The Democratic advocate., 1895-01-26
News of the Week.

The Riverside Iron Works at Benwood, West
Virginia, was placed in operation ON Monday
in all its departments, affording 5000 men en-
ployment.
Brownlee & Co. 5 saw mill at Debray, Mich
igan, was wrecked by boiler explosion, on
Monday, and Frank Collian, the engineer,
was killed.
The Merchants Bank of Binghamton, New
York. and the private bank of ErastuS Ross
& Sons closed their doors on Monday, pending
an investigation of their affairs.
A saw mill at Indian Camp, Guernsey
county. Ohio. blew up on Monday. killing two
Young men, named Dixon and Morrow. and
seriously injured three others.
John Sheffield. of Manchester, New York.
reported to the Jersey City police on Tuesday
that he had gotten the best of gang of green
goods sharpers to the tune Of $1,000,
Agents from the new Michigan coal field
are said TO have offered Ohio miners - cents
a ton for mining-an advance of 50 cents over
the rate paid by the Ohio operators.
An attempt was made to rob the Exchange
Bank. at Momence. Illinois. early Sunday
morning. but the plans of the burglars became
known. and two Of them were captured.
\ tornado at Pigett, Arkansas, on Monday.
killed two men aud seriously injured nine per
sons. At McCaine's Mill. two miles distant.
eleven persons were injured, two fatally.
About 500 employees of the Union Pacific
Railway. between Council Bluffs and Chey-
enne. were laid of on Monday. and the men
at the Sedalia shops we're put on half time.
Myrtle Townsend, aged Is; Elsie Hughes.
Is. and George Crosby. Is. while skating at
Green Bav. near Fort Madison, Iowa. broke
through the ice and were drowned ON Sunday.
The passenger steamer State of Missouri.
plyinp between Cincinnati and Memphis. sank
NJ Wolf creek. 200 miles below Cincinnati.
last sunday. II j. known that eighteen lives
were lost.
A tornado struck Coyington, Tennessee, on
Monday morning. blew of the top Of the court
house aud demolished a dozen residences an y
a score of barns aud outhouSe>, The damage
L. $50. 900.
The Mavor Of Dies Moines. Iowa, has sus-
pcnded the Chief of Police and several of his
subordiuateS pending investigation oi charges
thar they have received money Tor protecting
gambling houses.
Ii Is reported in Seattle, that the schooner
Ella johnson. which left there January 10.
lnmher.laden. for San Francisco, had gone
down al sea with all on hoari, the result "i o
dynamite explosion.
II is reported in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
that the United States Leather COMPANY Rill
move lis taanery. the largest In the world,
from there to Fhntstoue. Georgia, the cause
being heavy taxation.
Two thousand miner- employed in the coai
r.liueS Of 81 Clair county. Illinois. are threat
enine to rn ora strike for higher scale oi
wages. a. the scale. il Is said, j. not equal Q"
,ha, paid In Central and Northern lliiuoi-.
The AS>isian, Attorney General for the
Post office Department has given an opinion
that the publication by newspaper 81 ihc
result 0f an award Ot prizes 3, bazaar is q
violation % the Anti -loiier1 las
An attempt vas made To- hloN up the Res
eue Home uf the King sons and Daughters
aI Saul, Ste Mare, Michigan. on Tuesday
morning Dynamite wa used. and the rraF
end of the buildiug MAS iemoiIshssi-
Charles Nor.anhcid. one of she tvo men
accused % being concerned IN ibc TRAM rob
f,ry az Aguia Greek. Virginia. ua> iaAcu io
Frederickshurg Va. oE SATURDAY, Morgan
field vas arrested ~ Cincinnati where b" i"il
iruui 81 car and broke his leg
A rear.end collision occurred ea the Easl
River bridge near the BROOKLYN side. Muuday
evening. iu which three passengers avrr %
iurrd. ONE SERIOUSLY Travel Nas suspended
far an hour aud half and the loalway. ana
wagon roads of the bridge were packed wi'h
pedestrians
Judge Sanloru. of the { nIio,i States Circ'ii,
Court az 81 ionis. nn Monday granted ihc
application of The fr-i mortgage hoRdholi"r>
for .sparaie rrceiyership for the main ilus
nf the Union pacisic. and the saEae rrcciyrr.
we're appointed. This order s. the 'rsi step
to- foreclosure.
wm. B saith. an cmploss 81 the RaTcau
fstf faft
the pFincipai iu the largruv q sn,en 'wa-ceni
stamps from the Government, was s-n'enccd
an SATURDAY. tu thrre wears and siN months
imprisonment IN the Albany lcuiteHiiary.
Bob FI,ksimmops. she pgEilist, sAs iudirt-
ed in syracuse on SATURDAY. Tor mansiaughier
ia the hr.; degrcc. At peTformancr pa
theatre In that cts aH November la. ls,i.
Con Rior,ian. bis spanning partner vas An0eA-
s,i osii hy FiiR1mmnn- and died 3 trH h"Ur-
afterwards.
nuring a fighi IN an Iron Msautain ,raiu ~
Calri. Staiinn. Arkansas, Solomon Bloodsne.
a uealthy planter, was killed by John :. b'ne.
the brakeman, who wAs himself mor'aily
wounded. Blocd-oe was riding oa a -caiFeg s
ticket made oui IN a woman name, amt fhe
brake.nlan tined 10 pat him 81 ths train.
The body of Barrett Scott, the deiaalilsg
Treasurer of Holt county. Nebraska. sho.
while oui driving with hss family on Nes
Years pay. vas hrrd upoH by a party oi
yirIiantes and carried Cf sas foaud in the
Niohrara riycr on Saturday night lie hah
been hanged before heing thrown INTO the
water.
nespairhe, from western Colombo state
thai ~ inches IT suow fell on FRIDAY. 81 last
week blockading railroads aud wagon roads.
The ,uow thst had previously fallen on thr
mountains had melted and frozen, making .
impossible for the las, SNOW fall to stick and
numerous snow slides resulted. one at least,
causing loss oi life.
Iucieu Baker. Republican. has been elected
L. :. senator Us the Legislature Of Kansas;
Senator Cullom. Republican. has been rr-
elected bv the Illinois Legislature; Horace
Chiffon Democrat, has been elected hy the
Texas Legislature. to succeed Coke Demo
era,: Dolph. Republican, hs- been reelected
by the Oregon Legislature.
A large section Of scaAolding surrounding
the ton stories OF the Fort Dearborn building.
a l3-story structure in course Of erection m
Chicago was blown across the street by
violent gust of wind on Monday morning,
smashing the plate glass windows ot number
Of stores and iniuriug eight pedestrians, one
Of them, H. II. Erwin, fatally.
Near Fairmount. Minnesota. sam Hoteling,
farmer. went TO the house Of 7. b. Whitney,
his fathcr-in-law. and shot and killed both of
the old people and his wife, Who had left him
and gone To live with her parents. he then
harricaded himself ia his house, and, when
the sheriff posse gained access il was ionud
that Hoteling had committed suicide.
Anattempt TO restore the queen to the throne
in Honolulu was made the first part of this
month. and duringsthe fighting u number Of
people we're killed. The disturbance did not
amount to more than an ordinary riot. The
government had quclled the disturbance at
the latest reports The United States Cruiser
Philadelphia left San Francisco last Saturday
for Honolulu. TO protect American interests.
The United States has begun suits at Topeka
to test the titles Of over 1900 settlers to land
in Kansas, purchased by them, many years
ago. Of the Union Pacific Railway. The Gov
ernmen't claim is that through a technical
error the grant Of the lands TO the railroad
company was invalid, and that the land should
revert 10 the Government and be opened 10
settlement under the Homestead law.
A dispatch from Teheran, Persia states thai
the town of kuchan, which was destroyed by
an earthquake GbOut IL months ago, and was
subsequently, rebuilt. was again destroyed by
an earthquake last week. There was. as on
the previous occasion, great loss of life. One
hundred women. who were in a bathhouse.
were crushed to death by the falling building.
The weather is intensely cold, and this in
creases the suffering of the survivors.
Three thousand students, accompanied by