The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-28
News of the Week.

the value of $780, 600, was destroyed by FIRE
Monday.
The steamer La Champagne left New
York for Havre, on Saturday, with $4,500,-
600 in gold.
The Carondelet grain elevator at ST. Louis
was burned on Sunday, together with two
transfer boats; loss, Sl,50O,OOO.
The Northwestern Methodist College, at
Albany, Mo-, which had just been completed,
was burned on Saturday; loss, $4,000.
The Sneed Furniture Co. 5 store and other
properties in Winston, North Carolina, were
burned Sunday. The loss is 100000.
Ten inches of SHOW fell on the 10th instant
! throughout Mississippi, and the temperature
at Aberdeen fell to 5! degrees below zero.
During a fire in a large storage warehouse,
in New York. on Saturday, wall fell and
seven firemen were injured. The property
loss is estimated at Sl50,000.
The car shops of the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad, at CHARTERS. were DESTROYED
by fire on Sunday night; loss, S65,000. The
FIRE was caused by natural gas.
The weaving, carding and spinning depart
ments of the Old Dominion Cotton Mills, at
Richmond, Virginia, were destroyed by fire
Monday morning; loss, 100000.
John C. Green, who has returned to San
Francisco from Alaska, says the limit In
dams to the number of 500 along the Fish
river are in starving condition.
The house of Dean Hart, of the Trinity
Episcopal Church, Denver, Col, was mobbed
Sunday night as the result of his crusade
against Sunday amusements.
The typhoid fever epidemic continues in
the penitentiary at jackson, Michigan. On
| Saturday nine patients were in the hospital,
and there had been two deaths
Seven tons of powder at the Kellogg Pow
der Works, near Huntington, West Virginia,
exploded on Sunday. The men were at din
ner and no person was injured.
Dr. C. W. Stille, of Wesleyan College, at
Middletown, Connecticut, has accepted the
Professorship of Medical Zoology IN the
Catholic University Georgetown, ID. c.
Two petrifed snakes, II and "a feet long,
respectively, were unearthed at Rockville,
Col, Saturday. 1t is thought that more will
be found They will form part of the Colo
RADIO exhibit at the Worlds Fair
-Four dwellings in Pittsburg were burned
early Sunday morning. Mrs. Kate Roslyn,
widow, aged % years, and George Roslyn,
her nephew, aged years, were burned to
death. Four others were severely burr
The Mckay Building, in Rochester, New
York, was destroyed by fire on Saturday
night By the fall of wall liremen Sylves-
ter w. Burns was killed and John Hess ia
tally injured. The loss will reach S25O,0OO.
The breaking of a wheel on a freight train
on the Reading road, near Shamokin, on
Saturday night, wrecked 10 cars. Later
Shamokin coal train collided with the de-
bris, wrecking four more cars and the en-
CINE. Two trainmen were injured.
A single sheet Of paper, six feet in width
and seven and three -fourths miles in length,
has been made, it is said, by the paper works
at WATERFOWL, N. Y. 1t is claimed that the
sheet of paper weighed 2207 pounds, and was
made and rolled entire without single
break.
The Brooklyn police on the 10th instant,
discovered that the body of Joseph Scholt-
heis, who died the Sunday previous, was still
unburied because Mrs. Scholtheis had not
money enough to pay an undertaken. She
and her two children slept in the room with
the corpse.
The sound is frozen over from the shore at
Green Village, Conn, to Captains Island,
narrow sand bar three miles out, where a
fog-horn is stationed. Many people have
walked to the island This has happened but
onceor twice in the memory of the Oldest in
habitants.
William NJ. jackson, the first colored man
admitted to the Protestant Episcopal priest
hood in Kentucky, was ordained in Louis
vile last week. His father was free-horn
and his mother an emancipated slave. He
was formerly employed in the War Depart
ment at Washington
An intense cold wave passed over the
Northwest Territories on Wednesday. and
the mercury throughout Minnesota dropped
to an alarming extent. A heavy storm set in
on Tuesday and an average of six feet of
snow covers the pine districts.
Catherine Sharp, widow of John G. Sharp,
hero of the War of 1872, died in Philadel-
phia, Pa, on Sunday Mrs. Sharp was born
February 5, 177s, and was, therefore, within
two weeks of being lis years old. She was
said to be the Oldest pensioner on the rolls
of the United States Government.
Hugh Il. Dempsey, who was tried at Pitts
burg on the charge of causing poison to be
administered to the non-union men employed
in the Homestead mills, was found guilty by
the Jury on the charge of administering poison
to W. X. Griffith. The extreme penalty for
the crime is $500 fine and 10 years impris
onment.
The committee in charge of the construc-
ton of the big Smngerfest Hall to be erected
at Cleveland Ohio, next summer, has ten
dered the use of the structure free Of rent fer
the National Convention of the Epworth
League, provided the convention can be held
the third week in July, after the close of the
sangerfest. The hall will be Of iron and will
have seating capacity Of 10000.
BY decision Of the Supreme Court of H.
linois, w. Ii. Eddy becomes the owner of
1856, 900 worth Of real estate in Chicago, and
Henry Gage, tax title buyer, is Invested of
the title to the property, on which he has
paid $25, 900 since the war. Eddy now sues
to recover 100000 for the use and occu-
pancy of the land during all these years.
The McBeth Lamp Fine Works, at Elwood,
Indiana, said to be the largest Of the kind in
the world, were burned Sunday night. Over
600 men will be thrown out of work. Loss,
100000 Florence Walk, moulder, was
bqrned to death. He was lost in the packing
room, and was found five hours later covered
with debris hole was cut in u wall,
through which four other workmen were res
cued.
Through the carelessness of a telegraph
operator the second section of the east bound
''Fast Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
crashed into the rear Of the first section, near
Steeton, Penna., early Saturday morning.
The rear car, sleeper from Williamsport.
was telescoped, and eight passengers were
injured, the most seriously hurt being Bro.
IeSsOF II. W. ItOle, OF tne University Vi
Pennsylvania, and A. A. Stern, of New
York.
Joseph Winsor died at Providence, r. l.,
January 10, aged "a years. Mr.. Winsor was
an inventor of considerable prominence.
Among his inventions are the dropping rails
used at railway crossings. He was married
seven times, and secured separation from six
wives. The seventh, whom he married Eve
| years ago, made such demands upon him
that he transferred his large estate to one
John Morris on condition that the latter
support him properly as long as he lived.
The seven wives survive Mr.. Winsor.
The new Union Depot on Fort and Third
streets, Detroit, Mich, was thrown open to
the public Saturday It cost 81 10000 and
in general arrangements, finish and oonven-
epce compares favorably With any other
railway depot In the country. Four tracks
enter the structure. They will be used by