The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-25
Interesting Paragraphs.

Herman Olsen, a Swede, IS years old,
arrived in New York on Monday. He
stands : feet inches in his shoes. He Is
going to relatives in Minnesota.
A greater famine than that of last year
is predicted for Russia. An unknown in
sect has attacked the growing grain, which,
with the locusts is eating all vegetation.
Dispatches from Calcutta say that the
cholera is raging with increased mortality
in Afghanistan. There is no hope of stop
ping its progress, as the sanitary condition
of the country is the worst possible.
The importation of meat, cattle and
hides from Morocco has been prohibited
by the Secretary of the Treasury because
of the prevalence of foot-disease among the
cattle in the neighborhood Of Tangier.
Mary Belcher, of Michigan, has been
declared insane by the Chicago Courts, the
cause assigned being the taking of the
Kelley 'cure' at Dwight, where she was
treated for the morphine habit.
Two spans of the largest bridge on the
Northern Pacific Railroad, at Clark S Fork,
Idaho, were burned Saturday. 1t will take
ten days to make repairs, and in the mean
time trains are running west via the Couerd
Alene cutoff to Walle.
In lightning storm Saturday afternoon
at Bloomington, ILL.,, Carrie Walton, record
pa! valued at 1000, owned by Mahor
Foster, and Pogue Hague, valued at &c.,
900, were killed by lightning. Ed. Hun
ter, the trainer, was stunned.
The damage caused by the bursting of
the dam at MahauOy City, Pa, on Friday
night of last week, was not SO great as was
first reported, and there was no loss of life
Tracks of the Lehigh Valley and Phila-
delphia and Reading lines and about 30
buildings were destroyed by the rush of
the water.
During a severe lightning and thunder
storm that passed over Wayne county, KY,
Sunday the general store of w. H. Ryan,
at Parmleysville, was struck by lightning.
Two kegs of powder exploded, throwing a
heavyiron safe through the roof and wound
ing all the occupants of the room, some
fifty in number.
Mrs. Arthur Beverly, wife Of one Of the
most prominent citizens of Watham, Mass,
was found burned almost to cinder Satur-
day noon. She had saturated her garments
with kerosene, crawled into furnace and
set fire to herself She was insane at the
time in consequence of relapse ofthe grip
which she had been seriously i'll with last
winter.
A pair of infants has been presented to
Harrison Breedlove, of Carson, Neb., who
is seventy years old, by his wife, who is
sixty-three years of age. They are believed
to be the Oldest couple on record who have
been favored in this way. It's proposed to
send the father, mother and children to the
Worlds Fair as samples of what it is pos
sible to do in the far West.
4 cIond-bust in German Valley, Clinton
county, Pa, Sunday night, caused great
damage to crops and swept away fences,
bridges and outbuildings on FARMS On
Plum run Robert Kalenbach and family
were fleeing from their home, which was
inundated. He had his ax-months' old
child in has arms and fell The child was
carried away by the current and drowned.
The body was received next morning half
mile away. No other lives were lost so far
as heard from.
The Secretary OF the Illinois State Board
Of Health has issued proclamation urging
stringent measures against the threatened
epidemic of smallpox. 1t says: "seveR
cases of smallpox in one Iowa town, up
ward of eighty cases in Ohio and West Viz
ginia towns, and recent cases in Michigan
and other neighboring States, as well as two
recent cases in Chicago. clearly indicate that
this loathsome disease again threatens Hi
nois after ten years of almost complete
freedom from its ravages" Seven cases Of
smallpox have developed in Pittsburg
within the past few days. The public
schools in the affected district have been
closed.
4 miner named Hagelka has confessed
that he casued the fire in the famous silver
mine at Gutenberg, near Przibram, Bohe-
mia, which, according to an official state
ment, caused the deaths Of four hundred
miners. His two brothers were among the
dead He says that he intended 10 keep
his secret, but his resolution began to fail
him after he saw the scores of dead bodies
brought'up from the pit. He ran away to
the hill to escape the associations which
constantly reminded him of the terrible
slaughter. He got place in factory at
Beraun eventually, but after remaining there
two days was unable to keep his attention
TO work longer, and started ont again on
his wanderings He could not sleep and
be could not beg enough food to satisfy his
hunger He feared that he would go crazy
If he did not relieve his mind He there
fcrewent to priest in Milan few days ago
and confessed what he had DONE The
priest told him he must return at once to
Przibram and tell his story. He is under
arrest.
Queen Victoria nrmly believes that
objects made BY blind persons bring luck