The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-03-09
News of the Week.


A large dam across the Mahoning river at
Warren, Ohio, was swept away by the ice on
the LIST instant.
London is II miles broad and Il miles
long. Every year sees about 20 miles of new
streets added to IL.
The smallest church edifce in the world is
at the mouth of the Saginaw River. Its ca
pacity is Is persons.
The Reno Hotel and adjoining property, at
Norfolk, Nebraska, were burned on the list
instant: loss, 5000.
\ fire at Hot Springs. Arkansas. on Febru-
airy -. destroyed 2S buildings. Three women
were burned to death.
Frederick Douglass, the well known colored
orator. &c, died in Washington. D. c.. on
February 20. in his 18th year.
Toronto, Canada, had a 81 200, 600 fire on
Sunday. 1t was of incendiary origin and was
in the business centre Of the city.
Over $50 members of the German Reichstag
are i'll with influenza. Emperor William and
Ambassador Runyon were slightly affected.
Postmaster General Bissell has resigned and
President Cleveland has appointed Hon. Vim.
L. Wilson his successor who had been con
frmed.
Professor John Stuart Blackie, the we'll.
known author and Greek and Latin scholar,
died in London. England. on the 2d instant
at the age of SO years.
The influenza or grippe is spreading through.
out Europe. In some cities and towns busl,
ness is almost suspended owing 70 the great
number suffering from it.
Walker C. Hammer, for 20 years teller in
the First National Bank of Lynchburg, NIr-
ginia. Is a defaulter TO the amount of So, eco.
He was arrested and placed in jail
4 fire in Gilmour 4 HughSon', lumber
yards at IrousideS. Ontario. on the night OF
February 2S destroyed between 1000, GO and
5000, 900 feet of lumber. valued al sloo,o 600.
Four children Of Tom and Dora Williams,
colored. were burned to death in their home.
at Chenille. Alabama, on February 2S They
were left alone while their parents went to q
dance
James Fitzpatrick. a hermit was found
dead in his hut. near Derby. Connecticut, uu
Sunday. He had been disappointed in love.
and for 40 wears he had not spoken 90 o
woman.
The New Mexico Legislature has appro-
priated $500 for the relief Of the families left
hy the miners killed in the explosion 10
Cerrillo,
There are - cases Of smallpox At Hot
Springs aud six al Malvern. Arkansas. A
houSe-to- house vaccination IS being made ~
both towns, and everything Is undergoing
rigid disiufection and fumigatiou.
Dispatches from Southwestern Nebraska
give news OF great rain thers. Trenton.
Hitchcock county. reported the heaviest rain.
fall In Is months. This j. in the heart 81 the
drought district and the rain has encouraged
The settlers.
A squad Of police from RAILWAY, New
Jersey. raided gang Of tramp> on the Penn
,ylyania Railroad, near that place. on Satur-
day, and policeman Jewell was shot and
killed by one Of the eaEranis. The murderer
was subsequently, arrested aud kit If burglar
tools was found IN his possession.
-Four tenement houses ia course 81 enustrur-
tiou ia New York collapsed on FRIDAY % last
week 4 number &c oorkmen were carried
down from the falling walls. Nine sere in
iurcd. four we're killed. and one man Is mrs
ing. The owner sud two contractors Verv
placed under arrest cen chaEsc Of criminal
negligence.
The - Louis police have arrested Fran.
cisro Rnmera, Frank Nicolas and Joseph
Stambolia, three Italians who. ihey believe.
are western distributor, ~ Il CouuferteitluE
gang, which +, said % have coined 81 .b,n.W 90
Of spurious money AMI circulated 70 pa as part
Of the world
os,e- hv hrr ou SATURDAY. were An ele
yaior and two -four mills a. hcJhalto, Illinois.
loss, 500. 600. The Globe Moldiug Works
in Chicago: loss. $1,000 The works II the
Akron. Ohio. China Company throwInE $50
men ont Of employment; loss $4,000. The
bnsiue>, portion Of the town nt Nechs, North
Dakota; loss, S54.op0.
The t1ur-masted Furues, Line steamer
Venetian which sailed from Boston for Ion.
don on SATURDAY. ran on Q ledge lu q thick
fog and snow storm and WAS completely wreck
al. her back breaking. The cargo consisted
of G4S head Of cattle. ~ sheep and lG."0
bushels 81 grain. besides large quantity u
hay. beof. bacon and land,
A general fight 'ook place al himhall ".
VA. on Thursday highs Of last week, among
- color,d people If both sexes. aud ahoai
100 shots we're fired Heury Naft. Margaret
Miles and another person were iataliy wound
ed. four are IN q serious condition FROM bullet
woauds aud a number weu' ataily injured by
being siashed vita rzzors.
Max H. Grausr, an insurance adiasier. ~bo
was convicted at arson iu the FIRST degree bon
setting FIRE 81 a house GA Canal street. iH New
York city. ha. been sentenced % b Nears iu
In. state pFisou airS. Ida lirlermau an
accomplice, who ua> convicted q arson IL the
first degree, was sentenced in SIX YEAR and
eight months. imprisonment.
The southland Royal Blue express OF
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ran
into the wreck Of coal train 81 Bayouuc.
New Jersey. FRIDAY night # las, week. aud
was badly wrecked. The engineer. William
Thomas. aud Winfield Holland. assistant fire.
man. were killed. and TIVE of the trainmen
and one passenger were injured.
Edmund Jordan. the murderer Of Alfred
Barnes. ianitor Of the Hiawatha Flats. %
Chicago. was adiudged guilty last Friday
night. and the punishment fixed 90 imprisnu-
meat Tor life. The jury acquitted John b.
Jersey and found Anna Mahoney guilty Of
being an accessory after the fact. leaving heE
punishment TO be- determined 10y the coRrt.
George +. Dauyille, a farmer near Yougtou.
Kansas. reports the birth Of trpleis. Mr.. and
Mrs Geo Dsuville have now . children
although Mrs Dauville Is not 30 years old.
She is a Norwegian aud her husband !, q
Hoosier Al the children were born in trip,
lets. the oldest being under IS wears old. AT
are bows but three, one set of tnplets being
girls and they are all sturdy and healthy.
Al Valleyfeld. Quebec, on FRIDAY night OF
last week. a man named Shorts entered the
Office Of the Montreal Cotton Company and at,
tempted To rob the paymaster aud his clerks.
who were making up the pay rolls He shot
and seriously wounded Hugh Wilson and killed
John Low John Lowe. the paymaster, took
refuge with the money in the vault. Shorts
then Shot aud killed the night Waterman,
Maxine l.ebcouf. after which he was over
powered. Paymaster Lowe was imprisoned
IN the vault for three hours before the door
could be opened.
Joe Dean, negro, was hanged AT Fairburn,
Georgia. on the lst instant, for the murder OF
A. b. Leigh. white farmer, The hanging
was to have been in private, but just after
Dean had been led to the seatfod the crowd
broke down the Enclosure. The first effort "a
hang the man was failure, as the rope broke.
George Magee eolored. was hanged in the
Jail at Frankfort, Kentucky. on the same day,
for the murder of Charles Thomas. q fellow
convict Harry Hill was hanged at Platts
mouth Nebraska on the same day, for the
murder Of Matthew Akerson, farmer. by
whom he had been employed.
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