The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-21
News of the Week.

1 from yellow fever. makes earnest appeals Tor
assistance
Thirty buildings in King City, Missouri,
were destroy ed by FIRE ON Sunday night; loss
| Sl50,000.
A two year-old colt valued at $1,000 was
stolen on Sunday from the Innis farm. near
Lexington, Kentucky.
New York and Boston men are in Virginia
/ buying apples. One firm has paid out over
$4,000, and is still buying.
| On Thursday night of last week the stables
/ Of the Chicago Street Railway Company were
burned. including 500 horses; loss, $4,000
| The Judges of the United States Court of
| Appeals, in Chicago. have decided that it is
] no longer safe to hold court in the Federal
building.
/ Ice. snow aud frost prevailed at Canton
and Greenville, Mississippi, and in parts of
Tennessee, on Sunday killing nearly all vege-
taiion.
George Dunn died in New York Saturday
night from injuries inflicted by his wife in
quarrel. His skull was fractured in 26 places
with hammer.
Large yields of potatoes are reported in
some of the Western States, also in Middle
and Eastern States. In Scotland the yield is
unusually large.
Rev. Mr.. Mccullough, formerly Of Adrian
| College. Adrian. Mich, has accepted the
pastorate of the Methodist Protestant Church
of Fairmont, W. Va.
Indianapolis. Indiana, is absolutely bank
rupt with an Indebtedness of nearly $500, 200
falling due within the next G months. Moth
ing criminal is charged.
Three persons were arrested in Philadel-
1 phia, Pa. on Monday for the deliberate muir
I dering of three other persons by stabbing,
Beating and shooting
Haven f. VIM killed his year-old son in
! Springfield, Massachusetts, on Sunday by
cutting his throat with "a razor, and he then
committed suicide in the same way.
The bonded warehouse os Jacob F. Sheaf-
| fer. at Lancaster, Penna., with 1900 barrels
of whisky. was destroyed by an incendiary
fire on Sunday night. Loss $4,000.
Jeanette and Visin, the horses owned by
Judge William L. Whitehead, of New York,
and valued at SIS 900, were burned to death,
on Saturday, in stable at Fleetwood Park,
| New York.
V. r. Tyler, who has been separated from
/ his wife, met her in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
on Sunday. They quarreled, and Tyler shot
her and then himself. She will recover, but
he will die.
George Bachulin was burned to death dur
/ ing fire which destroyed the Boydell paint
warehouse and Harmonic Hall, at Detroit,
Michigan. Sunday night. The loss is est
mated at 100000.
/ Emma Goldman, the Anarchist, who was
found guilty of making speeches tending to
/ incile to riot, was sentenced by Judge Mar
time, at New York, on Monday, to an i'm.
( prisonment for one year.
The most disastrous FIRE in the history of
1 Allentown, Penna., Friday night of last week
destroyed the Weightman, Breing & Bach
man aud Jacoby and Republkaner buildings.
( The loss will aggregate 100000.
/ William Whalen, a colored man, confessed
on Saturday to Chaplain Dudley, of the Ohio
/ State Prison, at Columbus, that he was the
/ author of four mysterious murders that were
committed near Yellow Springs, Green coun-
ty, in the last year
I Paul Victor Neuenschvanger and Frank
/ Rebsoiner, Swiss laborers out of work, were
I killed by a Pennsylvania Railroad train near
Washington, ID. c., on Sunday, while walk
/ ing on the track. A companion named Has
I seniralz was fatally injured.
During the storm on Saturday a telephone
wire fell across the trolley wire of the
Wikesbarre -and Wyoming Traction Com
/ pany. causing IA fire, which destroyed the
! W lkeSDaITe 1tlcpnOHt ENGllallHt anu OlutT
property. Loss, $4,000.
The chestnut crop throughout the Luray
/ Valley. large section of the Valley of Vir
ginia and West Virginia is reported to be
more abundant than for many years past.
\ The trees are heavily loaded and the nuts are
claimed to be of very fine quality.
The second section of west bound excur
\ sion train on the Michigan Central Railroad
! crashed into the first as it stood in the sta
I ton o, jackson, Michigan. on October l3,
I wrecking nine cars and killing and injuring
many of the passengers. The engineer Of
the second train says the air brakes failed TO
/ act.
/ r. b. Chafiin. of Richmond, Va, has sold
/ his 500 acre farm, in Amelia county. and
fronting on the Appomattox river, with its
! 200 acres OF river and creek flats to John j.
Cairns, of Washington county, Pa, for $751;
/ 500. Mr.. Cairns proposes to bring about
/ 200 Southdown sheep and make this a stock
farm.
The third and final race fos the America S
/ cup was sailed on October 10 and the Vigi-
| liant again proved herself the speedier boat
/ though weather conditions were thought to
/ favor the Valkyrie. The course was 10 miles
/ from Sandy Hook lightship and return, and
The Vigilant won by 40 seconds over her
English competitor.
/ The American Express Company is inves
| tigating the loss of nearly $50, 900 in money
/ in transit between New York and New Or
leans The money was shipped from New
! York and consigned to New Orleans, but
! when the safe reached the latter place the
/ money was missing. No identity is given the
! forwarders of the money, but 1t is believed to
have been en- route TO the lottery company.
!
A geologist who has been making study
| Of Wyoming Raleigh and Logan counties, in
! West Virginia, says that the coal deposits
average FIVE feet in thickness over an area of
more than 1000 square miles. He saw out
/ Groupings of coal rising 10 the height of %
feet and extending for miles along the side of
the mountains he measured vein of coal
% feet in thickness.
/ The New Orleans Picayune publishes a
carefully prepared tabulated statement of the
losses in Plaqnemines parish by the recent
! great storm. The total loss of life was 2G0,
whilst the losses in buildings, stock, crops,
etc, aggregate S6l2,25 The loss Of the
orange crop is total and is estimated at $780,
| 500 There are some other items which can
not be estimated and included in this total,
such, for instance, as the damage to the land
and the loss of household effects.
! non. fFeuefich Otyinour NHuuau uleu III
Danbury, Connecticut. on Monday, aged SO.
He was one of the oldest active bankers in
the country, and had been President Of the
savings bank of Danbury since 1919. He
came Of an old New England family, and his
father was member of the United States
/ Congress in 1920. In his earlier days he was
1 . POLITICIAN Of prominence. He drove from
4 Danbury to Hartford in winter storm to AT
/ tend Democratic Convention, and was
/ elected delegate oft National Convention
4 which nominated Andrew jackson for Presi-
| dent He was Commissioner of Bankruptcy
in Connecticut until that office was abolished
by law. In 1854 and 1856 he represented
| Danbury in the Connecticut Legislature, and
in 1860 was Senator from his district. In
1857 and 1858 he was Treasurer of the State
i of Connecticut He was the oldest United
Templar in the State. He was one of the
early members of Morton Commandery OF
New York city.
Chicago has completely distanced all rivals
hyqettine together in the World's Fair grounds
more than 700, 600 people The paid admis-