The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-07-30
News of the Week.


Up to Tuesday the pension payments so far
this month amount to Sl1 10000
New Mexico is reported to be enjoying the
first rainy season it has had for four years.
There are now over 10000 men in the
building trades on strike in New York city.
Half the business portion of 0akesdale,
Washington, was destroyed by fire on Monday
night Loss, $4,000.
Cooke Bros. lard and oil plant, at Eliza
beth, New Jersey, was burned early Tuesday
morning. Loss, $4,000.
In Saratoff, Russia, $50 persons are dying
daily from cholera, and the disease is spread
ing to the other provinces.
A Middletown, Del, man shipped recently
to New York 1000 bushels of corn cobs, to
be used in the manufacture of pipes.
Valuable deposits of zinc, equal in richness
to the famous Missouri ore, are reported to
have been discovered on the Ouchita river,
in Texas.
In the schools of Cambridge City, Indiana,
during the last year there were five pairs of
twins, one set Of triplets, and 7-year-old boy
weighing lis pounds.
A large number of the immigrants who
arrived in New York on Tuesday on the Gallia
were bound for points in South Carolina and
other Southern States
A strike of carpenters is threatened at St.
Louis to compel employers to cease using
non union made doors, frames, etc. The
planning mill employees are already out.
| Frank C. Foster, cashier of the Buffalo Ice
| Company, at Buffalo, N. Y. has been arrested,
charged with stealing $4,000 or $4,000 and
classifying accounts to cover up his peculations.
| An entire family of nine persons are re-
ported to have been swept away on Sunday
night by cloudburst on Long Run, in Mar
shall county, n few miles south of Wheeling,
| West Virginia.
| Charles H. Page, well-known broker, was
shot and killed in his office in Philadelphia,
Pa, on Wednesday, by Ronald Kennedy,
customer of the firm who killed himself with
the same pistol.
I The large fire. proof building of the New
| York Biscuit Company, at Fifteenth street
and Tenth avenue, New York, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000
! C. Z. Eisenmayer, one of the biggest grain
buyers of Wichita, Kan, who has returned
from tour of the western part of the state,
reports the corn crop almost total failure.
All the corn has been burned by the intense
heat of the past week.
A terrific storm passed over Gettysburg,
Pa, about noon on Wednesday. The barn
of Daniel Plank, west of the town, was struck
by lightning, and, with the contents, was en-
tirely destroyed. Mr.. Plank's son, Alonzo,
was in the barn, and was struck. tits thought
he is not seriously hurt.
Sixteen anarchists were convicted in Brus-
sells, Germany, on Tuesday, on number of
charges including that of conspiring to steal
explosives to destroy property. The leader
] ttua nttr-ff
servitu6e, and his followers to terms ranging
from twenty to three years.
A severe wind and thunder storm passed
over Bucks county, Pa, Monday afternoon.
The barns of Blaker & Tate, Newtown; Har
vey Ely, Northampton, and barn at Wood
bourne were struck by lightning and burned
with their contents. Trees were Frustrated
and other damage done at Langhorne.
Eugene Lane had his right arm blown off
and was fatally injured by the premature eX-
plosion of dynamite cartridge, at an early
hour on Sunday morning, on Saucon creek,
near Bethlehem, Pa. Lane and four COM
panions were engaged in the unlawful occu
patton of killing fish by exploding dynamite.
The Great Sangir Island, of the Malay
Archipelago, was destroyed by an eruption
of Gunona volcano in June. Immense masses
of stones were thrown from the crater and,
falling on the dwellings, crushed them. Many
/ persons took to the hills, but were killed by
the stones. 1t is estimated that over 1000
| lives were lost.
James Pilens, his wife, mother-in-law and
| four children, were thrown 10 feet from
cliff into the Ohio river at Wheeling, West
| Virginia, by a runaway horse OH Sunday
night Mrs. Pilens and her mother are not
expected to recover. The others were less
dangerously injured. The horse was fright
ened by train.
Robert B. Jump, the oldest Mason in Della
ware, died at his home in Dover, on Wednes.
day morning, aged SO years. Mr.. Jump was
initiated into the fraternity at Greensborough,
| Nd, in 1926. The lodge of which he became
member went to pieces during the anti Ma
| sonic campaign, which followed the Morgan
fexcitement of few years later.
A crowd of young men at Brazil, Indiana,
made a raid on Mrs. Harmon's residence on
Monday night, almost frightening the old lady
to death. Her two daughters armed them
selves with butcher knife and an old razor
and proceeded to drive off the intruders. In
the melee James Morgan was literally cut in
shreds and will probably die, while another
participant is dangerously cut in the breast.
A wind storm, approaching the proportions
of tornado, struck Freemansburg, Pa,
Tuesday afternoon, unroofng houses and
doing other damage. At the same time
lightning struck the New Jersey Central Rail-
road Station. A severe wind and rain storm
passed over Pine Grove, Pa, demolishing
the United Brethren Church and damaging
several other buildings, besides crops and
trees.