The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-16
News of the Week.

Recent rains have caused disastrous floods in
parts of Kansas
The dlstillery of Levi NJ. Lauek, in York county,
/ Pa. was burned on Thursday of last week; loss
5000.
Panama had S19OO.OsO fire on Wednesday
Much valuable merchandise, warehouses, &C., were
| burned.
By the explosion of gasoline stoves. four persons
| were burned to death in Philadelphia. Pa. on
| Tuesday.
By the upsetting of boat on Thursday, so Irish
harvesters who on their way TO Scotland were
| drowned.
At Hamburg, Germany, on Monday. three counter
feiers arrested with $4,000 in IS notes in their
| possession.
Rev. DIR. John Edgar President of Wilson Female
College at Chambersburg. Pa, died suddenly on
Tuesday, aged So years.
Cholera is increasing in Germany, and the hos
pitfalls filed. The river Thorn is infected and
bathing in it has been prohibited,
The Bubonic plague has broken out in China, and
over 1900 persons have died from it in Hong Kong
The death rate now is about 100 daily.
Monday last was the hottest 18th of June known
to the weather bureau. Reports from every station
| gave the temperature at from g. to92.
| Mrs Frances Falkenberg died in New York city,
on Monday, aged 1O2 years, 9 months and IA days.
She was a native of Frankfort. Germany.
fire in the lumber district of Dubuque, Iowa, on
Saturday night destroyed % 100000 feet of lumber
and mill property, the loss being 100000
| A Wabash freight train was blown from the track
! near West Grove. Iowa. on Saturday. by storm
which reached the proportions of a tornado
Frank C. Musser, of Lancaster Pa, sued the street
railway to recover $4,000 for the loss of arm.
l iurv ad tha Gas will he nnaap1
The Ellis and Lessig Nail Works at Pottstown, Pa.
were burned Sunday, with the exception of the
pudding mill and stcckhouses. Loss about $780,
| 600.
Mile Beatrice, a lion tanner was badly bitten by a
| lion during performance at West Brighton. Long
Island. Sunday night and narrowly escaped with
her life.
Lawrence spiller. colored. was hanged at staunon.
Virginia. on Friday of last week. for outraging and
numbering Lottie Rowe, on April 2s. He made a
| full confession.
| Muley Hassan the Sultan of Morocco. died on
June Z, aged IS years. He died suddenly and some
think he was poisoned. His eldest son was pro-
claimed Sultan.
Mrs. Lois Triton. who died In New Haven, Conn.,.
on Monday night aged IS years, was said to have
been the last slave sold on the New Haven green.
| That was in 1924.
/ At Ocean Grove, Rev Jersey the Methodist Epsco-
i pal Church has erected an auditorium that will
seat $500 people. Services will begin in il July
and close on August 80.
Amos and Mildred Larkins. aged Is and II years
respectively. and Bessie Ainsworth, aged II. were
drowned by the eapsizng of boat in Lake Erie, at
Vermillion Ohio, on Sunday.
The large agricultural warehouse of Buford 4
George. and that of the Keystone Implement Com
pany, in Kansas City, Missouri were destroyed by
fire Monday night; loss, $4,000.
prehistoric tomb has been uncovered at Egan.
SD. It is lined with cement and contains % male
skeletons measuring feet in height. A rude altar
and many bronze utensils were found
For three successive Mondays Norristown Pa
has been visited by destructive storms. The one
last Monday being accompanied by hail which de-
stroyed a great many window lights. &c.
Walter jackson, aged 1e years. art list of Phila-
delphia, Pa. has been arrested on the charge Of
altering 50 silvef notes to $40 ones The work was
so skillfully done that it was difficult to detect
them.
Up Futrell, of Scotland Neck, North Carolina
from three acres realized IA barrels of Irish pota-
toes, which melted him 1859 above all expenses He
also shared 10 sheep from which he clipped 90
pounds of WOOL
Christian Miller, an old German, of Defiance
/ OnlO. on "wednesday OF lhSt week attempted W
murder his wife with an axe. Tuesday Miller's
body was found in the river. number of iron
weights being tied around his waist.
Reports from several portions of Nebraska indi.
cate that general rains fell throughout the State
Monday night and extinguished numerous prairie
fires that were otherwise beyond control and
threatened vast areas OF timber and hay.
heavy thunder storm broke upon a funeral
group at Longwood Cemetery, near Kennett Square
Pa. Monday afternoon, and bolt of lightning
struck two trees near where they were standing
Several horses fell stunned and a number of tn
mourners were more or less affected.
At Spartanburg. South Carolina. on Saturday
while Mrs. Plumly. 80 years old, sitting in hel
room knitting. tired the contents OF a shot
gun into her abdomen. man then entered and
carried off trunk containing 5000 Ben Barrel has
been arrested and it is thought he will be lynched.
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