The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-05-13
News of the Week.

county, Pa, and number OF cattle have
been killed by order of the State veterinarian.
The head cook of the Hotel Waldorf, New
York, receives $40, 900 a year, land has ever 100
assistants who are expected to prepare 1000
meals daily.
The squadron Of war vessels which has
been in American waters for several weeks
began to break up on Wednesday last, when
the British departed.
On Monday 293 Chinese we're turned over
to the steamship Victoria. which brought
them, to be sent back from Tacoma, Wash
ington, by order of Collector Wassan.
The annual convention of the National
League of Republican Clubs took place at
Louisville, KY, on Wednesday. About 1000
accredited representatives of the several state
organizations were present.
Rivermen at Burlington, Iowa, believe
that the Mississippi Valley will be visited by
one of the greatest floods ever known basing
their belief upon unprecedented drifts still
piled up in the north country pineries.
H. H Warner, the patent medicine man,
of Rochester, New York, has made an as
Segment for the benefit of his creditors.
His liabilities are estimated at $4,000 j.
f. Hodges, of New York, is his assignee.
A despatch from Valparaiso, Indiana, on
Thursday, says that the Kankakee river, at
Willvail, has passed the highest point ever
reached. The higher land is entirely sub
merged and the river in places is five miles
wide.
Over 1000 mill operatives at Lawrence,
Mass, are idle on account of freshet in the
Merrimac, the water having reached two of
the large paper mills. At Nashua, New
Hampshire, the river was eight feet eight
inches above high water mark.
The Joliet Rolling Mill, a branch of the
Illinois Steel Company, which employed
$500 men, is closed. 1.-The officers declare
it would be impossible to resume at the pre-
sent prices of steel and iron, which are,lower
than in the past twenty years.
Rev. David Kammerer. said to be the old
est active member of the ministry in the
United States, died at his home in Wooster,
Ohio, on Saturday. He was in his 9lst year,
and Il years of his life were spent as minis
ter of the German Lutheran Church.
A search of the Arizona Territorial Prison,
at Yuma, recently resulted in the finding in
the cells of the conyicts 80 daggers, butcher
knives, saws, files and slung-shots, besides
morphine and other drugs. M. Mclnery, the
former superintendent, has been arrested.
William Deering & Co., paper manufae
turers, of Chicago, have attached 1,250,00O
pounds of binding Irvine, the property Of the
National Cordage Company. The Irvine is
in possession of the Kansas City branch OF
the trust, and was attached TO secure a debt
of 100000.
The famine in Central and Southeastern
Russia has been followed by a fever which is
decimating the population. Great suffering
prevails. In Tobolsk the cholera is inereas-
| ing so rapidly that corps Of medical students
has been sent from St. Petersburg to assist
the physicians.
| Herman Baer, son of st. Louis million
aire, has been arrested in Cincinnati on the
charge of having forged his fathers name to
checks for nearly $4,000. After the forgery,
about three months ago, he went to Chicago,
where he married the daughter of a prom-
nent railroad man.
The rear end of one of the boilers of the
steamer Ohio, on the Mississippi river, "a
miles below Cairo, Illinois, blew out on Sun
day, filling the deck cabin with steam and
boiling water. Six persons were killed and
/ 10 or more were injured, most OF them fatally.
Six of the latter died on Monday.
The $50 brotherhood linemen and inspec-
tors employed by the New York and New
Jersey Telephone Company, in New Jersey,
have struck for ''an increase in wages OF 80
cents per day, union hours, legal holidays TO
be paid for in full, and no lost time for rainy
weather or other Inconvenience.
John II. Jones, Councilmen of Reading,
Penna., was ''buneoed' out of $2500, on Sat
urday, by three sharpers, one of whom rep
resented himself as sou of President Sam
uel X. Anders. of the National Bank of Nor
ristoWn. Jones was victimized by the time
worn game of cards and winning of prizes.
Carlyle W. Harris was executed at Sing
Sing Prison. New York at noon on Monday.
! The first electrical current caused death.
The physicians said that death was instanta
neous and painless. He died protesting his
/ innocence, but his former life had been such
that the governor would not interfere with
the case.
Robert Byrnes, SO years old, said to be one
of the most dangerous forgers, swindlers and
confidence men in the country, was arrested
in Philadelphia, Pa, on Monday. Byrnes is
charged with passing worthless checks at the
Drexel Banking House and at the office of
the American Loan, Guarantee and Invest
ment Company.
Last week York, Pa, shoemaker finished
pair Of shoes for negro man who works
ON the railroad, and known as big Six,
that measured 10 inches in length and
inches in breadth. In order to see the differ
ence in size between them and an ordinary
pair, cut piece of paper lGx6 and place
your foot on the paper,
On Monday the grand jury of Roanoke,
Va, indicted S. A. Vicks, one of the jurors
in the suit of Engledove VS.. Fishburne for
$40 600 for the abrogation of lease, for per-
Jury, in that on going to the fHry room, and
before hearing the testimony, declared he
would not give plaintiff a cent because he
had swindled him out of $40.
At ST. Bartholomew's Protestant Episco-
pal Church, New York city, on Sunday, the
collection taken up for projected improve
Daniel Greer, the rector, on the previous
Sunday announced that during the past four
years 81 ,039 900 had been raised by the con
gregation for charitable purposes.
Reports from Continental Europe on the
sth state that the drought and heat have
spoiled the beet root crop, and that an enor-
nous rise of sugar prices is in progress In
several parts of Austria the cereals have been
ploughed up in preparation for another
planting Grain spectators declare that all
hope of saving the winter wheat crop IS gone.
Peter Ziegler, an extensive cigar manuiae-
turer Of Logansville, York county, Pa, has
disappeared and left forged notes behind TO
the extent of $4,000. The banks of Glen
Rock and Shrewsbury, and the Farmers and
Drnyers' bank and the Mechanics bank OF
York are the principal losers. AS ne mas
relatives in Canada, it is generally believed
that he has gone TO them.
Jacob Valdez, wealthy young merchant,
and Plutarco Margro, young attorney,
fought duel with knives having blades three
inches long, at Fresnillo, Mexico, on Sunday
night. The battle in the darkness lasted for
20 minutes, when Margro, pierced To the
heart, fell dead. Valdez was terribly mutt
lated and cannot recover. The cause of the
quarrel was that both men were enamored of
the same Young lady.
In Philadelphia, Pa, on May 5, the s0th
birthday of Rev. DR.. c. w. Schaeffer, Presi
dent Of the Lutheran Theological Seminary,
was celebrated by the faculty and students,
who extended their congratulations to the
venerable divine. DR.. Schaeffer, in an ad-
dress, referred to his So years Of active work
in the church, and the fact that the name OF
Schaeffer had been on the rolls of the Minis