The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-25
News of the Week.

Typhoid fever is becoming epidemic in ST..
Louis, Missouri.
Five thousand children have been turned
away from the schools of New York city for
the want of room.
Altoona and Pittsburg, Pa, have smallpox.
In the first named city seven cases were
found in one family.
The National Grange. Patrons of Husband.
ry. at Syracuse, New York, have reelected
j. e. Brigham Worthy Master,
Mrs George S. sLenhart, of Williamsport,
Penna., was burned Tuesday evening by the
accidental overturning of lamp.
During a fire in a tenement in Lewiston,
Maine, on Monday, Mrs. Albert Dubuis and
her two young children were smothered.
Springfield, Massachusetts, had an $780,
600 fire on Wednesday. Some of the finest
business houses in the city were burned.
Hon. Jeremiah Rusk, who was Secretary
of Agriculture under President Harrison,
and an ex. Governor of Wisconsin, died on
Tuesday, at yiroqua, Wisconsin.
store and eight dwellings were burned
in Jonesville, a suburb Of Birmingham, Ala,
on Tuesday. the total loss being about S40,-
600, and the insurance about $4,000.
On Sunday last, Harry Richardson, Of
Fawn Grove, York county, Pa, committed
suicide by hanging. He was found by his
wife, who cut him down, but life was extinct.
During the past week a fraudulent issue OF
railroad tickets was discovered covering sew
eral railroads eentering in Chicago. The
amount is stated to be over 100000. Sew
eral arrests have been made.
Frank Kemmerer, aged % years, butcher
I fnun1 1aa1 on the
| steps of a physician office Tuesday morning.
| He had run a large knife into his abdomen,
presumably by accident, and had crawed
some distance from his shop.
Matt ThurInond, farmer, of jackson
county, Ca, was found dying in Athens,
Ga, Monday night. He had been shot ii
the head and robbed. The jury found that
he was killed by man named Saxon, anc
! that Matt Black was an accessory Saxon is
in Jail. Black has disappeared.
The potato crop Of Nova Scotia, England,
Scotland and the Continent is unusually
large. Nova Scotia potatoes can be. placed
in New York at Is cents per bushel. In
Tidewater. Virginia, the fall crop is very
large and they are being sold at from 80 Il
40 cents per bushel, according to quality.
At Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday
| the AlgOQla COdl anu GOke company StdDlt
| burned down, burning to death IA mules and
destroying hundreds Of dollars worth of feed
Just before this ten cars got loose and ran
down the incline, completely wreeking thu
tipple. Three men narrowly escaped death
Two men in custody at Little Rock, Ark
ansas, have been positively identified as par
ticpating in the 0iiphant train robbery, anC
this will lead to the capture Of the rest Of tn,
\ l. g.,
/ bers of the best families of Fenton county
aud are all married and the fathers ofchildren.
Colonel James B. Simpson, Dallas, Tex
has been arrested on nine indictments by tht
grand jury, charging him with embezzlini
nearly $4,000 from the Scottish American
Land Mortgage Company, Limited Charlie
r. Balance was arrested on four indictments
charging him with the embezzlement Of NOR,
than $4,000,
The Merrill House; a three.story fran,
building near Beaver, Penna, was burned
early Tuesday morning. Seven men wer'
burned to death and several others were bad
ly hurt The men were asleep when th'
alarm was given. They were all employed
in the construction of the Government dan
at that point.
At a public meeting in Altoona, Penna
on lueSu1y eNeulHSs a uuiilpcl VI lCdolut
citizens pledged themselves to subscribe
$4,000 per menth for five months, or a tota
of S25, 600, for the purpose of giving idl
heads Of families in the city employment OF
the city streets and in the city quarries, ant
also for relieving the distress of widows ant
orphan children during the winter.
Beginning with Wednesday of last week tn
coast of England was visited by an almos
continuous storm of wind, rain, hail am
snow, which lasted until Tuesday of this week
Great destruction Of shipping, stock and crop
followed Many lives we're lost from fishinl
vessels &c. On the coast of France an
Belgium over 1000 lives we're loaf, Will
the destruction of property was immense
Ii was the most disastrous storm that ha
occurred for long tie,e.
Fred Gustavson, who had assaulted a
year.old daughter Of ,Ionas Sax, at 0ttumwa
Iowa, on Monday night, was lYnched by
mob on Tuesday The man was in Justie
Fruits court, when Mrs. Sax, mother 0
the victim, swung rope from a platform i
front of the building and appealed to tn
crowd to hang Gustavson. The court ROOF
was broken open, after struggle with tn
officers, and the mob captured the prisone
and hanged him. The rope finally parted, an
Gqslavson's body fell TO the street. The mo
only Dispersed when il heeame convince
that the man was dead.