The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-09
News Of the Week.

Snow fell to the depth of over two feet in
Durango Colorado, on Monday.
Dean & Mitchell,s yarn mill at Norristown,
Pa. was burned Monday; loss 100000
In New York city. on Sunday, three
sweatshops were burned, also four persons.
John ID, Rocketelow, the coal oil king,
has given the Chicago University S3.0O0,OOO.
Robert ]. Thompson L Co., merchant tail
ors of Philadelphia, Pa, have failed; liahill-
ties $50, 900.
James Hodges. of Philadelphia, Pa. com
mitted suicide on Monday by jumping into
Niagara Falls.
President Cleveland has issued a proclaim
alton declaring Thursday. November %, to
be Thanksgiving day.
Forest fires are raging in the Blue Ridge,
northeast of Lexington, Virginia. Thousands
of acres have been burned over.
Lynchburg. Virginia, had a 100000 fire
on Wednesday. Fully 100 men are thrown
out of work by it Insurance S32, 900.
Washington, d. c.. grand jury has con-
demned the government printing Office build
ing, in which there are $500 employees en-
gagged.
BY the bursting of the boilers in the Journal
building, at Detroit. Michigan, on Wednesday,
40 persons were killed and 10 are reported as
missing.
An entire block of business houses in Deca-
tur, Illinois, was burned on Monday night,
the damage aggregatng from S250,O0Q to
100000.
Six or seven attempts were made by an I'M
known incendiary on Saturday and Sunday to
burn the Speed Home for Infants, in Cleve-
land, Ohio.
The stage of water in the great lakes, which
has been extremely low all season, has within
the last fortnight dropped to the Lowest point
in their history.
Noah Sheely, living near Hilltown, Adams
county, Pa, has an apple orchard containing
1900 trees. which will yield about $4,000
bushels of apples.
Eugene Field, the well-known journalist
and writer of verse and prose, died Monday
morning at his residence in Chicago. lie
was 40 years of age.
The State President of the Ohio "a. P. A., -
Charles Wildrain, has been deposed by the
state executive committee for attempting TO
use the order in politics.
Fire destroyed the business portion of An
Choir, Illinois, on Monday, and then spread
to the meadows and standing corn. At last re-
ports the fire was beyond control.
L
gett, alias H. H. Holmes, charged with kill.
ing Benjamin F. Pietzel, was found guilty on
Saturday night of murder in the first degree.
Diphtheria is raging in Yorktown, Indiana.
There have been 81 cases and Is deaths. The
public schools have been closed for six weeks
and little or no business is being transacted
Water sells at 20 cents per barrel at West
Union and Wellston, Ohio, and 40 cents pei
barrel at Winchester Cattle are being sold
at the first price offered.
Ida Gaskill, a 1-year-old girl, was assaulted
and murdered in Omaha, on Sunday night
her body being found on a vacant lot. Geo.
Morgan was arrested and held for the murder
The entire town of Walcott Mills, in Rice
county, Mimi. including the Sheffield Bros.
mills, which were valued at $3.50, 900 wa.
burned Sunday. Fourteen buildings in all
were destroyed.
Albert England, who was in custody at vi
lonia, Arkansas, charged with robbing a store
of some clothing, was taken from the officers
by a mob, early on Sunday morning, and rid
died with bullets.
A fire at Broadway and Blocker street, il
New York city Tuesday night, destroyed the
Empire Bank, the Manhattan Savings Bank
and other property valued at s., 900, 600
: Six 6remen are reported missing.
John B. McGoldrick, clerk of the New
York City Court and secretary of the Tam
many Society, is reported in dangerous
condition, as the result of stab wound re
ceived Wednesday morning, at the hands O
William Bowling, bartender. Bowling i.
under arrest.