The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-28
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aged 20 years.
Congressman ]. B. Brown is seriously
i'll at Seymour, Indiana, from a cameron;
growth ON the lower lip.
H. F. Merrill, city assessor and collector
of III Paso, Texas, is missing and his ae
counts are said to be short S23,00O.
Forest fires last week destroyed Over
100000 worth of timber land in New
Jersey, also several farm houses and barns
Frank Pellicer, cattle man of Cowper
Branch, Florida, has calf with two bodies
two heads, four front feet and three hind
feet.
Van NJ. Kiers house at Summerville
Missouri, was wrecked by tornado on the
18th, and Mrs. Kiel and three children
were killed
Doc. Bishop and Frank Latham were
lynched on Thursday by the settlers living
near Watonga, Oklahoma Territory, for
horse stealing.
A storm, which began on Monday Of
last week in North Dakota, continued the
entire week; on Saturday it assumed the
proportions of blizzard.
David Richie, member of Troy, N.
Y, coal firm, was shot by two robbers who
entered his Office on Thursday afternoon.
He died Sunday morning.
Madame .Joniaux, member of one of
the most prominent families in Antwerp,
has been arrested, charged with being con-
nected with mysterious poisoning cases.
A railroad line 125 miles in length, be-
tween Benton, Arkansas, and Wister juno
ton, Indian Territory, has been contracted
for. The line will pass through Hot
Springs.
Christopher Columbus, the Esquimo
baby born at the Chicago Worlds Fair,
died at the San Francisco midwinter fair
last week. The climate was too enervating
for him.
An order has been received in Chicago
from the English War Department for a
sample consignment Of 800 tons of COM
pressed fodder for horses, a combination Of
crushed oats, corn and chaffed hay.
Vice President Harris, of the Northern
Pacific Railway, was taken suddenly i'll
while on his way east from Tacoma, on
Saturday, and was taken from the train at
Rochester, New York, where he died in a
hospital.
w. H. Thomas 4 Son, whisky dealers
and distillers in Louisville, Kentucky, have
made an assignment The liabilities are
between 100000 and 100000, all of
which is secured by pledges Of whisky or
stock. Assets not stated.
A swarm of bees attacked a funeral train
at Roukoukoma, n. Y, one day last week,
and temporarily routed the mourners. Be
fore the funeral party succeeded in getting
to a place Of safety with the body, the
pall-bearers, sexton and many of the people
were severely stung.
Evira and Elmira Fife, maiden twin
sisters are living at Peterborough, N. H.,
at the age of So years, and claim to be the
oldest twins on earth. 1t is related OF
them that, although living in the same
house and eating from the same table, each
has always cooked her own meal.
The United Electric Railroad franchises
in Nashville, Tenn, have been sold under
decree of the United States Circuit Court
to a representative of the bond holders for
S13S 500. The sale is subject TO 81 ,5l6,-
900 underlying bonds. The company op-
crates 46 miles of railroad in Nashville.
Every tramp arriving at Elkhart, Indi-
ana, is first vaccinated, after which he is
given lunch, neatly wrapped in paper, by
a hotel in that city, which charges the city
fifteen cents for every lunch prepared. A
policeman then escorts the tramp to the
corporation line, and he is hidden to move
on.
To the New York exhibitors in the II
main departments at the Worlds Fair were
given 1869 awards, or about one-twelth of
the entire number granted to exhibitors,
and as many as were taken by the German
Empire. OF these over 1900 were in the
departments of agriculture, liberal arts and
manufacturers.
A large irrigation enterprise is about to
be undertaken in Mexico. A contract has
been signed for works consisting of dam
six miles above the junction Of the San
Juan and Rio Grande rivers, and some 100
miles of canal and laterals, which will,
when completed, permit the irrigation of
100000 acres of good cotton land.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain and
Frederick T. Hall, composing the firm of
Charles i. Webster & Co., book publishers,
in New York, have made an assignment.
Their certain resources in the business
amount to 100000 to 100000 above
any debts. Mr. Clemens is worth from
100000 to 100000 outside of his in-
vestment in. the firm.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Lines
steamer Los Angeles was wrecked during
heavy fog on Saturday night, at Point
Sur, 40 miles south of Monterey. Two
boats containing 20 passengers and the
crew, reached shore safely. Another boat,
containing six of the passengers and Cap
tain Leland was swamped and their bodies
have come ashore.
A convict in the penitentiary at Raleigh
appealed to the superintendent to let him
90 and look for the last time in the face of
Senator Vance, whose dead body was then
lying in the State House He urged as a
reason for his request that the Senator had
once saved his life. The convict betrayed
so much emotion and earnestness that the
superintendent granted the request.
Dispatches from Russia state that the
Government is expected to dismiss 100000
soldiers from the ranks during the coming
summer, with view to facilitating the
gathering of the harvest. The Govern
ment is also expected to make reduction
in the military budget, and, with view to
this end, very few maneuvres will be held,
and the CONSUMPTION will be limited.
The first South and West Grain and
Trade Congress, at Wichita, Kansas, closed
last week. The resolutions adopted urge
Congress to establish fast mail service be-
tween the West and Gulf points and thence
to the West Indies and South America, so
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