The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-12-24
News of the Week.

cnry was l5' below zero.
Sylvia Bess. a negro woman, died at Nor
ristown, N j. on Tuesday last, aged lIG.
Philadelphia, Pa, had several fires ON
Wednesday which entsiled loss of $500, 900.
The Empire storage warehouses. in New
York. were burned on Saturday. Loss, 500.
600.
Over 2O0O deaths from diptheria have
CURED in Philadelphia, Pa, during the past
year.
The elevators at Duluth, Minnesota, are
nearly full Of wheat and blockade seems
imminent.
Daring November ~ 1872 immigrants came
into the United States, as against 3S,6l5 in
November, 1891.
Ephraim Roger, of Mount Holly Springs,
Pa, and his uncle, Samuel Roger, have been
fleeeed out of $500 by green good sharks.
A shortage in the accounts of freight agent
McCourt, of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, at Cincinnati, has been lonnd to be
100000
William Riden0ur, IS years of age, and
Mrs. Julia SpangIer. ~ years old. both of
Washington township, Carroll county, lndi.
ana, were recently married.
Milo Tomlinson, of Charlottesville, lndi-
ana, breeder of fine stock has disappeared,
leaving behind him debts and forged paper
amounting TO several thousand dollars.
Turfmen have started night school at
Gutenberg. New Jersey, for jockeys. The
pupils, Numbering over 200, range from & to
20 years of age, and more than half these are
colered.
I.oa, the great volcano of Hawaii, is in
eruption again and threatens the destruction
of the villages of llilo and Waiakea, at its
eastern base, and extensive plantations of
cocoanuts aud cane.
The weavers employed in the Blackstone
Woolien MILL at Blackstone, Massachusetts,
struck Tuesday, alleging that excessive fines
were enforced by the company. The strike
will affect 525 hands.
Ernest F. Eckert, confidential clerk for H.
B. Rae Il Co.. Pittsburg, pork packers, was
arrested Saturday night, charged with the
embezzlement of from $4,000 to $780, 900.
The thefts are said to extend over period of
five years.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which Rev.
| T. Dewitt Talmage is pastor, has been
seized by the sheriff to satisfy judgment of
Sl104, obtained by Alfred r. Long, decor.
ator and painter, for work done in the con
struction of the building.
Official statistics of the cholera epidemic
3
show l3O,4l7 deaths from European and 1885,
343 deaths from Asiatic cholera since the
outbreak of the disease in the Empire, max
ing a total of 265, go deaths
The total value of exports of merchandise
from the United States during the u months
ended November 30, 1892, were 1910, 832,-
400, as against S949, OPS, 500 during the pre-.
ceeding ~ months The imports were $S75,.
1914, 5G5, as against 1919, 675,2 5l.
Media Pa. is said to be the home of some
of the largest families in this country. That
of Samuel Field, who has % children; JOS
eph Chandler. who is the father of % chill
dren; James Barrett, who has ID, and vii.
liam Wright, who has 10 children.
Martin Foy, convicted murderer in the
Jail at Ballston, New York, set fire to his
mattress on Saturday night, with the inten.
ton of destroying the Jail and its inmates.
The fire was discovered and extinguished be-
fore any serious damage was done.
Rev. John Arnold has been arrested al
Wellington, Ohio, on an affidavit sworn to by
Coroner Braman, charging MIN with the
murder of Eliza Arnold, his wife, by stab
bling her in the throat with pen knife. Ar.
mold is an ordained minister in the United
Brethren Church.
Edward p Chamberlain is reported 10 he
Q unisslllH lIOH -NFh olht anu ~ HdNG thhCh
with him a large part of the funds of the es.
tate Of the late John NJ. George, of which he
was trustee. Chamberlain was well known
on Wall street He is said to have lost largely
by grain speculation.
The State of Oregon has &c nurseries, Gov
I ering 1876 acres, and containing about 8, 000,-
900 Young trees, and orchardsts have up.
wards OF 100000 acres Of growing trees.
4 One half OF this acreage is in prunes, one
/ fourth in apples, one tenth in pears, and
the remainder in various kinds of fruits.
The latest advices concerning the recent
raid Of the Mexican ''reyolutions;s' at San
I lgnaceo. show that the affair was attended
/ by the most atrocious cruelties. Two women
are said TO have been shot, three children
( penned up in a burning building and burned
| TO death, and the bodies of the killed burned.
/ On Sunday fight occurred in the State
4 Pententiary at Jackson, Michigan, between
a convict employed in the trip hammer de-
partment and one of the keepers. A ring
was formed and the two men fought to n fin
ish. The keeper was whipped. The other
/ convicts batiied all attempts OF the authorities
to break into the ring.
A severe cyclone passed over the town of
I Orcl, Russia, on the 10th instant. Not much
damage was done in the town proper, but
several of the suburbs were devastated,
/ houses being blown down and trees uprooted.
/ The damage was particularly severe at Tan
ser, where many persons were caught under
! the falling buildings and killed.
! The Chicago police have unearthed gi-
gantic lottery fraud in that city, having ar.
| rested j. B. Stanger, the manager, and CAP
tured valuable lithograpE stones from which
bogus tickets were printed. 1t is estimated
| by the Louisiana lottery people that over
500, 900 bogus tickets have been turned out
by Stanger, and all of them have been sold
at full price.
! Considerable excitement was created in
B the general postofiice in New York, on Tues
/ day when it was learned that Charles L. Cad
man. a clerk at the wholesale stamp window
on the Broadway side, disappeared, leaving
a shortage of between $1,000 and $4,000.
/ 1t is estimated that the defaulting clerk had
committed suicide, but it is believed that he
will be found alive.
\ fire was discovered in closet in the
office of the city treasurer, in the st. Louis
I City Hall, Monday, but it was soon extin.
/ guished and not much damage was done
I Later IN the day il became known that Ed
ward Forestel, son of the city treasurer and
I chief clerk in his Office, had committed sui.
eide by shooting himself An audit of the
/ treasurer's accounts was at once begun, and
4 it showed shortage of S63, 600. Treasurer
Forestel was at once suspended by Mayor
Walbridge.
/ Patrick Gallagher, the cook, and Jones
/ Davidson, who confessed to having been i'm,
plicated in the Homestead poisoning con.
/ spiracy, were arrested on Tuesday and lodged
in iail Two more deaths, it is believed,
were caused by poison. One, which had not
1 been. reported before, was that of Camus
4 Yenisky, who died at the South Side Hospi
tai on August 23d, and another is that of
Frank 1nll, Coal and Iron policeman. who
was taken sick at the stomach and was sent
to his home in North Carolina, where he
died.
A building in Brooklyn, New York, owned
aud occupied by William C.. A. Jurgens,
wholesale grocer, with several adjoining
buildings, was burned Monday morning
Loss about 100000. David s. Arnott' s
/ storehonse was DESTROYED also by fire on Sat