The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-28
Pennsylvania Items.

oming, were burned on Thursday, together with %
COWS and blooded horses. Loss $4,000.
Reginald H. Alter, treasurer of the Diamond Coal
Land Company, charged with embezzling s562s .25
OF its funds, has been committed for trial.
VIM. A. Keen, of williamsport was drugged and
taken to gold cure asylum His wife has entered
suit against the parties who took him away.
George NJ. Jones, for 10 years trusted bill clerk
for Citizens, Rexamer 4 Co.. wholesale grocers,
Philadelphia, has absconded, and is 5000 short in
his accounts.
Several postal stations in Philadelphia have re-
Gently been robbed. Edward J. schlenk was arrested
in New York with about $500 which he had taken
from one of the stations.
Many of the turnpikes are charging bicyclsts one
cent per mile owing to the fact that many horses
frighten at them and the heavy damages the COM
panies have to pay.
Clover and timothy fields in Berks county are in
tested with worm resembling the cabbage worm
and eating the grass. 1t is destructive the
grasshopper ofthe West,
May Gallagher. 81 years of age, q student at the
Iron City Business College in Pittsburg. committed
suicide on Tuesday by swallowing oxalic acid. She
thought her parents had not treated her right
Jacob F. Flinchbaugh, highly respected citizen
morning of last week He had been laboring under
temporary alteration of the mind for the past few
months.
Col. Morrell, of the New York Coaching Club, on
Monday drove the entire distance between Phila-
delphia aud that city, 1I2 miles. in IL hours and 30
minutes. Frequent changes of horses were made
along the route
Henry Butner, aged IS years, becoming suddenly
fnco
a well and then rescued him. II is feared the
chids injuries will prove fatal. The father was
removed TO the Philadelphia Hospital.
The 5oth anniversary of the rectorship of Rev.
Thomas Yarnall, D. D.. at St Mary's Protestant
Episcopal Church. West Philadelphia was cele-
brated on the 18th. DR.. Yarnall preached an his
torical sermon and Bishop Whitaker delivered a
congratulatory address.
The coal diggers along the Kiskiminitas river at
Leechburg met on Tuesday and decided to strike,
OF the 5000 men in the district 1000 employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. and there
is serious danger that the supply of fuel for the
company's locomotives will be cut off.
John franklin Beard died at his home at Rock
Forge April 49, from severe hemOrrhage, in his
SIND year He was foreman in the boiler shop OF
the Geiser Works, Waynesboro, having contracted
10 operate that department His prospects were
very bright He leaves wife and four children.
An explosion of dynamite occurred in black
smith shop in Mt. Washington. Pittsburg. Tuesday
evening causing the death of Hugo Ralp. aged Il;
fatal injuries to Andrew McClane and the serious
injury of Michael Gallagher The explosive was to
be used in sewer excavation ana II IS supposed
that the boy kalp dropped the boN'
A gang of thieves who have been operating in L.
high Northampton, Bucks and other counties IN
Eastern Pennsylvania for several months whose
total value of plumber amounts to several thousand
,aInahie r,ronertv including family relics &c. Al
West Chester similar gang have been captured.
who were sworr to suffer death before revealing
ANYTHING.
r, :. roro..o, hat por william Manifold
9, carnon,,s protest.
W., r-a,aI l,hr-ot IN ph;adelnbia nntf the
g., ~ Io,,,,nr,. 1so, and then entered the Roman
Catholic Church, is now DESTROYS OF again becoming
PROTESTANT munster mas oeen 'erlheu' mr. Maiii-
ioid mas lately slgIiieu 70 Bishop "hitaAef that
"oulu DC siad II ne couiu NC ies'oieu W ms oe0 u
priest IN the DIOCESE oi feuisyN"lla'
DR.. William Pepper has resigned the position OF
Provost the University of Pennsylvania, which
he has held since 1881. Dr. Pepper says it was nee
essary for him TO choose between administrative
latter has determined the choice He presented MS
check ior s0oVoo IN Vl ms ioi
the eNtehuoh OIL the university hospi'ai ouiiuiis'
1t now transpires that the sawmil fire, which oe-
Cured at Mount Yeager, week ago. in which
Joshua santee was fatally burned was the work OF
robbers. santee had in the ONCE, where he slept
$1,000, mostly gold. To get the money santee was
chloroformed and the mill was subsequently SCI on
fire, to cover the crime These facts have been KEPT
quiet by friends OF the deceased IN the nope tn'
the guilty party would be more easily apprehehueu'
John Jeffries died on South Main street. Cham
bersbnrg on Saturday evening. the 18th instant,
of,a on Illness of savaraI ,vaaks with kidney affec
,iop ooad ~ years Canaan JefFries had been an
active ,na,nber of coIumbrs Iodqe No 7JO. O.
+ for n vaars having 6lled all the offices During
the war he organized militia COMPANY to keepth
rehels away from town and hence his military title
On Monday, at Uniontown. a posse proceeded to
arrest Mike Fetso, striker, for stoning men who
would notion the strikers fetsos house was sur
rounueu W 'ne poSse ",,a a.. .,or
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At Lancaster, on wednesday OF last week, MATT
Buzzard and Toe Brownsweiger were convicted OF
robbing and shooting Isaiah sheafter, farmer near
Groffsdale. sheafer at first 1t was thought would
die put ne mas now iuiiy recovered me sen''',
tloiiai FEATURES vi the uiai "o'o ''.e e'i
Mart IN winch ne said ms oro'her Aoe' she no'oi
Gus ex-outlaw, but now an eVahgehst' haa COM
mitted the deed and the testimony oil Aoe uirectiy
connecting the accused with the crimes. BON were
sentenced to the penitentary LOT long TERM
Daniel Flrmwalt, an aged stone mason, died athis
home on Church street. waynesboro. April 10, after
a long illness. in his nth year He came from
Adams county in 1888 and had resided there ever
since. following the above trade He worked many
years for Samuel Rider, the veteran stone mason,
who was born and raised in the same neighborhood
in Adams county and preceded him there only
couple years. Mr.. Firmwalt was MEMBER OF the
Lutheran church ana hghly respected ei'i@e'''
He leaves WIFE three sons ana TWO uaush'es'
VIM. II. Kurtz, of York. died on Friday night of