The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-26
News of the Week.


Reports indicate that the apple crop of
Virginia will be a failure.
Over $50 fires in Chicago last year were
traced to the use ofgasoline.
-Four aldermen of Salem, Mass, have been
indicted for granting illegal liquor licenses.
A FIRE ON north Arch street, Philadelphia,
Pa, on Sunday, eau sed a loss of over $780,
600.
On Tuesday the mountains in Tennessee
we're covered with snow to the depth OF i've
inches.
First National Bank stock of Media, Pa,
par 500, sold at from $2S7 to $3.50 per share
last week.
Earthquakes still prevail in Greece, and
what buildings remained in many towns have
been levelled.
The King of Wurtemburg has come out
openly against the readmission of the Jesuits
to Germany.
Terrence Vincent Powderly, ex-general
master workman, has been expelled from the
Knights of Labor.
Mrs Sarah Elder. of Roulette, Penn, was
lately married to her seventh husband. All
the others are dead.
Emile Henry, the Paris anarchist, who on
February II threw bomb into cafe was
guillotined on Monday.
The centennial anniversary of the dedica-
ton of Trinity Lutheran Church at Reading,
Pa, was celebrated Sunday.
Heavy snow storms prevailed in the midland
counties of England, on Monday, and the
weather was intensely cold.
The Hillsboro College, in Hillsboro, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th instant.
Loss, $50, 200; insurance, $4,000.
Numerous counterfeiters have been arrest
ed in various Western States. Some for issu-
ing bank notes and others for silver.
The recent rains have saved the early
crops around Norfolk, Virginia, though the
strawberry crop was nearly destroyed by the
drought.
Phillips's window glass factory, at Pitts
burg, Penna., was almost totally destroyed
by IRE Monday night. The loss is estimated
at $75, 200.
Several persons were killed Saturday night
by collision of freight trains ON the Newport
News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, near
Princeton, Kentucky.
At Spring Valley. Illinois, coal mines are
on fire, and on Sunday the miners refused to
render any assistance and also to prevent
others from doing so.
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Codorus creek, in York, Pa, it is proposed
to increase its width to IT'S feet, thereby
hoping to save the city from any disastrous
results.
The Neary, Snyder & Wilcox Company
planning mill at Akron, Ohio, was destroyed !,
and the Academy of Music and six adjoining
buildings were damaged by fire Saturday
night. Loss $l50,O00.
The l7-yeur locust is expected to put in its
appearance by the close of this month. It's
last appearance, in a destructive form, was
in 1868. Entomologists claim that this year
will be known US ''Insect Year.
James Breeding has been arrested in San
Antonio, Texas, charged with being the Wells
Fargo Company money order forger, who,
since April q, has been flooding the country
with worthless orders calling for $50 each.
Alexander Humphreys, a boy, jumped into
the Rappahanock river, near Fredericksburg,
Virginia, on Saturday, to rescue Lizzie Err
rickson, aged Is years, who had fallen from
scow. When near the shore Humphreys
became exhausted, and both were drowned.
Col. Fred G. Skinner, aged 81 years, died
at Charlottesville, Virginia, on Tuesday He
was educated at West Point. He was, for
some years after the war, on the editorial
staff of the Turf, Field and Farm, of New
York.
The British steamship Akaba cleared from
Pensacola, Florida, for London, on Tuesday,
with a cargo of over 1000, 900 superficial feet
OF lumber and timber This is said to be the
largest cargo of the kind that has ever left a
Gulf port.
On Tuesday, in Washington, d. c., for
displaying partisan banners in the Capitol
grounds, Coxey, Browne and Jones, the
wheel horses of the Commonwealers, were
sentenced to 20 days in jail, and were hand
cuffed and conveyed to prison in the BLACK
Maria Coxey and Browne were also fined
for walking on the grass. This is an inglori-
GUS ending for the crusade Of the unemploy.
ed, but Coxey will doubtless turn it to good
service.