The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-14

( The following letter, prepared in obedience
! to q resolution of the Westminster Fire De-
I partment, has been addressed to Rev. Vim.
L. Seabrook, formerly president of the de-
partment, by Mr.. VIM. Fl. Bell, Jr., the sec
rotary and treasurer.
WESTMINSTER, Nd, January 18th, 1898.
REV. VIM. l.. SEABRooK.
Ny Dear Sir At the regular monthly
meeting of the Westminster Fire Engine and
! Hose Company No. /, held on Wednesday
evening last, the greatest anxiety, as well as
the most profound sympathy, was manifested
and expressed by every member at the afflic-
ton which has befallen you and the great loss
you have been called upon to sustain. Mind
ful as we are of how much this, company is
indebted to you for its prosperity and for the
high degree of efficiency to which it has at
tanned, its members cannot but be deeply in-
terested in everything which concerns your
present aud future welfare, nor will our anx
iety abate until it is known that you have
fully recovered from the effects of the opera
ton you have undergone.
i have been directed to communicate to you
the heartfelt sympathy of this company in
your sufferings, and to express the hope that
you may be speedily returned therefrem to
resume again the duties of your high calling,
to the satisfaction ofyourself and the lasting
good of those to whom you shall minister.
With my warmest regards and best wishes for
. speedy recovery,
| am, sincerely your friend,
WM. H. BELL, JR.-
Sec'y and Treas, w. F. ID.
The death of Thomas Gallagher Repub
liean politician of the thirty fourth ward,
Philadelphia, Penna., who was killed during
primary election of the party last week puts
:, ,.,ario,a ,,rohiapa hafnra tho corouar mr.
William B. Werntz, veterinary surgeon and
former member of councils, has been held in
$40, 200 bail, charged with the murder, and
Thomas Scott, colored his servant, is in Jail
lf.accused with the crime. There was
fight at the polls, in which Werntz was en-
gagged. in the course of which Gallagher was
stabbed. DIR. Werntz says that he had
backed out of the fight several minutes be-
fore Gallagher was cut. Two or three wit
nesses, however, swear that Werntz did the
stabbing and that Scott was not present. DR..
Werntz says that he can prove that Scott fed
after the stabbing and told two or three peo
pie that he had cut a man. The case excites
great interest on account of the political
standing Of DR.. Werntz.
Thomas c. Nichols, "a New York drug
clerk has been found guilty of murder in the
second degree. Nichols last December used
morphine instead of quinine in filling pre-
scription, and the mistake caused the death
Of Martin Mundt.
Paul Scruggs and Henry Allen, who on
Saturday night near Cotton Plant, Arkansas,
murdered, robbed and then burned Rube
Atkinson, his housekeeper and her little
daughter, were taken from Jail by a mob
200 strong on Tuesday night and lynched.
AZ Peughkeepsie, N. T., over 100000
tons Office have been stored. At several other
places on the Hudson river similar amounts
have been secured, and it is said to be the
finest crop ever stored.
Simon Goldman, paying teller of the Ger
men National Bank, at Denver, Colorado,
has disappeared, and is said to be from ten
to fifteen thousand dollars short IN his ao-
counts
Fire was discovered Wednesday in the
Norris mine at Ironwood, Michigan. 1t is
said to be the largest iron mine in the world.
Its output for 1892 was 100000 tons.
John York's large dry goods store in Chi
cago was burned on Wednesday causing
loss of S220,000