The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-14
News of the Week.

Diphtheria is increasing in Philadelphia,
Pa.
Smallpox and diphtheria are prevailing to
an alarming extent in Western Pennsylvania.
An epidemic of smallpox is reported to
be raging among the natives of Alaska, at
Sitka.
Flora Fontaine, colored, died in Columbia.
South Carolina, on January 5, aged III
years.
Fire in Boston on Tuesday caused loss of
$1,655,000 1t occurred in the wholesale
district.
A temperature of &c degrees below zero
was reported on Saturday from White River,
Wisconsin.
R. d. Kent, who lives near Roopyille,
Georgia, has a son years old, who weighs
122 pounds.
Trainmen at Hazletou, Penna., on Tues
day reported unprecedented snow drifts in
the mountains.
From to II inches of snow fell on Mon
day throughout Western Pennsylvania and
trains we're delayed.
The snow in the Rocky Mountains has
caused the worst blockade of the Canadian
Pacific which that railway has had for five
years.
DIR. ]. p. Chaseul, one of the most promi.
nent physicians of Charleston, South Caro-.
lima, died suddenly in that city on Sunday
night. aged 70 years.
The ice gorge in the Ohio river at Cincin-
natl broke on Sunday afternoon, and the
damage to shipping, so far as could be ascer-
tanned, amounted to about $780, 200.
The Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Company,
whose new refinery, at Brooklyn, has a ca
pacity of 5000 barrels day, has begun oper-
atoms in competition with the Sugar Trust.
Surrogate Ransom, in New York, has
given decision against the contestants Of
the will of Richard j. Clarke, who died last
June. leaving about S250,000 to his house
keeper, Mrs. Schell.
1t is reported from Halifax that the Cape
Breton coal mines have passed into the hands
of American owners, and that $10,000,000 Of
American capital will be invested in Eastern
Nova Scotia industries.
According to Cincinnati despatch the
Cincinnati and Pittsburg soft coal combine,
taking advantage of the ice gorge in theriyers
and the sinking of few coal barges, have
advanced rates more than double.
Abel Abbott Low, leading citizen of
Brooklyn, n. Y, and father of Seth Low,
ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, new President of
Columbia College, died on Saturday, at his
home, in Brooklyn, aged 80 years.
Burglars blew open the safe in the office of
the County Clerk, at Fairfax Court House,
Virginia, on Saturday night. The will of
George Washington was among the docu-
ments in the safe, but it was undsturbed.
Three persons were killed and two badly
injured by an explosion of natural gas in
dwelling in Pittsburg on Saturday morning.
The gas was ignited by the striking of match
in the cellar. The dwelling was wrecked.
Mrs. John Schafer and Mrs. George 0s-
mum, two members of sleighing party at
Sunfeld, Michigan, were killed by train on
Saturday night. George 0smum was fatally
injured and his little son seriously injured.
Mrs. Yates, wife of Springfield (Ohio)
teamster, gave birth to her 24th child Satur
day morning There are FIVE sets of twins.
She was married at fourteen. The Oldest
child is twenty seven. Thirteen children are
living.
While Thomas Scott was cleaning boiler
at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Pitts
burg, on Monday, he ordered an attendant
turned on the hot and Scott was fatally
scalded.
Simpson Woolsey, of Highland, New York,
ohluSinB d VI uOuudyt bhuCh
some dynamite cartridges in his pocket. The
dynamite exploded, tearing away the flesh on
Woolsey's leg and abdomen. He died soon
John L. Sullivan was convicted at Holli-
daysburg on Tuesday of having uncoupled
cars on a fast train near Altoona on the
night of December 16. The maximum pen
atty for the crime is $4,000 fine and ten
years Imprisonment
On the 9Th instant, in Liverpool, England,
a six-story warehouse caught fire and 20,-
900 bales of cotton were burned. An adj
joining warehouse was also burned, and by
the falling of the walls three firemen were
killed and several injured.
The fly wheel at the steel mill of Oliver
Brothers, Pittsburg, burst on Tuesday morn
ing, instantly killing John Orient, and Sc
verely wounding three men, two of whom
will probably die. The roof and machinery
were severely damaged.
John C. Chaffe, o leading merchant of
New Orleans and a planter, was shot and
probably fatally wounded last Monday night
in the Parish of st. John, about 25 miles
above New Orleans. 1t is said he was shot
in mistake by gang of negroes.
Harvey's Worlds Fair Hotel, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire at an early hour on Tues
day morning, causing loss of $50, 200; in
surance $4,000. The building, which was
almost ready for occupancy, was a two.story
structure and contained 800 rooms.
Alfred Lozon persisted on the ice between
Mackinaw City and Mackinaw Island on
Saturday morning. He was in a party Of
four, who where carrying thirty mail bags.
The others were completely exhausted, and
reached the shore nearer dead than alive.
James A. Clark, aged % years, son of the
thread manufacturer, of Paisley, Scotland,
was killed at Colorado Springs, on Monday,
BY being thrown from carriage. He had
ust received a telegram reporting the death
Of his sister, Mrs Clara Baxter, of Paisley.
A Dallas, Texas, despatch says that petit
ion to Congress is being circulated by Far
ners' Alliance men, asking for an appropri-
alton of $2l, 500, 900 for the construction of
"a peoples railroad, y from the Gulf of Mex
co to the British possessions. 1t is claimed
hat the petition will receive over million
signatures.
In four days 200 talesmen have been called
or jury service in the trial of the "Blue
Blooded Regulators at Cheyenne, Wyom-
ng, and all of them have been rejected. At
his rate 3764 talesmen will be required, and
he county has ordered about 1000. In case
jury cannot be secured the defendants will
De discharged.
W. F. Darnell, aged GA years, of Rome, N.
T., is said to stand but 4 feet inches in
height and weighs 90 pounds. One of his |
;ons who is 20 years of age, weighs, it is |
aid, but A pounds, and is, it is claimed, 81
inches high; while his other son, who is "a |
'ears old, weighs 90 pounds aud stands Al
inches in height.
A Pittsburg despatch says that move
nent is on foot to form a combination of |!
of wire, wire rod and cut
rails. The Western firms in the cities of |
Joliet and Pittsburg consolidated
lbout year ago, and proposition has been /
made for combination with the Washburn-
Ioen Company. 1t is proposed to CONSOLE
late the three industries, with a capital of |