The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-23
News Of the Week.

caused loss of 100000.
The LentZ block mt Sherman, Texas, was
burned on Saturday; loss 100000.
A fire at Purcell. Oklahoma, on Tuesday
threatened the total destruction of the town.
The accounts of K. l.. Ryland, treasurer OF
King William county, Virginia, are short to
the amount of $4,000.
Rev DR.. Samuel F. Smith, author of the
hymn America. died suddenly III Boston on
Saturday, aged SO years.
The Parker Block in Lowell. Massachu-
sets, were destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning. Loss Spoon
Great desttution prevails among the people
on the islands along the Maine coast, owing
to the failure of their fisheries.
The City Hall, hotel and II business
places. at jacksonville, Kentucky. were
burned Wednesday: loss $50, 600
Joseph S. Rown, New York coffee brok
or, shot and killed himself Tuesday morning
in the bathroom of his home in Brooklyn
c. NJ. Loring, of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
has failed; liabilities 100000; assets S755,-
900. If not forced handsome surplus will
be left.
Newcastle county, Delaware, were considera-
afternoon.
Jamaica. In some places mothers are giving
their children away to strangers in order to
save their lives.
A blizzard prevailed in parts of the West
and Northwest on Monday night and Tuesday.
The snow in many places reached depth of
from Is to IA inches.
r 1 H., n,
pany, branch of the Match Trust. in Detroit,
Michigan, was burned Saturday. Three per-
sons were burned to death.
\ building in Dallas, Texas, occupied by
the Texas Paper Bag and Box Company and
the William Deering Machinery Co.. was
burned on Tuesday; loss $4,000.
great forest fire is raging on the Little
Kanawha, West Virginia. Large tracts of
woods and barns and fencing have been
burned. The Nicolette Mills are threatened
An immense forest fire has been raging for
the past a hours among the hills two miles
northeast of Santa Rosa, California. Over
$4,000 acres of territory have been burned
over.
A tank containing 81, 600 barrels of crude
naphtha at the Standard Oil Company 5 Works
at Whiting, Indiana, was burned on Monday
night. Three men are supposed to have per-
shed.
incoming vessels report terrible storms with
otf-shore winds and fogs, causing delay of
from three to seven days Matches were stove
in by the heavy waves, cabins flooded. and
officers and men in ured.
Washington Pierce, engineer, and Cecil
kidwel were killed and several more persons
were injured by the explosion of a boiler at a
lumber mill u miles southeast of Nanceburg,
Ky, on Saturday afternoon.
Right Rev. John Conroy, tituar Bishop of
Curium, died in New York city on Wednes-
dav. aged so years. He was Bishop Of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Albany from 1865
until 1877. when he resigned.
A committee of the Columbus, Ohio, City
Councils has reported that the city has been
derauded out of over S42, 900 on a sewer
contract and the Director of Public Works
and City Engineer are held to be to blame.
Two Mormon preachers were compelled to
leave Tallahassee. Florida, Wednesday by the
Mayor of the city, the alternative offered them
being fine and imprisonment for being Il
menace to the peace, dignity and morals of
the city,
\ rear-end collision Of trains on the Brook
lym bridge occurred Tuesday morning during
a dense fog Thomas Cooper, a conductor,
had both legs cut off, and George Grannit, "A
passenger, had foot cut off. Both men died
IA few hours later
The Societe Gene Ralc. big banking in
stitution Of Brussels, was recently robbed OF
81. 500, 900. The cashier was subsequently
arrested in Paris, confessed TO stealing the
money, and attributed his losses to specula-
lions on the Bourse.
There are now in the Luzerne county, Pa.
prison u murdererS. Four have been con-
victed Of murder in the first degree and are
awaiting sentence, while one, William Penn
Bowman, 10 years old, has been sentenced to
death and is awaiting execution.
The post-oflice at Summit, New Jersey, was
entered by burglars Wednesday morning.
The safe was blown open and $1,000 in cur
rency and stamps stolen. The money did not
belong to the Government, as the safe was
made depository for several local merchants.
At Spring Grove Mills, Pa. on Monday, a
neavy terra Gotta cornice fell on the scaffold
where some men were at work, crushing 1t.
Charles Spahr was 50 severely injured that he
couldn't be moved George Grouse had an
ankle broken. two others had ribs broken and
backs injured.
Emanuel Meyers, of New York city, was
1O4 years old on Thursday of last week. He is
native of Bavaria, founded the first Hebrew
synagogue in New York, and is known from
Maine to California by many prominent peo-
pie. He enjoys excellent health, reads with
ont glasses and walks without a cane.
The Democrat. of Georgetown, Delaware,
published an account of a marriage Of a col
ored couple recently in the A. NJ. Z. Church
of that place. When the bridal party entered
the church the choir sang Come 1e Dis
consulate, and upon their exit an air no less
familiar was sung, "1his is Way ! Long
Have Sought.
During an investigation by the School
Board of Dunlap, Kansas, of charges of i'm
morality against David Henderson. young
negro school teacher, on Monday night, Hen
derson attacked with n Ratchet and probably
fatally injured Samuel Ray and his wife, their
daughter, Mrs. McFall. and Thomas Starkey.
The criminal escaped.
4 trolley car plunged through an open
draw on the Central yiaduct in Cleveland,
Ohio on Saturday evening and nineteen per-
sons are believed to have been killed. Seven
teen bodies have been recovered. The mo-
torman saved his life by jumping, and de-
clares that he was given the signal to go
ahead as he approached the draw.
The Erie Canal Traction Company has
entered into Il contract with the Erie Con
struction Company to install system for
canal boat propulsion from Buffalo to Albany
at an expense of 81, $50, 900, and that work
will proceed as the work upon the canal en-
largement progresses. The electric power tc
be introduced will he generated at the Fails
of Niagara.
DIR. J. S. Irwin, respected citizen OF
| Woodstock, Virginia died Saturday night
! aged rs years. DR.. Irwin was clerk of the
| Circuit Court of Shenandoah County from
1865 to 1871. He was an excellent physician
and surgeon, and had an extensive practice
He was a surgeon in the Union army during
the late war He leaves a wife and sever
children.
An outbound fast mail train on the New
York Central Railroad was wrecked nea
Rome, New York, Tuesday morning. Spike
had been removed from the rails. Nathan
Hager, the engineer; Robert Elliott anC
another man, a tramp, were killed and II
others injured. The police arrested j. Wat
son Hildreth, Fred. Bristol and Herbert Plat
and Theodore Hubbard for wrecking the train
Daniel H. Brenizer, Secretary and Treas
urer of the Citizens Trust Company of Phil
adelphia, Pa, left that institution last weel
and has not since been heard of. During tn
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