The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-02
News of the Week.

Elmer E. Findley, policeman in Phila-
delphia, Pa, was killed by safe burglar on
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Catherine Jane Smyser, wife of Judge
David Wills, of Gettysburg, Pa, died on
Sunday, in her 5Sth year
Violent rain storms prevailed in Norfolk
and Richmond, Va, on Tuesday, accompani-
ed by lightning and thunder.
Influenza and grip are very fatal in Phila-
delphia, Pa. Several families have been
broken up by the number of deaths.
The train despatchers on two of the New
England railroad are women. Both are said
to be efficient in this most exacting work.
The Right Rev. John Loughlin, Bishop of
the Roman Catholic Diocese Of Long Island,
died in Brooklyn on Tuesday, aged "A years.
Henrietta Harrison, colored, said TO be los
years old, was burned to death in Harrisburg,
Pa. on Monday, while lighting her pipe.
Diphtheria has appeared at Kittanning, Pa.
Over dozen cases of Il malignant type have
been reported. The schools have been
closed.
Rev. James Curns, Pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Chambersburg, Penna.,
was found dead in his bed on Tuesday. He
was 81 years old.
A dog at Texarkana, Arkansas, which was
supposed to be suffering with the rabies,
attacked and bit three persons on Sunday be-
fore it could be killed.
In theatre at Gateshead, England, on
Saturday last, cry of fire was given and
during the rush ten persons were killed and
large number injured.
Samuel Wert's cotton hosiery mill in
Germantown, Pa, was destroyed by fire
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and partly covered by insurance.
Leopold Stuckert, who died on Monday at
Avon, Illinois, at the age of So years, is said
to have been valet de chambre to Joseph
Bonaparte at the time of the latter's death.
Dr. A. H. Lochman, D. D., the eminent
Lutheran clergyman, died in York, Pa, on
Saturday last at the age of eighty nine years.
He was born in Salem Church parsonage, at
Lebanon, Pa, in 1902.
Andrew johnson, of Philadelphia, and
John Allare, a Canadian. carpenters at work
on the Worlds Fair electricity building at
Chicago, were crushed to death on Monday
night by falling derrick.
Sixteen hundred bales of cotton, in rail
road cars at St. Louis, were destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. Loss, $4,000. In
Boston, on the same night, property to the
amount of $450,000 was burned.
Owing to the ravages of diphtheria the three
schools in the village of Robesonia, Berks
county, Penn, have been closed by the
Directors. About dozen children have
died and many who were afflicted are now
recovering.
The State Board of Live Stock Commission
ers, of Illinois, has issued bulletin declar-
ing that the disease among cattle known as
"lumpy jaw" is dangerously contagious among
cattle, and that animals which it attacks are
unfit for human food because the injecting
germs are liable TO be found in any portion
Of the animal so infected.
A despatch from Blackwater, Louisiana,
says that I. J. Hart was murdered there on
Christmas night, and an uncle ofthe murderer
was hanged on Monday night by the search
ing party. 1t appears thas there was plot
to murder Hart, in which several negroes are
implicated. and the citizens of that neighbor-
hood have determined to rid themselves of
the entire gang.