The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-04
News of the Week.

Spring Crops, at Warheld's, Sykesvllle.
News of the Week.
Brooklyn, N Y, had a $l5O,OOO fire on
Monday.
Storms and foods on Saturday and Sunday
did immense damage to parts of Ireland.
On Sunday night fire at Lancaster, Pa,
burned the Follz tobacco warehouses; loss
over 100000.
The heat in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday
was intense, the thermometer registering 95o.
number of sunstrokes were reported.
rheumatism has been more prevalent since
the appearance of the grip than ever, not only
in this country but throughout Europe.
The Barney & Smith car works at Dayton,
Ohio, have been sold to syndicate for ST.
500, 900. The plant covers 20 acres and EN-
ploys 1900 men.
Charles h. Seymour, prominent furniture
dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, died on Sunday
of blood poisoning, caused by cut from a
razor while being shaved in a barber shop.
A protracted drought prevails throughout
Russia and there is no pasturage. Grain and
other crops are suffering and fears are enter
tanned that there will be failure of the spring
sowings.
On May - the King and Queen of Denmark
celebrated their 50th anniversary of their
marriage. Among the presents received was
crown of gold, the gift of over 10000 school
chi dren who each gave one penny.
freight train on the Texas Pacific Railway
ran into "A washout near Moore Springs, Texas,
ON Sunday, completely demolishing the train.
The fireman was fatally crushed, as were also
two negroes, who were stealing a ride.
Rudolph Shaffer, a prominent contractor
of Huntingdon, Pa, after discussing the pre-
vaence of suicides with party of friends, on
Saturday, went into the basement of the
building and shot himself in the forehead,
killing himself Instantly.
Near Huntingdon, West Virginia, on Mon
day a negro boy, about u years old, was
found with his throat cut and his watch and
pocket book gone. jim Smith, a notorious
negro desperate, was seen with the watch,
and a gang of negro railroad hands promptly
stretched him up.
Over 200, 900 tons of raw sugar, for which
there are no purchasers, are stored in German
manufacturing districts. 1t is said the Amer
lean Sugar Trust is purposey keeping away
from the market to force down the price, hop
ing to buy the German stock cheaply in the
end.
A tornado passed over Blakeney, Glouces-
tershire, England, Tuesday, destroying all
movable property in the town. Hundreds of
trees were blown down and crops injured.
The wind was accompanied by heavy down
pour of rain that deluged the streets and flood
edsthe lower floors of dwellings.
A travelling oculist named Matofsky and a
Cincinnati drummer named Harm, who had
been accused of insulting women in the streets
of Louisa, Kentucky, were seized on Monday
by a mob, pelted with rotten eggs and then
set adrift on a raft in the Ohio river.
A ''corner" in May corn in the Chicago
Board of Trade on Tuesday eliminated in
the failure of the firm of Coster & Martin
One dollar bushel was demanded for corn,
and many sales at that price were recorded
until the crash came and the price dropped
one-half
A fight between Frank Slavin, of England
and Peter jackson, a negro, of Australia,
took place at London, England, on Monday,
Slavin out on the tenth ronnd. 1t will be
rememberedb that Slavin a few years ago
whipped Jake Kilrain, of Baltimore, Md.
AT mass meeting of colored people, at
Columbia, South Carolina, on Tuesday, reso
9ntions were adopted setting forth the evil of
lynchings, and calling on the colored men
to desist from crimes that provoke them and
the whites, to irown mobs down, and let the
law take its course.
On Wednesday the timbers used in sup
porting the roof of the famous Berksberg
silver mine, in Bohemia, caught fire and the
flames spread until the whole of the interior
of the mine was mass OF fire. There were
500 men at work in the mine ut the time and
200 are reported missing. The burned bodies
of many miners have been found.
Anthony Lokel and Joseph Zealany were
killed by an electric shock while working on
a travelling crane in the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works, near Pittsburg, Pa, on Saturday
morning. The boom came in contact with
an electric light wire, cut the Insulation and
was charged with the full force of the current.
Several other men were knocked senseless.
The cholera epidemic at Srinagar, in the
vale of Cashmere, India, caused 900 deaths
during last week. A terrible panic prevails
among the people, the horror Of the situation
having been increased by great fire, which
has destroyed 1000 houses and made 1000
persons homeless. Food. is held at famine
prices, the crops in the district being almost
a failure.
Miss Betsey Trumbell, who died recently
at the almshouse in Skowhegan Me-, at the
age of 80 years, was supported by the town
from the day of her birth to the day Of her
death, for, although able to do considerable
work, both indoor and out she was otfeeble
intellect and unable to take care o. herself.
Ninety two years on a poor farm is believed
to be the longest time on record.
The steamer City of Maekinac collided with
the tug Washburn in the river opposite De-
troit, Michigan, at midnight on Saturday.
John Hurley and chief engineer Robinson, of
the steam barge Majestic, who were on board
the tug, were drowned. The tug was nearly
cut in two, but the engineer beached it on the
Canadian shore before it sank, thus saving the
lives of the four other men on board. The
Mackinac was but slightly damaged.
Special advices to Bradstreet' $ from regions
affected by the April foods point to an
aggregate loss in five States of So, 1000, 900,
which includes damage to railway property,
destruction of or damage to leyees, to farm
buildings, machinery, live stock and crops, as
well as loss on other property. Louisiana
and Arkansas have lost less in this respect
than has been reported, and Illinois and Mis-
souri, probably more. Losses in Iowa and
Kansas have been greatly exaggerated.
In accordance with the suggestion made
in an appeal which was recently issued by
prominent colored men in all parts of the
country, Tuesday was set apart by the colored
people of Washington, ID. c., as one of fast,
ing and prayer because Of the outrages inhict-
ed upon their race in the Southern States.
Services were held in all of the colored