The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-18
News of the Week.

At York, Pa. the sheriff has levied on all
the property of the Westinghouse Electric
Light, Heat and Power Company.
The amount taken by Fl. A. Gardner OF
the Second National Bank of Altoona, Pa,
is now stated to be over 100000.
Annetta Mccullough, of Philadelphia, Pa,
was burned to death on Saturday night by
the explosion of a coal oil lamp.
Prairie fires are destroying the recently
harvested grain in Indiana. Railroads are
kept busy saving their stations, water tanks,
&c.
The grand jury of Shelby county, Tennes-
see, has in two days found 53S indictments
against persons for selling liquor without Ii.
censes.
Jacob Yost, of Manchester township, York
county, Pa, died last week. aged "a years.
He was one of the leading Dunkards of York
county.
The boil worm is causing great damage to
the cotton crop in Texas In ELL county the
crop has already been reduced Is per cent.
by this cause.
Matthew Adams Stickney, well-known
numlsmatist, genealogist and antiquarian,
died on Sunday at Salem, Massachusetts,
aged 80 years.
The Holly River Lumber Company, of Pal
mer, West Virginia, has failed. The liabili-
ties, amounting to 100000, are chiefly to
farmers in that section.
A firm at Sioux City, Iowa, daily slaught-
ers 100 cheap ranch horses, the flesh of
which is converted into dried beef and shipped
to Jersey City, New Jersey.
Kern's brewery, at Port Huron, Michigan,
was destroyed by FIRE Wednesday night. A
man who was helping the iiremen was fatally
injured by falling wall Loss $4,000.
Thomas Holt, sexton of church in Brook
Ign, New York, while temporarily insane. on
Sunday night, SHOT his wife twice. and then
cut her throat. She died soon alterward.
The coal mines of Dombrowa, Russia, are
on fire from an explosion, and several hun
dred miners are in it and no possible chance
of saving them. The fire started on Saturday
last.
Fred. Kane, farmer of near Carondeet,
Illinois, was murdered by his wife and a
hired man, on the 9th instant. They were
arrested and the woman confessed to the
crime.
The strike at the Chicago stock yards was
declared off Thursday, the men agreeing to
return to work at the former wages. Out OF
1000 who asked for work only so were accom-
modated.
The Grand Lodge of the American Protest.
ant Association, comprising representatives
from all lodges throughout the United States.
met last week in annual convention at Wilkes
barre, Pa.
Thursday, August 8, was the hottest of the
season in st. Joseph, Mo-, los degrees. No
rain has fallen for several weeks, and the
corn cropis damaged so badly in many places
that rain would not now save it.
A cyclone swept over the the provinces OF
Madrid and Clndad Real, Spain, on Monday.
Considerable damage was done to the crops,
and over 100 persons are reported 10 be
either killed or injured.
At Pittsburg, Pa, on Monday, 1000 miners
voted to continue the strike at the mines OF
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Com.
pany, which had refused to pay The compro-
mise rate of Go cents per ton.
u. 7. Bosley, an engineer in the power
house Of an electric railway at Terre Haute,
Indiana, on Saturday night leaned against a
machine and was instantly killed by current
of 500 volts passing through his body.
During game Of base ball at Hebron.
Kentucky, on Saturday afternoon, John Tan.
ner, one Of the pitchers, ran to catch ly,
and as the ball settled in his hands he was
struck by lightning and dropped dead.
aJOnu ttOIBdus II COlOEtu ueSpefituO. was
shot and billed by White Caps at Little Africa,
Mason county, West Virginia, on Monday.
Morgan was a member Of gang which has
terrorized farmers in that neighborhood.
The Italian wheat crop of the present year
is much above the average on the other
hand, the corn crop is much below the aver
age. In fact, in Piedmont and Emilia the
corn is practically ruined by the drouth.
The Wichita (Kansas) National Bank, hav-
ing capital of $250,Oo0, closed lis doors on
Monday. No cause is assigned. The ex.
element was intense, and runs began on
other banks, which are believed to be able to
meet ali demands.
Thomas Dickinson, aged y years, pre-
vented d probably fatal railraid collision at
Anderson, Indiana, Sunday night, by closing
an open switch over which fast freight train
would have crashed into a passenger train
! waiting ON side track