The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-14
News of the Week.

A rich vein of Tripoli polish has been
found in Milwaukee. 1t is worth $40 per
barrel.
Mrs. Ann Hickey died at Great harrington,
Mass, on Sunday last, aged l04. She was a
native of county Clare, Ireland.
Property, according TO statistics, in New
York city has increased in value from S277,-
600 900 IN 1871 to 1853, DOC, 900 in 1898.
A cyclone in Onion county, Ark, Friday
night, of last week destroyed many houses,
killed two women and fatally injured two.
Treasurer McCurtin, of the Choctaw Ma.
ton, Indian Territory, is said to be short over
100000. He made his report Saturday and
has since fled.
At Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Monday
Warren Z. Daggett, indicted as an habitual
criminal, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to 25 years Imprisonment.
The President and Cashier of Morshon &
Co.'s, Bank, at Vermont, Illinois, which
failed year ago for $780, 900, were arrested
in Chicago, Saturday, on the charge of en-
bezzlement.
Howard L. Balm, the ex-cashier of the
Home Savings Bank, of New York, who was
convicted of embezzing $l6,8l5 in bonds
from that institution, has been sentenced to
serve four years in the State prison.
VIM. Davis and wife, living near Raleigh,
Tenn, locked their two children in the house
on Monday and went into the cotton field.
When they returned the house was destroyed
by fire and the children were burned to death.
Cliff Voss, aged fifteen years, son of one of
the wealthiest citizens of Atlanta, Ga, ran
away from his home some three months ago.
While stealing his way back Sunday on n
freight train he fell between two cars and was
killed
There is excitement throughout the State
of Sonora. Mexico. at the appearance OF
black small pox at Pozoland and other cities.
The authorities are trying to prevent the
spread of the disease but many deaths are
reported daily.
Fl. B. Hixon, man about IS years OF age,
living alone near the Shaw farm. two and a
half miles from Oil City, Pa. was tortured
by burglars on Friday night of last week, until
he gave them all the money he had in the
house, about SAL.
Almon B. Thompson, who, as cashier OF
the Provident Savings Bank of St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1886, embezzled $4,000 and
robbed the safe of So, 900 and then fled, with
his family, has Just been found in New York.
fighting with poverty.
A family in Utica possesses Bible which
was printed in London in 1880, and which Is
consequently 2G3 years old. There are old
Bibles, but this one is remarkable from the
fact that it has been in the possession OF the
same family for generations.
The wife of E. H. Vaughan, clerk of Hall
fax County Court, Virginia, who was killed
recently by the accidental discharge of his
gun. was insured for S5I 200, besides which
heirs will receive several thousand dollars
from beneficial societies.
Basil Lockwood, colored man, who reseu-
ed several of the clerks in Ford's Theatre
building just after it collapsed, was, on Satur-
day, appointed to messengers position in
the War Department, by Secretary Lamont,
in recognition Of his heroic services.
John Davis. colored, entered the room ola
Msa Farmer, in Henry county, Ala, Sunday
night and attempted to assault her. The
woman screamed and the negro fed. A
posse surrounded Davis house, and when he
came out rjddled him with bullets.
On Friday night of last week the clothing
store of j. p. aud j. NJ. Wolf, in Waynesboro,
Pa, was robbed of over $500 in ready made
and custom-work. Entrance was made by
boring Al holes in the rear door of the store.
The thieves escaped with their booty.
The joint congressional investigating com
mittee report shows that there are 8, l2S more
persons employed in the several departments
than are specifically appropriated for, and
/ that of II ,599 employees, 5,610 have from one
TO nine relatives each in the government
| SERVICE at Washington.
X. 8. Burton, of Lynchburg, a mail agent
f, on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, was
convicted in the United States court at Alb
ingdon, Virginia, last week of robbing the mai
and sentenced to three years in the peniten
/ tiarv An eight. months. old son died within
few hours of Burton's conviction.
A freight ear, containing 200 kegs O
powder, exploded on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, near Alliance
! Ohio, Monday evening. wreokinR the train
and tearing out the road bed for $50 yards.
| The engineer and iremen were fatally burned
The damage will reach $250,000.
The 10 year old mute daughter of Mrs
Jane Young, recently matron of Little Minnie
Mission, one of the leading charitable institu
tions of Savannah. Georgia, was criminally
assaulted in her home Saturday night by
March Walker, a negro carpet layer, who had
been employed about the house during the
day.
Jefferson Wallace, Secretary of the Demo
cratic City Committee, of Richmond, Virginia
i IS uuuer arrest lOF StnuiHS CHthiSuSc "
1 fight duel to Joseph Bryan, proprietor Of
the Times. The trouble grew out of stric.
lures made recently upon the press Of the
city. by Mr.. Wallace, and upon which the
| Times commented sharply.
| The coroner Of San Francisco has been in
ynstigating the San Francisco Founding Asy-
| lum, where 80 babies have died within the
past six weeks. The official undertaken oil
the institution testified that yhen the infants
died the attendants put the bodies in o boy
under the door steps, where they remained
until he took them away. The asylum has
| been closed.
An arriving schooner at Biloxi, Mississippi,
reports that many bodies are floating on the
shore Mt Cat Island, Ship Island and Chande-
leur Island No less than 20 were counted
on Cat Island alone. Scores of dead bodies
are still lying on the rivers edge or in the
high and tangled weeds of the marshes be-
tween Pointe la Hache and the Quarantine
Station. 1t is reported that men and women,
driven to desperation by hunger, are feeding
on dead animals The death list is now esti-
mated 10 be $500. Relief boats and trains
lief. New Orleans on Saturday for the lower
coast. carrying provisions and clothing for
the sufferers and collins for the dead. The
boats will make quick trips, and return several
times to the strioksn districts. News has
been received of the loss OF number Of lives
at Bayou Mescato.