The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-14
News of the Week.

All the buildings of the Worlds Fair. at Chicago
were sold on Saturday at private sale for $4,000.
The number of cigar factories in this country is
placed IS by the United States Tobacco Journal
Ex-United States Senator Alexander G. Cattell
New Jersey, died in Jamestown New York, Sunday
night, aged 50 years.
A tornado passed over Coffey county Kansas, on
Monday evening" doing great damage to property
Several persons were injured
William Perry, President of the Cincinnati. Rich
mond and Fort Wayne Railroad, died on Tuesday,
in Richmond Indiana, aged 81 years
Herschell Smith, of Brookville, Indiana, bears the
title of the hoy giant" He is not yet 16 years old
and stands 6 feet y inches in height.
Ice dealers in New York city have increased the
price from si.75 TO So per ton. Retailers will be
compelled to pay from $3.50 to 81 per ton.
A memorial window to General "stonewall" Jack
son is to be placed in the Presbyterian Church at
Lexington Va. of which he was member
Holt & Bugbee's large lumber yards in East Cam
bridge Massachusetts, were damaged by fire on
Saturday to the extent of from $4,000 to 100000
Fully 10000 plumbers, painters, briekmakers, ma
chinists brass steel and iron workers strike
in Chicago for ten hours pay for eight hours work.
A special feature of the International Exhibition
TO be held in Paris in 1900 is to be reproduction in
the most realistic fashion, of the famous Palace of
the Alhambra.
The Belgian steamer De Ruyter, from Antwerp for
Boston, has been out 81 days and grave ears for her
safety now entertained. The steamer has crew
OFFS men in all.
| A receiver has been appointed at Lawrence,
Kansas, for the J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Com
pany The total liabilities are said 10 be Si555NOo
and the assets Sc 10000.
| 7 c4,,lo, ,,l,o a;a5 L,fuoCtOr Na,v Work
| last week. in his 95th year, was survived by two
brothers and two sisters the eldest of whom was 81
years and the youngest Il.
By the explosion of boiler in Christian webers
mill at Lancaster Indiana, on Saturday. Mr. Weber,
his Louis and Clifton Tinehart were killed and
two laborers were fatally injured.
Bill Dalton leader of notorious gang of outlaws,
George Thorn, one of his men, and deputy mar
shall were killed in conflict at the Pottawatomie
reservation, in Oklahoma, last week
Old Hurd Church was built Harrodsburg.
KY in 1897, and it is said that weekly meetings
have been held there ever since without single
exception. Harrodsburg is said TO be the Oldest
town in the State.
Dr. John Howe jerks, Professor of Physiology and
Modern Languages at Washington University, st.
Louis died Monday of blood poisoning, resulting
from cut he received while engaged in dissection,
several days previous
On Saturday storm began in the New England
states, and on Sunday and Monday it turned into
blizzard and disasters both on land and at sea,
reported snow fell in many places and is from
| two to FIVE feet deep.
A severe storm passed over Louisville. Kentucky,
Monday morning Lightning struck house in the
West End shattering the glass in every window for
an entire block on both sides of the street An
| electric car was also struck.
Burglars entered the store of the Home Security
Company in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday night, and
cleaned out the stock of the establishment The
goods stolen consisted of watches. diamonds and
jewelry, and were valued at $4,000.
In the United States Circuit Court at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, on Saturday, Judge Key sentenced Rev.
c. W, Lewis, the colored pension swindler, to 2s
years in prison. Lewis convicted in IA different
| cases and was given two years for each case
| The threemasted schooner Mary A. Hood, from
Philadelphia for Bath, Maine with iron pipes was
wrecked on Nantasket Beach, Mass, Sunday night.
The crew were rescued by the Point Alerton Life
Saving crew and five volunteers in a life boat
! The bark Belmont of Boston, was driven ashore
on Monday on Peaked Hills Bars, near Chatham
Massachusetts, and will be total loss. Six of her
crew were washed overheard and drowned. The
vessel was bound home from Trinidad with sugar.
President Van Horne of Canadian Pacific Rail
way, in Toronto on Saturday, estimated that there
would be falling off of 10 per cent. in wheat
acreage, and predicted that within the next Is
months the price of wheat will go to 50 per bushel.
AT the Won Humboldt Public School, in Chicago,
| Monday morning. steam cock in the radiator
burst and the escaping steam frightened the child
rem, who made rush for the stairways. In the
| panic child killed and l6 injured one
fatally.
Gillespie county, Texas, was visited on Saturday
by of the severest hail storms known there.
Many cattle were killed by the stones, which were
six inches in eircum ference. The chunks OF ice
went through roofs of houses and ruined the pros
pect for fruit crops.
At GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin on Saturday, Clarence
W. Wixom was fined s., OOl. He is member of one
OF the wealthiest families in the county, but has
been engaged in robbng hen roosts and other forms
of stealing. The fines and costs were paid by the
young mans father
A three story frame building in williamsburg
New York collapsed on Tuesday evening, and
number of people were buried in the ruins. AT
midnight all the people had been accounted for
with the exception of John Kelly and woman
named Mrs. Clifford.
pile of ties, some of them spiked to the timbers
was discovered by the merest accident at midnight
| over the Huron river, at Huron, Ohio. An east
bound passenger train was stopped within cars
length of the obstruction.
United States customs officers at Buffalo, n. Y. on
| Sunday. captured Charles Kennedy, Edw Patterson
and George Henderson, and seized about $1,000
worth Of struggled opium. 1t is claimed that these
men and others have been for months engaged in
wholesale smuggling scheme
Rev. DR.. Newton sprague and Merritt CLARK are
two remarkably vigorous nonagenarians of Poult-
ney. Vermont. The former, who is 90 years old,
occupied the pulpit three times last year and the
latter, who is % years of age, at time
eiated with the late Jay Gould.
fire occurred in the fireworks factory of c. y.
Romano & Bro. in Blandford. Virginia on Satur-
day afternoon. Three explosions followed, killing
IL men, and injuring others. Among the killed
were Mr.. Romaine and John b. Bland. owner of an
adjacent tobacco factory, which was destroyed.
The steamer Cassius, Is days from Hamburg for
Philadelphia, put in at Halifax on Tuesday morn
ing short of coal and badly damaged. She reports
having encountered fearful gales. Boats and ven
tilators carried away the after wheel smashed
rails broken part of bridge carried of, cabin doors
! burst in and rooms flooded.
The Pitzers. of Roanoke county, Virginia, are
well known family OF the older generation. There
were thirteen in one family, none OF whom died
until over 40 years old and Of them there now
living Bernard Ptzer s. years old; J. X Pitzer, So
Mrs. Mary Wise, ~ and A. B. Pitzer, 20. The COM
bned ages of these brothers and sister is S07 years
A 81 story tenement in Memphis. Tennessee, col
| apsed without warning on Sunday morning, and
of the p persons known to have been in the build
ing, four were taken from the ruins dead, five in
iured, and six escaped without serious injury. The
remaining seven are unaccounted for, and may
still be under the ruins, The of the disaster
was faulty construction.
The Davidson Theatre the first playhouse in Mil
waukee, Wis, was destroyed by fire on Monday.
While the fire was at its height the roof collapsed,
carrying about twenty iremeu down into the blaz-
ing auditorium. Eight were killed and eight others
badly injured. The loss on the theatre is nearly
100000. and the Lillputians Company lost their
scenery and costumes estimated to be worth $4,000