The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-08
News of the week.
!. Del. had a $4,000 fire on saturday.


seaford, Del. had $4,000 fire on Saturday.
CLANCY Matthews. a negro, 40 years old. died on
Friday at Little Rock. Arkansas.
| On Saturday seii buildings at Jersey City. New
Jersey, were buried. Loss $4,000
Gen. Nathaniel P Banks died on Saturday at
walthaIn. Massachusetts. aged 7syears.
A tornado at Louisville. Kentucky, on Sunday
damaged property 10 the extent Of $4,000.
An English syndicate has purchased the "a paper
and pulp mills of Wisconsin for Sl40O0I0O0.
Not for five weeks past has any rain fallen in JEFF
ferson county West Virginia, and corn and pasture
are burning up.
Sir Adam Ellis, Chief Justice of Jamaica. was
burned to death on August l6. His clothing caughi
fire accidentally.
o. G. Klock, farmer of Vernon Texas, on Fri
day oflast week. shot and killed his wife and then
committed suicide.
George Geyer, aged So aud wife, aged 81 on Sun
day celebrated the 6srd anniversary of their mar
riage at Lancaster, Pa.
Farm and dairy interests in Western New York
and portions of Ontario suffering terribly from
the prolonged drought
A coIored man of Anderson, Indiana, is bringing
suit for against the city of Cincinnati TO
recover land owned by his father.
Three young men were arrested al Seneca Falls,
N. v. on suspicion of having caused fires, the losses
from which aggregate over $4,000.
James Cain, Jr., at Lochland. Ohio. on Saturday
night shot and fatally wounded his wife and little
girl, and shattered his fathers arm.
Four masked men raided the Bank of Tescott. "A
miles north of salina Kansas. on Saturday. forced
the cashier to give up $1,000, wounded lad and
fed.
rear end collision between two excursion trains
at Camden. New Jersey, at Sunday, caused the
death of two persons and the injuring of several
others
Arthur C. Conway. banker and promoter of yari-
Gus enterprises. is reported TO have disappeared
from Chicago. leaving debts amounting to about
$4,000.
AT Pixies Peak, Colorado, snow fell on Sunday
last so rapidly that observations and fash messages
could not be taken or sent. ON Tuesday messages
were flashed &c miles.
The Susquehanna river at Columbia, Pa. is lower
now than since 1880. At cambridge is rock with
that date cut on It, and since that year until now it
has never appeared above water.
The general election in Kansas. Monday. was
the first at which the new poll tax qualification
law was tested, "and, in consequence the negro is
practically eliminated from the contest
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor. died
on Saturday at Des Moines, aged 81 years. He was
twice a member of the United States Senate and
was Secretary of the Interior in President Garfelds
Cabinet.
Low water in the Harrington river in Connecticut
has greatly inerfered with industrial operations at
Pine Meadow, Collinsville. Roverton, Windsor and
Poquonock, some of lhe mills being forced to run
on half time.
Mrs Johanna Hoffman. Sc years DID, was muir
dered early on Saturday morning in New York city
by a laborer named Carl Fergenbahn. who had
boarded with her for three days. The motive for
the crime is not known.
Smoke from the forest fires has settled over Seat
tie, Washington like pail 1t is impossible to see
clearly more than block. Navigation in the Sound
is dangerous and steamers have to feel their way.
blowing whistles continually to avoid collisions
Walter Miller and Samuel Singleton. colored
crooks are under arrest at Alliance. Ohio, for rob-
bling penny-in-the-slot weighing machine, secur-
ing a few dollars. They boosted that they had
robbed nearly all of this class of machines between
Pittsburg and Chicago.
Edward Mahahney, in Newark, n. j., early Sun
day morning aroused himself from drunken stu
por, and because his wife was unwilling to return
to him the pittance he had given her for the sup
port of the family kicked her to DEATH She was in
a delicate condition, and had five young children.
Mrs William McHenry and a little child were
struck and instantly killed by Chicago. Burling-
ton and Quincy train on treste near Lyons, Iowa.
Monday, Before she was struck by the locomotive
Mrs. McHenry succeeded in throwing two other
children off the trestle They were but slightly In
jured.
With the exception of an occasional shower, no
rain has fallen at Kingston, New York, and vicinity
since May. The town only has two or three days
supply of water. Similar reports come from other
points in that State. In Schuyler county scourge
of graSshoppers added to the damage caused by the
drought.
News has reached Ottawa of the safe arrival at
Ciaspe. Quebec of A. P. Low and party after one of
the most extensive explorations ever made on be-
half ofthe Dominion Government INFLOW and par
ty have been nearly year and a-half travelling
through hitherto unknown territory in Central
Labrador
Baltimore and Philadelphia capitalists were re-
Gently negotiating with Ephraim Harbaugh, for the
purchase of Mary's Rock, eight miles west of Get
tysburg, Pa, on the Western Maryland Railroad.
The rock has an elevation of LASS feet and is
rounded by park 1t is proposed TO make resort
of the place.