The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-06-10
News of the Week.

Joseph fulltzer. eultor u bnS 90
World, has given 100000 10 Columbia Col
lege.
By the burning Of mine at Eagle Pass,
Texas. on Saturday. 60 men we're roasted to
death.
Between January / and May 81, twenty
National banks have failed, and about forty
banking houses.
Fire destroyed over S., 0OO. 900 Of property
Mt Fargo, North Dakotah on "Wednesday,
and over 5000 people are homeless.
fire in a flat on East Forty. third street,
New York. at midnight, Saturday, resulted
in the death of four persons who were IN the
fifth floor.
| An unusually large number of failures and
suspensions of banking firms and business
houses were announced at the close oil bust
ness on Monday last
Twelve fine residences in San francisco
were destroyed by fire "Wednesday morning.
and three fremen were killed by falling walls.
The property loss is S20O,OO0
The mulberry trees of Japan have been SO
| badly damaged by frost as TO make them I'M
fit for food for silk worms, and the loss to the
silk trade is estimated at $5,O00,OOo
Joseph Littig was found murdered on Sat
urday morning at Wellesley, Massachusetts,
His fellow. countrymen, Germans, believe he
was killed because he was non-unlon work
man.
i"e -, 80 on Nav 30tb left 5000 people
anu 80 I'D IN dest;tnte circumstances, and
nv ,'.''sssi g. "a hos haen made by Mayor
| Black.
~, w,d,,asdav in York Pa. Miss Miller,
..,,,Ionad ~ a candy factory. while engaged
iio.n;n,, s;z;ng machine had both Of her
ar,os drawn into The MACHINERY and crushed
a, -, i ,ba aihow
~ 1:a,;uo, Huntsville have closed.
49, 20 oYernrodnct;on, The production Of
80, e.. ,La vear in The fifth district will
", ~ go 600 Gallons. ON which the tax
au,onnts 40 $40 504 600.
~, r po-a.,, c,r ,ba n,,rder
ne s Ia u na s'a,D,n,ber was begun in
NJ 81 ne' p~icend Massaohnse,ts on Tuesday.
| If was one of The most terrible crimes ever
committed in that State
M, -; IA f,,>,,,,,,,v and tho Car.
me 1 oHln Ts nam' ~ Inhnson CIV Ten.
nesle iiou Jonpy ss; ~ on Sainrdsv \
,iii.; a. Ia.r,ai,, 70 eastern and
hns .,s.,;ns orc nIacea ~ S115 ono
m. - of wood;n,4on Dorke comfy.
o,i;n nc Low" u ss,ast on, If existence
SiI9' wa; - i'.'' h' ,orr;fo wind and rain
ouuuay M. d ~ oi;shed ,,,or,, houses nnder
Storm, "iiiIn -, III 10 doa,b
'"u - ~. ,t;..;..;;
While tue clIizens cas-. . Oh ,h .nG 'ssss Spp
river TelJ s" '.sJ Iae.Sau thosa ,sbo reside
Jay N.G o;,';,,' Of ,ha Poclv Maintains were
~ n; snG ,N. ,emneratnre Of 100 and below.
T Tf;s = . ',raa, b;o country
us % :.
Inc governor Oh louisiana aIilVeu !. Wv '
Orleans on SATURDAY ~ 10 90 nego.,a'e WIN ene
eliAs ~. ~ |. ' a. district About
/ ~
1879 1872 s,a,,a,;o 80 y his I;Str;c,
'el ~ u 90, -. - :. U.s. - 90 ,.o. or
Charies hichnohu, aeyu % ygtis' Vi
Springheid' limos, was killed near i, lreneon'
New Jersey, on Hohuay' py .lie IAN , On par
achute. he haa ascehueu III oa'iooi, " d
hesn' VI oo S'n &C., "a pa robabIv
y. I,e 81 ~ i0'' =" t'''>-
u'o""eu
The disappearance on FRIDAY Oh 1ast wees en-
OF Herman oenaeHher' SENIOR !, 'n zen ot .ne
hrm OF herman e oGnaelher VI uAhhels,
oil lineage, was lot.oMeu ~. oa siiy y ai
assignment OF .n9 urn miiicu Is sal9 - nase
oeen inc largest aeaier III eoiuiiercia' paper
III the Oh'eu States
A Missouri Paeihc haiiroaa tram dispatch
er mistake drought neisu1 anu s S.
traih III Gol'is.oii "i . 1ies'ie az i'eu ?usi
MO-, SUNDAY nisht' DOM trains , weIe P.ieu
IN heaR IN Tue rlsi'ie anu .gv o nea VIZ
Killed. Inc uailiise 10 over S'V'"oV' ine
crews eseapeu Dy Jumping
| A cloudbnrst literally Hooded the lace oil
the country about Sutton, Neb., Saturday.
1t was accompanied by hail four feet deep
and wind that destroyed the crops, breaking
glass In the larmnouses anu i TI9 wihu-
mills. son OF Mrs, nehTy nun anu TWO
horseS were instantly Ailieu ny hsntns
Samuel A. wilson, who, alone, held up
and robbed the express car OF train near
Pacific, Missouri, on the night OF May oath,
was arrested on Saturday at the home OF his
parents, near Lebanon. IN that state. lie
said he committed the robbery In ordert Sc
/ cure money with which to pay mortgage on
his fathers farm
The furniture house of Charles Shiverick
| & Co., in Omaha, Nebraska, was burned on
Saturday night. Loss about $4,000. Mau.
rers restaurant, adjoining, was damaged
10000. by the FALL OF wall Captain Cox,
OF the Fire Department, was Killed, and four
other bremen ana bystander were mortaily
injured me nre was caused Dy iignthing
during terrlhc thunder storm, which ala
other damage estimated al 9loo,oOo
The heaviest rainfall since 1870 swept the
northern portion of Augusta county, Virginia,
Saturday night, and carried destruction in its
| path. AT Sangersville and Mount Scion the
flood was terrific, carrying away fences,
| houses, mills and everything within Its reach.
Whole helds oil wheat and corn were washed
away. North river has not been passable
since Thursday of last week, and there has
been no news from that section since that
time.
New York city was visited by a terrific
storm on Tuesday afternoon. Binding flashes
of lightning, following by dealening peals of
thunder stirred the city from the Battery 10
/
phone, telegraph aud electric light poles were
! blown down, churches, dwellings and ware
houses damaged and cellars flooded. In
| Brooklyn several warehouses were struck by
lightning and over 5000 bales of cotton were
burned The loss runs to over a million oil
dollars to say nothing OF the great lnconvenI'
enee TO business
The Kansas Grain Company Of Kansas
City. which claims to be the greatest buyer