The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-07
News of the Week.

Typhus fever is prevailing in New York
city. Sixty cases have been treated so far.
William Soby, a retired tobacco merchant
died last week in Philadelphia, Pa, aged "a
years.
In Philadelphia, Pa, last year there 505l
cases of diphtheria and 1884 deaths from the
same cause.
About so feet of the bluff at Long Branch,
New Jersey, was torn away by the heavy
surf on Sunday night.
Rev. Dr. John l.. Burrows, a well-known
Baptist preacher, died on Monday in Au-
gusta, Georgia, aged 70 years.
1t is reported that so persons have died
at Killgore, Carroll county, Ohio, of diph-
iberia within the past two weeks.
A company has been organized to build a
dam across the Rio Grande above Ell Paso,
for irrigation purposes. 1t is to cost 81, 500.
900.
The mills of the Neuse Manufacturing Com
pany, at Simpsonville, North Carolina, were
burned on Friday of last week loss, $780,
900.
A snow pillow on the Great Northern Rail
way was wrecked near Java station, in Mon
tana, on Sunday, by an avalanche, and four
men were killed.
At St Petersburg, Russia, on Monday 20
of the Astrakhan cholera rioters were sen
fenced to be hanged and % to hard labor
Ninety were acquitted
Theodore Winters of California has sold q
sucking colt to the Kendall stables of New
York for $500 The colt is to be deliv-
cred as soon as weaned
Bradstreet's Commercial Agency reports
34l failures in Philadelphia, Pa, last year,
the actual assets aggregating 50, 1856, 865 and
the liabilities S5,53s, OFF,
The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com.
pany has ordered the starting of its three
great collieries at Plymouth, Penna. This
will give work to 1000 men.
Solomon Davis, colored, was arrested in
Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, charged
with felonious assault upon Mrs. Kate Nc
Kay, an aged white woman.
The body of Gardner Wilson, of North
Raymond, Maine, was found in the Mystic
river, at Boston, on Saturday, BE is be-
lieved to have been drugged and robbed.
Diphtheria IS reported to be prevalent
among the school children of Detroit, Mich,
and the assertion is made by DR.. r. S. Far
mum, of that city, that the disease has been
spread by interchanging lead pencils.
The Jesuit College of ST. Francis Xavier,
in New York, was partially burned on Sun
day morning, and Rev. Thomas Gormley, s.
J., was overcome by smoke and died in a
few minutes after being rescued.
Thomas W. Ryan, 40 years of age, died in
Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday night, ol
lockjaw... While working in his back yard
on Christmas eve he fell, and received two
/ splinters from a sunflower stalk in one Of his
hands, a IN SEQ ,7,,,.s4 :;
The HISTORIC Wadsworth Atheneun, in
Hartford, Connecticut, which has recently
been reconstructed, was rededieated on Mon
day. AT the, same time the free public Ii
brary, for which ever S4O0,900 was raised,
was opened. fsa g9hs 1.s1
i Burgess John McLuckie, lof Homestead,
Pa, who has been confined 10 jail at Pitts.
burg Since he surrendered himself some time
ago to answer charges of riot and murder
has been released on $4,000 bail, furnished
by number Of his Homestead friendss : e
The temporary bridge across lRaritar
river at, New BrgHswicks New Jersey. was
swept away Monday morning BY a flood.
The contractors viii i'lose SIS, 000.s:It was
feared that the 100000 stone arch bridge,
nearing completion, would also be swept
away. IS - w ~ slel
ssift is reported at Durango, Colorsdos thai
I 1000 gold miners are s'strung along the San
Juan river for { distance Of $50 miles, and
that they are coming in at the rate Of 300 per
! day from, Green River, Utah, and as many
through Durango. One company has 200G
men at works
Lake Shore detectives, assisted by the. POI
lice of Erie, Pa. made seventeen arrests
Monday, and warrants are out for as many
more, charged with robbing freight cars.
Over $4,000 worth of goods were stolen in
December from trains between that city and
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