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


Wyoming is richer in minerals than any
other state in the country.
Stanislaus Woolbenski has been arrested
in Wilmington, Del, for making and passing
counterfeit money.
The potato crop of this country is estimated
at 14S ZOO, 900 bushels, which at so cents per
bushel is equivalent to $74,000,000.
The famous Jesuit College in Mons, Ger
many, was burned by an incendiary on Wed
nesday. All the valuable books, &c, were
destroyed.
Owing to "A dispute over a tax claim by the
city of Minneapolis, the University Of Michi-
gan has been advertised for sale to the high
est bidder.
The number of packages imported for ex-
hibition at the Worlds Fair from May, 1892,
to June 80. 1893, aggregated l49, SS7, valued
at S13, 253, 943.
Rev. Harry Strickland, of the Congrega-
tional church, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, is
on trial for bigamy. He is 80 years old and
has three wives.
Major Decker died in Chicago last week.
He was known as the smallest man living.
He was a years old weighed IS pounds, and
was 81 inches high.
At Durham, North Carolina, two brothers,
A. G. Brame, of Kentucky, and I. r. Brame,
of Virginia, met on Saturday for the hrst
time in fifty seven years.
| After a tour of the western part of the
state, Factory Inspector Watchorn says that
at least so per cent. of the working men and
women of Pennsylvania are out of employ
ment.
| A syndicate of Americans has project on
foot for the establishment of clock and watch
factory in Toxic, which is to employ over ten
thousand workmen, labor being so cheap in
Japan.
James Patton, who was one of General
Lafayette's body guards when the distinguish,
ed General visited this country in 1924, died
at New Windsor, New York. last week, aged
81 years.
The Orange virginia. Observer is of the
| opinion that poplar wood, sumac, apples and
chestnuts have brought more clear money to
the people of that county this year than wheat
and corn.
The oldest twins in Connecticut are proba.
bly, Mrs. Euuice Pierce, of New Haven, and
Mrs. Louvley Williams, CT Meriden. They
are 81 years old, and are both remarkably
active for their years.
Abner Redmond, white, was lynched by a
number of his neighbors for beating a colored
man in Charlotte county, Virginia, last week.
county several times but would not do so.
At Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday night
some one threw lighted bombs into the Opera
House, killing Is instantly, and 10 others
died before getting to the hospital. Over 81
casualties are reported and the greatest eX-
element prevails
A J. Quincy, chief money clerk of the
American Express Company, at New Or
leans, has been arrested, charged with the
theft of So, 900. shipped from the Bank OF
Commerce, in New York, to the Whitney
National Bank in New Orleans.
A canvass of the manufacturing industries
of Lowell. Massachusetts,, shows that over a
half million dollars has been lost the present
season by the employees, by reason OF the
shut downs which have occurred because oil
the depressed condition of business.
BY rear end collision on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, at Sew
enty-frs street, in Chicago, Wednesday even
ing, five persons were killed and II were IN
iured. An express train ran into an accom-
mediation during dense fog. Two coaches
and an engine were wrecked.
Col. ]. Hampton Hoge, recently appointed
United States Consul to Annoy, China, whC
was to have sailed from San francisco, on
the Gaelic, received notice last week that he
had been removed from his Office by Presl
dent Cleveland on account Of certain charges
which had been made against him.
The Lyceum Theatre in Memphis, Ten
nessee. together with saloon, hardware
store and Bruce's livery stable, was burned
early Wednesday morning. The loss is
placed at $3.50, 900. The theatre was owned
by the Memphis Amateur Athletic Assoeia'
ton and was a combination theatre and club
building.
Associate Judge D. G. Donohue, of Adams
county, died very suddenly at New Chester,
Adams county, Pa. on October so of spas
modic contraction of the muscles. Judge
Donohue was a very efficient officer and wa.
one of the best known and highly respected
men in the state. He was 45 years of age and
leaves wife and one grown daughter.
The propeller Albany, loaded with grain
and the propeller Philadelphia, with coal and
general merchandise, collided in Lake Huron,
off Point aux Barques, in dense fog, or
Monday night, and both sank shortly after
wards Both crews got away in small boats
and one reached shore Tuesday morning
The other, containing u men, capsized and
all were lost.
Norfolk, Va, and vicinity was visited by
very severe storm Wednesday morning
The wind attained velocity of fifty miles au
hour at the beach and thirty-fve miles il
Norfolk. The rainfall was about two inches
Several houses were unroofed, and considera
bic damage was done to property along the
water front and wharyes. All OF the lower
streets were under water. The tide is higher
than it has been for twelve months. Nc
wrecks are reported as yet
The steamship City Of Alexandria was
burned off Cojimar, % miles from Havana
on Wednesday of last week. There was al
II f,lI
fire gained such Roadway that the order tC
abandon ship was given. Those who arrived
at Havana in the small boat said that 60 per
sons had been drowned through the upsettine
of a boat. Later reports, however, show tina
none of the small boats upset, and that many
of those at first reported as lost reached
Bacuranao in safety. The number of persons
drowned is now believed to be 81 or So.
A Lancaster, Pa despatch says that Mar
Buzzard. one of the men charged with rob
bling Isaiah Shaefier and murderously assault
ing him at Groffdae last week, has made
confession, the details of which are withheld
duplicating his brother Abe Buzzard, til,
notorious leader Of the Welsh Mountain out
laws, who was recently pardoned from tht
Eastern Penitentiary, since which time h,
has been travelling through the county as al
"Eyangelistn Abe has been arrested
Shaeffer is in critical condition. -Four NOR,
Welsh Mountaineers have been arrested fol
: completely in the crime. One of these is
! woman, Mrs. Louis Il. Baxter. who learned
that Shaeffer had 500 in cash hidden in hi
: house and gave the information to the Buz
zard gang.
At Berlin, Prussia, on October 80, a womal
Y was beheaded, she being the first woman t
suffer the death penalty there since Berlil
2 was made Kaiserstadt. The last woman L
suffer the extreme penalty of the law was exc
cuted in 1876. The victim on October sol
: was Emile Gilman, nee Kuehne, of Hammer
, Prussian Silesia. She had been convicted o
the murder of her husband, and the fact
elected at the trial showed that the crime wa
{ most deliberate and cold blooded. Frau Zill
; man was 45 years old In Germany capita
sentences are carried out by headsman, an
Reindel, of Magdeburg, acted in that capacity
The preparations for the execution were KEEP
a secret. Even Reindel did not until the pre-