The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-14
Pennsylvania Items.


Valuable hunting dogs are dying in Chester
county from an unknown distemper.
Nearly every county in the State is infested
with thieves who do not hesitate to kill if
interferred with.
100 years old on Monday. The event was
fttingly celebrated.
Philadelphians have been terribly swindled
conspicuous in charity work.
Further investigation into the affairs of g.
B. Kennedy, the missing Lancaster lawyer,
shows continuation of his rascality.
The plant of the Philadelphia Distiling
Company at Eddngton, Philadelphia. was
destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss SIS, 900.
An examination of the water supply of
Reading shows that the streams are polluted
with the most offensive matter, causing ty
phoid and other fevers.
Emory X Eiehelberger has sold a tract
of between eight and nine acres of land in
Conewago Township, Adams county, to Mr..
Henry l.. Herr, for Sl45 an acre.
At Bethlehem slate quarries, on Monday, a
car of rubbish was overturned and piece of
slate struck S. P. Ryan, the owner, and COM
pleted scalped him. He will die.
John Wanamaker has purchased for $780,
600 the Epiphany Protestant Episcopal pro-
perry. northwest corner of Fifteenth and
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia.
By robbing the mines Of the supporting
columns Of coal, at Scranton, another settling
of the earth has taken place, rnining a new
schoolhouse that cost $4,000, together with
several costly private residences.
At Scranton an English Welsh church was
dedicated on Sunday. Occasional service
will be held in the Welsh language. The
church cost $1,000; there are Us members,
and it was dedicated free of debt.
Henry Winnell, aged forty Eve years, was
found in terrible condition in his home, at
Sharon, on Sunday, robbers having knocked
him senseless, saturated his clothing with oil.
and set it on FIRE. The man was fatally
burned.
By premature explosion of giant powder
and dynamite near the new works Of the
Westinghouse Electric Co., near Braddock,
on Saturday morning, three men were killed
and about l3 injured, two probably fatally.
The men were all Austrian laborers.
Balfour Sons, Of Philadelphia, having
been awarded the contract of supplying all
the paper used by the United States Internal
Revenue Bureau, which calls for 100000
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OF hands and are working both day and night
to fill the order.
A bill in equity has been presented before
Judge MCLEAN by the Gettysburg Battlefield
Memorial Association asking an injunction
to restrain the Gettysburg Electric Railway
Company from appropriating the Round Top
extension of the Gettysburg aud Harrisburg
Railroad to form its continuous route and
complete its circuits. The bill asks the Court
TO enjoin said electric railway company from
crossing with its tracks Hancock avenue, the
property of the association. The argument
will take place on May 9th.
The Kitty Gehr estate contest, which was
in litigation for about Is years, ended al
Reading, on Monday. The attorneys in the
case asked that DEGREES be made awarding
! Sll ,9C3 IS TO the heirs OF Hannah Neisley,
! who died in Lewisburg; Maria Rothermel, de-
{ ceased, Shamokin, and Baltzer Gehr, whose
death occurred in Crawford county The
share of each Of them was S3967.9l, which
will be divided between the heirs, who mum
8 Der in all nearly 800 persons. The case has
been on trial three times in the Berks County
! Court and as often taken to the Supreme
7 Court. Kitty Gehr was a well known old
/ Berks county woman, aid descendant oi
the Gehrs of Revolutionary days. When
| Kitty died her Rerks heirs were about claim.
| ing the property when the others, all aged
! people. who had never been heard Of before,
! claimed the estate as as the next of kin, and,
| after all this protracted litigation, won then
suit, but have died. Balizer Gehr, of Craw-
! ford county, was over 100 years old at the
I time of the suit.
/ A dispatch from York, April I, says:-The
/ Disappearance Of Henry C. Grove, Of York
| has at last become known. On March 81
! Grove, with his wife and two children, attend
ed his fathers funeral, near Littlestown, and
/ left his wife there to assist in the mourning
| family. He returned to York for the purpose
| of resuming work, but instead of so doing, he
mailed letter to Mrs. Grove, in which he
| said he had left York, not to return again
and then he proceeded to carry out his IN
/ tents He went 10 the house OF Mr.. Lease
residing on Howard avenue here, Miss Mamie
/ Horner was awaiting him, and, together, they
left the house, stating that they were going to
| be married, and go to Hanover TO live. The
couple then went to the Northern Central
| depot. and secured tickets for Harrisburg.
| Thence they went to Lebanon. Grove is 8
man of about "a years. and is of handsome
appearance; whilst Mamie is a quiet, unob-
| trnsive girl, of about 25 years. Grove ha.
! been paying attentions to her for about year
under the assumed name of Henry Warner
| Samuel Grove, hearing of the eloPement o.
| his brother, traced him to Lebanon, where
4 he found him in the act Of going to house
/ keeping. His entreaties to have him return
/ had no effect.
/ At Lancaster, on the 9th instant, two officer!
went to the residence of J. Leno Dlfendertei
| for the purpose of arresting his son William
| Is wears of age, who had been prosecuted b,
the father for felonious assault and assault ant
! battery on the boys mother. the accused hay
ing beaten her. Mrs. Diffenderfer appeared
! at an upstairs window and refused to open
| the door. The officers finally forced an en-
1 trance and arrested the boy. His mother
/ then informed the officers that her son haC
! compelled her, through fear, to refuse then
/ admission, having placed revolver to hel
! head and threatened TO blow her brains GU
/ If she opened the door, and she knew he wal
/ bad enough to carry out the threat. Wher
searched, revolver, dirk and blackjack wa
| found on the prisoner. The latter's brother,
! Albert Difenderfer, aged l6years, was arrest
1 ed later in the day to prevent him carrying
| out a threat to kill his father, for whom he
had been searching. Learning that the polict
were looking for him the boy went TO thu
/ PENNSYLVANIA Railroad station in order Il
| leave the city by train, and was there captur
/ ed, In a satchel which he carried was found
a complete kit of burglars tools, and in hl,
| rocket was dirk knife. Both the youthful
prisoners were locked up for an examination
I The police believe they can prove numbel
/ of burglaries on the elder boy, who had bao
reputation.
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