The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-03-10

Peter Forney, aged % years, died in Wash
ington, d. c., on Monday last. He formerly
resided in Hanover. Pa.
All the coke ovens in the ConnelIsville,
Pa, coke region are to be fired up in couple
of weeks, giving employment to G0Oo men
who are now idle.
In an election riot in Troy. n. Y, Tuesday.
Robert Ross. Republican watcher, and Bait
Shaw, Democrat, were killed, and William
Ross fatally wounded.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, has chartered steamer and will take
party of one hundred ladies and gentlemen on
a summer trip to the arctic regions.
Judge Samuel B. Hoyt, who during the war
was a commissioner of the Confederate States,
died on Sunday evening in Atlanta, Ga. He
was a cousin of ex Governor Hoyt, of Penna.
Cant. Jacob Owens, a veteran of the Next
can war, who is said to have fred the last gun
| in the battle of Vera Cruz, died at his home
| in Bethel, Delaware, on Monday, alters short
| illness.
The most severe electrical storm in years
passed over Gainesville, Texas, Sunday night
accompanied by heavy wind and RAIN A
large number of houses were unroofed and
| several overturned.
! Len I've, Chinaman, was skinned alive
by farmers in Harlan county. Ky, on Satur
day last, for kidnapping young girl and Sc,
creting her in the woods. He confessed
| that he had taken several other girls and kept
them in the woods until they died
| Andrew Mosbar, a farmer near Carleton,
| Michigan, has confessed that he and Tebo
Manor, an ex-convict, killed Mrs. Gierman,
at Scho6eld, last week, and stole 500. Nos
bar claims that Manor left for parts unknown
and took all the money with him.
The large brick barn and tobacco shed OF
| Hiram CARRIER. farmer and horse dealer. OF
| West Hemp6eld township, Lancaster county,
| Pa. were destroyed by fire on Monday night.
! Nine head of cattle and eight valuable horses
were burned. The tobacco shed contained
| two crops of tobacco. The loss is estimated at
$l5, 000 with no insurance.
i At Woodstown, New Jersey, a plan was
| formed to .'clean up'' a crowd of whites by
some negroes. The attack was made on Sat
urday night last, but information had been
given to the officers by one of the negroes.
| The whites were on their way home from a
village store when the attack began, and be-
| fore the officers arrived several on both sides
! had been seriously wounded. The fracas is
the result OF an old feud between the races.
/ Suit has been brought in the United States
| Court, at St. Louis, by Charles d. Arnold,
official photographer of the Worlds Fair. for
| $500. 900 damages, against Publisher \. ID.
| Thompson and the c. B. Woodward Printing
| Company, who have issued the books OF
Worlds Fair Views now being sold by many
newspapers of the country. 1t is claimed
that the defendants have violated the copy
right.
New York and Brooklyn are to be consoli-
dated. This will give New York a popula'
ton of over 5000, 900. and make it the sec
ond largest city in population in the world.
0vercrowded New York needs these wide
acres and this consolidation of people for her
own welfare. Already the population ex-
ceeds $1,000 to the square mile, while Lon
don has but 5000, Chicago 1900, Philadel-
phia 5000, and Baltimore, the next most
crowded American city. has 10000.
At Koseiusko, Mississippi, on Saturday, S.
A. jackson, a member of the State Legisla
ture, and one of the most prominent Demo
cratic politicians in the State, was shot anC
killed by Rev. W. P. Ratliffe, also a mem
Der OF the Legislature, and one of the leader;
of the Populist party in Mississippi. Samuel
Russell, bystander, was also shot and killed
by Ratliffe, and William Sanders was fatally
wounded The tragedy was the elimination
Of political feud OF long standing, which was
brought to climax by bitter newspaper
controversy.