The Democratic advocate., 1893-07-29
News of the Week.

David Emmitt, at York, Pa, was burned
together with $1,000 worth of leaf tobacco.
A FIRE in Paulding, Ohio, early on Sunday
morning, destroyed over 80 of the principal
business houses, causing loss estimated at
over 500, 900.
Mrs. Bridget Mullen died at Collinsville,
Massachusetts, on Sunday, aged l07 years.
She leaves husband "a number Of children
and grandchildren.
According to statement sent from Wash
ington, 200 national banks have closed their
doors since January l, as against less than so
during the same period last year.
The Vermont marble company, at Rutland.
Vermont, has notified its employees, about
1000 in number. that their wages will be re
duced Is per cent on August lst.
During the past three weeks over 2500 car
loads of Irish potatoes have been shipped
from. Cape Charles City. Virginia. Prices
have been good and truckers are happy.
Henry c. Schriyer, aged 50 years. of Han
over, Pa, died on Saturday. He leaves Two
sons and one daughter-Lewis Schriyer, of
Glen Rock, Jacob II. Schriver, of Hanover.
A mob broke into the Jail at Denver on
Wednesday night and lynched an Italian who
had on Tuesday night killed a Grand Army
man. The murderer was hanged and his
body riddled with bullets.
]. A. Kleinefelter's stables, barn and this
seasons crops, at Glenville, York county,
Pa, were burned on Tuesday, by children
playing with matches. Two other barns were
burned the same day in the northern part Of
the county.
B. FL. Nemitz, representative of 35 Swiss
watchmakers at the Worlds Fair, is reported
TO be short in his accounts to the amount OF
$4,000. Nemitz was arrested Wednesday ia
Toronto, on telegraphic orders from the Chi
cago police.
Advices from Hong Kong, received at San
Francisco on Wednesday give details of a
terrible explosion at the Government powder
magazine, at Canton, on June "a, which killed
many persons, iniuring over 300 and wreck
ing 400 houses.
Clarence NJ: Overman, late President and
Cashier of the Citizens National Bank at
Hillsboro, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday
charged with embezzling $50 900 of the bank s
funds, and with making false entries in a re-
port to the Comptroller of the Currency.
The electric railway company at Gettys.
burg has stopped work on the battlefield.
Rails have been laid within short distance
of the ''den.'; This move is presumed to be
owing to the notification of the United States
Commission that the railway must vacate the
battlefield at once.
At St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday, Jacob
Helms and Henry Kaiser were convicted of
the murder of Edwin E. Brown, wealthy
citizen Brown was stopped by three foot
pads ON the street, near his home, on the
night of March I'd, and so brutality beaten
that he died within an hour.
IT, ..oood eaof;an Of tho R.ltipnora ap,l
Ohio Worlds Fair excursion train was
wrecked early on Tuesday morning, near
Munroe Falls, Ohio. The rails spread and
FIVE coaches were thrown down a ten-foot
embankment. No person was killed, but 30
were injured, several severely.
Daniel F. Beatty, the organ manufacturer
and five times Mayor of Washington, N. j..
WAS arraigned on Tuesday before commits
ination, on the charge Of using the United
States mails for fraudulent purposes. Ned
f. Sawyer, of Felchville, VT, is the com
plainant.
Up to Tuesday night 300 men in Denver.
Colorado. have registered as out of employ
ment, and the list is steadily increasing.
Means are being taken to furnish employ
ment and provide food for the hungry and
destitute 1t is estimated that 10, 900 persons,
men, women and children. are in need of
immediate aid
Governor Lewelling, of Kansas, has re-
ceived confirmation of the report that the
mine owners of that State purpose bringing
1000 colored men from the South to take the
places of the striking miners. Serious trou-
BILE is feared if the colored men attempt TO
go to work, and, if necessary. the Governor
will order out the militia.
Charles Anderson, living near McCall $
Ferry, York county, Pa, left his wife alone
on Sunday evening to attend church. He
returned home about ten o'clock and found
her bound hand and foot and gagged. She
said that soon after her husband left home
two men entered the house, bound and gagg
ed her. and then proceeded to ransaek the
house. --
George Smaus, in Pittsburg, Pa, Wednes
day morning. killed his wife and two daugh-
tiers, aged q and 4 years respectively, by beat
ing them on the heads with hammer. He
then set fire to the house. The firemen soon
extinguished the flames and found the evi
dences of the tragedy. Of Smaus's children,
I3-year-old boy and an infant alone es-
capped. Smaus was arrested.
The ''cork syndicate represented by
Armstrong Brothers and Kempe, of New
York, have secured control of the Phoenix,
the Dodges and the Conestoga Cork Works,
in Lancaster, Penna. These three and the
ones owned by Armstrong Brothers, at Pitts
burg and Brooklyn, are the five largest in
America, and, it is claimed, will give the
syndicate control of the cork trade.
A despatch from San Francisco says that
Bishop Nichols, of the Episcopal Church,
has received letter from George w. Childs,
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, offering to
defray the expenses of erecting monument
near Point Reyes, the place where Sir Fran
els Drakes chaplain read the Episcopal SER
vice in 1879. 1t is understood the monument
will take the form of a memorial chapel.
The Jail in Memphis, Tennessee, was bro
ken into by a mob on Saturday night. and
Lee Walker, colored, % years old, was taken
out and hanged to telegraph pole. After
ward his body was cremated. He made four
attempts to commit rape within week, two
being successful, one victim being colored
girl 81 years old and the other married
woman of his own color. He confessed to
over twenty assaults.
A wind storm passed over Chesterfield
county, Virginia, on Wednesday afternoon.
Trees we're uprooted and barns and fencing
DESTROYED. James A. Jones, in company
with Capias Dillon, was driving on the turn
u
Jones was killed and Dillon badly injured.
Their team consisted of a horse and mule.
The latter was crushed to death by the tree,
and the horse badly injured.
Canada's total wheat crop this year will be
about 10, 900, 900 bushels larger than last year.
Manitoba will yield 25,000,000 against 20,-
OOO, 900 last year, and Ontario this year will
have about 35, 200, ,060 bushels. 1t is esti-
mated there are yet in the country upward of
l0, 900, 900 bushels of the wheat of last year $
crop. The hay crop is unprecedentedly
heavy. Hundreds of tons are being sold
daily for export to England, Sl050 to Sll
per ton being paid to farmers.
A spark from passenger engine set fire TO
wheat field belonging to John Burns nj
Flowing Spring mill, near Charlestown, w.
Va, on Tuesday evening, and burned large
quantity of wheat in the shock and a barn
for storage of grain on the farm. The loss is
partially covered by insurance. Fortunately
for Mr.. Burns, he had gone to town only a
few hours before the fire and had the barn
insured When he returned home he was
greatly surprised to find it in ashes.