The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-01-13
News of the Week.

Losses by fire in New York city last year
amounted to over S5,500,000.
Mrs. Annie Sharpe Roberts died at Watse-
ka, Illinois, on Saturday, aged 1913 years.
DIR. Alexander Stewart, well known
physician, died at Chambersburg, Pa, on
Saturday, aged 81 years.
A canvass ofthe Boston savings banks shows
that deposits fell off only about : per cent.
/ during the past six months,
During free fight among some toughs in
| Philadelphia, Pa, on Saturday night, Thomas
Byrnes was beaten to death.
The Little Falls Knitting Mill at Little Falls
| has resumed operations with a full set OF
! hands, alter months idlness.
The 18th anniversary of St. Pauls Prot
testant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
was celebrated ON Sunday evening.
The Smith Carpet Company, of Yonkers.
New York, will resume within the next few
days, giving work to at least 1000 hands.
The Mohawk Valley Cotton Mill in Utica,
| N. Y, resumed operations after two week S
shut down, and are now giving a full force of
$50 hands work.
The Greenwood Cotton Company at New
Hartford, Connecticut, which shut down in-
definitely two weeks ago, started again
on Monday. Ii employees 100 hands.
While William Long, aged II years, and
Harry Dean, aged q years, were shooting
rats in barn, near Wilmington, Delaware
on Sunday, Long accidentally shot and IN
stantly killed Dean.
DR.. Howard, convicted at jackson, Ten
nessee, of the use of the mails to further
schemes to defraud, was sentenced last week
to 10 years and 9 months Imprisonment and
TO pay fine of $500.
| A Chicago despatch says that AZ prisoners
are now in the Cook county Jail, charged with
murder. Besides this large number of men
who are to be tried for their lives. over 500
other prisoners are in the Jail awaiting trial.
Edward Dunbar, once a noted evangelist,
and author of the hymn THERE'S a Light in
the Window for Thee, Brother died last
week in the Cofeyeille (Kas,l Jail, where he
had applied for lodgings as a tramp.
Over 5000 of the unemployed of Cleveland
met in the public square at that city, on
Monday, when speeches were made denounc.
ing the local and general government.
procession, headed by red flag, followed the
| meeting.
Fire destroyed the barn aud outbuildings of
Alonzo 5. Whitlock, near Odessa, Delaware,
on Monday evening. Eleven head of horses
and 20 cows persisted in the flames, together
with all of last years crops and farming i'm
plements.
John Campbell, 50 years old, is in jail at
Pittsburg, Pa, charged with committing Grim
inal assaults npou two children of Louis Mat
tier, who had befriended him. One of the
victims, ,! year-old girl, die d on Saturday
of her injuries
After being out on a strike for 10 days, and
losing $50, 900 in wages. the coal miners at
Arnot, Fallbrook and Morris Run, in the
| Blossburg coal region of Pennsylvania, went
to work on Monday, accepting 10 per cent
reduction in wages.
On Tuesday, Sherman Waggoner, a young
farmer, shot and killed his wife with Vim
chester rife at Lynnville, CT. The husbands
cruelty drove the wife away from home, and
he shot her as she was entering the ouse of
an aunt Waggoner escaped.
Two small children of George Transon, of
Bethlehem, Penna., on Saturday drove nails
into cigar box, then ammed the box with
the nails protruding on the head of an infant
brother, decorating and puncturing the ehild's
skull so badly that he will die.
An industrious statisticiau comes out with
the startling announcement that the popula.
ton of the world, which is estimated at
/, 400, 200, 600, if divided into families of five,
could all be accommodated in Texas, each
family with acre lot, and have so, 900, 600
lots over for parks aud things.
The temperature in parts of England aud
Europe ranged last week from freezing TO
2So below zero. In the Southern parts of
Spain, Italy and Sicily many persons froze to
death, owing to the fact that they were not
prepared for such extreme weather. Ia some
places the snow was up to the second story.
Operations in the Sanford Carpet Mills,
at Amsterdam, New York, were partially re.
resumed this week and it is understood that
next week all the employees, 5000 in number,
will be giyeu work The mills have been
closed for several months. The Yund.
Kennedy & Yund Knitting Mills have also
resumed giving work to over 800 hands.
Henry Pratt Mexican, member Of one Of
the Oldest and most distinguished families in
Pennsylvania, and, before his retirement from
business, leading merchant and fihaucies,
died on the 9th instant, in his S4th year. at
his residence in Germantown, Pa. His wife,
Mrs. Phebe Elizabeth Mexican, died on the
Wednesday previous, 10 her 18th year.
A magnificent swan, measuring feet from
tip to tip, which 4. Tosney, of Delaware City,
Delaware, wounded and was trying 10 capture
in the river, turned upon him and fought HIM
furiously one day last week. His companions
killed the big bird, but Tosney's arm was
broken by terrific blow from the swans
wing and his face terribly Scared where its
beak had bitten him,
An explosion occurred in one of the mills
Of the Latin Rand Powder Works. at Ripton,
Ulster county, New York, on Saturday mora
ing. -Four employees were killed. The force
Of the explosion was feltat Poughkeepsie,
and at Rosendale. three miles away. many
panes Of glass were shattered. About $50
kegs of powder exploded. The magazines,
About o'clock on Monday night fire was
discovered in the Casino building on the
worlds fair grounds at Chicago general
alarm was sounded and every effort was made
TO save the adjoining buildings, but the Peris
lyle and the Manufactures buildings were
burned. Many valuable exhibits from for.
eign countries we're packed ready for ship
meni. The loss is about 2,00O,000