The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-03-04
News of the Week.

GINA. was burned on Monday loss, 100000.
A leather trust with capital of 500, co.,
600 is being formed by northern and western
persons.
Five shares of Chemical National Bank
stock of New York were sold on Wedn esday
at s., 49, 80 per share; par value 500.
After % years consecutive service VIM.
P. Campbell has resigned as assistant general
superintendent of the railway mail service.
A blast furnace at the Riverside Works, at
Benwood. West Virginia, exploded on Mon
day and four workmen were seriously
burned.
Joseph Payne, negro, was lynched at
JeIlico, Tennessee, ON Saturday night, for
having assaulted white girl. He confessed
bis crime
Lee Taylor, who lived near Newcastle,
Penna, committed suicide on Saturday by
throwing himself against a saw in q saw mill
His head was cut of.
The planning mill of the Commercial lum,,
Der company, at FELTON,, Georgia, was burned
ON Saturday. Loss, $780, James Berry,
watchman, persisted in the building.
The Minnesota Shoe Company's factory at
St. Paul was damaged by FIRE, on Saturday,
to the amount of Sl00,OO0 Three 6remen
were injured by the fall of FIRE escape.
Burglars entered the store of J. d. Rome,
at Shepherdstown, Cumberland co. Pa, on
Friday night, and blowing open the safe, Sc
cured cash, jewelry and papers valued at
5000.
The ODER Van Amring pumice stone mills,
near Mamaraneck, New York, were burned
on Saturday morning. Loss $4,000: There
are only three other mills of the kind IN the
country
The electric cars in Wheeling, West Yir
ginia, are run under police protection. The
Ohio Valley Trades Assembly have decided
TO start a line of 40 buses TO compete with
the cars.
While S. Gleitz and wife were at funeral
in Tarentum, Penna., on Saturday, their two
small children played with fire. The oldest,
aged years, was burEed 10 death and the
other was fatally burned.
John r. McFee, 40 years old, ali lndianap-
oils lawyer, who is charged with forsery 10
the extent of $4,000, was arrested IN .'hila-
delphia, Pa. on Saturday and committed .
await requisition from Indiana
Miss Julia Force, SO years of age, shot and
killed her two sisters-Florence, aged 30,
and Minnie, aged 28-in Atlanta, Georgia,
on Saturday afternoon. She gave herself up
to the police. She had shown symptoms OF
insanity.
Frank Gilbrough, of Galveston, Texas, on
Saturday shot and killed Dora May Wassam,
aged II years and then killed himself The
refusal Of the girls parents to sanction their
marriage. it is thought caused Gilbrough to
become insane.
William Miller, a pugilist. died in San
Francisco, on Saturday, from eoncussion OF
the brain, caused by a blow received during
a fight with Dali Hawkins, at the Pacific
Club, on Friday night Hawkins, three OF
the seconds, the manager of the club and
others were arrested.
Michael J. Roney, a former Boston police
man, but who is now insane, on Monday held
possession of one of the corridors of New
Haven, Connecticut, police station, for three
hours, and was only subdued when two
streams of water from fire hose were turned
upon him simultaneously.
On Friday afternoon of last week, as John
". Maekey, the well. known Bonanza King,
of San Francisco, California, was shot in the
back by W. C. Rippey. an insane man, %
years of age, who, after attempting Mr..
Mackays life, fred bullet into his own
breast, inhicting fatal wound.
A despatch from Rome, Italy, February
81, SAYS: The police to-day surprised &c
Anarchists at work in a bomb factory on the
outskirts of the city. All the men were ar
rested, and large quantity of explosives
were seized. The police believe that they
now have the persons responsible for most OF
the explosions of the last year.
The double six inch gun tube, sixtytwo
feet long, finished on Saturday at the Bethle
hem Ordnance Works, was regarded as the
most skillful piece of forging work in the his
tory of modern ordnance. The tube was
made out of four hundred ton ingot twenty
feet long. 1t will be sent to Chicago as part
of the company's exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
a despatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
from Nashville, Tenn, dated February oath,
saws: ''To-d day, in the Criminal Court, Har
yey Weekly, on trial for murder, fell dead on
the witness stand. When he was asked if he
had murdered the victim he said he hoped
God would strike him dead ii he had. Hard
" had he spoken when he fell dead to the
floor"
Judge Eustis, at Memphis, Tennessee, on
Saturday handed down decision disbarring
Speaker Ralph Davis, of the Tennessee Leg
isature, from practicing as an attorney in the
Courts of the State. He was accused of
swindling a client out of $3.50. Ii is proba-
bic that he will be deposed as Speaker of the
Legislature and that he will be expelled from
the Assembly.
The Bethlehem Iron Company, at Bethle-
hem, Penna., have received notice that the
contract was awarded them for over $1,000,
900 worth of heavy armor plate. The entire
contract was So 800, 900. The Carnegie
Works, of Pittsburg, were awarded the bal
ance of the contract. This will give work
for Eve years to the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany's employees.
In sinking well at the farm of Morris
Bedler, at Winfreed Station, Indiana, on
Saturday, layer of blue clay and slate-like
rock was struck at depth of ten feet. On
examination the rock was found to be full of
a crystallized substance. Samples were sub
United to an expert, who pronounced it
chrome iron ore and silver The ore con
tsins 60 per cent. Of pure silver.
passenger train colided with side
tracked freight train on the Long Bridge
across the Potomac, at Washington, on
Monday. Both engines were wrecked. En-
gineer Simpson, of the freight, was killed,
and Engineer Mullowney and Fireman kor-
mick, of the passenger train, were severely
injured. The telegraph operator at the
bridge was arrested for failure to close the
switch.
Some years ago W. r. Burt purchased a
quantity Of timber land in st. Louis county,
Minnesota. Within year there has been
discovered, on a 40-acre tract Of this land,
deposit of ore, which runs high to Bessemer
and low 10 phosphorus. The ore is only Gov
cred by light earth and. it is claimed, there
are ten million tons in sight. 1t is not vein,
but a deep bed, so accessible and of such
quality that it can be dug out with shovels.
At Marion, Indiana, on Saturday last ex
Gov. Steele completed transaction by WHICH
coo acres of land were transferred to a com
pany representedby Mr.. Steele. Postmaster
General Wanamaker, Treasurer Nebecker,
General Passenger Agent Boyd, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad; General Manager Pierce,
of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western
Railroad, and other Philadelphia capitalists
comprise the company The capital of the
..eelnpan Is $ln0. 600 - The lands are situated
on the outskirts of the city and will be i'm