The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-02


Colorado is flooded by the recent rains,
and the loss in Pueblo alone is over 5000, 900.
About Is lives have been lost.
Robert Smith, of York, Pa, is in Jail
charged with attempting to murder George
llgenfritz by beating him insensible and then
throwing him into the creek.
The steamer Craggs, 80 days from Bergen,
Norway, arrived at Milwaukee,, Wisconsin,
on Saturday night, with cargo Of herring
The Craggs is the first vessel of the Euro
pean merchant marine to visit Milwaukee.
Coroner Pfaltzgraff, of York county, Pa,
is investigating the death of Mrs. Garret, OF
Conewago township. Mrs. Garret was i'll
about twenty four hours. She was the mother
of the two children who we're poisoned re.
Gently.
A telegram from Palatka, Florida, says
that l. T. Burgis, negro preacher, charged
with slandering white girl, and with being
concerned in a conspiracy to assault a num-
Der of white women, has been lynched at
Newburg.
General" Mosher's Buckeye Battalion
Of the Industrial army disbanded at Zanes-
vile, Ohio, Monday evening, the lf.starved
tramps leaving on freight trains for the East
by twos and threes, Washington being their
objective point.
Owing to the miners strike in Pennsylva-
MIA, Ohio and elsewhere the railroads are
compelled to use old ties, wood, or anything
else they can procure. Many industries have
closed and it is becoming a serious matter
with mechanics and laborers.
The New York and Pittsburg express on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into a
landslide, early Sunday morning, near Rock.
wood, Penna., and was badly wrecked. The
engineer and fireman were killed and the ex-
press messenger was injured. The passen-
gers escaped.
A riot occurred at St. Casimir's Polish Ro-
man Catholic Church, at Freeland, near Ha-
zleton, Pa, on Sunday between rival factions
in the congregation. Six persons are known
to have been injured, two probably fatally.
A dozen others, who were injured, fed to
escape arrest.
A severe hail storm occurred in Buchel, in
Western Texas, on Sunday. The ground
was covered to a depth of six inches with
hail stones. some of which were as large as
oranges. Crops were totally destroyed, and
many sheep and poultry were killed outright.
The roofs of buildings were riddled.
In Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday,
two negro men fought about a woman. After
in. Upon examination by surgeon one
negro was found to have three bullet wounds,
and the other had his upper lip bitten off and
several razor slashes on his body. Both will
die.
On Monday twenty-five men made an appeal
to the engineer in charge of the big dam on
Tonawanda creek, New York, to let the water
out in order to prevent damage to their crops.
The engineer refused and the farmers pro-
cured fifty pounds of dynamite and blew out
the breast, letting the water out. A suit will
follow.
A landslide damed the river Jetinga,
India, in January, forming breast 900 feet
high. The recent rains and melting SHOWS
caused the breast to give away, flooding the
country for hundreds Of miles and drowning
over 200 people. The people had been
warned but paid no attention to it, thinking
there would be no disastrous result.
Upon the sentence Of the three Anarchists
at Palmero. Italy on Wednesday, consterna-
ton seized their brethren and the news was
forwarded by telegraph to the several organ
izations. In Rome, the same night, three
bombs were exploded in the centre of the
city and the buildings were shaken as ii by
an earthquake. and hundreds of windows
were broken and all the lights were extin-
guished.