The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-10-12
News of the Week.

county. Maine, O.UUu. OuO pueIleln'
Clarkson Sheppard, well-known Quaker
preacher, died in Media, Pa. on Friday
night of last week. in his SID year.
South Carolina constitution will not
allow the passage of a divorce law nor rec
ognize divorces granted in other states.
Sole leather was reduced six cents a
pound in New York city on Saturday
The trust found they could not keep the
prices up any longer.
1t is estimated that the potato crop Of
this country, this year, is 6. 600, 900 more
bushels than will be needed for eating and
manufacturing purposes.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works of
Philadel phia, Pa. have received large
orders from Russia. Forty are to be de-
liyered by the lst Of December.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery
of Boston arrived at Richmond. Virginia.
Sunday night and were received by the
entire military force Of the city.
5. r. Dawson. of Des MONIES. Iowa,
has discovered. he believes, the lost art of
making Damascus steel. Specimens of his
work have been exhibited to dealers in
Chicago and other cities.
Montreal and other cities in Canada
during the past | ) years have had many
mysterious store fires Two merchants,
recently arrested, have confessed that there
WAS an organization among them to destroy
their property.
The Abingdon Presbyteria Church. on
the Old York Road Philadelphia, Pa.
was destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss S23. .
900: insurance S15. 900 The buildin"
was over 100 years old and was in the
.Jenkintown district
The largest and best organized gang of
oath bound counterfeiters in the world
has been found in Philadelphia. Pa. 1t
is composed of II persons, and upon the
arrest of several they confessed and laid
bare the whole affair.
While debating letter to his wife at
their home, near Jamaica, Long Island.
Saturday night Rev Peter ID. Oakley
dropped dead He was So years old and
had been Pastor Of the jamaica Presbyte-
rian Church for % years.
Edwin Hutchins, who had been on Il
spree. went to his home i'll New Siberia,
Maine. Saturday and attacked his eldest
daughter, Edna with knife. He in
ficted il number of wounds and then fed
10 the woods and cut his own throat.
No rain has fallen in Western Pennsyl-
vania for Sc days. Railroads and farmers
are hauling water. as the streams have
dried up. and nearly all the manufactures
have stopped In the coal regions mines
have closed and farmers cannot seed their
land.
Asyndicate of wealthy Kentucky farmers
are negotiating for the purchase of a large
tract of land in Anderson county Kansas.
where they propose to establish a tobacco
plantation. 1t is said tobacco reaches
maturity at that point much earlier than
in the east.
The Valley Mutual Life Association, at
Staunton, Virginia, has assigned its assets
10 J. D. Clothier. trustee The net as
sets are 81 900 and its liabilities S130, :
900 in the shape of unpaid death losses.
The current policies number 1900, with
insurance of ST., 800, 600.
The 80, 900 pound fy-wheel attached
TO the 800 horsepower Corliss engine in
the power-house of the Hudson Electric
Light Company in Hoboken, New jersey.
burst on Saturday night. killing the engi-
neer, and fatally injuring two others. The
plant was damaged to the extent of S25.
900.
Mary O Brien. of New York city. tried
to borrow some kerosene. Sunday morning.
of Mrs. Jennie Meehan. who lived in the
same house. and on being refused. threw
lighted lamp at Mrs Meehan. The
lamp struck Mrs Meehan, and. exploding
burned her so badly that she died few
hours later Miss O Brien was held fol
trial
Professor William G. Robinson. of tn
Yale Law School, has accepted the posi-
zion of Dean of the Department of Soci
ology in the Catholic University, Wash
ington, d. c. Prof. Robinson is one G
the oldest members of the Law Schoc
Faculty. and is the author of several treat
iseS on law.
In York county. Pa. Tidings Grov
raised 9, 900 bushels of potatoes from I
acres; Joseph W. Anderson over 400
bushels, and several others from 1000
400 bushels The Thompson brother
gathered 1872 bushels of onions, and seN
eral other farmers had from 50 to 35
bushels of onions.
The Scientific American. of Septemb,
%, publishes a picture Of an Irish pota
that weighs sc pounds and 10 ounces.
is % inches long and II in diameter, Wa
grown by j. B. Swan, of Loveland Col,
RADIO, and the photograph from which tn
cut was made was taken by A. H Talbo
of the same place.
NJ. NJ. White, President of the Fourt
National Bank of Cincinnati, with h
brother. F. T. White, of New York, HI
given $25, 900 to Earlham College,
Richmond, Indiana The endowment
in honor of their father, the late John
White The college is supported by ii
Society of Friends
Springfield, Illinois, has been selecte
as the location of big agricultural impl'
ment factory to be established by Il corpol
alton composed of members of Patrons
Husbandry in twenty-five different States
The factory will be in operation by ne,
spring. The corporation begins with
capital stock of 800, 900, which will
doubled next year.
During the laying of the cornerstone
st. Marys Catholic Church, in Lorain,
Ohio, Sunday morning, part of the pla
form fell and 300 people were precipitate
into an excavation. Rosa McGee, chill
was killed and % other persons were ii
jured, eleven fatally 1t is said the cor
tractors are responsible for the acciden
having nsed poor timbers for the suppo
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