The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-10-20
News of the Week.

to Havti. expresses the opinion that our trade
relations with Hayti will be benefited by the
new tariff.
Fifteen fishermen were drowned near Sand
Island. 10 miles from Apalachicola. Florida,
during the recent storm. Their bodies were
not recovered until Saturday.
A despatch from Omaha says that distil
lerv there has succeeded in producing pure
spirits from beet-sugar molasses, and Is now
using carload a day of the molasses.
James Alexander Harris was arrested in
Pittsburg, Pa, charged with secretly carrying
off goods valued at $1,000 from a cannery in
Kent county, Del, owned by G.. l.. Greer.
While Postmaster Schingler NJ New Al
bany. Indiana, was at dinner on Tuesday
thief entered his private office and took $1,000
worth of stamps and $500 in cash from the
safe.
A private despatch received in Boston from
Mr.. Percival Lowell, at Flagstaff, Arizona.
states that observations of Mars taken Sunday
show the snowy cap to have entirety dlsap-
peared.
Two little daughters of John \. Scatcherd
and his sster-in- law. Miss Emily b. ). Wood.
were killed in Buffalo on Sunday night, the
buggy in which they were driving being struck
by train.
Willis Gritty. a negro. confined in the Jail
at Princeton. Kentucky, for rape was lynched
by mob on Sunday night. Griffey was
hanged and his body mutilated and rddled
with bullets.
James Shelton was killed in railroad tun-
mel. near Maysvile. Kentucky. on Saturday
night He put his head out Of ear window;
and was caught by beam and dragged
through the window.
In Newark. New Jersey, ON Monday night,
jeremiah Flanagan. 80 years old. fatally
stabbed his wife and then made an Intellectual
attempt to end his own life. jealousy is said
10 have been the cause.
The celebration of the 2j0th anniversary of
the establishment of the First Presbyterian
Church in America was begun at Christ ;
First Presbyterian Church in Hampstead.
Long Island. on Sunday.
Harris Olney. ~ wears and James Dalton.
race track followers. were found aSphyNlated
in their room in hotel nj Williamsburg, New
! York. on Wednesday, They were drunk
when last seen On Tuesday night.
\ fire in the yards of the 'Ihayer Lumber
1 Company. at Muskogee. Indian Territory. on
! "Wednesday. DESTROYED S209.000 worth of
property. John ElIene. assistant ire chief.
was killed by the fall of lumber pile.
/ Charles Pearson. private Waterman, was
shot and killed in Kansas City by two bur
! glars. whom he surprised in the act of enter
| ing the house of A. A. MoSher. Vice President
| of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Trust Com
pany,
Eliza Trowbridge shot his brother, Charles
| W. Trowbridge. cashier of the Mechanics
| National Bank, in New Haven, Connecticut,
| in the leg last Monday. Another shot went
wide of the mark. The cause Of the shooting
! is not known.
Official figures obtained from the Treasury
| books show that up to Monday the eXpendi-
lures for the fiscal year have exceeded the re-
| ceipts 50. SOC, 600. For the corresponding
period Of 1898 the expenditures exceeded the
receipts SD, 500,0 600,
A mad dog In East Guthrie. Oklahoma, ON
Wednesday, hit Bessie Gates, aged 10, so ter
ribly that she is not expected to live. Tw"
men attempted TO shoot the dog, but bullet
struck Mrs. Littlejohn in the thigh and groin.
inhcting fatal wounds.
Mrs Thomas Harrigan, aged 30 years, who
lived in suburb of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
on Monday morning took her three children
Walter, Il years; Willie, 3 years, and Isabella,
IA months-nto q haymow and set fire To it.
She persisted with them in the flames.
DR.. Nixon, DR.. McCabe and Mrs. McCahe
of Callomine. Arkansas, are under arrest
charged with attempting 10 poison DIR. A. ID.
Barr and his family by putting poison in :
cistern on the Barr premises. The trouble
arose from litigation between McCabe anG
Barr.
Rev. l.. c. Petit, pastor of St. James,
Methodist Episcopal Church. in Cohoes, New
York, has disappeared; He visited two min
listers in Troy ON Friday of last week, since
which time he has not been seen. 1t is said
he has suffered from nervous exhaustion fol
some time.
Albert Therney, at Chicago, ON Monday.
while in drunken rage, fired two shots at hi,
wife, who. thought unhurt. fell To the floor in
a dead faint Thinking he had killed her
Therney turned the revolver upon himself,
sending two bullets into his head. He wa,
fatally wounded.
The ending of the litigation over the will O
John Crurar. in Chicago, makes operative
public requests amounting to nearly $1,000,
600, including provision for free public
library and statue of Abraham Lincoln fol
Chicago. and $50. 900 for the American Sun
day school Union.
A despatch from Gloucester, Massachusetts
SAYS that the record of disasters to the fishing
fleet for the year ending this month is about
the largest ever known there in a single sea
son. Twenty-nine vessels. with an aggregate
tonnage of 1854 tons, and IL men were lost
against 10 vessels and - men last year.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has re
versed the decision of the Circuit Court a
Chattanooga quashing the indictments
against NJ. J. O. Brien, ex-Supreme Chancel
lor of the Catholic Knights of America. fol
embezzling S75, 900 from that Order. 0'Brier
| is thus again made liable 10 criminal prosecu
ton.
A distinguished ecclesiastic of the Roman
Catholic Church stated in New York, Wednes
day evening, that in two weeks or Whereabouts
Mgr. Satolli, the Apostolic Delegate, will b,
elevated to the rank and dignity of Cardinal
He said that the Pope's messenger bearing
the red hat and the necessary documents was
now on his way to America.
Three dynamite cartridges were placed on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track, neal
| Bissell Is miles from Pittsburg, Pa, Wednes
day night by supposed train robbers. One
of them exploded as the east-bound accom-
mediation train ran over it. The fange of a
| wheel was blown off, and one end of a coach
wrecked Nc one was hurt
Jasper Dolby, colored, sentenced to twenty
wears for assault ON a white lady at Washing
ton Court House, Ohio, was placed in the
Ohio penitentiary, at Columbus, early Thurs
1
Withdrawn and the excitement has subsidized
at the Court House, where three persons were
killed by the militia in defending the prisoner
from the mob.
The Executive Committee of the Greater
! New York Commission on Monday adopted
an address to the electors concerning the
Greater New York project to be voted for al
the coming election. The area proposed to
he Joined under one government comprises
Sli.77 quare miles, all lying within radius Oh
about l6 miles from the City Hall and having
a population of over 100000.
The steamer Kronprinz Frederick Wilhelm,
from Naples, with eight cabin and 400 steer
age passengers on board, was detained at
Quarantine. New York, on Monday, owing to
the discovery that II steerage passenger was
suffering from smallpox. All of the steerage
passengers will be vaccinated and transferred
to Hoffman Island to await the development
of the disease for period of IA days. The
cabin passengers we're sent to the dock.
There is much anxiety ut Provincetown.
Massachusetts, for the safety of schooner John
VI. Ball, of that place, Captain Hugh McEay-
dem which was last seen ON the Grand Banks
September %, at Virgin Rocks, by schooner
Battle Weston, since arrived, and which re.
ported the Ball as sailing the day before either
| for the South or home. Since then the heavy