The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-01-20
News of the Week. .

months.
John B. Moore, one of the editors of the
York pa Daily, committed suicide on Mon
day night.
By the burning of temple in Ming. Ko.
China, 800 women and children were killed
on December 8.
Rev. j. s. Weisz. a well-known Reformed
minister, died in YORK, Pa, in his 7Sd year,
on the l2,h instant.
The unusually cold weather in southern
California has seriously damaged the orange
and lemon crops.
One day last week the largest cargo of
potatoes 81, 036 sacks. ever brought 10 New
/ York, arrived from Dundee. Scotland.
j. NJ Guthrie, owner of extensive saw
mills at Homer City, Penna., has failed, the
| Liabilities being estimated at S200,0 600.
Many negroes of Tennessee and Arkansas
are making arrangements to emigrate to Arr
en-. Many have sold all their goods, etc.
( Sixteen person were killed on Monday by
a railroad wreck in Cuba, the accident having
been caused bya COW obstructing the track.
| VIM. Tinkham's big wooden mill at Harris
onvile, Rhode Island, was destroyed by hire
| late ON Saturday night, loss about S4S9.OOO.
Each year. it is estimated, there is an aver
! age of COCO murders committed in the United
I States, 1870 legal hangings and 200 lynchings.
! A frame house at Des Moines Iowa, oceu-
I pied by Philip S. Hobson, was burned on
I Saturday and Two little girls persisted in the
flames.
! Dr. John A. Thompson, of Wrightsville,
! York county, Pa, died on Sunday from the
1 excessive use Of cigarettes. He was "a years
| Of age.
A man named Lange is under arrest in
! Berlin, Germany. He is AN escaped lunatic
from an asylum in Illinois, and claims TO be
| the Messiah
1 Serious floods in western Oregon and
/ Washington have washed away bridges and
I properly of both the Northern and Union
Pacific Railway.
Three blocks in the business centre OF Fps
wich, Massachusetts. were destroyed by lire
I early Saturday morning. The loss is est
mated at 100000.
Some one cut off half the tongue of one OF
John G. Miler's cows, in East Hopewell
township, York county, Pa, recently. Mr..
Miller was compelled TO kill the animal.
The worst storm that has ragged over Nova
Scotia aud New Brunswick in many years
prevailed there Saturday Deep snow stopp-
ed all travel in the cities and on railroads.
A Chicago despatch says that there are
about 1000 idle men in that city who refuse
absolutely to do any work in return for the
assistance they receive from public charity.
Roscoe Parker colored, aged Ii years, who
WAS in Jail at West Union Ohio charged
with the murder of an aged couple, was taken
from his cell by Il mob and ynched on the
18th instant.
Maggie Lyon, aged 16 years, was blown
from the platform OF Rome, WATERFOWL and
Ogdensburg Railroad train at Oswego, New
York, on Friday night OF last week, and had
her neck broken.
Labor and Socialists riots are almost of
daily occurrence in Leghorn, Italy. Stores
and other business houses are closed for fear
they will be looted. The police and troops
are under arms, and it is daily occurrence
for them to kill several Of the rioters.
Jesse Prewell, a farmer of Winchester.
Ohio. committed suicide on Friday night OF
last week, the result of remorse for having
assisted in the lynching of the young negro,
Parker, at West Union, on Thursday night.
Henry Heist was hung at Gettysburg, Pa,
on Wednesday, for the murder Emanuel
Nom. He said 10 the last he was innocent.
On Friday of last week 952 persons, many of
whom We're attracted by the fire. visited the
Jail.
Mrs. Lydia, widow of George Bear, died at
her home in Glen Rock. Pa, January q, aged
- years She was married to George Bear
September %, 1912. who died August =, 1884.
Two daughters, both married, living at Glen
Rock, survive her.
In the stock raising country between Uvalde
and the Pros river, in Texas, there has been
no rain since last June. The grass on the
range is as dry as finder and many larger
springs that had always been considered never
failing are perfectly dry.
An improvIsed bridge over Newton creek,
Long Island City. n. Y, collapsed on Friday
evening OF last week, preeipitating 80 men
into nine feet Of water. The greater number
were rescued or succeeded in reaching the
shore through their efforts, some in an
injured condition. Five persons were drown
ed.
The steamer City of Picking, at San Fran
cisco on Saturday, reported that the British
bark, Clan Grant, 1858 tons, from Annoy,
bound for New York with l,o00,000 pounds
, of tea valued at 1918, 900, was totally lost in
, the Java Sea. The captain, crew and pas
sengers were rescued and landed in Singa-
pore.
August Sommerfeld, who pleaded guilty,
in Pittsburg, Pa, to voluntary manslaughter,
in causing the death of his l0-year old son.
August, by whipping him until he jumped
from third story window, has been sentenced
by Judge Ewing to pay 500 fine and un-
, aergo one years Imprisonment in the work
, house.
W Il. Bonfield. travelling agent, from
f GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was attacked by two ne
groes at West Grove. Penna.. on Monday
night, beaten, stabbed and robbed aud his
unconscious form left on the Baltimore Cen
trial Railroad track He subsequently re
gained consciousness and got back to his
hotel.
, During a thick fog on the meadows just
r east of Hackensack, New Jersey, on Monday
morning, a South Orange accommodation
train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad ran into and telescoped the two
, rear cars of the Dover express Eleven pas
sengers Of the latter train were killed instant
, ly and about so were injured.
Every DAVIS experience at the South st
Paul stockyards confirms the now well estab
lished truth that hogs fed on the smaller grains
{ are much more valuable TO the packer thar
the corr fed animals, and that even whea
converted into pork will yield the farmer {
much higher price than he gets for it wher
sold by the bushel. At present prices whea
in this form is worth at least dollar bushei
Constables Wittick and Campbell raided {
robbers camp about two miles from New
Holland, York county, Pa, on Friday of last
week The camp was located on creek ant
was uninhabited when the officers arrived
After waiting several hours five thieves re
, returned with lot of plumber and were al
arrested Turkeys. chickens. gum coats
: overcoats, razors. canes, tinware and othel
articles were recovered. The men are all ole
! offenders.
/ Ralph Steele, colored who had lived in one
family for rs years, and had helped nurse
and bury full four generations of that family
: died in Eutaw, Ala. last week. He was borr
! on A. A. SteeIe's place, near Eutaw, ant
+ never left the Steele family. His mother hac
i been brought from Africa but a few months
> before his birth. Not only was he present al
! the birth and burial of every member Of four
generations of the Steeles, but he dug the
graves of every one Of them.
n Business Locals.