The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-04-15
News of the Week.

Smallpox is epidemic in some portions of
New Jersey.
Smallpox is epidemic in Antwerp, and
there 30 cases in the hospital.
Mrs. Frances Mary Walker, said TO have
been l1s years old. died in Philadelphia, Pa,
on Monday.
Cholera has broken out again in parts of
| Russia and France, and many deaths are
! reported daily.
The horse owned by Mrs. Gilbert, of Clark
county, Indiana, died short time ago at the
reputed age of AZ years.
The English, Scottish and Australian char
tered bank Of London failed, with liabilities
amounting to S40,000,00O.
/ According to statistics, the production, of
beat sugar in this country has more than
doubled during the past year.
A leather trust, with capital of $500
1 600 has been organized. IL will control the
output of all grades of leather.
A room in the house of L. W. Palmer, of
London, is entirely papered with about
20, 900 cancelled postage stamps.
The orange crop in Southern California
this year Is said to have been the largest on
record, amounting to about 1000 carloads.
The State capitol of Texas is reputed to be
the largest State building in the country and
the seventh in size among the buildings oil the
world.
Locked-out garment cutters in New York
have begun civil suits against two of the
manufacturers for damages amounting to
$40, 900 in each case.
/ man at Griffin, Georgia, who belives
some INV Confederate money will be redeem
ed. and will be worth dollar for dollar, has
a million dollars in Confederate bills stored
away.
James Tobin, who lives near Ladoga, In.
1 diana. is reported to have not only supported
| life ON ice cream since July 14th. 1892, but to
have increased from 40 to 2l0 pounds in
weight.
/ About two weeks ago II family named
/ Seagers lived in Deatesville, Alabama. 1t
/ was composed of ten persons in excellent
health, now all are dead but three and Two
of them are i'll.
! d. o. Hall, of Spartansburg, Penna., is
the owner of one of the finest coin collections
in the State. Among his specimens, which
number over 6000, there are claimed to be
coins of each of the Caesars.
A rooster owned by VIM. Rigdon. of Worth
county. Georgia, has all the pecuiarities OF
hen. 1t is said that the bird will lay an egg,
make IL nest, has Il comb, one spur, ana Is
black on one side and red on the otner.
A spark from an engine ignited the gas in
n coal pit at Pont-y -Pridd, Wales, on Tuesday,
causing the gas to explode. Over 300 men
were at work at the time oil the explosion, OF
whom 20 escaped; the balance were burned to
DEATH
Victor Lord, member of the Lord Polk
Company, Chemical Works, at Odessa, Della
ware, while experimenting some repairs to
machinery, on Wednesday morning, was
struck on the head by falling timber and in
stlntly killed.
Nellie Brighten, a little girl L years old,
died at Weatherly, Pa, on Monday, after a
week of intense pain and suffering, caused by
a rupture of the pertionea, due 10 rope jump
ing at school. She skipped a rope $50 times
without intermission. Next
Charles Tyler has been employed as letter
carrier in the New York Postofiice for AZ
years, and during that time it is estimated
that he walked over 300. 900 miles. When
he entered the service there were but six
carriers employed, while now there are about
1900.
1t is stated that the colored people of the
United States support colleges, IL acade-
mics and so high schools, in which there are
81, 900 pupils They have 1,500,000 children
in the common schools and q, 900 teachers.
More than =, 500, 900 of the race can read and
write.
James Ryan, convict in the Rhode Island
State Prison, was on Monday shot and dan
gerousy wounded by night walchman Arm
strong. Ryan had gotten out of his cell
assaulted the Waterman and secured Il revol.
yer, but was overpowered after he had reached
the yard.
Thousands of persons, including the high
est officials, have visited the Columbus cara
vel Santa Maria at Havana. A grand ban
auet to the commander and the officers Of
the Santa Maria was given at the town hall
Much enthusiasm was manifested, and mum
Der of toasts were given.
The will of the late Col. Elliot f. Shepard
has been filed for probate in New York anc
contains requests of 500, 600 10 the Presby
terry of New York, for general religious work
In that city; $4,000 for the Seventh Presby-
terrain Church, New York, and 100000 to
ST. Paul's Church, Tarsus, Asia Minor.
Under Keeper H. H. Moore, of the county
prison at Lancaster, Pa. had a desperate
struggle Tuesday morning with an insane
prisoner. who tried to kill him. His assailan
was J. C. Van Nostrand, formerly of Wilkes
barre, drummer who was committed to jai
to await trial on a charge of embezzlement
and became insane recently.
| IN DuUdlO, ". LIS vi 4iOhudJf
Hanahan and Miss Mary Hanahan were mar
ried IN St. Bridget's Church, and the
crowd was so great that detail o.
police were sent to preserve order. The in
terest in the wedding was due to the fact thai
the bridegroom is &c and the bride IS. They
had been lovers for many years.
The famine in the European part of III,
Government of Perm, Russia, is worse thar
ever before. The poor are dying by hun
dreds. In the smaller villages the people
have ceased trying to bury all the bodies
Relatives of the dead are often too weak t.
provide burial for their dead and so leave tn
bodies lying on the roofs Of the house.
Miss Edith Day returned to Portland
Oregon, on Sunday morning, over the South
ern Pacific, having completed her 10000
mile journey through the United States ant
Mexico IN IL days and l49 hours. Miss
Doolitle left Chicago at the same time ant
travelled in an opposite direction Sh
travelled the entire distance according Il
schedule.
Right Rev. Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Contra
Pennsylvania, one of the Oldest prelates o
the Episcopal Church in the United States
celebrated his s5th birthday on the 9th ms
tant at his home in Reading. He is sti
active and attends to his duties, but does no
90 very far away from home.
Otto Eckhold, prisoner in the Jail q
Long Island City, has informed the authori
ties of plot to destroy the whiting works Q
E. V. Crandal, in Maspeth, Lond Island
Upon Eckhold's information three dynamit
! bombs have been found under stable j
,, the rear of the works. He says the bomb
were made by an Anarchist leader name'
Henry Reippercht. Several arrests are ex
/. pected.
While engaged in threshing a new variet
f of clover on the farm of Stephen Playford, a
Decatur, Michigan, on Saturday of last week
+ the workmen near the machine suddenly be
; came unconscious, and for several hour
remained in " critical condition. The me
!, had The appearance Of being asphyxiated
!, , and it is supposed that some active vegetable