The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-03-10
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\ la.ly in New York, whose name is
withheld, has given Sl00,75 in cash to
the Methodist University in Washington.
Mrs. Mary Vandelvenger, Of Bristol,
Pa, was found dead in her bed one day
last week She weighed over 400 pounds
The official vote of Pennsylvania, at the
recent election for Congressman at Large,
gives Grow, Republican, 81, l69 plurality.
OF 900 opium patients treated at the
Kelley institution at Dwight, ILL.,, 42S
were women, l46 doctors, % lawyers, II
newspaper men and s ministers.
Dairyman Charles s Edwards. of Will
listown, Pa, owns 81 cows which have
ave ed annually for the last four or five
yeas 37j pounds of butter each.
William Harris, colored of Philadel-
phia, Pa, has been sentenced to s months
imprisonment for manslaughter, in causing
the death of his wife by beating her.
Several Democratic and Republican cleo
ton inspectors of Brooklyn. n. Y, have
been sentenced to Sing Sing prison for
making false returns at the election last
fall.
Susan Miller conducts wholly without
any assistance one of the most prosperous
farms in Barton county, Kansas. She Is
of splendid stature, standing over six feet
in height, and is decidedly mannish.
Bridget Rush was recently sentenced to
the House Of Correction, at Detroit, Mich
igan, for drunkenness, for the 9th time.
She is Gj years old, and has lived in
Detroit 80 years, half of which time she
has spent in prison.
Theodore F. Baker, formerly paying
teller of the Consolidated National Bank,
Philadelphia, Pa. who pleaded guilty to
the cmbezzement of S47 900 of the bank s
money has been sentenced to seven years
and six months imprisonment in the east
ern penitentiary.
Martin Wickoff 5 barn, near Asbury
Park. n. j. was destroyed by fire last
week, with six horses. twenty-seven sheep,
ten cows. wagons, machinery and the
entire crop of the season. The live stock
was the property of Robert Milroy, the
tenant. Loss $50 900; no insurance.
A Louisville, Kentucky, dispatch says
that it is believed that duplicate warehouse
receipts have been issued covering the en-
tire 5000 barrels of liquor contained in
three warehouses of the Headly 4 Peck
Distilery. and also that w. H. Headly,
the absconder, had an aecOmpLce In the
work
Rev. G. b. +. Howard. who was con-
Il.
of the United States for the Western Dis
rrict of Tennessee for violation Of the pos
tai laws, has appealed to the Supreme Court
of the United States. Howard was charged
with an extensive series Of swindles as
attorney for claimants to mythical English
estates.
The body of aa uGkGoYD man, appar-
emily under 60 years of age. vas tonnd on
the I'd instant in brook about mile
from Georgetown Centre, Mass, with the
feet tied together. hands tied behind the
back and rock weighing several pounds
secured within his coat. On his head were
various marks. indicating that he met death
by violence.
Dispatches from San Antonio, Texas,
say that the drought and cold weather are
causing the death of thousands OF cattle
in the lower Rio Grande counties. During
the past few weeks there have been
shipped from Alice Station, on the San
Antonio and Arnnsas Pass Road, l5,OOO
hides of cattle which died of starvation
and exposure.
Gol. john Middleton Huger, who served
on the staff of the Confederate general,
.Braxton Bragg. in the civil war, died re-
Gently in New York city, aged Sc years.
He was son of Judge Daniel Elliott
Huger, formerly United States Senator
from South Carolina and grandson of
Arthur Middleton, one of the signers OF
the Declaration of Independence
The Taggart family, of Newburg, n.
T., are noted for the number and size oil
its members There are ! children, who
range in height from ) feet 9 inches to
feet II inches, and average in weight
from ZIG pounds to 275 pounds. Their
combined height is Is feet 3 inches, an
average of q feet 2! inches combined
weight, 1894 pounds an average of nearly
2lS pounds.
Richard Ehler was shot dead and Mrs.
Ehler fatally wounded in their home, at
White Oak Run, near Sroudsburg, Pa,
one night last week by Richard Prior,
colored. A son of the murdered man
escaped from the house and gave the
alarm. The murderer was arrested. The
eolored man called al the Ehler house, was
invited to enter and after few minutes
conversation began shooting without warn.
ing. On the I'd instant mob attempted
to force open the Jail for the purpose OF
lynching Prior They were repulsed by
the sheriff and his posse.
Willard Thompson and Henry Baker, !
Young negroes, entered the house OF Moore
Baker. near Franklin Park, New Jersey, |
on March LIST, for the purpose OF robbery.
Mrs. Baker saw them enter the bed room
AID screamed One of the pegroes killed |
her with an axe and then killed ] year
old child in crib at the side of the bed. |
Mr. Baker then struggled with the
negroes, aud, securing the axe, killed one |
with it, and then getting his gun, shot the
other dead The coroners jury rendered |
a verdict of murder in the case of the |
mother aud child, and of justifable homl-
eide as to the killing of the two negroes
Mrs. Rebecca Tutherly, of Manchester, |
New Hampshire. is one of the links IN
chain of five generations now living. She
is of Scotch Irish ancestry and was born i
March 4. 1893, in Elliot, Me. Her de-
scendants number ISL grandchildren. Her
father and mother were natives of Maine.
and her husband, who fought in the war
of 1872. died in 1858. There were born
TO them eight children. All are living,
with the exception of one, who died IN
1898, aged seventy-two years. There are
fifty-seven grandchildren and eighty seven