The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-07-21
News of the Week.

fire at Fl Paso. Illinois. on Thursday, caused y
loss of s2s00o
The bill admitting Utah as Stale has been sign
ed by the President
Over $1,000 persons visited Atlantic City. New
Jersey. on Sunday last.
Forests in Atlantic. Ocean and Burlington coun-
ties. New Jersey are being devastated by fire.
Peter schwab d Co S brewery. at Hamilton. Ohio.
was damaged by FIRE to the extent of 100000 on
Saturday.
The 500 employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad
shops at Logansport. Indiana. have resumed work
on full time
The work on the Canadian sAult Ste. Marie canal
is practically finished and the canal Is almost ready
for navigation.
The store and contents of j. C. NeGf & Brothers, of
Red Lion York county, was bnrned on Saturday.
Loss 5000; incendiarism.
Two little sons of E. Leidecker were burned to
death on Saturday in FIRE which destroyed % small
buildings on Nouh Beach, California.
Rev. D. c. Mnleu, D. D.. after service of 80 years,
has resigned the Reclorship of Emmanuel Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, Holmesburg. Pa.
New York and New Jersey were visited by terrific
thunder storms Saturday and vast deal Of prop
erty destroyed Severallives lost by lightning.
Ut AuDc W OAAos -hNFNeeS-
port Pennsylvania, decided on Saturday by ma
jorty of 425 not to to work at the old wages
statement issued from the Pension Office shows
that on July there were pending 6ls027 claims, a
decrease for the year OF 90 l2s There SAG $50
claims rejected and "A .45l abandoned
As whole Friday the 18th of July, was the hot
test day known east of the Mississippi River, the
temperature ranging from 30 to n2 in the shade
In many places business was suspended.
Alonzo J. Whiteman. at one time member of the
Minnesota Senate and a wealthy man. is in custody
at Detroit charged with extensive forgeres of which
Chicago national bank is the chief victim.
Daniel Hagsn, aged 10 years. of Brooklyn, n Y,
was struck on the head on Sunday with an iron
pipe, in the hands OF his father. and sustained a
fracture of the skull Theelder Hagan was arrested
There will be no eneampment of the Illinois
National Guard this year The Governor says the
strikes have cost the State large and there is
no money in the treasury to pay for an encamp-
ment
Samuel. aged II years, son of Alderman A. D..
Thompson, of York. Pa. was caught between cars
in the Northern Central yard on Friday of last
week, and injured so badly that he died the same
afternoon.
Martin S. Walker, young attorney of Burlington
Iowa. his father, Silas Walker and his uncle T H.
Walker. farmers, were drowned on Saturday after
noon, while bathing in the Mississippi few miles
above the city.
Minnesota wheat growers are suffering 1t is said,
Cor want of binding twine large shipments ofwhich
have been delayed by reason of the strike. Nows
boycott of the Irvine shipped over the boycotted
roads is threatened.
In the annual report of the work done at the Phil
adelphia postofice during the fiscal year ending
June SOth it is stated that the net revenue ST..
27S. 777.s7. The total number of mail pieces distri-
buted was S49,O6O,s2O.
Irene Bolton was found wandering in dAzed
condition in Jersey City, early Saturday morning.
She was at first committed for drunkenness but it
was found that she had been knocked down and
assaulted by an unknown man.
Owners of meadow land in Salem county, New
Jersey, experiencing considerable trouble from
peculiar worm, known as the army worm. These
worms infest the farms and meadows. and destroy
hundreds of acres of grass The loss will reach up
in the thousands
The steamship Victoria, at Tacoma, Washington
Sunday from Hong Kong, reports that the cholera
Is spreading throughout the Chinese Empire, aud
that the government officials are eoncealing the
number of deaths. In Canton alone Cinnamon say
That 4O,OOO deaths have occurred.
A telegram from Victoria, British Columbia, says
that up to June II the number of deaths from the
black plague in Hong Kong was 1879. Two Ameri-
can ladies who endeavored to relieve those suffer
ing by the plague in Canton were set upon by ma
tives on June 10 and badly treated
Jacob Casio. of Newark Delaware, has presented
old musket to the Historical Society of Delaware
1t was brought from France by Jacob Casho who
came with lafayette as an interpreter 1t was car.
ried in the Revolutionary War and in the War of
1872 was borne By Isaac Casho Jacobs son.
The early tomato and potato crops in Gloucester
county, New Jersey, are reported to be almost an
entire failure and the truckers claim that the yield
will not be sufficient to pay expenses. In many
instances potatoes are only about one-third grown
and the tomato crop is worse than for years past
An attempt was made on Monday TO blow mp the
Lockhart Mines, in Walker county. Alabama, where
negroes had taken the places of the strikers. Two
explosions OF dynamite were fired simultaneously
in different places in the mine aud James Kelley
colored driver. and his mules instantly killed
Four soldiers were killed, two fatally injured
and eight wounded in Chicago on Monday by the
explosion of the ammunition In the eaisson of a
Hotchkiss gun on the Grand Boulevard. The men
all belonged to the Second Regiment u s. Artillery
and Seventh Cavalry. In addition to the troops,
six civilians were injured by flying projectiles.
cloud burst occurred at Lead Hill, Ark. on Fri
day oflast week. Houses, fences and timber were
washed away. The Tautum roller Mill was swept
from its foundation and completely wrecked. The
miller, VIM. Trusty, living in a cottage near the
mill, made his escape, but the house was wrecked,
his wife and four children were carried away and
drowned.
The cruiser Minneapolis made her trial trip on |
Saturday over the Government course, from off |
Cape Porpoise Maine. and covered the round dis
lance of 1894 miles in three hours and forty nine
and at the rate of 2sO5 knots an hour
breaking all records and earning for the Camp Ship
building Company premium Of s4O25OO for excess
above the specified speed of twenty-one knots an |