The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-03-31
News Paragraphs.
Smallpox has broken out among party
of "a Cinnamon in the Canadian Pacific
bonded warehouse az Vancouver

Smallpox has broken out among party
of a Cinnamon in the Canadian Pacific
bonded warehouse at Vancouver.
Three frrgers in st. Louis succeeded
last Week in swindling dozen different
banks The amount they secured will ag-
gregate $4,000.
A Boston paper says that the dull times
in the paper manufacturing trade have
caused movement for great national
combination or pool of all the mills.
At Ghagrin Falls, Ohio, on Saturday
night, some one poured coal oil on five
horse, owned by w X Henry, and set
fire TO them burning them to death.
The City Recorder of Forth Worth,
Texas, proposes to arrest every member of
the army of the unemployed when it reaches
that city, fine them for vagrancy, and set
them TO repairing streets.
I.awton A. Sherman, aged %, and his
wife. aged 81, at Exeter. r. l., observed
the 18th anniversary of their marriage on
March IT, Last week they buried their
eldest daughter, aged n.
The lands of the Croker estate in
MERGED county, California, including the
great irrigation works of the Croker Hoff-
man Land and Water Company, have been
sold to syndicate for s5,000,00
\ fire of incendiary origin destroyed the
residence of A. X Irving, in San Fran
cisco, on Saturday morning. Mrs. Jennie
Irving Ross and a 5-months-old baby were
sulfoeated, and Mr. Irving's mother was
fatally injured by jumping from window.
j. NJ. Overton, member Of the Nash
vile Coal and Trust Company. has been
convicted in the criminal court for enter
ing into a conspiracy and Il combine to
regulate the price of coal There are in.
dictments pending against every member
of the Trust in Nashville.
August Cronkhite, Treasurer of Warren
county, Illinois, who disappeared January |
u, 1893, leaving shortage in his accounts
of $4,000. was arrested in Los Angeles,
California, on Saturday. He admits his
guilt and says he lost the money in unfor
tunate real estate speculation.
Money Point. suburb of Norfolk, Nir-
sinia. was almost entirely destroyed by
fire ON the night of the 23d instant The |
plant of the Roanoke Lumber Company,
Old Dominion Creosoting Works, the
schooner Elias Moore and about thirty |
dwellings were burned. The loss will |
reach $500, 900
Representative Black, who for four years
held the office of Commissioner of Pensions |
under the former Cleveland administration,
thinks that the high water mark has been
reached in the appropriation for pensions.
The appropriation for the next fiscal year
is in round number Sl4, 100000 less than
for the current year
The striking potters of East Liverpool,
Ohio. have a scheme for rolonizing near I
that city at the junction of the Pan Handle,
Cleveland and Pittsburg and tho Erie and
Pittsburg roads. Part Of the plan is to
build pottery. which would give employ
ment to / 800 men. buy 200 acres of land,
build town and issue bonds for S4l ,OO0,-
900. Congressman johnson and brother
are said to be back of the scheme.
Frederick Bounemant, otherwise WIN.
Frederieks, on the I'D instant entered
branch bank of the San Francisco Savings
Union and presented to VIM. Herrick, the
cashier. note written in red ink demand
Ing money and threatening to blow up the
building. Herrick returned the note,
whereupon Bournemant shot and killed
him. The assassin was captured and iden-
tilted as notorious criminal and outlaw.
The dynamite works of the Acme Pow
der Company, at Blacks Run, IA miles
above Pittsburg, Pa, on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad, blew up March %, killing
three men and two women, and badly
wrecking houses and other buildings in
Acmetonia, directly across the river; at
Hutton. two miles south, at Johnston Sta
ton. Il short distance east, and at other
points. About 10000 pounds Of dynamite
exploded.