The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-02-06
News of the Week.

ioCdFltl lever Is epiucAhiC III NeHdTh, N. d..
and the schools are closed.
Scotland is overrun by mice which are
doing immense damage to pasture and gran
aries.
Henry W. Barnheisel, the Oldest citizen of
GIeencastle, Pa, died on Sunday, aged 81
years.
Malignant diphtheria is prevailing at
Greensburg, Pa, and is spreading at an
alarming rate.
l. j. Porter, aged ninety one years, one of
the oldest residents of Sharon, Pa, is dead
He leaves fortune estimated at $500, 900
drum ken quarrel near Darlington, South
Carolina, on Monday, ended in the shooting
and killing of Henry Jones by George Moody.
The Appomattox county courthouse, Va,
was destroyed by fire, on Tuesday, together
with all the records. The building was one
of the Oldest in the State.
William j. Gibbons, convicted of firing one
of the Dupont barns, was pilloried for one
hour and whipped with 40 lashes at New Castle
Jail, Delaware, on Saturday.
The powder mills of Camille Droit, imme.
diately opposite st. Louis across the river in
Illinois, were blown up by 5000 pounds of
dynamite early Saturday morning.
DR.. Basil Manley, professor of Old Testa-
ment Interpretation and Biblical introduc.
ton in the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, died at Louisville, KY, Tuesday.
David Jamison, one of the the oldest and
best known citizens of York, Pa, died Sun
day aged SO years. He also leaves nineteen
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A riot occurred between Italian and negro
coal miners at Smithton, Pa, on Saturday
night in which two men were fatally wounded
and another was so badly hurt that he will
lose his leg.
David Horner was placed under 81, 600
bail at Gettysburg, Pa, on Thursday, for hav-
ing repeatedly tried TO burn the Excelsior
school house, near Bendersville. He CON
fessed to five attempts.
Jacob Leese. who is said to have been the
first white settler in California, died in San
Francisco, Monday, aged eighty-two years.
He went to California in 1888 and built the
first house in San Francisco in 1886.
Howard Schneider, of Washington, d. c.,
on Sunday night shot his wife and her brother,
Frank Hamlink, while they we're on the way
to church. Hamlink was instantly killed,
and Mrs. Schneider was fatally wounded.
Charles Haddon Sturgeon. died at Men
tone, Italy, on Sunday. He was one of the
greatest and most popular pulpit orators the
modern world has seen, and was born at
Kevedon, Essex England, June 10, 1884.
j. A. Mellon and w. U. Porter, proprietors
of the Beaver Star, convicted of publishing "A
criminal libel against Senator Quay, were
sentenced to pay fine of 5000 each and un-
dergo six months Imprisonment in the county
Jail.
1t is stated that over 14,000,000 people in
Russia are on the verge of starvation. For
three successive years the crops have been
short, and the cold of the present winter has
been more severe than for u number of years
past.
Henry &. Dowd, who cut the threats of
number of people in New York, has been
declared insane and committed to an asylum.
John Carson, formerly well-known lawyer
of Baltimore, Nd, was one of his latest
victims.
II. Ii. Winans, wealthy farmer and poll
tcian, convicted at franklin. Pa, of burglary
and arson, was sentenced Saturday to five
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary As
Winans is SS years of age the sentence Is viz
tually for life
VIM Roselle, colored, of Dover, Del, on
Saturday night last became angry with a
small colored girl in his employ. He went
TO the stove and filling shovel With live Goals
poured them on the child head. The child
will die from the burns.
Miss Mitchell and Miss johnson were
arranged in the criminal court at Memphis,
Tennessee, Monday, for the murder of Miss
Ward. A plea of present insanity was
entered on behalf of Miss Mitchell, and the
other defendant pleaded not guilty.
Moses Hopkins, wel.known capitalist
died in San Francisco on Tuesday of heart
failure, believed to have been The result of
an attack of the grip, which lie experienced
about a month ago. He leaves an estate
valued at $3,OO0,O00 chiefly in California
lands.
At . clock Thursday morning the house
of A. NJ. Lennig, in East jacksonville, Fla,
was burned, and Mrs. Lennig and her two
children persisted in the flames. Mr.. Len
mig escaped in his night clothes, but was
very badly burned, and is nearly crazy from
the shock.
Elizabeth Senior, aged - years, was muir
dered at her home in Milburn. New Jersey,
on Saturday night, by burglar. Her body
was found Sunday morning by her husband,
who is a night Waterman. The woman'S
throat was cut and there were II stab wounds
in her body.
NJ. f. Chalk. an expert diver, has arrived
at Alpena, Michigan, and will attempt to
locate the wreck of the Pewabic, which sank
in l25 feet of water, in Thunder Bay, % years
ago Several unsuccessful efforts have been
made to raise the wreck, which is said to be
worth Sl65,00
The steamship Elder, of the North German
Lloyd Line, which went on the Atherfield
rocks in the English Channel, near the Isle
of Wight, Sunday, will, it is believed, be a
total wreck. Her captain and crew were
forced to abandon her. Passengers and
mail landed safety.
The price of grain is falling in the distress
ed provinces of Russia, owing to the increased
railway facilities, which allow OF more rapid
delivery of cereals from the more favored
provinces. The grain dealers who have been
Specializing for rise in values have sustained
heavy losses through the decline.
Mrs. Lucy Durham Thurber, the mother
of Horace X. and f. B. Thurber of New
York, died in Brooklyn, n. Y, on Sunday
at the age of 90. She was born in Coopers'
town in 1900 of an old colonial family. Her
maiden name was Lucy Durham. Eight OF
her children are now living
The Supreme Court of the United States
reversed the decision of the Supreme Court
of Nebraska in the Boyd. Thayer contest over
the Governorship. and, holding that Boyd
was a citizen of the United States, sent the
case back for the further proceedings IN
conformity with this opinion.
1t was discovered at the Columbus, Ohio,
Penitentiary on Sunday night that number
of prisoners had been running a tunnel for
the purpose of making their escape, and that
so feet of the 30 required for their purpose
had been completed. Information of the
work was given the officers by one of the
convicts.
Ithien Silsby Richardson, well-known in
ventor, died Monday night at his home in
Woodawn, Ills, aged eighty-six years.
Among his inventions were the machine now
used in placing pins in paper, machine TO
handle hooks and eyes in the same way, an
apparatus to roll sugar pills, and the pneu
matte tube.
The Buena Vista Cashmere Mills, at Buena
Vista, Va, are running on extra time,
executing a contract of 10000 yards of cloth
for the clothing department of the United
States army They closed another contract
Tuesday with theUnited States Government
for 10000. yards of navy blue cloth, to be