The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-07-08
News of the Week.

1t is stated that Chicago has population
Of over 2,00O,0 900.
Railroad property in North Carolina is as
sessed at 100000.
The Pope has given FIVE hundred thousand
| francs to be used in missionary work.
| President Cleveland is at Buzzard's Bav.
Mass. and Elk President Harrison is Mt Cape
May.
| The boilers of a steamboat on the Volea
River, in Russia, exploded on Tuesday, and
% persons were killed.
DIR. d. B. Grove, well known homeopa-
thic physician of Hanover, Pa, died on Fri
day of last week, aged SO years.
The mean temperature for June was 72o.
The lowest $50 on the LIST, the highest 9So on
the 10Th. This was for New York.
The Cedarhurst club house, at Far Rock
away, Long Island, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday. The loss is about s50,000.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie Da
Wis are at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island,
where they will remain during the summer.
While riding horse at Bemeni, Illinois.
Monday evening, 0rvillo Fanlk was instantly
killed by lightning. The horse was also
killed.
On shaped track at Rirkwood, Del.
on Tuesday, Saladin paced mile in 2.05s,
in 2.064.
! Lakefeld, Minnesota, was visited by
cyclone on Wednesday night. Several lives
were lost and great destruction of property is
reported.
| Lightning set fire to some fireworks in the
Western Union Office at Newcastle, Penna,
Monday morning, and the building was
| wrecked
The building occupied by Fish, Josephs 4
! Co., dry goods merchants of Chicago, was
damaged by FIRE on Monday to the extent of
100000.
The Slaughter family of Texas are said to
be the most extensive landowners in Ameri
| ca, their combined holdings amounting to
half a million acres. sa-is-
| William r. Shaw, ex-cashier of the Lin
coin National Bank, of Portland, Maine, was,
on Saturday, sentenced to 10 years impris-
onment for embezzlement.
An explosion of gas in the Thornhil col
liery, Yorkshire, England, on Tuesday. i'm
prisoned 1870 men in burning mine, and it
it is believed most of them were killed.
A local rain storm of great violence. at
Pleasant Valley, suburb of Pittsburg, Pa,
on Sunday caused flood which inundated Is
houses and washed six small bridges away.
Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, Pa,
| uleu suuutHly VI dDOplt4J AT OdIlSDdus Wei
many. Mr.. Drexel was noted for his great
charity, having given away over S5,000,oo0.
George r. Richardson was sentenced at
Roseburg, Oregon, Monday. to eight years
imprisonment for attempting to wreck a
Southern Pacific passenger train on March 80.
t. J. Wood, late cashier of the Ninth Ma
tional Bank, of Dallas, Texas, has been ar
rested on an Indictment found by the Federal
grand jury, charging him with embezzling
$229, 200.
The Kentucky Legislature, after being in
session 531 days, adjourned sine die on Mon
day. The cost to the State was $500, 900,
and hereafter sessions will be limited by law
to 60 days.
Henry Starr and "Kid" Wilson, members
of the notorious "Starr gang" of train and
bank robbers, were arrested at Colorado
Springs, Colorado, Monday. About $1,000
was recovered with the men.
A despatch from Fayetteville, Arkansas,
says it has been discovered that George Wat
kins, for whose murder Andrew Hedgepeth
was convicted and hanged in 1886 is alive
and in his former home in Kansas.
The failure of the Chaffee County Bank at
Salida, Col, Saturday, proves to have been
bad one, and it looks as though the institu-
ton had been looted. Liabilities are $780,
Two girls named Ray, aged II and Is
years. who were blackberrying near Bard.
we'll, Kentucky, on Wednesday, were found
murdered Their threats we're cut and there
we're evidences that they had been assaulted.
During heavy storm at Lancaster, Penna,,
Monday afternoon, Charles Mackinson was
instantly killed by lightning and VIM. Ruhl
was fatally injured. They were fishing in a
creek near Lancaster and took refuge be-
meath tree from the storm.
Captain Anderson, of the Viking ship, on
its way to Chicago, had narrow escape from
drowning at Clyde, New York, on Saturday.
He went in bathing, and was carried under
the ship by the current, but was saved by
some OF the students on board. ess-ssss
An explosion of fireworks Monday night in
a confectioner's store, at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
wrecked the interior and demolished the
front wall of the building. The explosion
was caused by sky rocket crashing through
the window and igniting the fireworks.
The Oldest man and woman in Pennsyl
vania and probably in the United States, ae-
cording to their own figures, are Mary Nc.
Donald, aged l2S, and John Gibson, aged
l21, both inmates of the Home for Aged and
Infrm Golored Persons in Philadelphia,
Guerdon Conkling's large barn and horse
l
Dunham's Basin, N. Y, was burned on
Tuesday. There were thirty eight valuable
horses, brood mares and colts in the build
ings, and only eighteen of them were saved.
News has reached New Orleans that the
back water from the Rescue crevasse, which
is now 800 feet wide, suddenly swept down
the New River basin on Sunday night. Ten
persons we're lost and it ia feared that st9rEa-
ton will claim other victims before rescuers
can reach them,
The Pope has given his consent to the pro-
posal that Maestro Mustafa, director Of the
choir of the Sistine Chapel, and the members
of the choir, should visit Chicago and sing
there during the progress of the Exposition.
This will be the first time the choir, as a
choir, will have sung outside the Holy City.
While celebrating at Fire Department. head
quarters, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Mon
day night, cannon burst, injuring four FIRE:
men, One of them, named kapp, who
held the cannon on his knee while Charles
Carroll was ramming the charge home, had
his right leg blown off. Carroll lost both his
bands.
The Christian Endeavor Society, now one
of the largest ever organized, had its origin
in Portland, Maine, in 1881, in a mission
station of the Williston Congregational
Church. An International Convention OF
perhaps $4,000 persons assembled in Mon.
treal, Canada. on the 4th of July, for mutual
corporation,
In Philadelphia, Pa, on Monday, William
Rarthel, 10 years old, accidentally shot and
killed his brother Harry aged IA years. The