The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-21
News of the Week.

In Russia thousands of people are starv
ing owing to the intense cold.
Diphthera is epidemic in Moore and Bush
kill townships, Northampton county, Penna.
The temperature at Fort Fairfield, Maine,
on the 18th instant, was "a degrees below
zero.
There are estimated to be 100000 men
employed upon the $4,000 papers published
in this country.
Six hundred striking coal miners of Cen
trial Illinois have appealed for aid to keep
them from starving and freezing.
Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes died
al his home in Fremont, Ohio, on Tuesday,
of neuralgia of the heart, aged 20 years.
Pierce Crotty died in New York city on
on Monday, aged 108 years. He was born in
Ireland, and came to America so years ago.
The trial of the Homestead prisoners at
Pttsburg, Pa, is progressing On Monday
one Of the men confessed that he had placed
the poison in the water.
Terrible storms have prevailed in England
and on the Continent. Snow fell for several
days followed by violent winds, at times
reaching 60 miles an hour.
New York and Brooklyn are on the eve
of coal famine, and the scarcity of water is
becoming alarming. In York and Hanover,
Pa, the same conditions exist.
Sister Joseph Maria, of St. .Joseph's Hos
pital, Denver, fell down the elevator shaft
from the third story of the building on Mon
day night and was instantly killed.
Judge T. ". Long, of the Probate Court,
of Morrow county, Ohio, was gored by a bull
he was attempting to lead in car at Mt.
Gilead, on Tuesday, and almost instantly
killed.
A charter has been granted at Harrisburg,
Pa. 10 the Lancaster and Mannheim Railway
Company, to run from Lancaster to Man
helm, capital s250,OO0. John S. Coyle is
President.
"A camp of l6 gypses was found frozen to
death on Tuesday in Bohemia, Germany.
At Prague the mercury was zoe below zero.
From all parts Of the Continent reports of
intense cold are given.
The Calumet Club House, in Chicago, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday evening. There
were many costly works of art in the build
ing, and the loss will reach 100000. Kate
McCabe, servant, is thought to have perish
ed in the flames.
The cigarette factory Of Allen Il Ginter
and Valentines meat juice works, in Rich
mond, Va, were burned Tuesday morning.
Loss about $3.50, 900; insured. Two iremen
were Dduiy lIoASu" wei i-oV pCtdoho diC
thrown out of work.
Chan CHM Sing, Grand Master and
Treasurer of the Chinese Freemasons in Buff
falo, disappeared several weeks ago with
$4,000 of the lodges funds. 1t was reported
few days ago that he had been seen in
Denver on his way to China.
The Department of Agriculture has issued
its final estimate of the corn crop of 1892,
which foots up 515, 949, 600 bushels of wheat,
1928, 464 600 bushels of corn, and 661, 035,-
600 bushels of oats. The values are $322,-
llI,S1l, $642, 146, $3.50 and 5000, 1858 ,611, a
total of $1,17S,5l2, 122.
A despatch from Morgantown, West Vir-
ginia, says that the Monongahela river is be-
heyed to be frozen to the bottom, and the
ice at the mouth of Decker's creek is piled
up 80 feet high. The snow is SO inches deep
on the level and most Of the country roads
are buried under 10 feet of snow.
William Parr, mail driver at Utica, New
York, was arrested on Saturday for robbing
the mails. His practice was to steal empty
pouches with unlocked locks, cut the strap
Of one of the full pouches, extract the regis
tered letters and transfer the rest of the mail
to the uncut pouch, springing the lock.
The paper bag warehouse of Martin &
VIM. Il. Nixon, Philadelphia, Pa, collapsed
on Monday, killing A. w. Marker, Joseph
Wallace and John McKeuna Alfred Gales,
a colored porter, was severely injured. The
cause of the accident is thotfght TO have been
an overweight of material on the upper floors
Of the building
A blizzard, one of the worst for many
years, prevailed throughout Illinois and Kan
sas. on the 18th instant, and railroad travel
was seriously interrupted. The Susquehanna
river at Columbia, Penna., was frozen so SOL
idly that teams crossed over on the ice. AT
Blue Ball, Penna., the temperature was II
degrees below zero.