The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-10-05
News of the Week.

fire Saturday night. 1t is small village.
Another water company has been or
ganized in Hanover, Pa. with a capital
Of $50, 900.
The Houghton Michigan copper mines
have put out 20. 600. 600 more tons this
year than last.
Prof. Louis Pasteur. the celebrated
French physician and scientist. is dead
aged % years.
In southern Oklahoma prairie fires have
devastated thousands of acres of land caus-
inc immense damage.
Col. John +. Penn, aged 50, died in
Roanoke, Virginia, on September p lie
was prominent lawyer.
Defalcations to over S25. 900, 900 were
reported up to June 30. Since then there
have been S., 900, 600 more.
George Brown, treasurer of Muskingum
comfy. Ohio. is Il defaulter for $50. 900.
He has left for parts unknown.
By the death of Mrs. Rosanna Singmas-
ter. of Stroudsburg, Pa, Gettysburg Thee
logical Seminary receives $50, 900.
Eastern Siberia has been recent y swept
by most disastrous floods. houses, crops
and stock being carried away and it is
feared many lives have been lost.
The Howard Harrison Iron Co., of Bes-
semer, Alabama, has secured contract
for several thousand tons of lS-inch pipe
for the sewer system of Honolulu.
Charles Gardner local cashier Of Balti
more & POTOMAC Railroad, in Washington.
ID. c.. has absconded with s., 900. He
had been with the company 10 years.
Paul, son of Jacob D. Manchey, near
Glen Rock, Pa. on Saturday last, while
assisting in moving hay fell from the third
to the second floor, breaking his neck.
Mack Simpkins, negro, about 10 years
of age. murdered Mrs Henry l.. Dudley
and then committed suicide, Sunday even
inc, on the main thoroughfare Of Stamford,
Conn.
Hon. f. w. Bull, the propagation and
originator Of the Concord grape, and Il
prominent agriculturist, died in Concord.
Mass, last week. He was born in Boston
in 1906.
DIR. f.. w. Burnett Of New York city.
who. some time ago. while professionally
caring for patient suffering from cancer.
became inOculated with the cancer poison.
and died on Sunday.
\ new naphtha spring was discovered in
1
the Baku district on the west shore of the
Caspian Sea. Russia. The fluid jets to il
great height and the yield is about mil
lion and half pools daily.
In eleven weeks an inch of rain has not
fallen in the trucking sections Of New .)er-
sey. and as Il result late vegetables are
burned up. streams and springs have dried
up and cattle are suffering.
Oliver Gusts Perry. the notorious train
robber now confined in Auburn Prison,
\. Y, recently attempted TO destroy his
eyesight by thrusting needles into his eyes.
lie will probably lose the sight of one eye.
if not both.
Burglars made raid one night last
week on the foreign exhibits in the Liberal
Arts building at the Atlanta Exposition.
Show cases were opened with a jimmy,
and goods valued at $1,000 were stolen
from the Russian and Italian exhibits.
The Farmers and Citizens Bank Of
Pawnee Oklahoma, was closed on Satur
day morning by attachments Of depostorS,
amounting to $50, 600 Twenty five dol
lars cash was found in the bank. {. l..
Berry, its President and Cashier, fled from
town, pursued by Il mob.
At St Louis. Missouri there are now
over 400 cases Of diphthera in that city.
The health department is taking vigorous
methods to prevent the spread Of the ma
lady and will recommend the closing of the
schools in the districts where the disease
is prevalent. Typhoid fever also exists to
an alarming extent in the western and
northern portions of the city.
On Thursday evening Of last week, as
Samuel LOudOn was cutting wood at his
home near Shepherdstown, Washington
county, Md. he heard one of his children
screaming. Upon investigation he saw
a hog dragging his four-vear old son. En-
nest, across field Mr.. Loudon seized
club and attacked the hog and it was with
great difficulty that he was able to rescue
the child. who would doubtless have been
torn to pieces.
Secretary Morton has an order author
izing the free admission into the United
States of cattle from Mexico for grazing
and immediate slaughter from and after
October 22d Mexican cattle have been
usually admitted in November. and Secre-
tary Morton action in advancing the date
this year to October is said to be due to
his purpose to defeat. as far as possible,
the cattle and dressed beef combine in its
efforts to artifcially maintain high prices.
During wind storm at Green Bottom,
West Virginia, on Thursday of last week
a barn was blown down and three men
probably fatally injured \ hurricane,
accompanied by heavy rain and hail,
struck Bennington, Vermont on the same
afternoon, wrecking trees, electric wires
and other property. A violent thunder
and rain storm passed over Biedeford
Maine on the same afternoon. At leas
a dozen buildings were struck by lightnin:
and the trees were deluged \ destruc
tive wind and electric storm passed owe
Kent. Montcalm and Muskegon counties
Michigan. on Wednesday night Septem
Der %.
Dispatches from Paris, France, on Sun
day, say The intense heat experienced
during the past ten days continues withou
any sign of abatement. NJ. Flammarion
in an interesting communication ON tn
October sky, published to-day, says tina
''since meteorological observations wer
begun in France, that is to say, more tina
200 years ago, there never has been
month of September so fine, so warm, DIR
and so entirely free from clouds
special telegram from Kiel Observator
announces that the approach of the period
zeal comet of Faye had been discovered b
Professor Javelle, Of the Nice Observatory