The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-07-22
News of the Week.

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Chas. Brock, aged 95 years, died in Milton,
Mass, on Wednesday.
George A. Rhea, well-known citizen Of
Waynesboro, Pa, hung himself on Tuesday.
Philadelphia, Pa, Odd Fellows are erect
ing temple, nine stories high, that will cost
$3.50, 700.
Martin Eichelberger. we'll known lawyer
of York, Pa, who died recently, left SS5, 900
to Yale College.
Rear Admiral Melanclhon Smith, United
States Navy, died on Wednesday at Green
Bay, Wisconsin, aged SO years.
The semi-annual report of the San Fran.
cisco saving banks show that II savings banks
have resources aggregating Sl2O,OO0,000.
Hamilton Alrichs, the oldest surviving
member of the Pennsylvania Legislature,
died on Sunday at Harrisburg, aged 81 years.
Richard P. Ronghton and Fred. T. Raw
lings killed each other in Il street duel at
Sandersville. Georgia. on Friday of last
week.
On Saturday night the barn on the farm of
John 7. Betz, at Betzwood, Pa, was burned
by spontaneous combustion. Loss, S25, 900;
insurance $4,000.
Lloyd Aspinwal is is jail in New York city
has helped him so often. refuses to do any.
thing more for him.
A passenger train crashed into crowded
street car at crossing in Chicago on Tues
day Three persons were killed and mum.
Der injured, two fatally.
The Drury Lane Theatre. London, Eng
land, will be closed after an existence of 2GG
years, because the Duke of Bedford has re
fnsad In rauaw tho lpnSts
Lightning struck and set fire to Conrad
Lees planning mill in Wikesbarre, Pa, on
Sunday morning. The entire plant was de-
stroyed. Loss, 100000.
At Seaford, Delaware, ON Saturday night,
the farm house of Isaac Giles was destroyed
by fire. A colored man who was sleeping in
the house was burned to death.
Mrs. George Bennett, aged G2 years, of
Paterson, New Jersey, on Tuesday, drank b
quantity of tincture of iodine in mistake for
syrup of rhubarb, and will not recover.
Rev. Michael Bushman, for many years
prominent and highly respected in the Dunk
ard church in the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pa.
died on Saturday last, aged 81 years and
month.
B. r. Plain, a merchant of Washington,
D. c., while suffering from temporary aber-
ration Of the mind, committed suicide by
jumping from u window, killing himself in
stantly.
A combination of the skewer manufaciur
ers of the United States has been formed III
Muncie, Indiana, under the title of the Amer,
lean Skewer Company, with capital OF
$500, 600
DR.. Philip TenEyek died in Albany, N. y.
on Sunday aged 81 years. He was the asso-
ciate of Joseph II. Fry in experiments that
led to the application OF electricity to useful
purposes.
Gen. Edward Jardine, who served all
through the Civil War and was severely
wounded while suppressing the draft riots in
New York in 1868, died in that city on Sun
day aged G5 years.
Fire broke out in Green Ridge Slope, at
Shamokin, Pa, on Saturday night, and is
still burning fiercely. The mine is owned by
the Union Coal Company, and employs 400
hands. 1t was flooded.
Rear Admiral Earl English, retired. died
at his residence in Washington, ID. e., on
Sunday aged SO years. He YVES appointed to
the Naval Academy from New Jersey in 1910
and served 46 years, retiring in 1886.
The Glen House. at the base of Mount
Washington. New Hampshire, was complete
ly destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The
house was burned in 1884 and was replaced
the following year at II cost of 100000.
Triplets were born to woman at Nyack,
New York, few days ago. The children =
two boys and girl-were joined by liga.
ture almost precisely like that which united
the Siamese twins. They lived only seven
hours after birth.
During "a rain and wind storm at Shame
kin, Pa, Tuesday evening, the Royal Oak
breaker, owned by the Reading Coal and
Iron Company, and operated by kautner q
Lewis, was blown down and totally destroyed.
No one was injured.
Cashier Bush, of the suspended National
Bank of Elmira, New York, was on Sunday
held in $4,000 bail to answer the charge OF
making false statements concerning the con
dition of the bank for the purpose of deceiv
ing and defrauding the stockholders and de
positors.
The exports of merchandise from the UNI
ted States for the year ended June 80, 1898,
amounted to SS47 ,423, l47, as against 81 ,O3O,-
27S, l48 for the previous year. The imports
for the same period were S94l ,OIG, rs, as
against 1897, 402, 462 in the year ending June
81, 1899.
An incendiary fire on the dairy farm OF
Thomas Stugg at Carteret. New Jersey, on
Wednesday, destroyed buildings covering
seven acres, causing q loss OF $50, All
this seasons crops, utensils, NC, were burned
Several weeks ago two of Mr.. Stugg's horses
were killed.
The whites of Neelyville, Missouri, and its
vicinity, few days ago, notified the negroes
employed in the mills and on the farms to
quit the county. The negroes laid in stock
of arms and ammunition, and informed the
whites that they intended to remain. Trouble
is expected.
John Holden, of Mott Haven, New York,
is living with broken neck. The accident
happened three weeks ago. and the doctors
who attended him say that he will recover
though he must always wear braced metal
cap to supply artihoially the support that the
fracture deprived him Of.
Two Atlantic and Pacific Railroad detec-
tives shot Navajo Indian who resisted ar
rest on the charge of throwing switch at
Houck's Tank, New Mexico, on Saturday
The detectives were surrounded by band of
angry Navajos, and were only rescued by the
arrival of troops from Fort Wingate.
Four persons were drowned at Mount Yer.
non, Indiana, on Sunday. Willie Allen and
Willie Boyce, aged and respectively, fell
into the river while playing Mrs. Allen
sprang in after them, but found herself help.
less in the rushing current. Her l6-year.old
daughter, Anna, went to rescue her mother,
and all were drowned.
William Boxler, of Holden, Massachu
sets, was found murdered in a COW pasture
near his home on Sunday. The skull was
fractured in two places. A Ratchet and an
axe were found near the body. Robbery
seems to have been the motive for the crime
Ed Cunningham, who was the last person
seen with Boxler, has been arrested.
Several weeks ago l. L. B. Olds. State
Senator of Montana, disappeared mysteri-
ously from Helena. Since then it has been
discovered that he had swindled various peo-
pie out of sums aggregating 500, 000. On
Sunday the decomposed body of man, with
bullet hole through the heart, was found in
Boulder river, and it is believed to be that of
the missing Senator.
Tom King, the horse thief who escaped
from the Oklahoma City Jail three weeks ago,
was captured at Guthrie, Oklahoma Terri
tory, at midnight Saturday. The prisoner