The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-26
News of the week.

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Two cases of sudden blindness resulting from Ia
grippe have occurred at Vicksburg, Tenn recently
DR.. D Hayes Agnew, of Philadelphia, the eminent
surgeon and author, died on Tuesday in his 9Th
year
Southern Illinois was visited by terrific snow
storm on Tuesday The snow drifted and closed all
traffic.
Max strakosch, the celebrated opera singer and
manager, died at Fordham. n. y. last week, from
acute paralysis
Emperor William is suffering from emphysema
ar collecting under the skin in the cellular tissue
and causing painful bloating).
Robert Ross and Jefferson Jones killed each other
on Sunday in the course of a fight at country
church near Fuller. Scott county, Arkansas
Mrs. Joseph Green, serving term in the Pennsyl-
vauia prison. at Allentown, gave birth to twins on
Wednesday. Her husband is also in the same
prison.
The residence of Jasper Pastele, near Anderson
Indiana, was demolished on Monday night by an
explosion of natural gas. and Pastelle was fatally
injured.
After having lived happily together for more thah
thirty years q New York WIFE aged sixty years APP
piled for and secured divorce from her husband,
aged seventy years.
The roof of the Methodist Church at Staunton,
causing damage to the interior of the building
to 5000 or Siooo.
Charles shaw, of Portland Me, widely known as
"stccplc Jack" while repairing the spire OF
church at south Livcrmore last week, fell from the
| top and was instantly killed.
| The number of students now registered at the
University Michigan. at Ann Arbor, is 269 which
is said to be the largest number every attending an
/ American institution of learning.
Monroe Scott, a colored preacher of Siiyery
Palace louisiana on Friday of last week killed bis
wife and another eolored woman, and, when closely
| pursued, shot and killed himself.
Mr.. and Mrs Nelson Stewart, of Mlersburg, Ohio,
| stopped at Il hotel in Lima Monday night on
their bridal tour They blew the gas out, and their
| dead bodies were found the next morning.
In a suit on advertising account, tried before
Judge Marshall J. Clarke, at Atlanta Ga, the judge
| decided that advertisements published in Sunday
newspapers are Illegal and need not be paid for
\ fire occurred in the folding room of the House
of Representatives in the Capitol at Washington,
Tuesday evening, and large number of public
documents prepared for mailing were destroyed.
Mayor Brewster, of Hiawatha, Kan, has selected
four colored men, one from each ward, as judges of
election II is believed to be the first appointment
orcoIorcd men to serve on election boards in kau-
sas.
\ severe blizzard prevailed on Monday at Cedar
| Rapids Burlington and other points throughout
| Iowa. Heavy snow also fell throughout Southern
| Illinois, and was accompanied by very low temper
| ature.
Paul Romare Vice President of the Atlanta Ga,
National Bank, and five members of his family were
poisoned Wednesday night by arsenic placed in
their coffee by discharged servant All will re-
cover.
The Hamilton Grange" in New York, has been
sold to ex-Congressman Orlando B. Potter, for sll0-
| 500 The property was the home of Alexander
Hamilton and on it are Is trees planted by Hami-
ton in commentator Of the Is original States.
On Sunday a barge laden with ten carloads of
eggs and belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road sank off the Battery in New York. During
the day the work of raising the barge was begun.
The warden of the prison at Sing Sing, y. Y, has
fixed Monday next for the execution of Michael
Cotto, the Brooklyn rag picker, who followed fell
low countrylnau from Italy to America, and killed
him at Fort Hamilton, for the purpose ofgetting
possession of his property.
DR.. James A. Durham, Baptist missionary, has
been found guilty of heresy at Benton Ills, by a
counsel of ministers. He is widely known re-
vivalist and has been n minister for twenty-five
years Recently he became converted to the doc
| trine of sanctiication or sness perfection.
On Saturday the Banquc Generate Chemin de Fer
ct lndustrie, of Paris, France, suspended. One OF
the directors committed suicide, two absconded
and one was arrested. The bank speculated in
French, Spanish and Russian securities. The
liabilities amount to 24OOOOOOE, and the assets to
100000
Mrs. Joseph Miller, North Range, Nova Scotia, was
! on Saturday last delivered Of boy, making the
fourth within four days. The first arrival was on
Tuesday noon, another came Wednesday evening
! t,ff III r1 he oh
twentythree pounds four ounces. and all concerned
are we'll
The big window glass factory at spieeland, Ind,
closed down Saturday because of total failure Of
its natural gas supply. The manufactures in other
portions of the Indiana gas belt apprehensive
lest a similar fate is in store for them. About SOC
workmen are affected by the closing of the works,
and the blow is a serious one to the town.
An artilleryman in the Vienna, Germany, bar
racks shot himself purposely with Werner rifle
Saturday The fatal bullet after passing through
the suicides breast, pl,iwed through the head of
second soldier standing killing him, and then
embedded itself in the of third soldier, in
feting Il serious injury.
Samuel Sells farmer aged thirty-seveu years,
while walking from his barn to his house, at
Bloomington His, on Thursday. of last week.
t1ipped and fell forward with great violence. Altar
rusty entered of his eyes to he depth of
six inches. It required all his strength to pull the
iron out. He cannot recover.
Last week Harry Pykc, of New Kingston, Cum
berland county, Pa. was bitten on the hand by a
hog that was about to be slaughtered. The wound
was well cauterized and thought to be apparently
healed, until a few days afterwards. The young
man was taken with scarlet fever, the wound re-
opened and blood poisoning set in, which resulted
in death, Wednesday, after the most agorizing
pains.
Jas Alexander farmer ofJackson county, Ky.,on
Saturday inquired for the High Constable of the
county as he stepped from tine Desbrosses street
ferry in New York; He was taken to police head
quarters and said that he killed boy named
Richard Erdrake in jackson county last May. He
was arrested for the crime but escaped while being
taken to Jail He was found to be insane and had
not killed any one.
mo. II" & Polander employed in the Solar Iron
Works. at Pttsburg, went 10 sleep on Sunday night
on pile OF Stag back of the mill. The other work
men, not knowing he was there dumped red hot
Stag over him. Monday morning he was found
buried under The Stag, nothing but his head being
visible. When an attempt was made to take him
out, it discovered that his body had been com
pletely burned up only his head remaining.
west bound freight train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was wrecked near Greensburg. Pa. on
Sunday morning, and few minutes later the
wreck was run into by an east bound freight.
Three hundred hogs were killed and about one
hundred saore were injured so badly that they will
have to be killed. The greater portion of two car
loads of cattle were also killed. The loss will be
very heavy. An unknown Italian was run over
and killed by the bound train just previous to
the wreck.
| On saturday night last in Wharton, Ohio, there
died one of the most remarkable of creatures, an
infant aged twenty-nine years. The child, or
young man, was the SON OF Austin Borden, and
during all these years of his life was nothing more
than a mere baby He developed in no respect and
died in his cradle, He could neither talk walk nor
recognize any one and helpless at his death
as the day he was born. Doctors were completely
balled and could do nothing, and for twenty-nine
years his death has been patiently waited.