The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-18

A receiver has been appointed for the
Staten Island Dye Works; liabilities about
100000.
Mrs. Arthur Bryant, widow of the eminent
horticultural and author, and sister. in. law of
William Cullen Bryant, died on Monday, ut
Princeton, Illinois.
While B. Sanders was squirrel hunting
near Indian Bay, Arkansas, several days ago,
he found pot containing upwards Of SIC, 600
in gold and silver American coins. The pot
had been unearthed by the roots of tree
which was blown down during recent storm.
Two negroes who were charged with assault.
ing Miss Potts in Lafayette county, Florida,
several days ago, were caught on Monday.
They confessed their guilt and were taken to
the scene of their crime and lynched. 1t is
believed that Miss Potts is hopelessly insane.
Jerry Murphy, a Populist, who was deposei
as city jailer of Leavenworth, Kansas, by the
Police Board, ON Saturday, went to the jail
on Monday morning, and, finding his successor
asleep, liberated all the prisoners, some Of
whom quickly surrendered to the police
Murphy was locked up in the Jail.
Frank B. Stubley, we'll known school
teacher in Lancaster, Pa, was shot and ia
tally fatally injured on Sunday by George
was drunk and imagined that Stubley was
too intimate with his wife.
The French Baptist missionaries who were
mobbed in Quebec, Canada, on the 4th in
slant resumed their meetings on Sunday uu-
der protection of strong force of police.
The attack on the missionaries was denounced
from many Roman Catholic pulpits.
The heaviest hail storm in its history pre-
ad do ~
afternoon of last week. Hail stones fell,
that, varied from three. quarters of an inch to
an inch and one quarter in diameter. Great
loss resulted from the breaking of glass and
the destruction of gardens
DIR. Albert B. Miles, the distinguished New
Orleans surgeon, who died last week, left
an estate valued at about $3.50, 200, amassed
during practice of about twenty years. Of
this he has willed $40, 900 each to the Charity
Hospital, the Hotel Dieu and the medical
department of Tulane University.
1t is announced from Chicago that Mr..
Pullman has evicted the striking tenants of
the company from their homes this week. If
this course is carried out not less than 5000
men, women and children will be turned out
into the streets. As many of these people
are said to be on the point of starvation, great
suffering will be the result. Nearly 1000 new
men were employed at the shops on Satur-
day, and $50 more engaged to go to work.
On Thursday night of last week, IL persons
were burned to death and severely injured
by train on ts.a Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railroad running off high trestle
near Lincoln, Nebraska, and the cars and
bridge taking fire from the overturned en-
CINE. The spreading of the rails and the
finding of tools near the place are regarded
as evidence that the disaster was caused by
wreckers. George Davis, negro, has been
arrested charged with wrecking the train.
In Philadelphia, Pa, about O'Clock Mon
day afternoon darkness overspread the city
and continued nearly an hour. Weather Blu
reau officials accounted for the phenomenon,
resembling in many ways an eclipse of the
sun, with the theory that the air had been
filed with moisture which collected the
smoke that on a dry and bright day would be
dispelled by the wind, and the clouds, be-
coming lower and more dense, compressed
the smoke and moisture into small compass,
giving the atmosphere the peculiar darkness.