The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-03
Next Tuesday is Election day.
Polls open at 8 in the morning
and close at 6 in the evening.
News of the week.


Pensacola. Florida, had 100000 fire on
Saturday.
Several cases of smallpox have been dis.
covered in Washington, d. c.
The Postoffice Department has declared to
be fraudulent Sc companies engagedin selling
prepared medicines at South Bend, Indiana.
Alexander III, Gar of Russia. died at Lii
vadia Thursday afternoon. The news of his
demise created a profound impression through
out Europe
Rev. Alexander Heberton, the oldest Pres
! byteran minister in Philadelphia, Pa, dind
! October %. He was born in 1903, and was
ordained to the ministry in 1927.
Nathan Shedd, 81 years old, has been ar.
rested in St. Louis for an attempted criminal
assault ON Il child 4 years old. He confessed
committing the same crime on five other chill
dren.
Snow fell on Sunday at Hay Springs, Ne
braslla, for eight hours. At Gold Park, Col
! orado, snow fell to depth of - feet. At
Vermilion, South Dakota, there was regu-
lar blizzard.
| William Milford, colored, farmer of Milan,
! Alabama. was arrested on Sunday charged
! with numbering his father. He confessed the
4 crime, but swallowed poison Immediately and
died soon afterward
Mrs. Bridget Boerly dieda Harper's Ferry,
/ West Virginia, last week. aged IS years Her
| husband was shot and killed by the John
Brown raiders when they entered Harper's
Ferry, October IL, 1859.
A large brick hotel in Rochester, Iowa, oe-
cupied by Bradley Bernhart, was completely
wrecked by dynamite early Saturday morning
! The persons committing the outrage and the
reasons for it are unknown.
! Twenty-four deaths from diphtheria and
1 l16new cases of the same disease were re-
ported in Boston last week, and the city hos.
! pital can take no diphtheria patients. Forty
4 three eases Of scarlet fever were also reported.
One day last week while John Sprouts, a
farmer in Gruudy county, Missouri, was ehas-
Using his i7-year-old son he was attacked by
his daughter and kicked so violently that he
had three ribs broken. The girl shot and
killed herself
Isaac Van Metre. of Hardy county, West
Virginia, sold last week, for shipment to au
Eastern market, rs head of cattle which aver
aged ! ,467 pounds. Thirly-fve of them aver
aged over 1000 pounds and several of them
weighed | 700 pounds
Charles Moran. Young white man, was
taken TO Lexington Friday night of last week,
from Georgetown, Ky. to prevent his being
lynched. He attempted an assault upon a
young woman of that place, who was going
home in buggy alone.
The Farmers National Bank of Malvern,
Iowa, was wrecked and looted. ly robbers on
Friday of last week. The vault and safes in
side the vault were blown TO pieces. the con-
eussion completely wrecking the inside tx
lures of the building. Twenty thousand dol
lars were taken.
j. Allen Francis, teller of the City Bank Of
Hartford. Conn, has been arrested and has
confessed that he is deiaulter to the extent
of about $4,000. He is bachelor, 81 years
old, and in his forty years connection with
the bank had never taken vacation He
said he used the money to help friends.
A Hungarian boarding house for railroad
laborers ON the WilkesbaTe, { Pa) Mountain
was blown up by dynamite early Sunday morn
ing by unknown persons. Sixty persons were
asleep in the building. Three were killed and
many injured, several fatally. The theory is
that robbery was the motive of the murderers.
Six tons of dynamite exploded in a maya
zine at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Sunday
morning Considerable damage was done to
adjacent property, and there was panic in
the churches of Bloomer, 20 miles distant
Paul Brohr. who was near the magazine just
before the explosion, is believed to have been
blown 10 fragments
The West Street Hotel, large two-story
structure Of corrugated iron, in Seattle, Wash
ington. was burned on Saturday morning and
Is persons perished A number of the guests
jumped from the windows but the flames
spread with such rapdity that the escape OF
the others was cut off. The FIRE was started
by the explosion of lamp.