The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-02-20
News Items.

AT Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1900 cases of
grip are reported, 5000 in the vicinity of Cold
Water, and from 1000 to 5000 cases each at
Bloomington and Shelbyville, Indiana.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has
awarded contracts for the erection of large
freight piers and a handsome passenger sta.
ton at Newport News, the aggregate cost of
which will be 100000.
John Bucknum, aged eighty years, who
held the position of crier of the United States
Court in Trenton n. j., for twenty-six years,
and who was at his duties dropped dead OF
heart disease on the 9Th instant.
Miss Eliza A. Clark, aged between 80 and
80 years, and DR.. Marion ID. Hubbell, aged
20 years, were married in New York city,
recently The doctor had been treating her
for bronchitis four years. The lady has
about $500, 900 in real estate and stocks.
Frank Tyler. well-to-do farmer, and his
wife we're crushed to death near Gurdon, Ark,
while attempting to repair an outbuilding.
With the aid of his wife Mr.. Tyler tried to
prop up the building, when it collapsed.
Almost every bone in their bodies was
broken.
A chimney of wonderfully rich gold ore
has been found at a depth of IL feet on gold
hill. at the head of Squaw Guch, Col. Its
value is estimated at $4,000 to $4,000 per
ton. \ discovery of rich gold ore has been
made in the Washington mine, on Wilson
creek. in Colorado.
A. Clark Fulton, "a prominent attorney at
the York county Pa. bar, and chairman OF
the republican county committee, died sud
denly in the courtro at York on 9Th inst.
He was seized with hemorrhage of the
lungs, and although physicians We're imme-
diaiely by his side, he expired in a few min
utes.
A despatch from Huron, South Dakota, re-
ports the case of two young people who were
about TO be married, when they accidentally
discovered that they were brother and sister.
They had been separated when very young,
owing to the breaking up OF their family by
the death of their father at the battle OF
Corinth.
Fire ut o'clock ON Friday of last week,
destroyed the Central Tobacco Warehouse in
Louisville. Ky. Capt. W. L. Edwards, who
was sleeping in the building, was burned to
death Loss SIS, 900. Captain Edwards was
senior member of Edwards, Barnard Co.,
who owned the warehouse, and was fifty
three years old He was wealthy and a
widower with no children.
Hon. James L. Boyd, Democrat, who was
elected NIONeEUOT vi NtbIdShu luob bui
who has been kept out of the office by the
Republicans on the ground that he was not a
naturalized citizen, took possession of the
Office on the Sth, Governor Thayer. the Re-
publican hold. over Governor, offered his
hand but Governor Boyd declined to recog-
nize him in any way. MIR. Thayer left the
room.
The grippe is epidemic in the vicinity o.
Pittsburg. At Burgettstown it is estimated
that fully three fourths of the one thousand
inhabitants have been i'll of the disease within
the last four weeks. Only ten deaths, how
ever, have been reported. At Washington
eight hundred cases are reported. many o.
them dangerous. Many cases nave occurre
in Pittsburg, but the disease is not yet cpl
demic there.
A special despatch from Topeka, received
in Chicago, eontradicts the reports that the
winter wheat crop of Kansas had been damag
ed by unfavorable weather. Copious rain
have virtually insured magnificent whea
crop. There will be little over 5000, OO'
acres in winter and spring wheat IN the State
and, If conditions are favorable, the tota
! yield of the State this year will be 10, O00,OOO
an increase over last yoar of 10, O0O,oO0
| John Il. Williamson, .colored, editor of tn,
| Raleigh IN. c.. Gazette, announces himsel
as a candidate for Congress. He says hi
platform will be compensation for ex slaves
as proposed by President Lincoln, who, a
the time he made his famous proposition, ad
mitted that they were the lawful propert
of those claiming to be their masters, AM
proposed to pay $500 each for them, hberat
them and stop the war Mr.. Williamson de
clares that letters from ali parts of the coun
try commend his views.
According to Pittsburg despatch a Unite
States revenue inspector, who is investigator
unlicensed liquor saloons in the western an
northern sections of that State with view c
collecting the internal revenue tax of $25, ha
discovered $500 ''speak- easies. Thes'
places are mostly grocery stores, cigar store
and drug stores. In one section of tn
Monongahela Valley, where there are onl!
two licensed saloons, he discovered that ther
was delivered daily 800 barrels of beer,
barrels of whisky and 20 cases of Italian wines
The liquors are of poor quality, and muc
below the average.