The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-12-22
News of the Week.

Isl, uleu recently IN Apld, odlnOa.
About million dollars worth of sweet
corn has been canned in Maine this year.
A block of eight frame houses on Ivy ave-,
Newport News, was destroyed by fire last Sun
day.
The State of Texas has brought suit against
two railroads for money borrowed in 1857
from the State school fund.
Four failures in the shoe trade were anoun-
ced in New York city on Tuesday. The la
bilities of one firm amount to $500, 900.
A despatch from Pine Ridge, South Dako
ia, says there are symptoms of an outbreak
among the Sioux Indians on the reservation
there.
Eugene McIvor of Lynchburg, Va, was
accidentally killed while hunting on Saturday
at Amherst. His gun exploded as he was
climbing fence.
Stephen Wilbes, Treasurer of McCook
county, South Dakota, was arrested on Sat
urday, on the charge of embezzling $4,000 of
the county funds.
An II year-old boy weighing 100 pounds is
put forward by Kabersville, Ga, for the fat
child championship now apparently in COM
petition in the South.
All the prisoners in the Houston, Va, Jail
escaped on Saturday night. Among them
was Boswell Easley, murderer sentenced to
be hanged in January.
Mrs. Maggie Jones, of Seligman, Missouri,
while in fit of dependency on Sunday killed
her two children by cutting their throats and
then committed suicide.
United States Secret Service agents arrested
James Mcguire and his wife, and Henry Oliver
and George Allen, in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
on Saturday, for counterfeiting.
| The home of the Rev. Solomon Beckerman,
in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire early Monday
morning, and his two little daughters, aged
and IL years, were burned to death.
Engineers ofthe West Virginia Central have
completed surveys for an extension of that
road from Beverly to Greenbrier White Sui
phur Springs, distance of 120 miles.
AT Los Angeles California, on Saturday,
Avail johnson pleaded guilty to the Southern
Pacific train robbery at Roscoe Station, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Last week the barn of J. W. Pittman, in
Southampton county, Virginia, was burn
ed, together with 1900 bushels of peanuts, 100
barrels of corn, all the hay, implements, etc.
Superintendent Stump says that from Nov
ember l to December S, 1894, the exodus from
this country of passengers by steerage was
%, 544, and the arrivals during November, by
steerage, were 1856.
The Bethlehem Iron Company on Satur-
day, received contract for the armor for two
new Russian battleships. The amount re-
quired is something over 1000 tons amount
ing to nearly 81, 100000.
Albert Chapman was arrested in New York
on Saturday, Just as he was about to sail for
England, charged with the theft of $1,000
worth of jewelry belonging to Sandow, the
'strong man. in Memphis.
Secretary Morton has determined to dis
tribute his quota of free seeds, amounting to
one-third of the whole, to the farmers in those
Western States which have suffered so sew
erely through the last seasons drought.
The Suburban Underwater Association. in
Guiding practically all of the important fire
| insurance companies in the vicinity of New
York city, has raised the rates of insurance
where gasoline stoves are used 335 per cent.
B. R. Pace, ex-Mayor of Charlottesville.
Va, and president of the Peoples National
Bank, died suddenly Monday. Death is sup
posed to have been due to the bursting of a
blood vessel. Mr.. Pace was so years of age
The American Federation of Labor. at
Denver, ON Tuesday, adopted resolution
refusing to have any dealings with the Knights
of Labor ''as at present constituted. The
general officers of the Knights were roundly
denounced.
In Cincinnati, on Tuesday, Anthony Mar
tina butcher, went to the home of his divorced
wife and shot her in the presence of their
four children. He then fired bullet through
his head, dying almost instantly. The woman
will recover.
A boiler in Russell Bros. box factory at
West Bay City, Michigan, exploded on Tues
day, and John Calcutt, George Plund, Albert
Rain, John B. Raun and Al Haverbeck were
| killed, and three others were injured. One
boy is missing.
According to despatch from Rush City,
| Michigan, severe criticism is made of the re-
port of the State Relief Commission which
was appointed to care for the fire sufferers
High salaries are alleged to have been paid
out of the relief fund.
Clement L. Eaton, real estate dealer. who
lost most of his fortune in the Chicago Beach
Hotel, built for the Worlds Fair and now in
the hands of a receiver, was twice arrested in
| Chicago on Saturday on charge of forgery,
said to aggregate over $4,000.
While being taken to Jail at Newport News.
| Va, on Sunday, John Morgan, colored des-
perado, broke away from Policeman Perry
and knocked him down. The officer shot the
negro through the shoulder and recaptured
him. The latter's wound is not dangerous
An official inquiry of recent diphtheria and
| typhoid epidemics at Wesleyan, Amherst and
Yale Colleges shows that the disease in some
cases was traced to the eating of raw oysters,
and 1.-THE practice of fattening oysters in fresh
water in the vicinity of sewage" is strongly
| condemned.
| A movement is on foot among Western
banks to call convention of bankers doing
business west of the Mississippi, to meet in
Salt Lake City, Utah. The aim will be to
| .e, Al.
and silver questions, with a view TO influencing
the action of Congress.
A boiler connected with an illicit still in
the heart of the city of Quebec blew up on
Monday night. The building was badly dam
aged by the explosion and nine persons were
badly burned. sergeant of the city police
named Redmond owned the outfit, which has
been seized by inland revenue officials.
The United States cruiser Concord arrived
at Wuhu, China, on Sunday. This port is
over 300 miles up the Yang -kiang river,
in the interior of China. As the Concord
draws only fourteen feet, it is likely that she
will 90 as far inland as Kin Kiang which is
455 miles beyond Shanghai and half way to
Han kow.
Samuel c. Seely, the defaulting bookkeeper
of the National Shoe and Leather Bank, was
brought before Judge Benedict, in the United
States District Court in New York, on Mon
day. He pleaded guilty to the charge of max
ing false entries in bank books and abstract
ing funds and was remanded until Monday
for sentence.
John Mcbride, of the Mine Workers of
America, was elected President of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, at Denver on Mon
day, over Samuel Gompers. The latter tele-
graphed congratulations to Mcbride and
pledged him loyal support. indianapolis was
fixed upon as the place for the headquarters
of the Federation.
Mrs Winslow Sherman and her daughter.
Mrs. Clinton Davis, were both murdered in
the town of Bust, New York, on Saturday
afternoon, while Mr.. Sherman was attending
the funeral of Myron C. Sherman and wife
and child, his cousins, who were killed recently
by an Erie Railroad express train. The work
was evidently that of robbers
A despatch from Albuquerque, New Next
co, says that the engineers and fremen of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railway have engaged an
attorney to look after their interests. They
say they have become tired of paying the
grand officers of their organization $4,000 to
$4,000 year, in addition to heavy local
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