The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-06-24
News of the Week.

the heat IN Philadelphia, "a, on Monday.
George w. Vanderbilt has bon ght q, 900
acres of land in North Carolina for a game
preserve.
Much damage was done at Atlantic City and
Long Branch by the storm on Friday and
Saturday last.
On Friday night Of last week the Highspire
Distillery, near MiddletOwn. Pa. was burned
Loss over 100000.
Forest fires of the most disastrous charac-
ter are prevailing in Wisconsin and Minnes
ota entailiIg immense loss.
Minnie Schroeder. aged u years. was
burned TO death on Monday by her clothing
taking FIRE from a toy stove
Ironton, Wisconsin, was burned on Satur-
day. 1t contained population of over 1000
and not half-a-dozen houses are left.
Intense heat and drought prevail in the
greater part of Europe. Fires have been
started in the forests and great destruction has
followed.
slight shock Of earthquake was reported
about II o'clock on tuesday night in por-
tons of Georgia, South Carolina and North
Carolina.
Owing TO crevasses in the Williams levee
above New Orleans traffic over the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad has been
suspended.
Lightning struck circns tent during a
performance at River Falls, Wis, Wednes-
day, and seven people were killed Instantly
and many injured.
Daniel Lord, Jr., aged -, of New York,
walked in his sleep on Tuesday at Chicago,
and, falling from fonrth- history window, sus-
rained fatal injuries.
At New York, on Monday, Frank Davis,
the burglar who robbed many houses in that
city, was sentenced to Imprisonment for "a
years aud 6 months.
la Montana and Idaho the mercury fell TO
40 above the freezing point Monday. While
east of The Rocky Mountains the temperature
ranged from 81 TO 9S degrees.
The jury in the case of Lizzie borden. Of
Fall River, Mass, charged with the murder
of her father and mother, on Tuesday re-
turned verdict of not guilty.
A fire started by an incendiary ut Warsaw,
Indiana, on Monday night, almost destroyed
the gas works. One employee was fatally
burned and another severely injured.
On Saturday afternoon Tonawanda. New
York. was placed under martial law by pro-
clamation issued by President George w.
Stanley, owing TO a strike of lumbermen.
The business portion of Tillamook, Ore
gon, was burned on Monday morning. Loss
about 100000 As the fire broke ont in
several places, incendiarism is suspected.
Frank Spies, aged fifty-fve years, mer-
chant and vice consul of Honduras. com
mitted suicide at his residence in New York
city by shooting himself through the head.
An unknown German committed suicide
on Sunday evening by jumping from the
Brooklyn Bridge. He fell on the top of n
warehouse and his body was crushed by the
fall.
George Wood, the -year-old boy charged
with the murder of 3-year. old BERTHE Wagner,
near Freehold, New Jersey, was arrested in
Williamsburg, New York, on Monday after
noon.
In a collision between two freight trains ON
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near
Wheeling, W. Va, early Saturday morning,
fireman Fisher was killed and an engineer
and two brakemen injured.
Two breaks occurred on the east levee Of
the Mississippi river about O'Clock Sunday
evening, one about AZ miles above New Or
leans and the other below the city. The
break above the city was very disastrous.
Emmons I. Adams, of Camden. New
Jersey, bookkeeper in the employ of the
Callowhill beef company, has been held for a
further hearing on the charge of embezzling
about $42, 800 belonging to the company.
The ST. Lawrence river steamer Caroline
struck rock on Monday night, and had to
be beached at Cap Rouge. 1t is believed
that the rocks were carried into the channel
when the ice bridge gave way last spring.
A telegram from Milan, Tennessee, says
that the mob which was supposed to have
lynched Lee Bennett at Gleason, hanged
Jim Harris, an innocent man, instead. Ben
nett is in Jail at Dresden, heavily guarded.
Two female horse thieves made their es-
cape from the Jasper county, Missouri, Jail
last week by digging hole i'll the brick wall
and letting themselves down from tue OPEN
ing, a distance of 20 feet, by tieing their
blankets together and using them for rope.
Max Steinert. 81 years old, was burned to
death in Philadelphia. Pa, on Tuesday, in
his fathers dyeing shop. A match had been
left in the pocket of coat he was cleaning
ignited and set fire to a pan of benzine, the
flames communicating to Steinerts clothing.
The net earnings of the B. x o. r. K. for
May show a net increase of Sis, 955.55, be-
ing the largest result for the month in the
history of the road, but the net earnings for
the eleven months of the fiscal year are
S5I5. 343. 70 less than for the same time last
year.
of Detroit, Michigan, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head on Monday. On
Sunday it was discovered that his accounts
were short $500. 1t was found also that
other employees had taken sums amounting TO
$1,000.
Customs officers in New York on Tuesday
arrested Antony Chovie, superintendent OF
the West New York Silk Mills Company,
charged with smuggling "meillons' threads,
which are used in the manufacture Of silk.
About l00,0 900 skeins of the thread were con
fiscated.
A train on the Long Island Railroad, N.
Y, upon which were about 1000 persons re-
turning from the Sheepshead Bay races, was
derailed Tuesday evening in a tunnel near
Parkville, Long Island. Four persons were
killed and about 100 injured, many, 1t Is
thought, fatally.
Ex-Governor Rodman M. Price, of New
Jersey. has been arrested for contempt OF
court and held in $4,000 to answer. lie
disobeyed an order by Chancellor McGill not
to negotiate a draft for Sac, 204 until he salts
fed a judgment for $40, 900 entered against
him 40 years ago.
Al Cramp ship yards, in Philadelphia, Pa.
thirteen vessels are under construction, seven
of which are for the United States Navy, five
are ocean racers for the American Line, and
the other is the yacht Columbia, for ). II.
Laden, of New York. At the ship yards
$500 men are employed, and their number is
to be increased to COCO.
John Palladium and Chas. Cram, farmers
living three miles from Hartford City, Ind,
on Wednesday, while on their way to town
for ice for "a family social, were thrown out
of the buggy into deep ditch by their horse
running away. Grams neck was broken,
and Philahaum sustained INJURIES from which
he may die. Both are men of families.
In consequence of reports from special
treasury agents, the United States attorney,
marshal, collector and other customs officers
at Port Townsend, Washington, have been
discharged. They are charged with con
spiracy to smuggle Chinese and opium into
the United States. Successors to the re-
moved officials have already been appointed.
Col. +. C. Ainsworth, William L. Covert
and Francis Sasse, three of the four men
charged by the coroner's Jury with being re