBJ.
jectionable obstruction up with dynamite.
Tho dam vaS tho Enact in tho Sfafa
The soldiers at Homestead are looking for
ward to the LIST of September, when they
expect to be relieved. By that time they
will have been in continuous service longer
than at any time during the history of the
Guard, having been in the field go days.
While returning home from a camp meeting
at Summit Grove, Pa, on Sunday night,
freight train struck and instantly killed Ed
ward Shewell, of Glen Rock, and so badly
injured his companion, Ella Stauffer, Of
Shrewsbury, that she died soon afterwards.
Frederick Smith, an employe of fire es-
cape company, was shocked to death while
working on roof in Pittsburg on Monday
afternoon. He took hold of an electric light
wire and could not let go. A companion
pushed him from the wire, but he died in a
few minutes.
Intense heat prevailed in London, Vienna,
Berlin and Paris last week. There were
numerous cases ofsunstroke, business was par
TALLY suspended and schools were dismissed.
The most Unprecedented heat prevailed this
week. A large number Of deaths resulted
and crops are destroyed.
George Kitteras, an attendant at the Ian
caster County, Pa, Hospital, on Saturday
night shot at Mary Flowers because she refUs-
ed his proposal of marriage. Fortunately
the ball was DETECTED by large buckle the
woman wore, and she escaped serious injury.
Kitteras fed.
A telegram from Peoria, Illinois, says that
the Wesley City Mine, across the river from
Peoria caved in on Monday and it was at
first thought several lives were lost. The
men, however, made their escape through
auotlier shasti tho nina, mile from whore
the accident occurred.
Torrents of rain fell at Roanoke, Va, on
Monday, and many stores in the business
portion of the city were flooded. On Salem
and Campbell streets the water was eight to
ten feet deep. Barney Smith fell into flood
ed sewer ditch and was drowned. The dam
age is said to be 100000.
The Supreme Lodge OF the Knights of
Pythias convened at Kansas City, on Tuesday,
after public reception by the municipal au,
thorites. Supreme Chancellor Shaw and
other officers presented their reports. The
uniformed rank of the Order went into camp
vt the same time about 1900 strong.
A St. Louis and San Francisco passenger
train was held up near Augusta, Kansas, on
Sunday night aud the the Wells Fargo ex-
press car was robbed. The four robbers were
almost Immediately afterwards captured by
the Sheriff, and proved to be four farmers,
living near Douglass, who were new at the
business Of train robbery,
A despatch from Plattsburg, New York,
says that on Monday while train on the new
Adirondack and st. Lawrence Railroad was
running lat the usual rate of speed,n near
Upper Lake, the bed OF the road caved, let
ting down the entire train. Three cars were
entirely beneath the ground. Only few of
the passengers were seriously injured, while
all received slight bruises.
The boycott instituted by the Homestead
strikers against tradesmen who cold to the
Carnegie Steel Company resulted Monday in
the failure OF Adolph Doerr, one of the prin-
cipal provision dealers in that borough.
Doerr furnished meat, milk and ice to Super
intendent Potter and the non unonists from
the beginning of the trouble. No Amalga-
mated men have patronized him, and his loss
up to Monday night is said to have been $780,
900.
A despatch from Cressona, Penna, says
that the epidemic of typhoid fever, which has
been prevalent there to most alarming ex-
tent for the past few weeks, is daily growing
yorse, AMI ihera are few families that are not
afflicted. The Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company has taken the matter in
hand, and on Saturday sent physicians and
chemists to Cressona to analy2e the water
from which the disease Is supposed to origi
nate.
Woodvile, small village near jackson,
Michigan, on the main line of the Michigan
Central Railroad, is thought to be in danger
Of sinking bodily into the earth. About ten
days ago the Standard Coal Mine became
flooded and had to be abandoned. Since
then several cave-ins have occurred over the
deserted mine, the area covered by the holes
extending over so or 60 rods square. while
the undermined section is probably half
mile square.
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