The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-02-11

Owing to corner in lard two firms
in Chicago cleared 81 500, 900 this year.
Mrs. Riley Yates, of Springfield, 0hie, re-
Gently gave birth to her twenty-fourth child.
A preacher in Denton county, Texas, who
is 95 years old, has 20 grandchildren and %
great grandchildren.
Mrs. William C. Whit ney, wife of the ex-
Secretary of the Navy, died Sunday at her
home in New York city.
A hen, owned by R. A. Speed, of Louis.
burg, N. G., lately laid an egg which weighed
one ponnd and one ounce,
Owing to several deaths of students from
diphtheria the celebrated Moravian school at
Litiz, Pa, has been closed
Joseph p Comegys, ex Chief Justice of
the State of Delaware, died as his home in
Dover last week. He was born in 1873.
Three children Of Oliver Pattie, of Bellair,
Michigan, were burned to death on Monday
night. They were in the house, alone, and
it was destroyed by FIRE.
The Anchor Foundry and Machine Com
pany, of Pittsburg, owned by Wharton
Mcknight. has failed. Liabilities about 1924
900, assets about 100000.
The will of the late John Huntington, of
Cleveland, Ohio, who died recently in Lon
don, bequeaths over 81 100000 for educa-
tional and charitable purposes.
Stricken with paralysis and unable to call
help, W. A. Eby, hotel keeper, of Shame
kin, Penna., froze to death, on Sunday
night, . short distance from home.
A mad dog ran amack through the heart of
the city of Chicago on Saturday night, and
before it was finally brought to bay and shot
by the police It had bitten five persons.
Brisbane and other towns in Australia
have been visited by floods of the most dis
astrous character, and thousands of dollars
of damage have been done to farms, build
ings and stock.
Henry Smith, coIored, who outraged and
murdered little white girl at Paris, Texas,
was taken from the officers by mob and
burned at the stake on Wednesday Of last
week, after confessing lis crime.
The Island of Zante, Greece, has been WIS.,
tied by several earthquakes during the past
week Many lives have been lost and great
destruction of property followed. The ire
mors we're followed by intense cold.
The new British steamship Samoa sailed
from New Orleans for Liverpool Saturday
with cargo equivalent to 10000 bales OF
cotton, which is said to be the largest cargo
ever carried from any United States port.
Patrick Ward, Canadian Pacific brake
man, who had volunteered to go nine miles
to Swift Current, Manitoba, TO report train
which was showed in, was frozen to death
on Saturday within mile Of his destination.
The Patent Office last year issued q, 427
patents to citizens of the United States and
| 2,05l to foreigners. The surplus for the year
amounted to SIS, 1924 This is one of the
few government Offices which are self-sqp-
porting.
George Goodrich, a coIorea prize fighter,
was killed in the ring at New Orleans on
Friday night by his opponent, George Green.
Goodrich slipped on the bloody stage, and
fell first on his groin and then on his neck,
dying instantly.
A despatch from Memphis says that 400C
| people in Concordia and Catalonia parishes,
| in Northern Louisiana, we're on the verge Of
starvation. Their crops were destroyed by
floods last summer, and they have subsisted
mainly on wild game during the winter,
The Presidents of the different Exchanges in
Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans have
called meetinsg TO raise funds for the relief o.
the sufferers.
While naphtha was being used TO pol
| ish woodwork at house in Washington, d.
c., on Tuesday, il caught FIRE and exploded
severely burning Mrs. Gesine Kant her sor
and two servants. The son and one of the
servants were burned while trying 70 save the
others. About $1,000 damage was done to the
! furniture