The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-12-03
News of the Week.

News OF the week.
Cholera has reappeared in Paris and typhus
fever in New York.
Miss A. B. Niche died in Albemarle
county, Va, last week in the 93d year of her
age.
Within week 1900 cases of typhoid fever
have been reported by the health depart
ment of st. Louis.
Emanuel Custer, father of the late General
Custer, died on Sunday in Parsonville, Mich
igan, aged IS years.
St. Johns Episcopal Church, in Knox
vile, Tennessee, was dedicated on Sunday.
The church cost Sl50,000.
While oiing machinery in sawmill at
Hazleton, Penna., on Saturday, Andrew
Moretz fell againt circular saw and was cut
to pieces.
Extreme cold has prevailed throughout
Austria Hungary. There is much suffering
among the poorer classes and soup houses
have been opened.
Rev. John Witherspoon Scott, ID. D.,
President Harrison's father law, died at
the White House on Tuesday afternoon. in
the 93d year of his age.
Over 200 men and their families are in
destitution at Homestead, Pa. The men
have been without work since July |, and
are sadly in need of assistance.
Two hundred Hollanders arrived in New
York Oh Saturday by the Dubbiedam, on
their way to the San Luis Valley, Colorado,
where they are to found colony.
Daniel Boiler, Elder of the Mt. Lebanon
Shakers, died in Lebanon, New York, on
November %. aged 30 years. He mad been
at the head of the communities for over half
IA century.
While Benny O'Donnell, aged 4. was
playing near Il locomotive, at Gadsden, Ala
hama, on Saturday, his clothes were ignited
from Il piece of burning waste, and he was
burned to death.
1year-od daughter of George CarbelI,
of Livermore, Kentucky who was abducted
by a band of Cherokee Indian fake doctors
three weeks ago, was recovered by her father
on Saturday near English, Indiana.
Al Edinburgh, Scotland, IL fire ON Salur
day night and Sunday destroyed nearly -
81, 5Oo,0O0 worth of silks and Christmas
goods. Several employees in the stores and
iircmen were killed or fatally injured.
Rev. Thomas Il. Crcath, aged 90 years,
died at his home, in Sussex county, Satur-
day, after a protracted illness. He was the
oldest Baptist minister in Virginia, and prob
ably the oldest clergyman in the State.
Four men have been arrested at Johns
ton City, Tennessee, charged with Il number
of recent buTglarieS and with conSpiring to
undermine and rob the bank at that place
on Sunday night mine under the vault
had been partially completed
Boomers are already assembling on the
southern border of Kansas in anticipation of
the opening to settlement of 5000, 900 acres
of land in the Cherokee strip, though the
date for the opening is not fixed. Congress
sional action is first necessary in the matter.
Henry Banks, colored, of GAINESVILLE, Ari-
IONA, returned home on Sunday and found
his wife talking to Joseph Perry, a neighbor.
Banks pulled out a razor and literally cut
them to pieces. He cut the limbs of the vic
Tins from their bodies and threw them into
the hog pen.
During an alteration at Tryon, Georgia,
on Saturday, white man named Wooten
struck negro over the head with the butt
end of his double barreled shot gun. The
gun was discharged and Wooten was shot in
the stomach and instantly killed. The negro
will also die.
Three men and TWO women were burned to
death 1T Mddletown, Connecticut, on Satur-
day night, in Il tobacco barn. The victims
were party of umbrella members seen near
there before the fire. 1t is supposed they
were drunk and set fire to Il small amount of
hay, the only contents of the barn.
Robert Barbour, President of the Barbour
Flax Spinning Mills in Paterson, New Jer-
sey, and Il member of the firm of Barbour
Bros, the famous Belfast, Ireland, thread
house, died on November %, in Paterson, of
apoplexy. He was born in Ireland in 1924,
and leaves an estate of Sl0,000,000.
Alice Dessey, 3 years old, and Clifford
Dessey, years old. were burned to death in
"A frame dwelling in Chicago on Monday
The fire started from a lamp in the attic,
where the children were sleeping. Mrs
Dessey and James Heany were severely
burned in attempting to rescue the little ones
A fight between negro and white man
occurred on the railroad along the Tennes
see river, near Huntsville, Alabama, Wednes.
day. white contractor named Woods in
terfered on behalf of the white man. Several
negroes turned upon Woods and fatally
stabbed him. Four negroes were arrested
and there is talk of lynching them.
Paul Swetlick, wealthy farmer of Jack
son county, Kan, was murdered recently by
a revolver so placed in the saddle that when
he mounted his horse the weapon was dis
charged into his body. On Sunday, his sis
ter, Mrs. John Stach, Joseph Stach, her son,
and Henry Nowick, laborer in Stach's EN-
plOy, were arrested charged with the crime.
By the changing of the State boundary line
between Pennsylvania and Delaware the fam
lies of John 7. johnson. Mrs. Mary J. Cham
bers and Thomas Seal find themselves sud
denly changed from Deawareans to Pennsyl-
vanians. They have been moved from Mill
Creek hundred, Del, to Little Bantam, Ches-
ter county, Pa. All their large properties are
recorded in New Castle county, Del. There
is much excited discussion over the report of
the boundary commission, and many inter
esting complications are expected to arise.
Thomas c. Hodgins died at his home in
Setauket, New York, on No vember "a,
aged SO years. He had given 100000 to
the Royal Institute of London, 100000 to
the Smithsonian Institution, 500, 600 to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, and an equal sum to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
He also founded free library in his village.
He came from England at the age of %. He
was poor, but accumulated wealth during the
war while in business in New York.