The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-24
News of the Week.

College, died on Friday night of last week.
At Macon, Georgia, on Sunday, the South
ern Phosphate works were burned; loss $780,
coo.
Jacob Kern, of Monongahela county, West |
Virginia, is 81 years old, and has 26S living |
descendants.
During the past ten days about 20 stables,
ETC., in Springfield Illinois, have been burned
by incendiaries.
A fire in the lace market district of Noting |
ham, England, Saturday, destroyed property
valued at S750,OO0.
Mary Sheehan, aged Is, shot and killed her
brother William, aged 30, during quarrel at
Sing Sing, New York, on Monday.
Eleven cotton gins in the vicinity of Green |
Vile, Texas, have been burned within the last
few days, entailing q loss of 100000.
John Plank, prominent farmer of New |
Holland, Lancaster county, Pa. was fatally
injured by falling from his windmill ON Sunday.
Twelve business houses and nine residences
at Columbus, KY, were destroyed Saturday
morning by fire.. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Anton Gregor Rubinstein, the celebrated
Russian pianist and composer, died on Tues
day of heart disease at Peterbof, Russia, aged
about GA years.
Burglars entered the Theatre Royal in Mon
treal on Saturday and secured from safe $780,,
600 of United States bonds and several hun
bred dollars in cash.
A citizen of Buffalo, N. Y, rolled peanut
a mile with a toothpick in that city in payment
of an election wager. This comes under the
head of peanut politics.
An explosion of coal dust occurred in the
Blanche coal mine, near Golfers, West VIZ
n fN~a. cd
and four badly injured.
Miss Mary L. Stevenson, daughter of Vice
President Stevenson, is hopelessly i'll at Ashe-
vile, North Carolina, where she went IN the
hope of recovering her health.
Charles Malone and William Robbins were
killed and six others badly scalded by the eX-
ploson of boiler in John Maleolm's mill, in
Gale, Indian Territory, on Monday.
Bandits attempted TO rob an express train
on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad,
near Panther Burn, Miss, Saturday night
The fireman was seriously wounded.
The majority of the large Touring mills in
St Louis have shut down indefinitely Many
of the merchant millers in Ohio, Illinois and
adjoining states have offered TO shut down for
three months.
Elmore Knight and Samuel Dunn, negro
miners, were killed in Mcdowell county, W.
Va, on Monday, by the explosion of keg of
blasting powder, which they were trying to
open with pick.
The milestone in johnson Brothers grist
mill at Wick, W. Virginia, exploded Saturday
night, killing the miller, named wilkins, and
man named Bell, and injuring eight others,
two dangerously.
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that,
under the laws of that state, officers of defunct
trust companies are not amenable to prosecu-
ton for receiving deposits when such concerns
are in failing condition.
DIR. Charles Graham. bactereologist in the
Starting Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio,
has become affected with consumption through
cultiyating and handling the microbes of tuber-
culosis for the purpose of study.
Five Georgian mountaneers were sentenced
in the United States Court Saturday to ten
years each in the penitentiary. They are the
moonshiners who shot and nearly killed Wm
Roper, a government informer.
A fire truck and trolley car collided in New
ark, New Jersey, Tuesday morning. Six fire
men were thrown to the ground and buried
under the ladders and other heavy stuff. Two
are believed to be fatally hurt.
Searcey and Morganfeld, the alleged Aqua
Creek train robbers, were indicted by the
grand Jury of Stafford county, Va, on We'd
nesday. On motion of the Commonwealth
attorney the cases were continued.
The white laborers employed at Williams
lumber camp, in Escambia county, Alabama,
objected to the presence of fifty negroes, and
fired into party of them, killing three. The
remainder Of the negroes fled from the camp
The dead body of Lena Gross, colored, aged
%, was found in the woods near Washington,
d. c., on Monday. She had been stabbed to
death. James L. Travers, with whom she had
been living, was arrested, charged with her
murder.
News comes from Soyopa, Mexico, that a
band of Yaqui Indians recently raided the
ranch of Pedro Hernandez, near that place,
murdered three women and two men, burned
the ranch buildings and drove off several hun
bred head of cattle.
One of the large outhouses of the Phoenix
Powder Mills, mile mile east of Farming
dale. New Jersey, in which was stored nearly
a ton of rifle powder, was blown up on Mon
day. George Disbrow and Edward w. Sharp,
workmen, were killed.
Vim. A. Jones, wealthy farmer of Chilli
cothe Ohio, was ON Tuesday buncoed out of
$1,000 by two strangers who worked the tin
box game on him. The box contained let
ter to Mr.. Jones advising him to be little
shrewder when next he bet.
The Lexington, Kentucky, Passenger and
Belt Railway has been sold to the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad for $4,000 the road is
four and a half miles long and gives the Van
derbilts connection between the Chesapeake
and Ohio and the Louisville station.
Thomas Portercheck, who lived in Wells
vile, Missouri, became insane Sunday night,
and killed his mother, brother and sister with
an axe. After setting fire to the house he cut
l., nth btfcbar -a,iia (lnn
sister escaped by jumping from window.
Several members of Methodist Church in
East Liverpool, Ohio, were partially asphyx
lated during the morning service last Sunday
by inhaling natural gas, which had escaped
from defective fitting. The pastor and three
others were in critical condition on Sunday
night.
A despatch from Denver says that after a
careful canvass a committee has reported that
2l5 families of American Railway Union men
are on the verge of starvation, and 400 I'M
married men destitute, in consequence of the
blacklist enforced by the railways against the
men who struck last summer.
The harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, was Gov
cred by three inches of ice on Monday, but it
was not sufficient to block navigation. There
is large quantity of freight to be yet carried
down the Lakes, and the cold snap has caused
no little apprehension among shlppersi as lne
temperature moderates but little.
At meeting of the New England Tariff
Reform League in Boston, Tuesday night: it
was proposed TO change the name of the organi
zation to the New England Free Trade League.
The object of the League is to free our trade,
our industries and our people from all taxes,
except those imposed for revenue only.
About GO feet of a heavy steel smokestack
on the University Building, Chicago, was
blown down by the wind on Tuesday and fell
on the roof of building occupied by Handy
4 Co. A big skylght was shattered and eight
persons were cut and bruised by falling glass
and debris. One of the injured, Taylor H.
Snow, may not recover.
''Uncle'' Jacob Kern, of Clinton district,
Monongalia county, W. Va, is 'hale and
L L. -. I'll. -. :. II.