The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-07
News of the Week.

! Winchester, Virginia, had ST., 900 fire on
Sunday.
| Rev Peter j. O'Callaghan, on Sunday,
! preached at Harvard, the first sermon deiv-
cred there by Catholic.
/ OF the eight men injured in the bridge dis
aster at Radiord, Virginia, on Friday, OF last
week, six have died and the others are not
| likely to recover.
| The Governor of Georgia has appointed
Patrick Walsh, editor of the Augusta Chroni
| Gle. TO he United States Senator, to fill the
unexpired term of The late Senator Colquitt.
Judge Jordan, of Wheeling, sentenced Ben.
iauin Earnshaw, Democratic politician, and
! the boss of Wetzel county, w. Va. to eight
wears in the penitentiary for forging county
orders.
Philip Misenze, the defaulting ex city treas
| urer convicted of embezzling S6O,O0O public
money in New Whatrow, WASH. has been
sentenced to four years imprisonment at hard
! labor.
The strike of the 10000 coke workers and
miners of the Gonnelsville region ordered at
1 Uniontown, Penna., last week by the execu-
tive committee of the United Mine Workers.
went into effect on Monday.
4 IA despatch from Wallace, Idaho, on March
! 30. says that four great snow slides III Canon
| Creek have covered up and swept away
number of cabins and at least FIVE persons
| have been killed. Above Gem there were
three other slides, one of them covering both
railroads TO depth of considerably over 100
feet. These slides are damming Canon creek
and fears are entertained of a flood.
| The eighty first anniversary of the birth of
| Bismarck was celebrated in all parts of Ger
many. ON Sunday. The Emperor sent his
! congratulations, and an address signed by one
hundred thousand women, and accompanied
by four hundred bottles of wine, was presented
! TO the old Prince, the address bearing the in
scription. $50 the Founder of German Unity.
| A despatch from Alice, Texas, says that
terrible restitution is reported by the commit
tee which was sent 10 investigate IN the lower
| Rio Grande country. Thousands are on the
verge of starvation and immediate assistance
is needed At Pasano, 541 families are being
fed; at Federales, 1876; at Convention, l4O;
at Longalzana, Is, and at Pailto Blanco, 81.
In the Baltimore Conference of the NJ. E.
Church. South, at Fredericksburg. Va, Sat
urday, the fourth committee appointed to IN
yestigate charges against Rev. WV. Wheeler
reported that they could find nothing against
his character. Although acquitted of all &C
cusations, Mr.. Wheeler Immediately an.
nounced his withdrawal from the ministry and
from the Methodist Church.
The schooner Laurier. from Boston for ST.
Johns. with general cargo, went ashore on
Saturday morning. at Chance Cove Head,
Newfoundland The crew of seven men
dashed themselves to the rigging at daylight,
and were exposed to the fury of the sea and
severe frost for four hours and nearly persisted.
During the morning the sea abated somewhat,
and the men launched a boat and succeeded
in reaching shore.
At Peoria, Illinois, on March 80, while
workmen were engaged in making some re-
pairs on standpipe, the structure gave a
iurch, broke squarely off at the base, and fell
to the ground 1t was 100 feet high and 20
feet in diameter. and contained million gal
loas of water Frank Hogan, a lad of fifteen
wears. was instantly killed, and IA persons
were injured, two fatally. Surrounding prop
erty was badly damaged by water
Charles e. Bartholomew, a publisher Of
New York, was arrested on Saturday, charged
with being a party to a fraud practiced upon
the American Exchange National Bank, by
which $4,000 or $4,000 was realized. A
bookkeeper in the bank, claimed to be Bar
tholomew's accomplice, is fugitive from jns-
tiee. tits charged that fraudulent entries on
the hank sledgers and in Bartholomew $ bank
hook we're made, and that the eonspirators
divided the proceeds