The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-12-15
News of the Week.

Glen Rock, Pa, is to have water works
that will cost $4,000.
On Saturday night three boys were drowned
while skating at Newport, Vermont.
Last week fire burned over 100 acres of
woodland, near Moulestown, Adams county,
Pa. Loss over $4,000.
Two little sons of Joseph Mitchell, who were
left alone in their home at Manistique, Michi-
gan, were burned to death on Saturday.
Ed Halpin, notorious burglar, has been
captured by the Chicago police and nearly
$1,000 worth of stolen property was recovered.
During fire in tenement house in Boston
Sunday night, Luigi Roma and his daughter,
Concetta, aged years, were burnedto death.
A ''moonshine still, having capacity of
100 gallons per day. was captured by revenue
officers near New Albany, Mississippi last
week.
The Manchester Spoke Mills, at Richmond.
Va, which have been shut down for some
months, have resumed operations with full
force.
Ex-senator Joseph E. Brown, Georgia's
war Governor and ex-Chief Justice of the
State Supreme Court, died November 30, in
Atlanta. He was 70 years old.
A despatch from Laporte, Indiana, says
the Kankakee Marshes extending over miles
of territory, are on fire, and that the loss to
farmers will be many thousand of dollars.
The British steamer Marc sailed from New
Orleans December /, for Harve, France, with
49, 348 bales of cotton, which is said to be the
largest cargo of cotton ever shipped in single
vessel.
Earthquakes have been Of. daily occurrence
in the northern provinces of Ecuador ever
since November 81 Much property has been
destroyed and many persons have been IN
jured.
Hon. B. johnson Barbour, one of the most
eminent Virginians of his time, died on Dec
8, at Charlottesville, aged rs years. He
was especially well known for his literary
culture.
A fire, originating in gasoline explosion,
on December 4th destroyed the exposi-
ton building, the Fifteenth street theatre
and the First Baptist Church in Omaha, the
loss aggregating about $4,000.
Ex-Gov Leon Albeit died on December
Bird. The Governor had been suffering from
diabetes a long time, and this was the cause
of his DEATH He was known as the Demo
cratic champion of New Jersey.
A long-continued drought has prevailed in
portions of Northern Indiana, and there is
such a scarcity of water that there has been
suffering in places. Water has to be hauled
miles for domestic purposes.
The conviets in the Ohio penitentiary had
served to them Thursday $40 turkeys and
2, 400 mince pies. 1t is probable that many
ate Thanksgiving turkey who would not have
down so if they had not worn the stripes.
Thurman Balding, alias ''Skeeter;' Jesse
Snyder and William Ferris, members of the
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States Court, in Fort Smith, Ark. Skeeter
received 80 years and Snyder and Ferris 20
years each.
The only strictly Russo Greek Church in
the United States, except the Cathedral at
Sitka, Alaska. was formally dedicated in
Streator, ILL.,, on Dec. 2, by Bishop Nicolas,
of the Greek Church in Alaska and the Aleu-
ton Islands.
A frame dwelling in Chicago, occupied by
Mrs. Mebrea and her two children, was Quilted
by fire on Dec LIST. One of the children, an
infant, was burned to death. In attempting
to rescue the infant, Mrs. Mebra and an elder
child were badly burned.
Jack Phineas, alias Three Fingered Jack, "
one of the most noted outlaws in Oklahoma,
was killed while in bed with his wife, near
Kildare, December 4th by some person who
crept into the room and cut his throat from
ear to ear, without awakening his wife.
Frederick Freisch and bis son-in-law Theo-
dore Ekhardt, had a fight in Chicago on Dec.
Ist Freisch's daughter, Lena, seeing that
her husband was getting the worst of the
encounter, drew a revolver and fired at her
father. The latter snatched the revolver from
her hands, and shot both his daughter and
her husband in the head, inhicting fatal in
iuries. He then fatally shot himself in the
head.
The body of Catharine Gong, Minneapolis
dressmaker, was found on the road near Lake
Calhoun on December 3rd, with gunshot
wound in the head. The woman ordered a
carriage by telephone early in the evening
and departed alone About $50 o'clock the
horse ran up to the stable, the buggy being
unoccupied and there being fully quart of
blood in the bottom. It is said she drew
50, 900 from bank during the day.