The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-03-24
News of the Week.

Drummers are said to spend S1T5,000,0 900
in railroad travelling in this country every
year.
AT least 20,000,000 OF eggs have been re
ceived in New York city for Easter, and the
price is down to u. cents per dozen.
A blizzard prevailed along the Union
Pacific railroad this week. Snow fell 10 the
depth of four feet, and many cattle persisted.
Joseph T. Magee. lawyer of New Y ork
city, is under arrest for killing his type writer,
Miss Martha j. Fuller, who refused to marry
him.
1t has been discovered that fully organic
Ell band of copnterteiiers have been operat-
ing in the jail at Atlanta, GA, for some time
past.
Z. Z. Picking has been arrested in st.
Louis, charged with the embeZzlement of
SIS. 200 from Browning, King u Co., OF New
York.
Operations were resumed on Monday at the
Pioneer knitting mills and the mill of the Lee
manufacturing company, at Amsterdam, New
York.
Milton l.. Jones, confidential clerk for
Snow. Church & Co., has been arrested in
New York, charged with being 5000 short IN
his accounts.
The Drake bank, of Centreville, Iowa, was
robbed of S3O00 Monday night. The money
was Intended to pay the miners at Cincinnati,
Iowa, and had not been placed in the bank
vault.
Hoadley B. Ives. banker and street rail
road official in New Haven, Connecticut died
on Monday. Ten days previous he became
violently insane, but before his death had ap-
parentIy recovered his mental faculties.
Five thousand rolling mill and factory men
who have been in enforced idleness for several
months in South Chicago. Illinois, have been
given work again within the last two weeks,
and at least 5000 more have gone to work.
The Socialist Labor party of Rhode Island
has placed in the field a full State ticket,
headed by Charles G. Baylor Tor Governor.
The ticket of the Peoples party of the same
State, is headed by Henry A. Burlingame.
Rain in perfect deluge fell all night Sun
day at Memphis, Tenn, accompanied by high
winds and electrical perturbations, which have
interrupted telegraph wires throughout Texas
and Louisiana. No such tempest had &C.
Cured in years.
Floods caused by the recent heavy storms
have washed away two miles OF track and seY
eral bridges on the Northern Pacific Railway
at Mills CITY. Montana. At Holbrook, Ore
gon. great landslide covered the road, and
trestle is being built over it.
An attempt was made by unknowa parties
TO wreck the north bound passenger train on
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railroad,
near Floresville, Texas, on Monday night, by
putting crossties on the track. The engineer
succeeded in stopping the train in time.
While four men we're working at the Barton
gold mine. at Loomis, California, on Sunday
morning, two masked robbers covered them
with revolvers The miners were kept under
guard in the Office while the robbers emptled
the sluice boxes of the amalgam, amounting
TO $1,000.
John Brady, on Sunday. shot and killed his
wife while she knelt at the altar rail IN the
Roman Catholic Church Of the Immaculate
Conception. in Oakland, California. He then
put bullet through his own brain. The
couple had recently been separated and 1t IS
thought Brady was insane.
A wholesale poisoning occurred at Hills
boro, Ind, Sunday night. The family and
help of DR.. Hayes were all taken violently
SICK after eating canned chicken. George
Busby. a colored hired hand, is dead, and
DR.. Hays and his motherin law, Mrs. Rivers,
are not expected to recover.
Eight persons are dead at Lansing Switch,
Texas. as the result of the storm on Saturday
and Sunday. Fifteen others were injured and
much property destroyed. A heavy rain
storm prevailed on Monday over Tennessee.
Northern Louisiana and Texas, Mississippi
and Western Kentucky. Later dispatches
state that l6 persons were killed and over 90
Injured by ,ornadoes near Longview and at
Emery. in Texas, and near Spencer, in the
Indian Territory. The LongPiew storm was
ACCOMPANIED by hailstones, and said to have
weighed from IA TO Is ounces.