The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-30
News of the W eek.

knell broke through the ice ana were drowned.
Bethlehem, Pa, iron works have received an
order for 1900 tons of armor plate from st. Peters
burg Russia the cost will be SGOO,OOO and 1000 men
will be kept busy all winter.
John B. Bonner, banker, of Aurora, North Caro-
na was shot and killed in the yard of his residence
OH Sunday night by some person unknown. Robb-
cry the apparent motive
In the lower part of New Castle county, Della
ware, and the adjacent part of Cecil county, Mary
land, hog cholera is raging. One feeder lost 20
head and others from 10 to 30 head.
Lillian Collins, aged ) years and William J. Col
lins, il months, were burned to death on Monday
in New York city by fire which they started in
their home by playing with matches.
Mrs Ada b. Holan, eX-postmistress at North
Grand Rapids, Michigan, was recently sentenced
to two years imprisonment at the Detroit House of
Correction for embezzlng money order funds.
senator Brice GOvernor-elcct Bushnell and Col.
W. p. Orr, of Piqua, have become owners of the
Natural Gas Company, supplying Sidney, Troy.
Piqua, Dayton, Springfield and other towns in Ohio
Herman Hattcnhurst, boxing instructor in
Brooklyn, y. Y, on Monday, killed his two little
daughters by shutting them in Il box and suffocat-
ing them with gas. and then killed himself by
shooting.
While number of persons We're engaged i'll
cmpting old cartridges Barcelona, SPAIN on
Monday, explosion occurred. Thirty-seven
women and II men were instantly killed and of
10 persons injured 20 died
Thomas Mabe and his two sons were fatally
burned by the boiling of brandy still at their
home in the mountains of stokes county, North
Carolina, last week. The men were locked i'll the
room and could not escape.
Prof Pcrdue, a school teacher, lynched at
Athens, Georgia, Saturday. He seduced young
1,IN-
tree and filled his body with bullets He leaves II
wife and three grown children.
The Dry Goods and Woollen Exchange Building
in Chicago partially destroyed by fire Friday
Of last week. Forty-nine firms were burned ont.
Four firemcn and girl were killed ana Il dozen
other men, women and girls were hurt.
\ despatch on Friday night of last week from
Guthrie, oklahoma, says that Il disastrous prairie
fire has been raging i'll Pottawamie county and in
the Seminole reservation for three days, sweeping
scores of farms, crops ard buildings away.
William Mathcrs, Il hotel proprietor at Archvic.
near Tarrytown. y. Y. was shot and mOrtally
wounded by his ll-year-old daughter Annie on
Monday night. Mathcrs tried to kill his wife and
his daughter to her mothers defence.
\ Washington despatch says that the [. :. Treas
ury officials who are investigating the recent
q
intimate that there are Others connected with the
matter who are of more consequence than the col
orcd aborcr.
Lancaster county, Pa, grand jury, On saturday,
charged that the justices of the peace aldermen
and cnHStableS were arrcSting too many people on
trivial charges and committing them to Jail, and
dividing the fees. The Judge has ordered IL thor
ough investigation.
\ plug blew out of the mud valve ut the electric
light plant at Washington, Ind, on sunday night,
frightfuliy scalding six tramps who were sleeping
just above the boilers. Two died i'll terrible agony
Il few hours after the accident occurred and third
is not expected TO recover.
Municipal af;tirS in Philadelphia. Pa. are in IL
terrible condition. Men are carried the pay
rolls s. per day, and the city is charged 81 street
garbage, and other contracts violated in the
most outrageous manner. and it seems that the city
is robbed in giving ont contracts and in paving for
the sane.
Abraham Durling and his wife Mrs Nellie Could
and George Smith under arrest in Detroit,
Michigan charged with conspiracy and with de
trauding several fire insurance companies out of
$1,000 in October 1893. The Durlings were awarded
the money by the Court and the four. ii is alleged,
quarrellcd over the division.
City Editor Vowel, of the Huntington, West
Virginia, Evening Times who sent to Jail last
saturday for contempt of court and released
habeas corpus proceedings, attacked early
Tuesday morning bya party of prize-ighters whom
he had been writing up. They beat him i'll horri-
BILE manner. and his condition is critical.
Patrick II. Thomas, an iron worker. fell I2O feet,
on Friday of last week from history building III
course of construction in Detroit, Michigan. Both
arms and legs were broken, and he sustained other
was placed under the influence of an ancsthetic at
the hospital. He died, however. later in the day
\ despatch from Columbia = c.. gives an account
of the murder in Fairfield county of Patsie Jackson
a negro woman. She was working in her field
when three other women approached and began
quarrelling with her Finally. two of them took
hold of the Jackson woman, while the third cut
her to death with razor The murderesses have
not yet been apprehended
Internal revenue agents mided an Illicit distiery
in Division street, New York city, on Monday,
rested two men and captured complete distilling
plant, large quantity of whisky and ten hogsheads
nf sour mash. One of the men in trying to escape
jumped from m upper floor and struck one of the
officers in falling. Several women fought fiercey
with the revenue officers to prevent their entering
The oldest living couple in the United States, be-
three miles of Black River Falls, Wis Louis and
Amelia Darwin were born in the Province of On
tario, not far from Montreal. The husband was
born on september "a, 17SS, or one year before the
of the first President of the United
States The wife was born at La Pero's Isle on
March Il, 1874, and is now past her 10lSt year
Eighty years have passed since they were joined in
Eedlock
\ blizzard accompanied by rain, sleet and snow
prevailed all over Indian Territory on Monday
of cattle periShed and there was heavy
snowstorm at Dallas, Texas, also In Missouri
and Kansas traffic stopped by the STORM
IN the Ohio Valley there was heavy sleet storm.
From Buffalo to Chicago the telegraph wires were
so badly broken as to be of no use. Wrecks are re-
ported along the coast of England, Germany,
France Spain and Italy, caused by the storm of
Sunday and Monday.
Louis Gordon, who was put on trial on Monday
in New York city charged with burning his shirt
factory, on which was an insurance of $4,000, is
said to be member of the gang of tirebugs that
the police and the District Attorneys office have
succeeded i'll breaking up. Gordon is the fifth
member of the gang to be tried and he is socially
of higher Standing than the Others. Adolf Hirsch
kopf and Meyer Dietcheck arraigned charged
with causing the death of child in an inGendiary
fire in Suffolk street in May, 1894.
4 fatal fight among tramps occurred on Monday
night in the western suburbs of South Bend, India
ma. One of the participants, an unknown tramp
was pushed in front of passing Lake Shore pas
senger train and was terribly injured He was re-
moved to a hospital. where he died the next morn
ing. The tramp who committed the murder board
ed the train in an endeavor to escape He was
locked i'll coach and brought TO South Bend,
where fierce battle ensued. He was finally clubb
ed into nsensibility by the officers and train crew.
and placed under arrest.
\ dispatch from Wilmington, Delaware, Novem
Der 81, says James Richmond and John Clark, two
trampS, were arrested today for highway robbery
at Wilmington The story of the robbery is horri
flying one. Late last night Henry Rose walk
ing along the railroad track when party of tramps
stopped him. They demanded his money and when
Rose refused, the tramps said Roast the niger
and proceeded to do So They bound Rose to a rail
and then held him over fire. When his clothes
began to burn Rose begged to be released, but the
tramps still held him over the flames Finally the
heat became too much to bear, and Rose offered the