The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-07-13
News of the Week.
Disnntches of .h,zu 5th

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at Bristol, Indiana, on Thursday, 20 per
sons were injured, but only one fatally.
Three persons were accidentally killed il
Chicago, and two in ST. Louis, on Thurs
day, as a result of the celebration of the
Fourth
Alexander Hesler, said by photographers
to have been the greatest daguerreotypist
that America has produced died at Evans
ton, Illinois.
Theodore Packett negro, was lyncheC
at Pelahatchie station, Mississippi, OF
Thursday night He is said to have robbed
a farmer of $500
While a balloon was being inflated al
Milan, Missouri on Thursday, rope broke
heavy pole, which hit Marion George OF
the head, killing him instantly.
The office of the Continental Steamboat
Company, in Providence, Rhode Island,
was entered on Thursday night and the
safe blown open and robbed of $4,000.
James Ryan, blacksmith, shot and
killed his wife and then committed suicide,
in Terre Haute, Indiana They had only
been married few months, but quarrelled
frequently.
The steamer Merrimac. from Montreal
for London, went aground at Isle Ronde,
in the st. Lawrence, yesterday She had
a large cargo of live stock, part of which
was thrown over.
Six prisoners escaped from jail at Car
rollton, Missouri, on Thursday night, while
the sheriff and guards were watching FIRE
works display. \ posse captured two of
them few hours later.
While firing cannon. at the Soldiers
Home, at Marion, Indiana, on Thursday.
John Haupt, an old artilleryman, and 4
soldier in the regular army for IL years
was killed by premature discharge.
Prince Bismarck has endowed the Berlin
Home Of the Agrarian League with the
money collected on the anniversary of his
Seth birthday, he then stipulating that it
should be used for some national purpose
Postmaster General Wilson has offered
a reward Of $1,000 each for the arrest Of
Allen. Killoran and Russell. the three
post Office thieves who escaped from the
Ludlow street jail in New York On Thurs
day
Cy G. Cummings. boot and shoe
dealer Of Iinneus. Missouri, was found
dead in bed on Thursday morning. His
wife. to whom he had been married only a
few weeks, Is suspected Of having poisoned
him.
John Cunningham, an aeronaut made
three successful aseensions at Wenaga
Missouri. OH Thursday, but the fourth
time. when about 1900 feet high che
trapeze chute failed to operate and he fell
to the ground and was killed.
Torrents Of rain fen at Fort Scott, Kan
sas. on Thursday night, and portion Of
the town was flooded The precipitation
was 40 inches. In parts Of Missouri
grain in the shock Is molding and sprout
ing. while corn i in fine condition.
Samuel Herkowitz. aged % years, an
ex-conviet. went TO his wife apartments
in Brooklyn. \. Y, and. upon her refus-
ing to live with him, he stabbed her three
tunes with a carving knife and cut his own
throat. Both were fatally injured
In Ciallipolis. Ohio, on Thursday night,
Calvary Upton shot and Kill his wife and
John Wills. with whom she was talking,
and then escaped. Upton is - years old
and Wills was %. Mrs Upton had left
her husband on account Of his cruelty.
Ia the course Of speech at the annual
convention Of the Kansas Temperance
Union, in Topeka on Thursday, Governor
Morrill, said thar III was impossible to
enforce the Prohibition law in localities
where public sentiment was antagonistie 10
It.
William NJ. Parks, aged 80 years, mar
rowly escaped being lynehed in Lynn,
Massachusetts,. yesterday He Is alleged
to have attempted to assault 5-year-old
girl and he was very roughly handled by
the crowd before the police coald get pos
session Of him
Frederick Hellman. aged 80 years. in
Chicsgo on Thursday night, killed hi wife
and four children and himself By asphyxia-
ton with illuminating gas The bodies
were found this morning The only ex
PLANTATION of the crime given Is that Hell
man was crazy.
While mending a road in King George
county. Virginia, on Thursday, workmen
dug up the skeleton Of man enclosed in
a cage of iron bars. all in tolerabie state
Of preservation. II is evidently the re-
mains Of some malefactor hung in chains
in Colonial days.
An explosion Of fireworks occurred at
La Sale, illinois. on Thursday There
were 5000 people within a block Of the
place at the time and a panic followed
Horses ran away and the crowd stampeded.
crushing women and children under foot.
One hundred persons were more or less
seriously injured. William Tapt and Dan
Cahill we're probably fatally injured.
The barn on the farm Of Joshua Sheaf-
fer. West Fairview, near Carlisle, Pa.
was burned by lightning last night, together
with this year crops and one COW Mr..
Sheafer had Just hauled the last grain into
The barn. A heavy storm passed over
that section about 3 o clock this morning
when the barn was struck The flames
spread 30 rapidly that it was with difficulty
thai most Of the live stock was saved.
The loss is estimated at 50, 900; partially
insured. Fire last night badly damaged
the taxidermist establishment Of Warren
Hughes. in Carlisle, and many valuable
stuffed birds. animals, etc. were burned.
At Dublin, Ireland, Michael Cleary,
living near the town Of Clonmel, was eon
vicled today Of manslaughter in having
burned his wife, Bridget Cleary, to death
last March. The court deferred his sen
tence. Cleary believed his wife was be-
witehed. and, upon the advice Of Dennis
Ganey. the family doctor and, in the
presence Of her father and number of
other relatives, held her over fire and
lfterward stripped her and poured parafine
over the body and set fire to it. The
woman was burned to death without the
slightest effort on the part Of the specta-
tors to extinguish the flames which were
consuming her Cleary claimed that it
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