The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-09-23
News Of the Week.

Edward Hagerman, aged years. committed sui
eide in St. Louis on Sunday by hanging himself
Rev A. J. Cline. a we'll known Dundark of Augusta
county. Virginia. died recently from heart disease
Twenty-Five buildings at sehell City. No.. were
burned on Thursday night of last week loss $780,
OOO
| tramp burned the barn on the almshouse farm
of Northampton county. Pa. on Tuesday loss over
5000.
BY the explosion OF boiler in a saw mill near
Whittier North Carolina on Monday. five men were
killed.
At Brunswick. Georgia. yellow fever has again
broken out Owing to the strict quarantine nearly
1000 people are starving.
Iowa on Thursday celebrated the 47th anniversary
OF It's admission into the Union by appropriate
cises at the Worlds Fair
During a severe storm at Shenandoah. Penna.. on
September Is John Boseavage, aged Is years, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
In Page Madison and other counties of Virginia
there was great destruction of property by the
foods lastweek Several lives were also lost.
The Randolph State Normal School and the Ma
plewood Hotel. in West Randolph. Vermont. were
burned on the 18th instant; loss about $4,000,
The Rome Bank of New York. was robbed recently
VI NloloO IA L. Ddius CaSuief
The amount was made good by Bains surety and
friends.
Telephone messages received at Kansas City on
the afternoon of the 18th instant said that the chief
business portion of Liberty Missouri, had been de-
stroyed by fire.
Mrs. Eli HallowelI died in Oakland, Ill., Saturday
aged los years. She was the first white woman to
emgrate to that section of the states She was born
in Pennsylvania.
The town of Dalton Ohio, was raided on Sunday
night by gang of robbers. who scattered over the
place and broke into and plundered many houses.
There were no arrests.
On Monday night collision between two passen-
ger trains occurred near Kan kakee, Illinois. Nine
persons were killed. several critically injured, and
eleven seriously injured.
Details of the floods IN China which began in
July last. were received at Washington d. C.. on
last Saturday. vast territory was flooded causing
great loss oflife and destruction of property.
Gustavus Fisher, ex-Mayor of New Brunswick,
New jersey and for ten years professor oflanguages
in Rutgers College died Saturday, aged 70 years
He was a native of Prussia, and graduate Of the
University of Berlin.
The Sharon Estate Company, with capital of
100000, of which 100000 is paid in, has been
incorporated at Jersey City. The company pro-
poses to engage in various manufacturing, building
and commercial enterprises.
Eighteen cases of smallpox. all among negroes,
have been discovered in one locality i'm Brooklyn,
NY. II is believed to have been spread by bar
Der who continued to shave his customers after he
had broken ont with the disease
Three freight trains were boarded between Fargo
and Casselton. North Dakota, on Sunday night, by
five masked men, and Is harvest hands, who were
found on the trains were robbed of their earnings.
One of the harvest hands was killed.
Fire destroyed the large three story building of
Ickes l. Greer. in Juniata, Pa. on Sunday. Several
families living OH the second floor of the structure
narrowly escaped with their lives. The total loss
was $4,000, with less than 5000 insurance.
The annual meeting of the Missionary Council
of the Episcopal Churchwas to have been held in San
Francisco next month, but the place has been
changed to Chicago with the understanding that
the Council of 1894 shall be held in California.
John Taylor farmer near someryille, Tennessee.
was killed with fence rail by John McClerin,
whom he caught stealing fruit on Monday. Nc
Clerin was lodged in jail, but it was feared he
would be taken out and lynched by the angry citi-
zens.
Jessie Mitchell, colored. was lynched at Amelia
Court House. Virginia. Thursday night of last
week He had been convicted twice of rape upon
a white child y years of age, but had gotten new
trials on teehniealities The third trial to have
began the next day
j. G. SISTER, a tax collector in Dunbar township,
Fayetie county, Penna.. on Monday shot and killed
John yaulla a coke worker He says he was
mobbed by a crowd of Huns because he shot one of
n pack of dogs they set on him, and that he then
fired into the crowd in self-defence.
Burglars blew open the safe of Wilbur x Co.
wholesale grain dealers, at Phillips Maine. Sunday
night, and secured cash and papers valued at s5o,-
900. They also blew open the safe in the Phillips
AVID Rangely Railroad Depot, badly damaging one
end Ofthe building and securing 500 in money.
The Touring mill at Patterson. Hardin county.
Ohio, caught fire on Sunday and before the flames
could be checked over third of the town was de-
stroyed. including ten business blocks, six resi-
denccs, the postoice building and all its contents.
The total loss was $4,000, and but $1,000 insurance.
The residence of Milton Myers, farmer. of Mil
lersyille, Tenn, was totally destroyed by fire on
Thursday night of last week. and three children,
aged 10, and 3 years. were burned. Mrs Myers,
with an infant two weeks old jumped from see
ond story window, and they are now in precari-
Gus condition.
A despatch from Montreal says that the Allan
family is again the subject of much talk on account
of the failure of the Manitoba and Northwestern
Railway in which. 1t is said. great part of the
fortune of the late Sir Hugh Allan as well as that
of several friends of the family. has been swallowed
up There is only 100000 to show for an indebt-
edness of over sI1 100000.
At Williamsport, Penna., Friday afternoon Of
last week the electrical disturbance of the
season occurred The rain fell in torrents. flooding
the streets and overlooking sewers. Lightning
struck repeatedly throughout the city, two school
houses being slightly damaged. At the Dodge mills
five men were knocked down by bolt of lightning
AT Pottsyille and vicinity the storm was terrific
Never, perhaps in the history of this country, has
there been as many burglaries, train robberies,
bopse and barn burnings suicides, murders mine
disasters, losses Of life ana property by storms and
foods Is baYe taken place this year. The fire
record exceeds all previous years. and unless there
is stop to it many Insurance companies will be
compelled to close business at the end Of the year
Henry S. Cochran, chief weigher at the Philadel-
phia, Pa Mint, and for 43 years trusted employe
Of that institution has confessed to Superintendent
Drummond of the United States Secret Service the
Their of gold bullion valued at 1854 09SAO. All of
this has been recovered with the exception of
bars valued at about $4,000 which, It is said i'll
be fully met by property belonging TO Cochran
at Darby.
At Newton. Kansas. on Saturday night last, two
burglars, one of whom had recently been wounded
in the leg by Mrs. C. W. Nieodemus, went to her
house, and, finding her alone. seized. tied aud
gagged her. and poured coal oil over her clothing
inst as the wretches were about to apply match
Nieodemus returned home and the men fed. They
told the woman that they were determined to be
reyenged for her shot
The grass on 100 acres of prairie land adjoining
the Worlds Fair grounds on the south caught fire
on Sunday afternoon About 20 acres OF this area
was covered by garbage. which was consumed. The
fumes from the garbage overpowered number OF
Columbian guards who were fighting the fire. Sew
erai times the fence surrounding the Fair grounds
caught on fire, but the flames were extinguished
before serions damage was done.
On Saturday the unusual spectacle of number
OF workers asking their employers to reduce their
wages was presented by the employees OF the subur-
ban Traction Company of Orange. y, ]. The men
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