The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-11
News of the Week.


A wall paper trust with a capital OF Sl4,-
900, 600 has been organized.
William Henry Harrison, colored, died in
Washington, ID. c., Oh Monday, aged over
l04 years.
The trial of the seven Chicago aldermen
indc,a1 for boodling was begun in Chicago
on Monday.
MI Vesuvius, near Naples, Italy, is in
eruption. Great fears are entertained OF an
overflow OF lava,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have
secured over 1000 acres of coal land in the
vicinity Of Scranton, Pa.
John G. Loewe and his two sons, aged
and 10 years, were drowned on Sunday at
Silver Creek Dam, near Milwaukee, Wiscon.
sin, their boat being swept over by the strong
current
The carriage woodwork mandatory of
Holcombe Brothers, on River street, New
Haven, was burned on Saturday night, caus-
ing Il loss of 100000.
While making q fire with coal oil at Brad
dock, Pa, on Sunday, the oil can exploded
and four men were burned to death and sew
eral seriously burned.
Two beer trains on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railroad came in collision near Racine,
Wisconsin, on Saturday night, and wrecked
property valued at S5O,oOO.
The annual meeting of the Old German
Baptists of the United States began on Sunday
at Millbrook, Franklin county. Pa. Ten
thousand people were in attendance.
County Recorder j. +. Moasly, of Stock
ton, California, is missing and owes, it is said,
about 100000. He is charged with having
passed forged notes to the amount of $50, 900.
The bodies of four men have been found
hanging TO q tree, near Buffalo, Wyoming.
IL is thought they were members of the iuvad-
ing party, who were captured by the rustlers.
Latest accounts give the number of miners
killed in the Birkenber Germany disaster
last week at 400 Many of the bodies were
so badly burned that they we're unrecognil-
able.
The Davenport and Iowa City Packing
Company has been formed at Davenport, with
capital of 81 900, 900. A large packing
house is to be built at Davenport by Novem,
Der !.
The new Lutheran Reformed Church, be-
tween Rock and Mayors Stations, on the
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad, Pa,
was struck by Lightning on Sunday night and
badly damaged.
A mob of about $50 men went from Willard
to Grayson, Kentucky, early Monday morn
ing, and taking Austin Porter, wife muir
derer, from the Jail, took him back to Willard
and hanged him.
John H. Goodwin, of Edwardsville, Pa,
while insane, set fire to his house on Satur-
day, and nearly burned his nurse to death.
The flames were extinguished and Goodwin
removed to an asylum.
A northbound passenger train on the Nash
vile and Greensboro Railroad ran into an
excursion train filed with negroes at South
Carrollton, Kentucky, on Sunday, and four
were killed and % injured,
H. E. O'Brien, a bookkeeper of the Cali
iornia National Bank, at San Diego, has been
arrested on an indictment found by the Fed
eral Grand Jury, charging him with having
made false entries on the books of the bank.
An attempt was made at Elizabethtown,
Kentucky, on Sunday night to lynch Fl. A.
James, who was accused of having deserted
his wife when she was at the point of death
and eloped with another woman. James
escaped.
A passenger train on the Oregon Pacific
ran into hand ear, on which were 10 persons,
near Yaquima City, Oregon, on Sunday.
Mrs Pratt and child, and child named Man
ming were killed instantly and seven others
were severely injured.
During a sham battle which formed part of
the Whit Monday festivities at Allentown, Pa,
cannon was discharged prematurey, and
Charles w. Vented, aged AZ years, the gun
ner who stood directly in front of the gun at
the time, was instantly KILLED.
James Richard Cooke, who has lust gradu
ated in medicine in Boston, has been blind
from infancy. He completed the full course,
with an average percentage of 96 for the three
years. He intends to become a specialist in
diseases of the heart and lungs.
Stephen Shaler, aged 10 years, fell into
pond near Forces City, Missouri, on Monday,
and was drowned. His sister, aged Is, and
his mother and father were drowned, the first
two in the effort to rescne the boy and the
father in trying TO save the Others
Tom jackson, negro, who criminally
assaulted Miss Lena Mcmahon, of Port Jervis,
New York, on Thursday of last week, was
captured and hung to a tree in the centre of
the town. Judge Crane cut the negro down
before life was extinct, bnt the crowd rallied
and hung him up again.
An Italian named Coll, and his wife were
arrested at Wheeling, West Virginia, on Sun.
day, for burying a four. old baby alive in
slack coal pile at a coal mine dump. Some
railroad men heard whining noise and dug
ents gave was that the baby was no good.
Wilkins Rustin, the Yale sophomore who
was injured in the junior society's initiation
last week, died at New Haven on Monday
night. At the initiation Rustin was blind
folded and told to run down street. He
ran into the pole of carriage and received a
blow in the abdomen which caused peritonitis.
The mining camp of Jimtown, Colorado,
was DESTROYED by fire on Sunday morning,
inflicting loss of 100000. The little
frame houses were packed so closely together
in the narrow gulch in which the town was
located that all efforts to stop the flames by
blowing up the buildings with giant powder
were futile.
| At the Monarch Mine, in Silver City, Ne
yada, on Sunday, two shotgun brigadss uccu:
pied different quarters Of the mine, and defed
each other to fight. These armed gangs are
hired by two rival claimants who failed to get
their case settled in court. Burke, one claim.
ant holds the hosting works, while Foote
holds the lower tunnel, A third claimant,
oh