The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-03-11
News Of the Week.

England receives annually from ireland, it
is estimated, about Gao, 000.000 eggs.
Thomas g. Proetor's tannery, at Falls
Greek, Mass. is the largest in the world
More rag carpet is made in York, Pa,
than in any other town in the United States.
LannoR & Co. large foundry and machine
shops at Pueblo, Colorado, were burned on
Sunday; loss $l00,0o0.
Hog cholera is prevailing in parts of Vir-
giDia to an alarming extent. In some coun-
ties the entire stock has died.
England received about 10,0 800 letters
from the United States last year. Germany
received from US 1858, 040 letters and France
1885,, 040.
Mrs. John C. Jones and her 9.year-old
daughter were burned TO death on Tuesday
at Mt. Julia, Tennessee, their clothes taking
FIRE from brush heaps.
John G. Webb and Madison Bever, who
are said to have flooded West Virginia with
counterfeit coins, were captured on Tuesday
at Bellevile by Federal officers.
meeting is to be held in Pittsburg, on
the 10th instant, to consider plans for the or
ganizatiou of company to construct and
equip the proposed ship canal to connect
Lake Erie and the Ohio river. 1t is esti-
mated the enterprise will cost S27 100000.
freight train on the Chicago and Erie
Railway went through the bridge over the
Ottawa river, in Ohio, on Monday, and took
with it nineteen cars, piling them up in the
river. The engine and few cars escaped.
Three tramps are supposed to be dead in the
ruins.
A succession of severe earthquake shocks
were felt at Umatilla, Oregon, on Sunday
night. One of the walls of large stone
warehouse fell, and the remaining walls are
in such condition that they will have 10 be
torn down. Buildings in other parts of the
town were violently rocked.
a fire, which started in the large architec
tural iron works of the Fred. j. Meyers Man
ufacturing Co., at Covington, KY, Sunday
morning, completely destroyed that property,
as well as Fifth Street Christian Church, the
| Crawford Tobacco Warehouse and FIVE dwell.
ings. The loss is estimated at 100000.
John Lowell, an aged hermit and miser,
living three miles south of Lebanon, Oregon,
who was known to have considerable money
in bed Monday morning Everything in the
house was torn to pieces, the walls being
broken and the floor torn up in search of
money.
Shady Valley, few miles east of Bristol,
tennessee, mas Deen bought ny SyHulcale
of English capitalists, headed by Sir Walter
Oliver. There are 62,0 900 acres in the tract,
which is very rich in iron ore and manganese.
The purchase price is about 100000. Fur
naces will be established as soon as possible
and railroad built to the mines.
At Denver, Colorado, on Saturday night
last, Mrs. Coneeata Sabatino and her eight
year old boy Nicholas were arrested on the
charge Of soaring Tony Sabatino, a ten year
old girl, all over the back and limbs with hot
hatirons, burning her with red hot poker in
vital parts and then hanging her TO hook in
the house. The opportune arrival of neigh
Dor saved the child's life for tune, but ply
syciaus say she cannot possibly live. The
only explanation given by the woman is that
the child was not modest enough in her be
havior.
Advices received from the province of As.
trakhan in southwestern Russia, adjoining the
Caspian sea, are to the effect that strange
epidemic of character as yet unrecognized
is killing thousands of people in the trans
Caspian region. Il was partly by this route
that cholera entered Russia last year. The
news has created great CONSERVATION on the
| European shores of the Caspian sea, and
there the question is being considered as to
whether later and fuller information may not
| show the disease to be a form of cholera
more deadly and rapid than usual in its eff
fects