The Democratic advocate., 1894-07-07
News of the Week.

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New York city has on its pay roll l5,OO0
employees and expends yearly $ee, ,0OO.V0O.
Almost the entire business portion of Bayou
Sara, Louisiana, was destroyed by fire Mon
day.
Henry Vogler shot and killed VIM. Stutz
and then committed suicide, at Syracuse, n.
Y, Monday. - - J.
Elmer Z. Drummon was. shot and killed by
two masked highwaymen at Holdrdge, Neh.,
on Sunday night. a5dlga-
Owing to the great railroad strike in the
West the prices of meat, fruit and vegetables
have greatly advanced in the East.
A block of buildings in the business portion
of Cory, Pa. was destroyed by fire TUESDAY
afternoon. The losses will reach $40, 900.
James johnson, negro, arrested for an
assault upon woman nearly two years ago,
was lynched on Sunday night at Guthrie,
Missouri. fag it4l
On Saturday last part Of Cumberland
county, Pa, was visited by cloud burst
which beat the crops into the ground and did
great damage. F -.ii t1ra te-ofs. .a
The temperature at New Orleans on Sun.
day reached 90 degrees in the shade, and
there were many cases of heat prosiratlon,
five of them fatal. a -
Michael Steine, aged Is years, Jas. Steine,
aged 20. and Marion Terian, aged 20, were
drowned on Sunday while swimming in Lake
Calumet, at Chicago.
The new mill of the Vermont Marble Com
pany, at Proctor, Vermont, was burned on
Monday night, and property to the value OF
500, 900 was destroyed.
An explosion and cave in occurred Monday
in Scott's mine. at Buena Vista, near Nc
L ID. Norfa n
have been fatally injured.
The blast furnace of the Riverside Mill, at
Wheeling, West Virginia, which had been
idle for four months, has resumed operations,
giving employment to 1000 men.
An incendiary fire in the large tobacco
warehouse of Roland II. Brubaker, in Lam
caster, Pa, Tuesday morning, caused a loss
of about $50, 900. Insurance $39, 900.
On Friday night of last week the warehouse
Of Woodruff Il Co., Brooklyn, N. y, was
killed and several fatally injured by falling
walls.
A despatch from Pittsburg. Pa, states that
many sheet mills in the Ohio Valley have
signed the scale of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation. and a general resumption of work has
followed.
steamship Peru, which arrived at San Fran
cisco on Sunday night from Hong Kong and
Yokohama. She was quarantned at Nagasakl
for week.
Fire at Guttenburg, Iowa, on Monday,
burned -four mill, agricultural warehouse,
hotel and four dwelling houses. A change
of wind saved the town from destruction
Loss $780, .s..9
The Montreal express on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad went through trestle be-
tween Askwith and Moosehead, Maine, early
Monday morning. Four of the trainmen
we're killed and four were injured.
Tuloca Jack, confederate of the late ban
dit Dalton, and band of six men, rode into
Ingalls,, Oklahoma, on Monday night, and de
claring that "Bill'' Dalton had been betrayed
by a saloon keeper, named Nichols, demol
ished his saloon. t
! In Texas and Arkansas the temperature
on Monday was higher than ever before re-
corded, maximum temperatures of LOG de-
grees occurring at Fort Smith and San Anto-
nio, and l02 degrees and 9S degrees at Pal
estine and Corpus Christi, respectively.
At Chicago on Tuesday the jury in Judge
Payne's Court, after two hours deliberation,
returned verdict finding Patrick Eugene
Prendergast not insane or a lunatic, and,
therefore, responsible for the murder of Car
ter Harrison. If no other legal technicality
intervenes the assassin will be hanged on
Friday. the 18th instant.
A woman named Josephine Bennett, who
went to Buffalo recently from near Roches.
ter, N. Y, and who was known as "Pearl
Ross was found strangled to death with a
pillowcase in her room on Sunday. Her
pocketbook, which had contained IS cents,
was empty, indicating that she had been mur-
dered for the paltry sum.
Miss Painter, of Chester county, Pa, a
music teacher, was returning home on Satur-
day afternoon last, accompanied by one OF
her scholars. A tramp seized her horse and
she shot him through the hand. Another
tramp turned up and received ball IN his
right leg. Miss Painter reported the shooting
and the tramps were shortly after arrested
and identified. ..
At West Chester, Pa, on Monday, John
Wilson, a colored man lately from the peni.
Tertiary for manslaughter, was lodged IN jail
for attacking parties in keanett Square with
revolver and resisting officers of the law.
| He made desperate fight with the consta-
bles before they could get him to a justice Of
the peace's office, where he was committed
TO answer at court.
| The internal revenue collections Of the
| Peoria, Illinois, district for the last fiscal
year fell off over S4, 100000 FROM those oi
| the previous year A Peoria despatch says
that there, will probably lie a tremendous
boom in the receipts for the next few weeks,
as the trust and outside distillers will-a seek
to take advantage of the advance in tax before
the law goes into effect.
In Rome, Italy, on Sunday, $50 anarchists
were arrested. Threatening letters have been
received from anarchists by several OF the
crowned heads of Europe. Signor Bandi, q
prominent Italian journalist, was fatally
stabbed while in the actof entering his car
riage at Leghorn on Sunday. The crime was
similar to the murder of President Carnot,
and was committed by an anarchist.
Captain Magin, of the Hamburg: .:Ameri-
can Packet Companys steamship Moravia,
which arrived at New York Monday, reports
that at o'clock last Friday morning, while
in the vicinity of the Banks, large iceberg
was sighted, and that shortly afterward the
Morayia ran into lot of wreckage of yes
SELL There were unmistakable evidences that
some vessel, presumably sailing ship, had
gone down. A
At Germantown, Pa, on Sunday morning
| Lewis H. Weiss, colored, shot Bertha lay.
| lor, colored, in the head and in the right leg,
While being pursued by policemen Crawshaw
and Reilley he shot the latter in the head,
Reilley, though lying on the ground, returned
the fire, striking him twice in each hip and
once in the right leg. Weiss ran on until he
was felled with cobblestone by an unknown
man. Weiss dragged himself into yard
where he was captured.
Paris was crowded with people at the
funeral Of President Sadi-Carnot, on Sunday
They came from all parts of France and from
other countries. The funeral pageant was on
a magnificent scale. The weather was in,
teusely hot, and many women in the CROWD
along the line tainted. President Casimir
Perier was in the procession. The Arch
bishop of Paris presided at the services IN
the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and made 9
short address. The remains were placed IL
the Pantheon, beside the grandfather of Car.
not, who was known as "'The Organizer o
Liberty" re
Dispatches received in Washington, D.. c.
j Wednesday night led the authorities believe
that the railroad strikers are losing ground
Federal troops were sent to Blue Island
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