The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-08-19
News of the Week.

Owing to the Continued financial strain the
Northern Pacific Railroad has gone into the
hands of a receiver.
In less than two hours on Sunday 81, 600.
900 worth of property were burned in Min
neapolis. Minnesota.
Steubenville. Ohio, had $780, fire on
Monday. During the fire several house were
robbed Of money and valuables.
The large dislillery and grist mill Of Joseph
Seachrist, at FELTON,, York county, Pa, was
accidentally burned on Friday of last week.
The Senate Hotel. in Chicago, was burned
early Monday morning. Five persons lost
their lives and fourteen were injured. four
fatally.
A religious race riot has been in progress
in Bombay, India, for several days between
Hindoos and the Moslems. Many lives have
been lost
On Thursday at Atlantic City, N j.. the
opera house, city hall and part of the sheds
of the Pennsylvania railroad were burned;
loss over $4,000.
Fort Scott and vicinity, Kansas, has been
invaded by grasshoppers. Everything green
is being devoured. The destruction is more
than that of the seasons of 1876.
At I p. IN. on August IL, II snowstOrm
prevailed at Pixies Peak, Colorado, with
AtiHptTdluIt VI 81 III HuflldHu Tue tNiu-
perature at that hour was from 90 to $50.
Richard Bond, who built the St. Andrew
and Quebec Railway, and was the first eng
neer to ran locomotive in British America,
died at Toronto on Monday, aged 81 years.
By the burning of Chinese steamer. re-
Gently, $50 Chinese were lost. Those who
jumped into the water were devoured by
sharks, and those who remained ON board
were burned to death.
Many of Pittsburgs industries have re-
sumed work, giving employment to $1,000
men. In Rhode Island and Massachusetts
thousands of men, women and children here
tofore idle are at work.
The. Ministerial Alliance of Denver has
prepared memorial to be sent TO the Presi.
dent asking that he set aside a day of prayer
and fasting, that the nation may be rightly
guided in its present sore distress.
A dispatch from Lemburg, capital of Aus
trian Galicia, states that cholera is spreading
in the towns of Nadiorna and Sniaiin. On
Tuesday and Wednesday there were twenty
four new cases Of the disease and eleven
deaths reported
The sentence Of New York court on
Monday in a case where the prisoner, a mar
ried man, was arrested for kissing strange
woman, was to kiss his own wife. The man
readily responded to the sentence, and he
and his wife left the court locked in each
others arms.
Mrs Helen Clough, of Saratoga. n. Y,
was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of
bigamy. She was married TO man named
Duclow in 1890, and she soon got tired of
him. In February, 1891, she married a Mr..
Lawler, and in September following she cap
tured Clough
The Coolesworth Elevator, at Buffalo, N.
y, having a capacity of 100000 bushels
and valued at $3.50, 900, was entirely destroyed
by FIRE on Tuesday. The flames spread to II
number of frame saloons and dwellings,
about dozen of which were also destroyed.
The total loss is about 100000.
The number of suspensions up to this time,
under the recent act of Congress which pro-
vides that no pension shall be paid to non
resident who is not a citizen of the United
States, except for actual disabilities incurred
in the service, is 24G3. The total number of
foreign pensioners originally on the rolls was
| about 1000.
| During severe storm at Nanticoke, Penn
sylvania, on Saturday, William Banks was
crushed 10 death by one of four brick and
| iron stacks of Shaft No. l, of the Susqne
hanna Coal Company, which were blown
down A house was also blown down, and
three men who had taken shelter in it were
dangerously injured.
George 0chs was shot and killed by Harry
Manford, at ST. Clair, Penna., early Wednes
day morning The men had been drinking
Tuesday night at the home of Ochs. Man
ford left, but returned soon afterward and
forced an entrance into the house. Ochs
grappled with Manford, who then fired the
fatal shot The murderer is in Jail.
The fire at Minneapolis on Sunday burned
over nearly square mile Of territory, de
stroying about $50 houses, 40, ZOO, 900 feet of
lumber, worth $3.50, 600; 10000, 900 feet of
shingles and 100000 feet of laths, worth
$4,000; - mills and factories and number
of ice houses, &C., bringing the loss up TO
about $l,0s4, 500 Two persons lost their
lives.
One Of the largest buildings in the Union
stock yards, Chicago. was threatened with
destruction on Saturday. along with $6,000,-
900 worth of goods and plant. By hard
work the firemen confined the flames to one
corner of the buildings used as the fertilizing
department by Nelson Morris & Co.. The
loss is $500, and 800 men were thrown
out of employment.
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