The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-03-31
Pennsylvania Items.

rested in Chester county.
Mrs Jane Marchment, aged 81 years, died
/ in Philadelphia, last week.
Gettysburg has organized a Driving Park
/ Association and have half. mile track.
! Burglars are at work iu nearly every county
in the State, especially in the mining regions.
The keystone cotton and wooden mill, in
Philadelphia, employing over 200 hands, was
partially destroyed by fire, on Saturday loss
$4,000.
A Scranton banking firm has skipped with
with $1,000 belonging to miners which had
been placed in their hands TO forward to
Europe.
In Berk's county the Moselem Lutheran
Church, which was built in l760, is being torn
down and relic hunters are taking away many
mementoes.
Rev. John Patton, d. D., retired Pres
byterian minister of Philadelphia, died Sun
day evening in his seth year. He was or
dained in 1882.
In Reading it has been found that justices
ofthe peace aud constables have defrauded the
city out of over $40, The defendants will
be given an opportunity to earn AN honest liv
ing in the penitentiary.
On Monday night, at Piltsburg, Joseph
Urably became enraged at meeting his wife,
from whom he had been separated for some
time, knocked her down and cut and slashed
her with large knife. She will die.
Mrs Margaret Eicholtz, aged "a years,
died suddenly in Gettysburg, on Monday !;
Hon. c. NJ. Duncan, prominent member
of the Chambersburg bar. died last week
from: the grip, and d. E. Hartzell of near
Chanlbersbnrg, died on Friday of last week.
Messrs. w. G. Hays " Son, bankers, of
New York, purchased the $4,000 of the new
municipal improvement bonds of Waynes-
boro', for 4! per cent and a premium of ] J
per cent, and 81 900 of the old issue of bonds
below par.
Charles Rawn, aged Is years, has confessed
that he set fire to several residences and
stores in Lancaster, during past few months,
and also attempted to blow up some ware
houses and stores with dynamite bombs. His
mind has been affected by reading anarchlstic
publications.
The banking and brokerage firm of Henry
s. Louchheim Co. of Philadelphia, have
made an assignment for the benefit OF credit
ors to Gen. LOuis Wagner. who will close the
business. The assets are estimated al $780,
600 and the liabilities at between S3GO,OOO
and S370,00O
Burglars entered the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, Sun
day night, and with powder forced the outer
door of safe in the vestry room. but were
unable to open the inner doors. They were
frightened off by the noise of the explosion,
which shattered the glass in several windows.
James Gallagher, Providence miner, fell
down the shaft of the Leggett's Creek mine.
on Tuesday, distance OF $50 feet, and
strange to say. still lives. The most remark
/ ,,,,s H. hon
ever, is that, instead of being crushed into
an unacceptable mass, as one would sup
pose would have been the case, not single
bone was broken, although he was seriously
bruised sustaining a severe scalp wound
from coming into contact with the side ofthe
shaft, together with other injuries.
The firms of Wood. Brown 4 Co., whole
sale dry goods merchants. and Haines d Co.,
retail dealers of Philadelphia, have sold their
assets to Messrs. Gimbe Brothers. AS it
will, however, be some time before all the
moneys due them can be collected, and their
obligations will mature sooner, they have
made assignments for the benefit Of their
creditors 10 HenryS. Grove for Wood, Brown
& Co.. and to Effingham b. Morris for Haines
Il Co.. to prevent any preference in the order
of payment to their creditors.
A despatch from Gettysburg. Wednesday,
says that Judge MCLEAN had discharged from
prison. under writ Of habeas corpus, Amos
Carbaugh and Philip Wagaman, who were
charged with having killed Jacob W. Waga-
man, in the South Mountains, last June.
They we're arrested on the testimony of Alfred
Wagaman, who is now in jail as an accessory.
Alfred swore 10 the Court that his original
story that Carbaugh had choked Wagaman TO
death while Philip looked on was true. This
ba, mi mr. tho ctnnn and confessed
that he had perjured himself, and that he had
been induced 10 do ii by some of his neighbors.
Dietrich Kyle and wife. an aged couple liv-
ing near Dallastown. York county, met with
a terrible fate on Monday night. Mrs. Kyle
awoke during the late hours of The night, and
saw flames breaking through their little log
hut. She awakened her aged husband, but
he was too feeble to extinguish them, or even
10 crawl from the building. The old lady
managed TO go 10 a neighbor S, about one
quarter of mile away, and gave the alarm.
The neighbors went to the scene, but when
they arrived all they could find was Kyle S
CHASTITY. looking face, which had been buried
in the pillow. The rest of his body was
burned into crisp.
At Scranton, on Tuesday an unusual SEN
sation was created in the court room. 1t
arose in the case of John Jennings against
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, grow
ing out of the Mud Run horror when over
90 were killed. This case had already been
productive of two big sensations, the late
Judge Connolly having been accused OF col
fusion with the company by counsel for Jen.
ninss. and n United States deputy marshal
having been prosecuted for fixing a jury in a
former trial of this case. Cornelius Smith,
counsel for Jennings, asked Judge Archibald
10 prevent acting Prothonotary kasson from
drawing the jury in the case. He charged
that Kasson was unfit for the position, for he
had fixed the juries in former trials Of this
case. was friendly to the company. and had
been instructed TO call only those jurors into
the box who were known to be friendly to
the company Mr.. Smith charged further
that there has not been an honest jury drawn