The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-19
News of the Week.

! Reports from 90 points IN MlnhesolA anu the
Dakotas show that the average amount OF whes
unsold is 81 per cent. Of the crop of 1891.
DR.. William wilson, of Pittsburg, Pa. formerly OF
a prominent Louisiana family, died recently and
left $4,000 to his negro nurse ofAlton, Illinois.
oscar Abbott, colored of indianapolis, on satur
day shot and wounded Celia Boss, and then killed
himself The woman had refused to marry him.
general feeling funeasn ess prevails among all
classes in Paris growing out of the recent mysteri-
Gus explosions in that city, which are blamed upon
anarchists
Counterfeits of the new issue of silver half and
quarter dollars and cent pices have appeared in
several cities They are easily detected by the
greasy feel.
Portions of Germany last week suffered from a
regular american blizzard" and traffic on all the
streets and railroads suspended on Saturday
and Sunday.
Robert Taylor, who was serving five years term
in the Berks county jail at Reading, Pa, escaped on
Saturday night, by cutting hole in his cell,
through wall oyer so inches thick.
Mrs Margaret E. Dayton, widow of William L.
Dayton, who was the Republican candidate for
Vice President on the ticket with Fremont died in
Trenton, n. j., on Sunday, In her SD year.
On Friday of last week an explosion of fire-damp
occurred in the Anderues coal mines near Brussels,
Germany, by which nearly 30 lives were lost Most
of the miners leave large and helpless families.
large bank barn belonging to s. B. Robinson, at
Carlisle Pa, took fire from steam thrasher Monday
and was destroyed with all the crops and several
head oflive stock. Loss $1,000; insurance $1,000.
Elijah ]. Howard, maehinist, of Boston, was
found dead in his room in which he had lived
alone for 20 years, on Saturday morning In the
room we're found cash and securities valued at
nearly Sol 300.
Siegel, Cooper Il Co., ofChicago Illinois, have the
largest retail dry goods house in the world. The
building cost So OOOOOO the space occupied is $751;
600 square feet stock carried 81 and they have
over 5000 employees.
-Four hundred women and children on the verge
of starvation besegcd the labor bureau in Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia, and begged for relief. So
great was the crush that many of the weaker
women in the crowd tainted.
Twenty-eight breweries in Chicago will pool their
interests in company to be incorporated under the
laws of Illinois, with capitalization of S2OOO00OO
This will end the war that has been going on among
the breweries since September last.
Prairie fires have prevailed in Huron county
South Dakota, also in the vicinity of Guthrie
oklahoma Territory. Many thousands of dollars OF
fencing and stock. Several lives were lost.
A colored woman the only colored resident OF
Matoaeo, in Chesterfield county. Va, died last
week. At her request the pail bearers were all
white citizens of the village and the funeral servi-
ces were conducted by white minister.
Typhoid fever epidemic is making terrible raya.
ges among the people of Villa Leredo, Mexico, there
having been $50 deaths within the past ten days
There is decrease in the alaming death rate and
the public hospital is filled with patients.
Schneider, the stranger, who was convicted in
Vienna of numbering servant girls, was hanged on
Thursday according to the sentence of the Emperor
of Austria. schneiders wife, who aided him in
the murders, has been sentenced to life imprison
ment.
The temperature at Clinton, Mississippi, fell to -
degrees on Friday of last week, and it is feared
much damage was done to the fruit trees, which
were in full bloom. At New iberia, Louisiana, the
temperature fell To the freezing point on Friday
night.
Robert l.. Kline, New York postal clerk, has
been arrested on charges of opening many letters
and stealing their contents, He admitted the of
Tense and was held in 81 500 bail. Gloucester and
Guttenburg book makers are thought to have got
the money
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John Dcibel, a well known caterer of New Haven,
Conn., for 100000, which he claims is due him
under a contract he made with Deibel, who agreed
to Pay him cent per day for thirty days, doubl-
ing daily each amount for the time of duty days.
The twelve year old son of Capt. Frank Strausser
was found half frozen the outskirts of Shamokin.
Pa on Tuesday night He was kidnapped by
tramps a few weeks ago and suffered ill treatment
at their hands. lie escaped from their mountain
cave on Monday and reached home entirely cx-
hausted.
4 wolf drive in which a Thousand men took
part at Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, on Saturday re-
suited in the killing of II wolves. a bear and Is
wolves escaped Three thousand men participated
in a wolf hunt at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, on the
same day. Two wolves were rounded up. one of
which got away
Complaints have Leen made by several Of the
large banks in New York and other places of the
large number of light weight twentydolar gold
pieces which have lately been shipped from Cali
fornia 1t is believed that the coins have been sub
jected to a sweating process" by electricity, by
which as much as 10 cents a dollar is extracted
without material DETACHMENT of the coin.
A deficiency of 900 tons was discovered on Tues
day, in the coal accounts of the Washington, d. c.,
Arsenal, and William E. Hodge, coal dealer, was
arrested charged with grand larceny. Sergeant
William B. Rapp, who superintendent the weighing
of the coal delivered, admitted that he had
been paid $50 by Hodge to sign receipts for coal
never delivered. Rapp was also placed under
arrest.
fight occurred between two Percheron stations
Oh the farm of David Puliam near Leayenworth,
Kansas. on Sunday afternoon. They got together in
an exercising yard and the attendants were unable
to separate them. Each would strike the other with
his fore feet and kick and bite huge pieces of lesh
out of his enemy. They fought for half an hour,
when one was dead and the other died in few
hours.
severe blizzard ragged Monday all over Kansas.
Trains on the Santa Fe Railroad west of Newton were
delayed on account of the storm. A Topeka dis
patch says that the morning trains passed through
on time but trains west of there were considerably
delayed. The storm ragged with great fury at
Topeka and the snoY drifted badly. In Kansas
City the fall of snow quite heavy, but not sufi
cient to hinder traffic.
On Tuesday afternoon the steamship Missouri, OF
the American Transport Line, sailed from New
York with 5OO0OOO pounds of -four and meal for the
suffering peasants of Russia. The steamer was gaily
Decorated with bunting in honor of the suspicious
event and the national colors hoated from the
Terminal Warehouse pier. When the big ship
started down the North river the hundreds ofspecta-
tors cheeFed vigorously and tugs and other craft
whistled their good wishes.
Four men who were wanted for burglary in Mil
ford, Deliver found a train from Norfolk, Tues
day at2 O'Clock, and when the constables attempted
TO arrest them lively battle with revolvers ensued
The four men jumped of the train and escaped in
the darkness, but one was subsequently caught
Clayton, crippled by bullet in the thigh. The
man was taken to Dover. where he died Tuesday
evening. One of the constableS was slightly wound
ed in the couIse of the fight in the train.
The grand jury at Boston, Saturday indicted
William Hamilton, Isaac W. eiHmmonS.- Charles A.
Barney. James Morrison and James A. Frazer for
alleged embezzlement of $4,000 of the funds of the
Order OF the Rising sun. They also indicted for
receiving stolen goods and for being accessories be-
fore and after an alleged embezzlement. Another
indictment was for alleged larceny and embezzle-
ment of SIS 900 by Alvan L. Greenwood treasurer
of the Mutual One Year Benefit Order. Greenwood
failed to respond and was defaulted.
Estimates of the number of English miners who
are now idle place the figure at $4,000 Owing to