The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-03-10
News of the Week.

| Deadwood, South Dakota, had SIPS, 900
/ fire on Monday.
Shreveport, Louisiana, had $125, 200 fire
| on Saturday last
| A party of thirty negroes left Atlanta, Ga,
on Monday night, for Africa.
The Mitchell & Lewis Wagon Works at
! Racine, Wisconsin, have started with 450 men.
Cullman, Alabama. had a $4,000 fire on
| Tuesday. Two men were killed by falling
walls.
by a tornado IN Greeley county. Nebraska. on
Monday.
Charles B. Rouss. of New York city, has
given Winchester, Virginia, 100000 to in
crease its water supply.
A number of Michigan State officials are
to be indicted for frauds in connection with
the vote on the salary amendment last year.
Reports to the Chattanooga Tradesman
show that during the past two weeks ~ mills
aud furnaces in the South resumed operations.
The Jersey Central Railroad car shops at
Elizabethport, New York. are now running
on full time. Five hundred men are employed.
The tannery of Keuney & Murphy and G.
& Z. q. Place, Woburn, Mass, was burned
Tuesday, entailing loss of at least $50,0e0.
James Montg Bailey, the Danbury
News man, a well known humorst and author,
died Sunday at Danbury, Connecticut, aged
SO years.
This time of the year is the summer of
Australia, and the heat has been excessive,
the mercery registering above 100 degrees in
the shade.
Grain men in Topeka estimate that the
Kansas wheat crop this year is likely to reach
100, O0O. 900 bushels, exceeding the phenome-
nal crop of 1892.
Heavy rains fell throughout the west and
northwest ON Sunday and Monday. In some
places the storm was accompanied by severe
lightning and thunder.
The Ellis Park Hotel, a large summer re.
sort on Lake Bomoseen. in Vermont, with its
contents, was totally destroyed by fire Tues-
day. The loss will exceed $4,000.
The plant of the York Daily Publishing
Company, in York, Pa, was destroyed BY
fire on Sunday morning. The loss is placed
at SIS, 900, partly covered by insurance.
All the miners in the Ohio snb- district No
6, over 1000 in number, agreed on Saturday,
TO return to work on Monday pending a set.
Element of the wage uestion by arbitration.
H. NJ. Myers's picture frame and novelty
store and Miss Mary Roses umbrella store,
in Lancaster. Pa, were burned on Tuesday
night. The loss amounted to nearly 5000
Eighteen prominent residents of Mt Pleas.
ant, Mich, have been arrested for an attempt
to destroy an expensive dam built across the
Cold Water river by local lumber company.
A suit for foreclosure for $40, 600 and in.
terest, for the appointment of receiver, and
for the sale Of Amos Whitley & Co. Is big
reaper plant, have been filed in court, at
Springfield, Ohio.
The accidental discovery of half finished
tunnel in the State prison in Columbus, Ohio,
on Sunday, prevented the escape of half
dozen noted convicts, which would have oc-
Cured in few days.
Margaret Maher, the woman who is accused
of killing her 4th husband, Herman Groenke,
in Racine, Wisconsin, on August Goth last, BY
giving him arsenic, was arrested in Brooklyn,
New York, on Saturday.
Harry C. Wiltshaw, of New York, was ar
rested in Buffalo, on Monday, charged with
robbing the United States National Bank Of
New York. He had been employed in the
bank for six years and had taken $50, 900.
Judge Bittinger. of York county, Pa, has
ordered the sale of the Baltimore Il Lehigh
Railway under judgment for S261, S7l.6 SO.
The road is narrow gauge, and runs from
York to the Maryland line, distance Of 40
i miles.
I. NJ. Mank, an undertaken at Carlisle,
| Pa, who had charge of Charles Salyards
body, who was hung last week, charged five
cents to see the body. Salyards requested
the charge to be made so as TO give him a
good coffin.