The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-10
News of the Week.

Tuesday night. Loss, $500
Mrs. Mary Walter, aged 4O4 years. died in
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
China is asking for peace, and is willing to
grant almost all the demands of Japan.
New Orleans had $780, 600 FIRE on Sun
day, caused by the burning of 1000 bales of
cotton.
Charles Gilmans residence at Black Rock
Connecticut, was burned Wednesday; loss,
$50, 200.
The Belvidere, family hotel in St. Louis,
was burned on Sunday night. Loss $4,000.
The guests escaped.
By the death of Col. W. F. Reynolds the
Presbyterian church of Detroit, Michigan, in
herts about 100000.
Major General Oliver o. Howard has been
placed on the retired list of the Army. His
commission dates from September l, 1850.
The 10Th annual Conference of the General
Missionary Committee Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church was begun in Brooklyn ON We'd
nesday.
W. J. Thecke was killed and Joseph
0'Brein was probably fatally injuredi in Wash
ington, D. c., Wednesday, by falling with
scaffold distance of 40 feet.
Mrs. Eunice Ross Davis, the only surviving
member of the Massachusetts, Woman Anti
Slavery Board, has just celebrated her 94th
birthday at her home in Dedham.
Rev. DIR. Samuel Rothrock, the oldest
Lutheran minister in North Carolina, died on
Sunday, aged 81. For 63 years he had been
in the ministry, nearly all the time actively
The fire in the Hammond Packing plant in
South Omaha, on Sunday, was started by
Emery Coulson, night watchman, who want
ed to see a fire, never having seen large one.
A severe snow storm, accompanied by high
winds, set in on Tuesday at st. Johns, New
Brunswick, and on Wednesday travel and
telegraphe service were seriously interrupted
One of the largest eggs, probably, ever laid
by Plymouth Rock hen comes from the
henery of 0. W. Hill at Wilmington, Del.
1t weighs half pound and measures 7s by 81
inches.
Thirty-four families have left Pullman, Hi
nois. for Hiawatha, Kansas, to join the new
cooperative colony there. They include
number of mechanics, former employees IN the
Pullman shops.
The electric light works, at Portland, Maine,
were damaged by fire ON Wednesday TO the
extent of $1,000, but the water used to extln-
euish the flames caused upwards of S5O,OOO
damage in addition.
The Car of Russia died on Thursday of
last week. His son has succeeded him to the
throne. The funeral will take place next
week and will be attended by representatives
from all countries.
There was recently given in Berkshire,
England, IAN instance of the remarkable decline
in real estate in that country A valuable es-
tate which 20 years ago sold for e2O, 600 was
bought for e5500
L. Severson, of Washego, Michigan, was
blown from passenger train on the Chicago
and Eastern Railroad, while passing from one
coach to another, near Chicago Heights, ON
Monday and instantly killed.
Elijah Harris, colored, proprietor of
Duluth, wisconsin, barber shop, on Satur-
day cut his throat from ear to ear, dying
almost instantly. The place was filled with
customers, who ran in all directions.
In New York city 100000 ballots were
prepared and distributed for use on election
day. Folders and packers worked day and
night for nearly five weeks, and about 200 tons
of paper were used to print the tickets.
collision between passenger and freight
train occurred Wednesday evening at Rosen
Steel siding, l03 miles east of Pittsburg. on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and four
trainmen and two mail clerks were killed.
Francis Callahan, the well-known street
railway magnate of Brooklyn and othercities.
| fell while boarding train at Rutherford, New
Jersey, Monday morning, and was instantly
white lead, with which the house had been
killed.
AT Evergreen, Ohio, ON Monday, Mrs.
James Donally died from drinking poisoned
rain water. Her father Joseph Delittle, and
her three sisters are believed to be dying
from the same cause. The poison came from
painted.
| Only one passenger among 2S,000,00 is
annually killed in England. In France II Is
one in 10, 200, 900, in Germany one in 10000,
900, Italy one in 100000, America one in
| 1000, 900 to 100000, and Russia one in
| 100000.
John Harris, 50 years old colored gam;
bier, died Sunday from pistol shot wound
inflicted at his gambling house in Phila
dephia, late Saturday night it is alleged, by
Samuel Smith, colored, who escaped. The
two men had quarreled over a game of ''crap."
The women held an election at San Bernar-
dino, Cal, for county and State officers on
| Monday. In some eases it took the voters
forty minutes to prepare their ballots, and
several disturbances occurred because the
voters wanted TO fish their tickets out of the
ballot-box to correct them.
| A visitor found three children dead and
! four others, besides their mother, very sick
with smallpox in the lonely farm house OF
| Fred Kusch, four miles from Hales Corners.
| Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Kuschs neighbors
| refused to go near him, so he nursed his family
as best he could for eight days past.
Michael Sandususso, proprietor of res
turant in Philadelphia Pa, was murdered on
Saturday morning last by two unknown
Italians, who had taken room at the house
| on Thursday night. Sandususso died from the
| effects of dose of chloral administered. it is
i .,,,,,,acaI bt-f tho ftFo urhA rohbad him
of his savings, about $500, and fed.
Katie Gillespie, aged IS, was crushed to
death in an elevator at Hilton, Hughes Il Co.'S
store in New York on Wednesday. There
were 10 persons in the elevator, and, finding
it too heavy to go up, the elevator boy asked
some of them to get out Katie stepped off,
| and, being in a sl1ylarking mood, gave the
boy a shove which threw him against the lever
| The elevator started down, and the girl fell on
her face and was caught by the ascending car
w. C. Andrews, wealthy capitalist of
New York, has purchased between 1000 and
5000 acres of valuable lands in Chesterfield
county, Virginia, short distance north and
south of Richmond. Much of this land has
in it valuable coal deposits, and the purchaser
of the property proposes to carry on an ex-
| tensive business in the mining and shipping of
coal. Mr.. Andrews is president of large
steam and heating corporation in New York
city.
A regular blizzard prevailed in parts of
New England on Monday. Snow fell to such
depth as to blockade the roads. In New
| Haven, Connecticut. the snow was y inches
deep, and telegraph and telephone poles were
blown down. immense damage was done TO
buildings and orchards 1t was the worst
storm ever known at this season. In New
York snow fell at 0densburg Walton, Rouse's
Point, Plattsburg, Ausable Forks, Westport
aud Poughkeepsie.
At Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday,
pretty incident took place. James G. Steed,
clerk in the revenue collectors Office, is sick
with fever at a hospital. Wednesday was the
time set for his marriage to Miss Annie De-
berry, of Montgomery county. Steed was
worried by fear of delay of his marriage.
Miss Deberry was telegraphed for by the
hospital matron and came there alone. The
marriage was at once arranged for and took
place in an hour after her arrival.
Capt. Mary NJ Miller, the first woman to
be granted alicense as steamboat master, died