The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-08-05
News of the Week.

Pa, trolley road.
John Stephenson, the well-known car
builder, died in New York city, on Monday
aged 81 years.
A smokeless coal is reported to have been
struck in large quantities in the Ouehita river
district, in Arkansas.
Geu George W. Morgan, the last surviving
general of the Mexican war. died in Mount
Vernon, Ind, on Monday aged 70 years.
One man was burned to death and forty
others had narrow escape at fire in a five
story factory building, New York, on Tuesday.
West Virginia is suffering from the most
severe and long continued drought which has
been known in many years. Crops are dry
ing up.
Lemuel Stevenson, for 20 years a clown
with Barnum's and other eircuses. has con-
nected himself with the Salvation Army at
Springfield, Mo.
Owing to the stringency in monetary affairs
the Geiser Company of Waynesboro, Pa,
have closed their works, throwing 500 hands
out of employment
Sister Sarah Bauman, the oldest surviving
inmate of the famous cloister of the Seventh
day Baptists, at Ephrata, Penna., died on
Saturday, aged SS years.
Congressman Hull, of Iowa, on Tuesday
sustained injuries by being thrown from
carriage that will prevent his taking part in
the extra session of Congress.
In Philadelphia, Pa, on Monday, Edward
Allen Miller % years old, bright young
newspaper man, committed suicide by shoot
ing while temporarily insane.
Abrnm Pardon, paying teller of the First
National Bank Of Paterson, New Jersey, was
arrested on Saturday night, charged with the
theft of $10,G5O from the bank.
A barn on the farm of James Bunton, La
norie, Indiana, was burned Sunday night,
entailing "a loss of $4,000. A tramp and
nine horses were burned to death.
A pair of kid button shoes were made COM
plete and packed IN a Lynn, Mass, factory
the other day in 10 minutes and As seconds.
The previous record was "a minutes.
Detective James A. Harvey, of Syracuse,
New York, WAS shot and instantly killed by
George A. Barnes, whom he was trying to
arrest, on Monday. Barnes was captured.
John Carter. coIored, on Monday climbed
tree near Wilmington. North Carolina. to
secure some honey made by wild bees, and
was killed by lightning which struck the tree.
While crossing the railroad tracks at Graf
ton, West Virginia, on Tuesday, Rev Father
kelleher, one of the best-knOwn priests in
the diocese of Wheeling, was run over by a
locomotive and killed.
Five men we're killed and four badly hurt
by the explosion of the boiler of farm en-
CINE, near Newark, Ohio, Monday night. A
straw stack was fired and the bodies of the
dead horribly burned. Low water caused
the explosion.
A Douglass county, Oregon, man short
time ago charged neighbor with stealing Il
hog valued at IS. The prosecution cost the
county $500, of which the loser of the hog
got 500 in witness fees aud mileage. The
accused went free.
Ormonde, the greatest horse ever bred in
England, has arrived in New York. Or
monde was purchased by W. 0'Brien Nc
! Douough, the young American turfman. who
paid $4,000 for him. He is en- route to
McDonough's stock farm in California.
Says the Philadelphia Pa. Ledger: "Mrs.
Anna Kinkard, of this city, has been arrested
| for making a false affidavit TO pension claim
swearing that she was the person indicated,
instead of her mother, who has been dead for
several years. Mrs. kinkard drew pension
of So per month.
Clark Falkner, of Oxford, New Jersey,
has been arrested at the instance of the New
Jersey Iron Ore Company, charged with sell
ing the company an alleged valuable mining
property, for which $4,000 was paid, and
which has been found to have been ''salted. .
At Reuville, Minnesota. on Wednesday,
II. j. Bowling, editor of the Star Farmer,
was thrown into Jail because he refused to
work his poll tax. Mr.. Bowling has neither
legs nor arms, and Renvile county officials
are the laughing stock of all that part of the
State.
A despatch from Amigo. Wis. on Monday
night, says that William Nunemacher, Z
farmer, killed his wife and babe and two boys
He then attempted suicide by jumping from
window. He is still alive, but paralyzed.
The cause of the tragedy is said to be fear o
death from starvation.
! On Thursday John Joseph Duggan testified
before the Chicago grand jury that the cold
storage room at the Worlds Fair had beer
I systematically robbed 10y the wagon load q
I goods, and in order TO hide the loss the build
| ing was fred. He gave the names of l5C
persons who were engaged in the robbery.
The Amoskeag Mills, at Manchester, n
\ H., closed Monday, throwing 5000 operative
\ out of employment. The Jefferson Mills re-
sumed Monday, giving employment TO 100C
hands, The remaining Amoskeag Mills will
resume work not later than August 2Sth, OF
the basis, it is stated, of a reduction in wages.
The house of Samuel Vanderberg, in Ran
som, Pa, was burned on Thursday, and al
| infant child persisted in the flames. Mrs
/ Yanderberg rescued two of her children
\ aged four and six years, but was unable te
| reach the baby and was compelled to watch
the flames creep into the room and devon
the child.
The large grain barn belonging to Thomas
| Brown in Scottsville, N. Y, was totally de
stroyed by fire on Sunday night. 1t con
! tanned between seven and eight thousand
/ bushels of wheat, threshed and unthreshed
4 two hundred tons of hay, and five wagons.
| The estimated loss is about 1884, 900; insur-
ance IS, 200 to $4,000.
The Chino, California, sugar beet factory,
the largest in the United States, with max
imum reducing capacity of $40 tons of beets
a day, started on Monday. The industry
4 gives direct employment to 1000 men il
Chino and 700 at Ahaheim. The crop of The
] Chino ranch is estimated at $4,000 tons. The
crop to be shipped from Ahaheim 1000
tons. The factory will run day and night
throughout the season. The output for the
season will be 100000 pounds of refined
sugar.
On Wednesday the barn on ex-Vice Presi
dent Morton's place at Ellerslie, n. T.,
chicken house, carpenter shop and othei
buildings we're burned. There were min,
horses, eighty head of Guernsey cattle, sew
eral hundred tons of hay, number of reap
ers and moving machines and other valuable
property destroyed. The total loss will be
nearly $500, 900. The barn was one of tht
largest in the country, being 800 feet long
1t was a new one, being only completed a few
months ago, the old barn being destroyed
by FIRE about a year ago. The fire started ii
the large barn, and the cause is not known,
but is thought to be of incendiary origin
Since Sunday night there have been several
incendiary fires in Duchess county, at Wap
| .,;roo. ELL Chn nnurilla and nthnr nlacps.