The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-07-14
News of the Week.

In South Dakota, on Monday, the temper
AZURE was l040.
Nearly all the factories at Kankakee, ILL.,,
have shut down for lack of coal.
Congressman Marcus C. Lisle. Of Kentucky,
died at his home at Winchester, Kentucky.
Sunday night.
TheNwarehouse and factory of the Quick
Meal Stove Co., at st. Louis. was burned
early Sunday morning. Loss, 100000.
At Strasburg, Pa, there are two cases of
smallpox. The town has been quarantined
and every one compelled to be vaccinated.
The thunder gust of July was unusually
severe in portions of Pennsylvania. Several
persons were killed, number of barns burned
and corn fields damaged.
Jacob DeardorH. aged "a years, died in
McKnightstown, Adams county, Pa, on
Tuesday. He was prominent and we'll
known citizen and leaves large number of
relatives and friends.
A bill appropriating 100000 for making
surveys for canal from the Great Lakes to
the Atlantic Ocean, to be owned and operated
by the Government, has been introduced IN
the House by Mr.. Baldwin, of Minnesota.
The men at several mines in the Pittsburg,
Pa, district have struck again, and other
strikes are feared. In the Mahoning Valley
the miners are on strike. They declare the
operators must sign the scale before work
will be resumed.
Albert and Hayes Ingalls, have been ar
rested at Waynesboro, Pa, and taken to
Chambersburg on the charge of issuing coun-
terfeit coins. The moulds with which they
are said to have made the spurious money
have been seized by the police.
Mrs. Anna Mary Trone, of West Mannheim,
York county, Pa, was in the harvest field on
the I'd of July, raking and binding, and did
the house work afternoon and evening and
yet claimed that she did not feel tired. She
will be 100 years old December 4th.
At a meeting on Boston Common, on Sun
day, resolutions were passed deploring the
delivery of the United States Government to
the railroad kings, and endorsing the West
ern strike. A telegram of encouragement
was sent to President Debs, of the American
Railway Union.
On Saturday night striking coal miners at
Newcastle, in Western Colorado. incensed
because two of their associates had been ar
rested for contempt in the act of encouraging
strikers on the Colorado Midland, blew up
with dynamite cattle guard and section
of about so feet of track.
On Friday of last week. Henry Frantz' s
barn, in Dover township, York county, Pa,
was struck by lightning and burned, with all
the contents, except the live stock. The barn
contained large lot of hay and straw, and
the entire wheat harvest OF this summer.
John Hamme is the tenant.
The $50 men composing Keller's Common
veal Army disbanded at Portsmouth, Ohio,
on Saturday. Some of the men captured a
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stopped by two companies Of West Virginia
militia at the State line, early Sunday morn
ing, and the party eifectually dispersed.
On Friday night of last week, at Hot
Springs, North Dakota, there was fearful
hailstorm and eloud-burst. Twenty bridges
we're washed away. The tracks of the Bur
lington and Missouri and Elkhorn were car
ried away by the water. Hail was piled up
six feet deep along the banks of Fall river.
After five days racing over SO mile course,
on the Clyde, in England, the American boat
Vigilant was beaten by the Britannia. The
Vigilant is better outside sailer than the
Britannia. The race on Tuesday was thor
ouRh drift, which in this country would not
have been recognized as a race. The owner
of the Vigilant has challenged the Britannia
for sea race.
All the main buildings of the Worlds Fair,
except the Horticultural, Woman's Building,
the Art Palace, the Machinery and the United
States Government Building, were almost
entirely burned on Thursday night of last
week. They were the property of the Column
bian Exposition Salvage Company, and had
been purchased from the Exposition Company
for about 100000.
On Friday of last week portions of the
Shenandoah Virginia. Valley were visited by
destructive hail storm. At Broadway the
growing crops and garden vegetation were
literally pounded into the ground, leaving
scarcely a vestige of what had few minutes
before promised rich returns. Hundreds of
names of glass were broken and houses un-
rooted. The hail drifted into piles four feet
high, and several persons Tiled their ice
houses with it.
VIM. Luckabaugh, of jackson township,
York county, Pa, on Monday. was driving
two mules attached to a lfbinder on VIM.
E. Sprenkleis farm, near Nashville, when a
heavy clap of thunder caused the animals to
run away Luckabaugh was thrown in front
of the reaper knife and dragged considerable
distance His left arm was cut of, taken up
with the wheat and bound in the sheaf. The
other arm was badly cut, and his body is Gov.
cred with bruises.
Col Thornton Augustus washington, q
grandson of Samuel Washington, y brother
Of George Washington, died in Washington,
d. c., on Tuesday. Colonel Washington
was born in 1926. He was educated at
Charlestown Academy and graduated from
Princeton College. He was appointed cadet
at West Point in 1916 and graduated in l649.
From 1849 to 1861 he served on the extreme
frontier and in departmental duties. In 1861
he ~as;onad from the limited States Army
and offered his services TO Jefferson Davis,
adiutant- general in the West and as CHIEF Of
STAG to General Lee. He was civil engineer
and was employed as an examiner Of returns