The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-11

Emily Baril, % years old, of Manchester,
New Hampshire, was choked to death on
Thursday night of last week by being caught
in folding bed which she was letting down.
Franklin Haven died suddenly at Beverly,
Mass, on October 31st, aged about ninety
years. He was president of the Merchants
National Bank for a continuous period of 80
years.
A fight took place on the 9TH instant near
Camden, New Jersey, between two colored
men, about the preparation of supper. One
attacked the other with knife when the
other split his head open with an axe.
In 0shtemeo, near Kalamazoo, Mich, John
Thomas, young Russian, who had worked
for David Rhodes, assaulted Mrs. Rhodes,
whose age is nearly sixty years. He escaped,
and 81 200 reward has been offered for his
capture.
Isaiah Sheaffer, aged SO years, and his
housekeeper, an aged woman, of Lancaster
county, Pa, were shot, beaten and robbed of
over $500 in money on Thursday night of last
week. Two of the Buzzard gang have been
arrested for the crime. Sheaffer will recover.
The Indiana Midland Railroad, running
from Anderson to Haviland, 68 miles, is
crippled by reason of strike of its employees
for back pay. On the 4th instant switches
were spiked, cars chained up, bridges and
tool houses burned and tracks torn up. Moth
ing has since been done to reopen the road.
The mortuary and wreck records of the
fishing year about to close show that there
have been lost at sea from Gloucester, Massa.
chusetts, 81 men, leaving 10 widows and 50
children, and ten vessels valued at about
$4,000. From 1880, since when a record
has been kept, there have been lost $50 ves-
sells, valued at 81, 700, 900, and 1921 lives.
Moses Williams, colored, lives on farm
near Fayetteville, Texas. He is sixty-ive
years old, but no one would take him to be
more than about fifty. He was married twice
and had born to him 45 children. By the
frsts8ife he had % children boys and 20
girls-and by the second % Children boys
and 20 girls. He says he has about 40 grand
children.
Green peas of the second crop have been
shipped to the Northern markets from Nor
folk county, Virginia, truck farms quite ac-
lively this week and prices have been remun-
erative. The fall crop of Irish potatoes this
season is one of the finest made in the coun-
ty. Many are digging eighty barrels to the
acre. The second crop of potatoes is so
large that it will greatly lower the price in
the North.
A society lady of Dover, Delaware, who
has Just returned from Chicago, wears one of
the latest novelties. II is live chameleon
and is used as a breast pin. The little ami
NAL is about the size and shape of lizard,
and its body, with its ever changeable color,
looks if it were charged with electricity.
When worn, small gold chain is attached to
it, and this is pinned to the dress collar. 1t
subsists on sugar and small insects.
Mrs Bleier, of Berclair, Texas, died last
week shortly after an operation for an ova
ha told not oh
for recovery were very slim, but as she suf-
fered so much she took chances. The tumor
weighed 140 pounds, and is said to be the
largest on record. Mrs. Bleier conversed
freely with her husband before death relieved
her sufferings, and she seemed resigned to
her fate. She was the mother of four chill
dren, the last one being born thirteen months
ago.
At Emporia, Kansas, on the LIST inst, The
odore Vost, who pleaded guilty to selling one
bottle of beer, was sentenced to go days IN
Jail, to pay a fine of 5000 and costs of trial
and to give bond of $1,000 to not again en-
gage in the liquor business. Judge Ran
dolph, who imposed the sentence, is an en-
thusiastic on prohibition, and this is the first
time he has had chance to give liquor
dealer the butt end of the law. A huge petit
ton, signed by many business men, and even
by prohibitionists, has gone to Gov. Lewell-
ing asking that Vost be hardened.
The chief clerk of the administration and
collection departments of the Worlds Fair
says the profits of the concessionaires will ag
gregate 81, 200, 900, after deducting the per.
centage to the exposition. The Ferris Wheel
Company will pay profit of about $3.50, 900,
after deducting $500, 900 for cost and so per
cent of the receipts paid to the fair after that
amount was taken in. The total paid ad-
missions up to the closing hour Sunday night
were 10, III, 1896. 1t is expected the finances
will go to $50, 500, 600 by next Saturday.
The official programme for the closing cele
bration of the Worlds Fair will include as
its principal feature the spectacle of the land
ing of Columbus. The earavels will be used
for that purpose, and the landing, with all
realistic details, will take place on the shore
of Lake Michigan.